Return to Cat Island: BP Oil Spill four years later | NOLA: "Armageddon" - BP Oil: "Normal"

[Fred Sanders]

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http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/04/bp_oil_spill_four_years_later.html

When a crew of journalists and environmental groups studying the effects of the BP Deepwater Macondo oil spill disembarked on Cat Island in Baratria Bay last week, there was a collective gasp.

"It looks like the Arizona desert," said Eileen Fleming, who's reported for WWNO spring after spring since the April 20, 2010 spill.

"It looks like there was a fire here," said Doug Meffert, vice president of the National Audubon Society and president of the Louisiana chapter, "but there wasn't a fire."

The bones of black mangrove stumps are all that remain of what was a thriving bird rookery here in Plaquemines Parish Four years ago, footage of oiled brown pelicans and the thousands of shorebirds nesting here went around the world in the aftermath of the 200 million gallons of thick crude that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico."




2010 oil containment booms around the formerly lush mangrove choked Cat islands, proven totally ineffective due to high tides



Great Brown Pelicans Attempt to Nest at Former Cat Island Nesting Grounds

[libtodeath]

1. The heads of BP should be rotting in jail.

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure. nt

[Pooka Fey]

3. No words...

[arikara]

4. Would that devastation be from the oil, or from the corexit they dumped all over the place?

Regardless, its sickening.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Jindal and BP Oil only see oil going to waste. It is a crime against the planet.

[malaise]

6. Four years already

They destroyed the place

[Fred Sanders]

7. Give the planet enough time, it will heal anything, the even worse loss is human humility.

[BlueJazz]

8. With a name like Cat Island, I'm surprised the whole place doesn't smell like fucking rotten fish.

[pansypoo53219]

9. china would have executed them years ago.

[Fred Sanders]

10. Not who I would be looking towards as an example to follow.