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Title: Photo's of the Gulf Oil Spill
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Published: May 26, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-05-26 08:16:39 by Jethro Tull
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The leak is still, well, leaking. There is 30+ days more of this type and volume of oil behind this. 60 miles, at last check, of the most productive deltaic region in the world are fouled. Much of this area is mangrove cane marshes, and cannot be feasibly 'cleaned.' It is unknown how badly this will effect the wildlife, but it is enough to shut down production within Barataria bay, the largest single fisheries area in the state of louisiana. Poster Comment: sorry for the text size.
Entire communities, dependent on these areas for the baseline of their economies, will be summarily affected. Said communities generally encompass the houma-thibideaux and greater new orleans metro areas.
Imagine the midwest without farming. This is what you could very well be looking at. It is not an exaggeration, nor hyperbole. This is the shutdown of roughly 15% of the entire seafood production of the united states. (+50% of Louisiana, which produces roughly 33% of the whole US)
It's not just a terrible incident, it's a clusterfark of gigantic proportions. The well is not capped, and we are approaching what has every indication of being a hyperactive hurricane season whose best analog year is 2005. This is not a guarantee, yet, but the bermuda high has set itself almost exactly the same. SST's are abnormally high, and the only thing stopping formation right now is high sheer leftover from el nino. Heat content in the carribean is already at the level of being able to support a category 3 or above hurricane.
This is already bad. It could get much worse. That's the big picture
A ship maneuvers and sprays water near a rig in heavy surface oil in this aerial view over the Gulf of Mexico May 18, 2010, as oil continues to leak from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) #
A shrimp boat is used to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana on May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #
Oil is scooped out of a marsh impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Redfish Bay along the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Oil reaches the marshlands on the northeast pass of the Mississippi Delta May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
A BP cleanup worker rakes oil from the beach on May 22, 2010 on Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Authorities closed the popular tourist beach to the public and media wishing to visit the beach must be escorted by a BP official. (John Moore/Getty Images) #
Specks of oil stick onto the foot of Maggie Grace Hurdle, 8, of Rosedale, Louisiana, as she walks along a beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana May 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Sean Gardner) #
An oil-stained pelican leaves its nest as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
An oil-soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra
An outboard boat motor breaks up a thick layer of oil as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser toured the oil-impacted marsh of Pass a Loutre on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) #
A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana.
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#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
omg, the pelicans and heron....
#17. To: christine (#8)
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OOPS!
The Mississippi flyway is the most important migratory route of the four major North American flyways. Imagine the toll in four or five months when tens of thousands of Mallards, Scaup, Widgeons, Canada and Snow Geese, etc., land in oil, and from which there will be no escape. The good people from Delaware's TRI STATE BIRD RESCUE struggle as it is to rescue oiled birds. There aren't enough volunteers or BLUE DAWN DISH DETERGENT in the world to save the birds in a single flyway during the winter migration. Never mind ducks and geese, the brown pelicans, egrets, herons, mute and trumpeter swans and fishers such as ospreys and eagles will overwhelm the resources, if they haven't already.
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#18. To: christine (#8)
omg, the pelicans and heron....
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