"Man, look at all this oil" says scientist on Florida beach

[Generic Other]

Run time: 02:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-j8gNkDwM   Posted on YouTube: January 15, 2011 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 147   Posted on DU: January 15, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1298

 
Ongoing BP Cleanup (Tarballs Washing Up), WEAR Pensacola, January 14, 2010: http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/featur...

Transcript Excerpts WEAR reporter Laurie Bernstein: At the same time, more submerged oil is being found, in the form of underwater tar mats. ... And scientists say its something we will be dealing with for years. Dr. Dick Snyder, University of West Florida professor: Man look at all this oil... Any place sand is dynamic, good chance we're going to have buried oil, that includes sand bars just off beach, we don't know how much is out there or where it is... WEAR: Those underwater tar mats are continuing to produce large tar balls and patties on the beaches nearby. Snyder: This is still loaded with PAH's... WEAR: The question is....will that oil dissolve enough into the water to cause a human health risk...

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BP sucks!!!!! I am so sick of their smug excuses!! And how dare they even consider laying off t5he crews in Pensacola area? I certainly will NOT be spending my tourist buck on a toxic beach! How shortsighted are the city and county officials there? They need our dollars to survive. Cleaning that mess is priority #1. Not grovelling at BP's beck and call!! Simply incomprehensible. I am amazed that any of the locals stand for it for one second.

As some may recall Pensacola Greg Hall was videoing the tarballs every day and lost his job because of it. He worked at a car dealership and they said his job or his videos! I am not surprised at all that tarballs are still washing ashore. Greg showed them to us every day for months and I posted them all on DU until he was forced to pull his videos from Youtube. He showed us the clean-up workers saying they'd be fired if they dug beneath the surface,,,he showed us a massive layer of tar just beneath the surface that lay untouched. Of course it washes in and out with the tide. Christ on a trailer hitch! What do they think tides do to sand? BP knew and hoped it would just wash out of sight out of mind. They are CRIMINALS.

[Generic Other]

1. The public can help!! Identify polluted areas

so BP can deny there's a problem. We all know that drill!

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

This should be picked up nationally, as a follow up.

[indimuse]

3. I have read that this oil is now in our Gulf-stream..

do you know what this means?/ Not good at all!

[Generic Other]

5. It seems to be floating all over the place...

And some speculate it may be responsible for bird and fish deaths in a wide area.

[Crowman1979]

4. Well I guess burying the damn oil was about a useless as putting a band-aid over an open fracture.

[Generic Other]

6. Or putting kitty litter over a shit-stained carpet

Tarmats don't go away they get moved around is all. Sorry I am fuming about this.

[tomm2thumbs]

8. nice analogy - true and keeps getting truer

[MrMickeysMom]

9. You should be fuming...

... As a former 30 year Floridian, I'm fuming!

This is like a time-released capsule of health crisis and we don't seem to be bothered, as we are at the top of the food chain.

[HockeyMom]

7. Tourists and Snowbirds think it is all gone

because the media said so. These people are swimming in oil and have no idea. Quiet. It might hurt business.

[JDPriestly]

10. 2010 or 2011???

[Generic Other]

11. OOPS. 2011 UNFORTUNATELY

I hate when that happens! Good eye JD.