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BP says the Gulf is clean, while scientists from nonpartisan sources say otherwise. What do you think? BP needs to drill with 13 other corporations, or BP needs to continue cleaning? Obama settled on drilling. Meanwhile millions of gallons of crude are somewhere.
January 13, 2011
ENVIRONMENT The Nation / By Naomi Klein 33 COMMENTS Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil
As the gulf is declared "safe," scientists look deep in the sea for evidence of lasting damage.
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Advertisement For the scientists aboard the WeatherBird II, the recasting of the Deepwater Horizon spill as a good-news story about a disaster averted has not been easy to watch. Over the past seven months, they, along with a small group of similarly focused oceanographers from other universities, have logged dozens of weeks at sea in cramped research vessels, carefully measuring and monitoring the spill's impact on the delicate and little-understood ecology of the deep ocean. And these veteran scientists have seen things that they describe as unprecedented. Among their most striking findings are graveyards of recently deceased coral, oiled crab larvae, evidence of bizarre sickness in the phytoplankton and bacterial communities, and a mysterious brown liquid coating large swaths of the ocean floor, snuffing out life underneath. All are worrying signs that the toxins that invaded these waters are not finished wreaking havoc and could, in the months and years to come, lead to consequences as severe as commercial fishery collapses and even species extinction.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the most outspoken scientists doing this research come from Florida and Georgia, coastal states that have so far managed to avoid offshore drilling. Their universities are far less beholden to Big Oil than, say, Louisiana State University, which has received tens of millions from the oil giants. Again and again these scientists have used their independence to correct the official record about how much oil is actually out there, and what it is doing under the waves.
Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil | Environment | AlterNet
January 13, 2011
ENVIRONMENT The Nation / By Naomi Klein 33 COMMENTS Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil
As the gulf is declared "safe," scientists look deep in the sea for evidence of lasting damage.
Continued from previous page
Advertisement For the scientists aboard the WeatherBird II, the recasting of the Deepwater Horizon spill as a good-news story about a disaster averted has not been easy to watch. Over the past seven months, they, along with a small group of similarly focused oceanographers from other universities, have logged dozens of weeks at sea in cramped research vessels, carefully measuring and monitoring the spill's impact on the delicate and little-understood ecology of the deep ocean. And these veteran scientists have seen things that they describe as unprecedented. Among their most striking findings are graveyards of recently deceased coral, oiled crab larvae, evidence of bizarre sickness in the phytoplankton and bacterial communities, and a mysterious brown liquid coating large swaths of the ocean floor, snuffing out life underneath. All are worrying signs that the toxins that invaded these waters are not finished wreaking havoc and could, in the months and years to come, lead to consequences as severe as commercial fishery collapses and even species extinction.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the most outspoken scientists doing this research come from Florida and Georgia, coastal states that have so far managed to avoid offshore drilling. Their universities are far less beholden to Big Oil than, say, Louisiana State University, which has received tens of millions from the oil giants. Again and again these scientists have used their independence to correct the official record about how much oil is actually out there, and what it is doing under the waves.
Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil | Environment | AlterNet
