Oil Spill in CA (Santa Barbara) -finally someone (Rachel Maddow) is talking about it!

[babylonsister]

Showing residents cleaning this gawdawful toxic mess up as best they could when no help showed up. And natch, it's getting bigger.

[onecaliberal]

1. This beach was so pristine....

[babylonsister]

2. It breaks my heart, and I'm

not from there, but I do love pristine beaches.

I keep reading about the damage to the gulf from BP, even now. I just moved to the east coast of FL, so I'm paying a whole lot more attention.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/20/us-bp-spill-dolphins-idUSKBN0O52DS20150520
Wed May 20, 2015 2:55pm EDT
Related: Environment
Dolphin die-off in Gulf of Mexico spurred by BP oil spill: scientists
TAMPA, Fla. | By Letitia Stein

[onecaliberal]

4. It is beyond terrible. Lots of wild life including whales will be harmed.

I'm so sick of what oil companies are doing to our environment.

[babylonsister]

6. I hope the 'saving grace' is that's an ocean and

will be disbursed, to the deficit of the wildlife eventually anyway.

Found this on FB-no link to the info, but I've heard a whole lot about this, from CA to HI to AUS. Ugh.

https://www.facebook.com/plantingpeace?pnref=story

Planting Peace
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located in the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California and is the largest garbage site in the world. This floating mass of plastic is twice the size of Texas, with plastic pieces outnumbering sea life six to one. Roughly one million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.

[onecaliberal]

7. I've heard of the floating garbage.

I guess I didn't realize it was that large.

The oil seems to be moving farther along the beach. It just completely sucks.

[upaloopa]

3. I drive past Refugio and El Capitan beaches

everyday on my way to work and back. This time of year in the morning you could always smell the camp fires and breakfast of the Memorial Day campers. Now all you can smell is oil. And the camp grounds are deserted except for clean up vehicles.

[onecaliberal]

5. They made all the campers leave.

[bullwinkle428]

8. To whoever out there that may still be in favor of Keystone XL, think of stuff

even worse than this spilling and contaminating the Ogalalla Aquifer.

[babylonsister]

9. And then we have fracking. It's enough to

depress anyone who's paying attention.

[babylonsister]

10. Any DUers live by here? What's going on? nt