1,000,000 Strong Against Offshore Drilling
3 years later... ''What we know isn't good, what we don’t know could be worse.''
says Environmental Defense Fund PETITION to stop dspersants: over 6000 signatures: Goal= 10,000. http://
''Deep scattering layer animals were very likely obliterated for a wide distance around the well site by vast underwater plumes of dissolved and dispersed oil-derived toxicants, nearly certainly made worse by the use – including underwater – of two million gallons of DISPERSANTS. The dispersant/oil mixture has since been shown to be up to fifty times as toxic for many sea creatures as the oil by itself. DISPERSANT use certainly spread the toxic brew much more broadly under the sea.'
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'On the surface, birds and other large animals were oiled and killed, but immeasurably greater numbers of floating baby sea creatures died as well. The oil – and the toxic dispersant brew – covered large areas of sea surface, where buoyant eggs and larvae drift, between the spawning areas at the edge of the coastal shelf and the coastal nurseries (wetlands, tidal creeks and even sandy beaches). For many key species, those larvae drifted through during the peak of the spill.'
'In addition, the Gulf Loop Current acts as a sea highway for drifting larvae of Atlantic Bluefin tuna, groupers, snappers spiny lobsters and a host of other species spawned far upcurrent. These larvae, too, drifted through the BP “kill zone” during the time of the spill.'
3 years later... ''What we know isn't good, what we don’t know could be worse.''
says Environmental Defense Fund PETITION to stop dspersants: over 6000 signatures: Goal= 10,000. http://
''Deep scattering layer animals were very likely obliterated for a wide distance around the well site by vast underwater plumes of dissolved and dispersed oil-derived toxicants, nearly certainly made worse by the use – including underwater – of two million gallons of DISPERSANTS. The dispersant/oil mixture has since been shown to be up to fifty times as toxic for many sea creatures as the oil by itself. DISPERSANT use certainly spread the toxic brew much more broadly under the sea.'
...
'On the surface, birds and other large animals were oiled and killed, but immeasurably greater numbers of floating baby sea creatures died as well. The oil – and the toxic dispersant brew – covered large areas of sea surface, where buoyant eggs and larvae drift, between the spawning areas at the edge of the coastal shelf and the coastal nurseries (wetlands, tidal creeks and even sandy beaches). For many key species, those larvae drifted through during the peak of the spill.'
'In addition, the Gulf Loop Current acts as a sea highway for drifting larvae of Atlantic Bluefin tuna, groupers, snappers spiny lobsters and a host of other species spawned far upcurrent. These larvae, too, drifted through the BP “kill zone” during the time of the spill.'
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