Effects of the oil leak may last a century

[housewolf]

Just heard this in CSpan, interview with Environmental Relaltions Senior Director of the Audobon Society, from a newspaper article (I didn't catch the name of the paper).

[elocs]

1. "may" n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. I will be looking forward to going to the beach and fishing again

WHEN I AM A FUCKING HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE YEARS OLD!

To say I am BPoed today is an understatement.

[glowing]

3. Actually, it will never be the same. I really think that we will not have a

map picture the same of the south... The marshes will be greatly reduced. Louisiana will not have the same shape. The areas that are "dry", will become the new beach once the barrier islands and marshes are gone.... AND it will take a really long time for any fish populations to come back if they ever come back.

[dgibby]

6. Herring have still not come back to Alaska since the Exxon Valdez disaster.

Blue Fin Tuna, already in jeopardy, only spawn in 2 places, the Med.Sea and GOM.

Destruction of wetlands will resort in even more destruction to land secondary to tropical storms/hurricanes.

The Gulf will never be the same.:grr: :cry:

[izquierdista]

4. This is within the government's control

Once the gusher is plugged, they can make an all out effort to help Nature bioremediate herself. There may still be lots of clathrate on the ocean floor around the wellhead for hundreds of years, but on the surface, with the warm Gulf climate, bioremediation could take place rather quickly. Quickly compared to Prince William Sound in Alaska, where you have a short few months in the summer where biological activity can take place.

But given that the government hasn't done much to save the barrier island in Louisiana or remediate the deoxygenated dead zones in the Gulf in the summer, I wouldn't count on them for help.

[dgibby]

7. I agree that the Govt won't do much.

Considering that, despite many ecologically friendly methods there are available to mop up the oil, the EPA and Coast Guard let BP dictate what can be used. That fact, alone, tells me the Govt. isn't very interested in mitigation.

[madrchsod]

5. gulls and other birds will move further north

and compete with the birds in those areas for food. it`s already happening with the gulls here in northern illinois. katrina may have alerted their migratory patterns. they also staying longer into the fall by using the nuke holding ponds and the warmer mississippi around the discharge pipes. we have an increase of gulls all the way up the rock river. since the early 60`s we have geese and ducks who winter all year around....

it`s getting warmer!