Massive Stretches Of Oil Spotted In Gulf Of Mexico

Nola.com:

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

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[Totto]

03:38 PM on 10/25/2010

Just VOTE! http://www .youtube.c om/watch?v =3DRkUU-qh jk”

[freddychef]

12:50 PM on 10/25/2010

crude oil, by its very nature, will not always float to the surface.
ITS CRUDE.... it has no consitency. It is mixed with various components and will level out at various depths in any liquid. As it moves through the ocean, the constant agitation will release the heavier particles, allowing it to rise to higher depths. Add heat from the sun, it will continue to the surface, eventually.

The oil from the spill is there in the gulf, and will continue to surface for along time to come.

[asommers]

10:15 AM on 10/25/2010

Wow the nightmare and denial continues...

[notillegal2]

11:01 AM on 10/25/2010

So which is worst?
Bush's Katrina or Obama's Oil Spill

[freddychef]

12:39 PM on 10/25/2010

bush/cheny with the ceo's of the energy sector set this in motion.

[kinoptikation]

04:06 AM on 10/25/2010

how naive of you to think it was all over. Face it, you'd already forgotten about all this because the spill was plugged.

This is going to be a recurring topic... so keep the issue alive or suffer the consequences and start being fed with contaminated sea food from the Gulf

[m2b]

09:57 PM on 10/24/2010

No didn't you hear, the coast guard said its Algae, its not oil! Nothing see here, move on people!

[alumtrix]

08:42 AM on 10/25/2010

"I've never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent," said one captain, who like the others wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing their BP contracts. "I'll wait for the lab reports. In fact, we're also sending some samples off."

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/10/coast_guard_says_substance_fou.html

[snowballinhell]

09:42 PM on 10/24/2010

BP may be getting off the cleanup hook. Whole areas not along 'amenity' beaches will be allowed to remain uncleaned - if no one notices. See this link: http://blog.al.com/live/2010/10/cleanup_plan_allows_oil_to_be.html

Don't worry, the oil is all gone. Especially, if you don't look for it.

[whitebeach]

03:44 AM on 10/25/2010

Ah, snowy, I guess you didn't notice the part about areas where cleanup efforts would do more harm than simply letting the tarballs weather out.

Listen carefully: Nothing can make the Gulf environment pristine. The Gulf has not been pristine in living memory, and if oil is the concern, it has not been prisitne in the entire existence of our species.

You've lived in Louisiana, at least in the southwestern corner, and in Mississippi if I remember correctly. Tell the truth. Did you never ever see oil in some form on the beaches or in the water back in those dear old days? And when you saw it, did you see some sign of the Apocalypse forming there?

[snowballinhell]

04:27 AM on 10/25/2010

Wonder if you noticed the scientists saying if the oil was left there it would not do more harm to clean it up than leave it where it will have a negative impact on the wildlife, especially the crabs and birds? Did you miss that? Do you really believe leaving the oil un collected will be better? If so, If I were you, I wouldn't eat any more seafood.:-)

I am going to tell you this little story: I never saw any ANY oil on the beaches of Mississippi (mainland), Alabama, and the Florida panhandle when I lived (5 1/2 years); neither mats nor tar balls. I saw a large mat on Ship Island once far out in the surf. Now I understand everyone is used to saying "Watch out for the tar balls." when they are on the beach in Galveston. Also, in southwest LA, the beach (you know that is a pretty flattering term for that part of coastal Louisiana) used to have massive amounts of life there. I would need to go back and compare to know if its condition has deteriorated. Texas was another matter for some reason, we here are more accustomed to tar balls on the beaches (Mustang Island). But we also did not have the massive fish die offs we are seeing this year, either. Things were better when I was a kid and will be worse in the coming years. Yes, our environment is getting worse.

[RTIII]

04:42 PM on 10/25/2010

Your post is "uninformed", and offensive.

As someone who grew up in southern Louisiana, and who went out into the marshes and swamps regularly, I can tell us all that you are very mistaken. Very much of it has remained "pristine" until fairly recently.

[Kenz300]

08:34 PM on 10/24/2010

Are there still skimmers out in the Gulf ?

or has BP gone home ?

[The Rewd]

09:25 PM on 10/24/2010

You plan on having BP skim for algae bloom?

[nofriendofrepublicans]

06:36 AM on 10/25/2010

No just the oil they dumped.

[alumtrix]

08:43 AM on 10/25/2010

"I've never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent," said one captain, who like the others wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing their BP contracts. "I'll wait for the lab reports. In fact, we're also sending some samples off."

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/10/coast_guard_says_substance_fou.html

[marignymitch]

05:28 PM on 10/24/2010

I'm happy the photographer and pilot landed safely after their assignment. Pentagon order to kill was insufficiently timely, I guess.

[The Dude67]

05:26 PM on 10/24/2010

This is nothing more than attack journalism. The White House has told us that the oil is gone, everything that can be done to clean up the Gulf has been done, and the Gulf is as pristine as ever.

These racists in Louisiana are just upset that there is a brown man in the White House.

