Oil From Gulf Spill Reaches Coast

[NutmegYankee]

MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and started washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes.

The spill was bigger than imagined -- five times more than first estimated -- and closer. Fingers of oily sheen were reaching the Mississippi River delta, lapping the Louisiana shoreline in long, thin lines.

"It is of grave concern," David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Associated Press. "I am frightened. This is a very, very big thing. And the efforts that are going to be required to do anything about it, especially if it continues on, are just mind-boggling."

The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life. Oil was thickening in waters south and east of the Mississippi delta about five miles offshore.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36800673/ns/us_news-environment/


And it begins...:grr:

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. Yep, another link here.

http://www.wwltv.com/

[hatrack]

2. With the kind of amazing speed and efficiency we've come to expect from the energy industry!

:puke:

[uppityperson]

3. k&r

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Now Mr. Obama, you got all the excuses you need

to shelf that plan of yours. Never mind that... they were NOT GONNA DRILL ANYWAY... They haven't in previous grants that they already had.

Oh and time to invest heavily in alternate clean energy.

[ShamelessHussy]

5. Watch Water Burn (USCG Video)

http://www.wwltv.com/video/featured-videos/Raw-Footage-of-Thursdays-oil-burn-in-Gulf--92431894.html

:'(

[HughMoran]

6. Uggh - such a slow-motion disaster in the making

With no way to stop it for the most part - this is going to be news daily for weeks, if not months :(

[depakid]

7. Just in time for the summer holiday season...

A lot of businesses owners who were screaming for more drilling are about to get a lesson on the consequences of the policies they ardently supported.

[Dappleganger]

8. God forgive us.

We have not been good stewards.

:cry:

[NCarolinawoman]

9. No, we have NOT been.

:cry: This place on Topsail Island, North Carolina will have many new "patients" in need. I have volunteered there in the past. I only hope they will have enough room for some of the "lucky" ones who are rescued from this catastrophe.

Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center http://seaturtlehospital.org

[lonestarnot]

12. "And he shall destroy those who destroy the earth."

Wait for it. They'll be here in a second. :eyes:

[WeDidIt]

10. This will be the worst ecological disaster in human history.

:cry:

[roamer65]

11. This is the end of expanded offshore drilling.

Period.

[Subdivisions]

13. Where do I sign up to assist in the clean up? I was down in Gulfport right

after Katrina helping to clean up. I'm a disaster veteran. :(

[FreeJG]

14. Will Obusha continue with drilling plans? He's STILL not decided???