"Back To Normal"?-Shocking Pictures Of Long Term - BP OIL SPILL -Damage

[kpete]

Is this what you call 'back to normal?': Day after scientists hail recovery of Gulf Coast, new pictures show the real damage
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 1:06 PM on 20th April 2011

These are the shocking images of the long term damage last year's BP oil spill has done to the Gulf coastline.

Coming a day after scientists said Gulf of Mexico surface water was 'almost back to normal', these shots paint a very different picture of how wild life and fauna in the affected zones have fared a year on from the Deep Water Horizon accident.

Only yesterday, more than three dozen scientists graded the Gulf's health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale. This is just below the 71 grade the same researchers last summer said they would give the ecosystem before the spill.

But despite the optimistic analysis for marine life, the shore line has suffered far more long lasting damage from the cloying oil.




Damage: Shots from May 2010 (left) and April 2011(right) Scientists said Cat island is significantly eroded, with much of the mangrove dead or dying because the island was completely overwashed by the oil


Washed away: Shots from May 2010 (left) and April 2011(right). Biologists from the Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife say poorly maintained oil booms contributed to the damage


Contrast: The, left, May 2010 photo shows birds nesting just after the spill hits the shore line. The second photo taken on April 8, 2011 near the same location, shows the shoreline heavily eroded

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378679/BP-oil-spill-Day-scientists-hail-recovery-Gulf-Coast-pictures-real-damage.html#ixzz1K5Z4AERf

[a kennedy]

1. this just makes my heart break.....

:cry:

[bullwinkle428]

2. The attempted media whitewash this week has been making me sick.

[blindpig]

3. Ya can't regulate there capitalists bastards

Given the power of their money they will always have their way in a Capitalist society.

Kill Capitalism

[Terra Alta]

4. There will be permanent damage from the spill.

No matter how much the media says things are "back to normal". Thing will never be back to normal.

[Angry Dragon]

5. The whole clean-up effort was no more than a government

cover-up ......... that is my opinion

The let the criminal supervise the investigation and clean-up
I would have had the government in charge of the clean-up and then sent the bill to bp

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. That's not even a 68 out of 100. Stop the rape of the Gulf...

[jwirr]

7. But if you try to stop the drilling the governor and the workers scream

about lost jobs. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Pay them to continue cleaning up and plant new greenery.

That is 68% dead, not 68% "better"...

[Cascadian]

9. Anybody notice how the mainstream media has been playing the same tune?

It has not gotten better and people and wildlife are still struggling. The propaganda by the MSMer's has gotten worse. It's like watching the old Soviet TV news broadcast "Vremya" or something like that.




John

(The Cascadian is back!)

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Whose standard of normal? (Rhetorical statement)