BP Oil Spill: locals swim in condo pools while tourist swim in toxic Gulf!!

[flyarm]

BP Oil Spill: locals swim in condo pools while tourist swim in toxic Gulf!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/jamescfox#p/a

go ahead go swimming, eat the shrimp, and oysters, and Grouper..

if you dare..

but keep the kids out of the Gulf please!!!!!!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I fully recommend that the people who think the entire Gulf should be off limits...

to go down to the Gulf region, find the biggest surliest out-of-work fisherman they can find, and tell him to his face why he should continue to remain out of work.

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. How many times have you swam in the Gulf since the spill? Eating a lot of shrimp lately?

Commercial fishing communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida have united to demand that local, state and federal agencies force BP to discontinue the use of toxic dispersants and conduct better testing before reopening fishing waters.

These moves are being questioned by commercial fishermen, who are skeptical of the motives of the state and federal governments' decision to begin reopening fishing areas that had been closed by the oil disaster.

Clint Guidry is a Louisiana fisherman and on the board of directors of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, as well as being the shrimp harvester representative on the Louisiana Shrimp Task Force created by Executive Order of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

"The government, both state and federal, is pushing to open all these fishing areas back up and say it is OK, but this is a load of shit," Guidry, who is from Lafitte, Louisiana, told Truthout. "It's not OK. They claim 75 percent of the oil is gone or accounted for, but there's still oil coming in. There is more oil in many of our bays, right now, than there has ever been."

http://www.truth-out.org/gulf-coast-fishermen-challenge-us-government-over-dispersants62183

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. None.

Although if you'd like to pay for travel, room, and board, I'll be happy to go.

[flyarm]

4. My back yard is the Gulf, I won't swim in it! I don't take my long morning walks in the sand at the

water line any longer.

I won't do the shelling, or looking for Sea Glass as I have for over 15 years.

And my husbands best friend who is a big time Charter Fishing man..he hasn't taken clients out since April.

Another dear friend who runs huge Fishing Game competitions for the very very wealthy, has shut down his business...because of the oil and toxins that are breathed out on the water!


Save your bullshit ..just save it!

Oh and we Democrats that live on the Gulf..the locals....won't put our big toe in the water!

[BeFree]

5. Actually

Methinks H is really telling the BP officials to be real and be tough and go tell the fishermen the truth: They may never fish again.

Y'know how H is.... not quite all here.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Your loss.

Just don't complain about fisherman being out of work if you're going to keep spreading this fearmongering crap.

[flyarm]

7. My Gain is not getting cancers! You swim in it all you want..I will not be exposed to more than the

shit I have had to breathe! The dead birds on the beach..are a dead giveaway of what is in that water..and the air..oh and where I am there is no VISABLE OIL..so what's killing the birds and fish??????????

No thanks..you go swimming in that Toxic Soup...my ass is not going in that water for a very very very long time!

Nor will my children or grandchildren.

Where did you say you live on the Gulf? And do you wake up each morning looking at the GUlf?

And you want to tell me or the Locals all along the Gulf we are safe from this shit??

ahahahaha..:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :rofl:

How's your BP job going? or is it the government???????????

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. "Nor will my children or grand children ever get the Gulf cancer."

Ah, the John Ashcroft approach to life. Giving up a little liberty is a fair trade for getting imaginary security.

[AlabamaLibrul]

18. I fully recommend anyone who doesn't live in the Gulf region come down to a town hall

that usually happens once a week here and listen to the biggest surliest out-of-work fisherman they can find talk about how

1) BP has put them out of work

2) It's not safe for them to go back to work

3) They can't, in clear conscience, catch and sell seafood that is collected in said environment.

Thanks.

[tnlefty]

20. + a million!

This is the fault of BP not people reporting on the conditions along the Gulf.

[tnlefty]

8. That is documentation of one of the strangest behaviors I have ever

seen:

The woman can see the crap, but it takes someone else mentioning it to here for her to consider getting her kids out of it.:crazy:

And the man, 'there's oil in it...it's sticky,' but he's still in it.:crazy: :crazy:

[SidDithers]

9. Unrec...nt

Sid

[flyarm]

11. Plumes of Gulf oil spreading east on sea floor

Plumes of Gulf oil spreading east on sea floor
Source: CNN

CNN) -- A new report set to be released Tuesday renews concerns about the long-term environmental impact of the Gulf Coast oil disaster, and efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well have been delayed again.

Researchers at the University of South Florida have concluded that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected -- and at levels toxic to marine life.

Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that dispersants may have sent droplets of crude to the ocean floor, where it has turned up at the bottom of an undersea canyon within 40 miles of the Florida Panhandle. The results are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but CNN obtained a summary of the initial conclusions Monday night.

Plankton and other organisms at the base of the food chain showed a "strong toxic response" to the crude, and the oil could well up onto the continental shelf and resurface later, according to researchers


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/08/17/gulf.oil.disaster/...

[blindpig]

12. There you go, fearmongering again.

I mean, what the hell do you know, you just live there.

Those who minimize this catastrophe are completely without shame. The full extent of this will not be fully known for years yet some would dump it down the memory hole, no way! BP must pay and pay and pay, yet they can never compensate.

Nationalize the energy sector

[thereismore]

14. There you go again with your "scientific" measurements again. Who are you going

to believe, some scientists?

[Generic Other]

15. I can't believe that people are so blind -- why unrecc'ing your post ?

I could cry for you Fly! The impact is ongoing and devastating. But the deniers on DU keep washing up on the beach just like the dead seabirds and fish! I also wonder why they don't put the oily, chemical-covered seafood in their bellies before sniping at those who live in the Gulf and express alarm at what is happening there!

[AlabamaLibrul]

19. It's easier to talk shit when it's not happening to them n/t

[Ignis]

22. Because the Official Word is that the oil disappeared.

The WH says the oil is gone, so any attempt to present evidence to the contrary must be taken as an attack on Our President and shouted down as quickly and stridently as possible.

[tnlefty]

16. Kicking...

:kick:

[flyarm]

17. Reports Sharply Contradict Claims About Vanished Oil

Reports Sharply Contradict Claims About Vanished Oil

(Aug. 17) -- Two new reports from different groups of academic scientists are providing a counterweight to the government's rosy assertions that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis is drawing to a close. One says that as much as 79 percent of the oil is still loose in the gulf; the other expresses the fear that oil on the ocean floor may not stay there but could resurface at a later time.

Researchers at the University of Georgia announced Monday that between 70 and 79 percent of the oil and its toxic byproducts are still present under the surface of the gulf. That finding stands in stark contrast to the calculations released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists during the first week of August, which say that only 26 percent of the spilled crude remains after the rest of it was collected or dispersed or naturally evaporated or dissolved.



The major dividing line between the government's and UGA's estimates (both are based on imperfect information, The Wall Street Journal points out) rests on the oil in those last two categories.

"One major misconception is that oil that has dissolved into water is gone and, therefore, harmless," UGA marine scientist Charles Hopkinson told the Journal. "The oil is still out there, and it will likely take years to completely degrade."

The UGA report adds that all the dissolved oil could not have evaporated because large plumes of oil exist under the ocean's surface. Only oil on the surface can evaporate into the atmosphere.

http://www.aolnews.com/article/reports-79-of-bp-oil-still-on-loose-in-gulf-could-resurface-l/19596811?icid=main|htmlws-main-w|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Farticle%2Freports-79-of-bp-oil-still-on-loose-in-gulf-could-resurface-l%2F19596811

[LTX]

21. So where do you live?

And in case you have any interest:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8967119