"squirts" > wrote in message
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> On 8/9/2014 12:01 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> Prevention is far cheaper than a clean up. The
>> whole point is that big energy is being allowed to run rampant with lax
>> regulation. How many more Gulf oil spills can we endure.
>
> Better ask the microbes that digested all that oil:
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...es-slide-show/
>
>
> The Deepwater Horizon oil spill added roughly 800 million liters of
> hydrocarbons to the Gulf of Mexico. One quarter of that has been burned,
> captured or skimmed, according to U.S. government estimates. That leaves
> the rest for trillions of microbes to feast on—a petroleum cornucopia that
> first became available April 20 when the oil platform exploded and the
> spill started.
>
>
> http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...ype=blogs&_r=0
>
> Oil-eating bacteria exist in significant quantities even in the deep
> waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and may be breaking down submerged oil from
> the Deepwater Horizon oil leak faster than previously believed, scientists
> are reporting today.
>
> The bacteria were found in a plume of microscopic oil droplets more than
> 3,000 feet below the surface, in the vicinity of BP’s blown-out well, by a
> group of scientists led by Terry Hazen, a senior ecologist at the Lawrence
> Berkeley National Laboratory. Their presence may have been overlooked by
> other researchers because the variety found in the plume do not seem to be
> consuming much oxygen from the water column, unlike most oil-digesting
> bacteria, the scientists said.
>
Except the microbes do not live in cold deep water which is where most of
the oil is now. Also, they used a product called Correxit which is causing
more troubles to this day than the oil. Correxit has been found to be a
serious neurological toxin and has a very long lifespan.
Sea life in the gulf is suffering terribly to this day and it is only
getting worse as the contamination spreads. Every species is suffering from
shrimp and oysters all the way up to whal;es and dolphins. Dolphin deaths
have quadruped and show no sign of abating. Dead sperm whales found
floating in the Gulf are at record numbers. Even inland in the marshes the
bacteria you describe has not eliminated much of the oil which is mostly
still there.
But thank you for the BP editorial piece.
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