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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Tue May 22, 2012, 02:04 AM May 2012

Uh oh. Cascading Effect on the Environment Expected

http://planetsave.com/2010/07/19/cascading-effect-on-the-environment-expected/

Scientists studying the BP oil spill which has only recently been capped believe there could be a decades-long “cascading” effect on marine life.

Experts estimate that some 400 species could be at risk from the impact of oil and the chemical dispersants laid down in an effort to disperse the oil. They believe a massive impact could hit the marine life and shift into an overall biological network shift in the Gulf of Mexico, and that it could have already begun.

Animals like the tiny oil-eating bacteria, up to shrimp and crabs, further up to endangered sea turtles, brown pelicans and even sperm whales are all at risk. But it isn’t just those currently being affected by the oil, but future generations of these animals.

Ron Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University told the AFP that “a major environmental experiment is underway.” Sadly, this isn’t Kendall’s first rodeo either. He was one of those who helped study the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and its impact on the wildlife in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

On top of that is the possibility that the dispersants could enter the food chain of marine life and, potentially, our own food supplies.
Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/13BL4)
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Uh oh. Cascading Effect on the Environment Expected (Original Post) Bonobo May 2012 OP
What is all this 'possiblemaybeperhaps' bullshit? Systematic Chaos May 2012 #1
If it takes decades, you can't send anyone the bill- follow the money JCMach1 May 2012 #2
END THE OIL TAX BREAK. Atman May 2012 #3
Seize BP assets in America to pay for restitution and clean-up... JCMach1 May 2012 #4
2 year old article Generic Other May 2012 #5

JCMach1

(27,544 posts)
2. If it takes decades, you can't send anyone the bill- follow the money
Tue May 22, 2012, 03:47 AM
May 2012
A. Gulf Coast Operations, Response, and Policy Consortium

The Gulf Coast Operations, Response, and Policy Consortium (GCORP) “establishes a group of institutions within Texas that will jointly conduct research to address the unprecedented environmental damage created by [the Deepwater Horizon] oil spill. Based on their existing wealth of data from the Gulf environment, consortium institutions can immediately begin providing information to scientists, policy makers, industry, and other stakeholder groups affected by this spill.”

GCORP members include:

Bush School of Government and Public Service
Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University - Galveston Campus
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin - Energy Institute
University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Texas A&M College of Education and Human Development
Texas A&M University College of Geosciences
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Texas State University
Texas Tech University, Institute of Environmental and Human Health
The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering
University of Houston Clear Lake - Environmental Institute of Houston
University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences http://vpr.tamu.edu/funding/gulfresearch


Big oil playing games again...


Atman

(31,464 posts)
3. END THE OIL TAX BREAK.
Tue May 22, 2012, 06:38 AM
May 2012

Put every penny toward research, clean-up and restitution. If even one oil company complains, make their CEO and Board of Directors eat nothing but Gulf of Mexico seafood for a year.

JCMach1

(27,544 posts)
4. Seize BP assets in America to pay for restitution and clean-up...
Tue May 22, 2012, 09:19 AM
May 2012

Isn't Obama the Communist, Hitler anyway? (sarcasm)

BP knew what it was doing and what the dangers were:

Yesterday, Ecowatch.org revealed that, in September 2008, nearly two years before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP rig had blown out in the Caspian Sea––which BP concealed from U.S. regulators and Congress.

Had BP, Chevron, Exxon or the Bush State Department revealed the facts of the earlier blow-out, it is likely that the Deepwater Horizon disaster would have been prevented... http://www.gregpalast.com/bp-cover-uppart-2-bribery-george-bush-and-wikileaks/


I know! It is shocking that the Bush administration should be partially held responsible... shocking.
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