Oiled birds found in Texas

[charlesg]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/060710dnnatoilspill.1db83ee.html

Oiled birds found in Texas; spill woes to last into fall
June 6, 2010

WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude is stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn – and maybe much longer – to deal with the slick spreading relentlessly across the gulf...

Wildlife casualty numbers mounted, with the number of birds picked up by wildlife rescue workers in Texas and the other four gulf states jumping Sunday by nearly 100 from Saturday's toll. Of the 820 birds found so far, 597 have been dead, and all 223 found alive have been visibly oiled. For the first time, oiled birds showed up in Texas, underscoring Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen's warning that the massive spill had splintered into "literally hundreds of thousands" of smaller slicks being pushed in different directions by winds and currents...

The area of gulf shoreline potentially affected by the spill has continued to grow, extending from central Louisiana to Port St. Joe in the middle of the Florida panhandle, a 400-mile front in a widening sea, air and land war. Allen, who appeared on four television public affairs programs on Sunday morning to discuss the disaster, said he was fighting the oil and the elements with a flotilla of skimmers and boom-laying boats to try to keep the oil from making landfall.

The latest tallies of wildlife collected showed a sharp jump, particularly in Louisiana, where the number of birds collected, both dead and alive, went from 358 to 404 from Saturday to Sunday. There have been 70 sea turtles picked up in the state, 66 of them dead. The number of reptiles, birds, turtles and mammals such as dolphins collected along the gulf stood at 1,143 Sunday, 107 more than the previous day. In Texas, 46 dead birds were picked up, the first wildlife casualty report from the state. "Yesterday and today, it has really hit home," said Larry Arbanas, part of a team from Cornell's Lab of Ornithology that has been in Louisiana for eight days documenting damage to wildlife...

[Amonester]

1. Tell BP CEO they want their lives back.

Seize his salary, his stock options, his bank account, his pension plan, and ALL his personal assets NOW.

K&R

:cry:

[Angry Dragon]

3. I want to see him in jail for 50 years

and not a country club jail......have him do hard time for murder

[blindpig]

7. Would this meet your requirements?

Angola, let the people of Louisiana take care of him.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Might be too good for him

I need something a little more rugged

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. Both pictures would apply to that sociopath.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. +1

:thumbsup:

[onestepforward]

2. Another arrow to the heart.

:cry:

[bdamomma]

4. disgusting, BP must pay dearly for this horrific loss of life both human and wildlife

tony haywood is saying he is unscathed??? yea, I hope he chokes on those words.

[malaise]

10. Just like Union Carbide in India

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8502965

Don't hold your breath. :hi:

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Oh, damn. There goes Padre Island

Louisiana marshes, Florida white sand beaches, flora and fauna-- everything about the Gulf that made it such a special place, being drowned in a sea of oil.

I wish You Tube had a video of the public service advertisement that came out shortly after the Santa Barbara spill which showed a pristine seashore being choked with oil. It starts out with a reading from the Book of Genesis, and ends with a quote from the Book of Amos:

"And thou shalt die in a polluted land..."

[lunatica]

6. It going to get much worse

Anyone who thinks otherwise is some fool who works at the highest levels of oil companies.

[undeterred]

11. Pickles and the Chimp should be out there cleaning this up.

[bdamomma]

14. how about Dick?

he should suck it up since he has a oil obsession.

[phantom power]

13. The idea that this is going to be "cleaned up" by fall is fucking ridiculous.