Joe(the black eagle)Madison: The Gulf could turn into the next DEAD SEA if oil spill isn't stop

[bigdarryl]

Good point Joe

[KansDem]

1. He must read DU

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[Perky]

2. Yeah only that it is like 500 times the area and far deeper and is not a lake

the amount of oil necessary to kill everything in the the Gulf would require an oilfiel sufficient to fill the gulf... Not likely

[old mark]

4. Well, not quite - the figure I heard was one part per million oil in sea water

is sufficient to kill fish eggs and hatchlings and to destroy their breeding habitat for ever. We have many times this concentration mixing in the so-called "plumes" of oil, not to mention the surface oil which is covering 25,000 square miles now according the Philipe Costeau today. The oil already released into the Gulf is now several times the volune of that leaked from the Exxon Valesz tanker accident in 1989, which is still being cleaned up-where it is possible to clean it. That spill had permanently killed rivers and coastal marshes - permanently destroyed habitat and breeding grounds for life forms in the area. That accident was more contained. The oil from the Gulf has the potential to move with ocean currents and may eventually reach the western coasts of Europe.

mark

[treestar]

3. There is no one, not even BP, NOT trying to stop it

[Blue-Jay]

5. That's a stupid thing to say.

Perhaps if the entire gulf were smaller and completely surrounded by land, he would have a point. But it isn't and he doesn't.