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[StephenJK]

07:49 AM on 10/25/2010

kakakakakakakaka racists racists everywhere!

[soundping]

05:04 PM on 10/24/2010

Oil? That's not oil it's ocean lube, it keeps the waves moving freely. [sarcasm off]

[StephenJK]

07:50 AM on 10/25/2010

Yes, it works incredibly well. We have a tub of it on the bedside table for those frisky times.

[toldyeso]

03:57 PM on 10/24/2010

You "high info" voters do know it was the Obama admin that lied about the severity of this spill from day one right?

You do know its been Obama that has been lying about the amount of oil cleaned up from the day the well was capped dont you?

You know it was the Obama admin that gave the enviro waiver to BP for ALL their wells in the gulf dont you?

Hopefully you know that real good Dems like biden have fought offshore drilling for 40 years.

Then this fraud obama comes into town - and out the window goes decades of DEM enviro principles and he announces new drilling - and new leases for the east and west coasts and alaska -

something NO OTHER DEM President or candidate has EVER even considered doing.

heres why -

"Obama all time biggest recipient of BP cash"

"
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President BarackObama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center .for Responsive Politics. ""
http://www .politico. com/news/s tories/051 0/36783.ht ml

[The last sane American]

03:00 PM on 10/24/2010

Can anyone explain to me why HP has not issued an update to this story?

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/10/coast_guard_says_substance_fou.html

"A Coast Guard official said Saturday the orange substance floating in miles-wide areas of West Bay on the Mississippi River delta appears to be algae, not oil as reported Saturday morning by The Times-Picayune."

[Please-Play-Fair]

04:03 PM on 10/24/2010

Yes, I heard that ... HP doesn't want to take any of the despise off of BP so better left as is.

[The last sane American]

06:18 PM on 10/24/2010

Admirable that you are here given the flavor of HP.

[whitebeach]

06:29 PM on 10/24/2010

It's not the first time the same kind of thing has happened here when it comes to the spill

Remember a few weeks ago, a story about a large fish kill in a tidal waterway in Plaquemines Parish? Photos of what looked like a highway of dead fish. An article bemoaning the devastation and insinuating that oil was the cause. Thousands of posters gnashing their teeth about the fatal consequences of the DH spill and the obvious conspiracy to cover it all up.

The next day local and state authorities, along with university and federal scientists, said that it was simply a matter of a very low tide, trapping a large number of fish in a relatively small amount of water too warm from very hot summer weather, so that their oxygen ran out. Something that happens almost every summer, often more than once, in the coastal parishes of Louisiana.

But it was left to a handful of readers to point this out. There was no article updating, much less retracting, the original piece.

[holeybuybull]

02:40 PM on 10/24/2010

Quickly get the President and his family to the Gulf for another photo-op to reassure everyone as to the safety of Gulf waters.

[Pause4Thought]

01:48 PM on 10/24/2010

Why Are American Conservatives The Only Climate Science Skeptics?

I would say that the real explanation is the unique power of libertarian economic dogma in the United States. Compared with conservative parties in other countries, Republicans aren't especially racist or nationalistic. They're nominally committed to a higher level of religious-inspired regulation of personal freedom, but not in a way that dramatically diverges from international conservative-party norms. The main difference is that its commitment to anti-government ideology is so strong that it gives rise to crackpot pseudo-science doctrines like supply-side economics and climate science denial, because such doctrines are needed to justify anti-government stances that otherwise would be seen as wildly irresponsible.

Some of the difference is attributable to profit-seeking behavior by elites. But it can't be completely divorced from ideology -- even the Koch brothers' pattern of massive right-wing donations mixes pure self-interest with broader libertarian ideology.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/78288/why-are-american-conservatives-the-only-climate-science-skeptics

[The last sane American]

03:01 PM on 10/24/2010

Brains?

[alumtrix]

09:09 AM on 10/25/2010

Let's start with the obvious: The earth is dominated by water to the tune of about 75%. Man doesn't inhabit the oceans, we live on land. Roughly 85% of land is NOT inhabited by man. The volume of the earth's atmosphere is so large, it's somewhat preposterous to think that man has any more than a marginal affect on earth.

I don't remember the exact number but if you put the same amount of oil in a bathtub that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico relative to the volume of water in the Gulf, it would amount to about 1/100,000,000 of a teaspoon.

[tssent]

01:34 PM on 10/24/2010

Massive stretches of oil?
In the Gulf?

I thought the magical Earth and magical oceans and
magical Right wing forecast of the ole Planet taking
care of itself had already promised none-such. Gosh,
maybe they were wrong (again)?

[The last sane American]

03:04 PM on 10/24/2010

About a 5 by 5 mile area in West Bay near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Gulf for comparison is about 1000 by 1000 miles in dimension. The usual hype headline

[snowballinhell]

07:47 PM on 10/24/2010

A meaningless comparison, of course. The oil on the water only matters to the sensitive area it is now sitting and doing damage - continuing to do damage over and over to the same area. The importance of which is that this area is 30 to 40 percent of our fish, oyster, shrimp and crab nursery beds. Once again, this claim is a canard.