Oil Spill: New footage of dead fish on beach near Palm Beach County

[salazarmms]

Source: YouTube

Filmed 20 minutes north of Palm Beach County, FL on Tuesday May 18, 2010 at 9:00a EST.

Is the BP oil spill the cause of hundreds of dead fish washing up on Southeast Florida beaches?

Cold weather is capable of killing certain types of fish. This morning, area temperatures neared 90*F.

Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST-kGG_raMc

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There was a similar report that aired on WPTV Channel 5 this morning, but it doesn't appear to be online yet.

[AndyA]

1. Oh, I'm sure this is totally unrelated to the BP spill in the Gulf.

BP is a good corporate citizen. You've seen the ads...Beyond Petroleum...BP.

Never mind the long history of safety issues.

Disregard their push to eliminate oversight and regulations on the industry.

Ignore their lies that they were prepared to handle any disaster or accident that might happen.

BP does not equal Beyond Petroleum.

BP = Beyond Pathetic.

[salazarmms]

5. NOAA just admitted that the Key West tar balls are from the spill...

and the sea turtles

[amerfayed]

6. And yet another totally unrelated influx of never before seen tar balls

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4386984&mesg_id=4386984

[peacetalksforall]

2. Thank you.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. I hope all the dead fish wash up on that greasy lipped drug addict Limabugh's house

[dgibby]

4. CNN reported this am

that the tarballs washing up on Key West are being tested to determine if they're from the gusher. I think everything is probably being tested for a relationship in order to assess scope of damages due from BP.

[gratuitous]

7. Watching the coverage early this morning

I was a bit surprised by the casual attitude of the newsreaders. The vibe I got was that "Well, now that BP has that straw stuck in the gushing oil well, it'll be all over but a smidgen of mopping up over the weekend." They mentioned oil getting into the Gulf Loop, but it didn't seem too concerning. They reported the first tar balls, but again it didn't seem to impress the anchors that this was the harbinger of more and worse to come.

I think teevee people have gotten so used to their own short attention span approach that the slow-motion unfolding of this catastrophe just doesn't register on their minds. If it doesn't blow up, and that real gud, in a reasonable amount of time, they just don't get it. I don't know if it has to do with pleasing their corporate sponsors and masters as much as it has to do with an inability to map a line from A to B to C and down the line to K and L. I'd say we're at about F right now, but the reporting all seems to happen in self-contained units, and nothing that preceded it has anything to do with what's happening today. And when tomorrow's bad news comes in, there won't be any recognition that it's worse than it was the day before, or that we're seeing a developing and predictable continuum of disaster.

[sixmile]

8. Is the BP oil spill the cause of hundreds of dead fish washing up on Southeast Florida beaches?

The answer is YES.

[n2doc]

9. This is too soon

It takes time for the oil to make it around Florida. So this is more than likely some other phenomenon, maybe a red tide.

[flyarm]

12. you and most of this country have been seriously lied to! see my posted#11 down from this one! eom

[thereismore]

10. These fish were not killed by oil at all. They just suffocated in oxygen-low water.

:sarcasm:

[flyarm]

11. Over 2 weeks ago on Tampa TV News they reported the Oil was in the Loop current..

they reported at that time..once in the Loop Current the oil would travel fast to the Gulf Stream..and then very fast to the Atlantic..I only saw the report once..and it was during the day..I watched for the story to be repeated on evening news..it was not..

There is so damn much being covered up..it makes my blood boil!

I just posted this a short while ago..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8360876

Government to Oil Plume Discovery Team: Shut Up | The Seminal

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Government to Oil Plume Discovery Team: Shut Up
By: Jim White Tuesday May 18, 2010 6:06 am


The research vessel Pelican. (photo: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium)

On Saturday, the New York Times brought the world’s attention to the discovery by a team of researchers on the the vessel Pelican that there are large underwater plumes of oil emanating from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Remarkably, the response of the government to the attention focused on this discovery has been to tell the researchers to stop granting interviews with the press. At the same time, the blog on which the researchers had been providing updates has also fallen silent since Saturday.

Pensacola television station WEAR filed a report (video at the link) on the oil plume and broke the news about the scientists being muzzled by the government:

Over the weekend, a research crew from the University of Southern Mississippi found evidence that there are 3 to 5 plumes… About 5 miles wide, 10 miles long and 3 hundred feet in depth.

But after giving that information to the press, the lead researcher now says he has been asked by the federal government… Which funds his research… To quit giving interviews until further testing is done.

What an interesting change of course for the government. Even the government’s website on the Deepwater Horizon response had been touting the mission of the Pelican as recently as May 6:

[Quantess]

13. Welcome to DU!

[Catherina]

14. Those fish are lying!

"The amount of volume of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico is relatively tiny."

"It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment but everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact will be very, very modest."

Tony Hayward, CEO, BP

The black smoke of bitumen

grows,

gigantic,

from the blue

of the ancient sea.

A dense gloomy signal

of the next tragic

global wreck.





An evil inflamed success

grows,

in the mist

of the riviera sky,

triumphant,

behind the flames

of coal tar.



The fatal allegory

of the human insanity

M. Ivana Trevisani Bach

http://www.ecopoems.altervista.org/pollution_poems1.htm