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Five Years After the BP Oil Disaster: A Barrier Island for Nesting Birds Devoid of Life
Five Years After the BP Oil Disaster: A Barrier Island for Nesting Birds Devoid of Life
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 00:00
By Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog | Report
Cat Island, off the Gulf Coast in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, was home to a vibrant bird rookery inhabited by brown pelicans, seagulls, spoonbills, and egrets before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Five years after the largest oil spill in American history, the barrier island has just about disappeared.
Despite ongoing efforts by former Plaquemines Parish coastal zone manager PJ Hahn to restore the island, only the needed building permits and an engineering plan have been completed.
"Cat Island was ground zero of the oil spill," Hahn told DeSmogBlog.
[font size="1"]Dead bird on Cat Island five years after the BP oil spill. March 31, 2015. (Photo: ©2015 Julie Dermansky)[/font]
He thought that the restoration of the island was a no-brainer since, while much of the oil spill's damage was underwater and invisible, the damage to Cat Island was easy to prove. According to Hahn, not only would the island's restoration be necessary for the birds, but it would provide a great public relations move for anyone who helped in the process. ................(more)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30322-five-years-after-the-bp-oil-disaster-a-barrier-island-for-nesting-birds-devoid-of-life
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