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Nat'l Wildlife Federation - New Oil Slick Off Louisiana Points to Fresh Spill

source: http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/06/exclusive-tests-on-new-oil-slick-off-louisiana-p...

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The National Wildlife Federation has just received the results of tests on the newly-discovered oil in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, not far from the Delta National Wildlife Refuge. We gave the samples to Ed Overton, professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Louisiana State University. Here’s the email I just got from Maura Wood in NWF’s Coastal Lousiana office in Baton Rouge:

"According to Ed Overton, the sample from the boat captain is not BP oil, either weathered or fresh. Ed called it South Louisiana crude, and said it had not been out there that long, as it still contained light volatiles. He said the Coast Guard had also taken samples and sent them to a different lab."

Those test results counter early suggestions that the oil was stirred-up oil from last year’s BP oil disaster.

As SkyTruth has reported, pollution reports this week had indicated “small amounts of oil spilled” at a platform about 20 miles northwest of the site of the new slick. It’s not clear if this slick is connected to those reports or to another as-yet-unknown incident.

Oil slicks like this show that contrary to the oil drilling industry’s claims, oil spills are tragically common. The National Wildlife Federation detailed the oil and gas industry’s long record of mishaps in our Assault on America report last year.

http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/06/exclusive-tests-on-new-oil-slick-off...
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17 comments // Nat'l Wildlife Federation - New Oil Slick Off Louisiana Points to Fresh Spill

  • ecoalex
    • +1
      ecoalex  

    • Since the main use for oil is transportation,electric cars,trucks are the solution.Solar /wind charged electric vehicles.The oil lobby is fighting with contributions to the Congress to stop any real Apollo project to get the country driving electric vehicles.

    • 12 months ago
  • Wetdog
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • Wetdog
    • +1
      Wetdog  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      President Obama's 2012 budget calls for an end to $38 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to oil companies.

      You are already giving them money---something much more important to them than medals.

      They are drilling for oil on public lands practically for free right now. We need to increase the price of oil leases on public lands at least X10----which would return the prices back to what they were in the 1970s----before Reagan's Republicans took over.

    • 12 months ago
  • NiceN
  • artemis6
    • +2
      artemis6  

    • And the New safety procedures ??!! Everyone , PLEASE , get an electric vehicle , fuck them and fuck them hard ..... for the planet , for seafood , for your kids , for your freedom !

    • 12 months ago
  • rustyred
    • +5
      rustyred  
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    • As long as we allow the offshore drilling of oil, these environmental attacks will continue. Our planet and her diversity of life is far more important than exploiting fossil fuel to the last drop.

    • 12 months ago
  • scooter3282
    • +6
      scooter3282  

    • The Oil Industry doesn't even have to pretend to be conscientious about spill safety anymore because they were basically given a free pass on the worst spill in history 14 months ago and it has quietly been swept from every American's collective memory outside of those who were directly impacted by it in the Gulf. The new head of the "oversight" agency who dictates the rules for these blatant criminals is yet another yes man for them like his boss Ken Salazar. Nobody will ever take full notice of this crime until every fresh water body on the planet has been systematically destroyed and the seafood industry is a thing of the past. Loss of life doesn't even create a ripple for these soulless miscreants who can still crow about having "one of their safest years on record" even after the loss of 11 people on the Deepwater rig. Chalk up yet another example of this world's loss of humanity, bit by bit.

    • 12 months ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • scooter3282
  • nobsartist
    • +4
      nobsartist  

    • Once again, there is more oversight on dog license's than on the oil industry.
      It is time to nationalize our oil resourses. The split up of standard oil in the early 1900's should be the basis for nationalizing ANY company involved in removing
      oil from America. It is evident that there is NO shortage and that America is willing to go to war (at great expense, far more than what an idiot like tim pawlenty estimated) so it is time to end wars for profit. We should TAKE all of the money the major oil compnies have made since 2000 AND put them out of business for encouraging war in the middle east..

      Let OPEC know that we will dictate what WE will pay for a barrel of oil and that we will enforce price controls by using our military. After all, it is a lot better to state our intentions than to lie about what we are doing and why(like chinmpy and his enabler pawlenty).

    • 12 months ago
  • Leen61
    • +6
      Leen61  

    • Drilling for oil is never safe. There will always be spills. Big oil and this country never learn from past disasters. I signed the petition and voted this story up.

    • 12 months ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • Leen61
  • eternal_springs
  • treewolf39
  • EthicalVegan
    • +1
      EthicalVegan  
    • eternal_springs:

      Very important petition to sign, and it takes less than a minute, so.... ?

      My heart's breaking when I think about all the wildlife, as well as everything else hideously affected by this. Thank you for sharing this bad news.

    • 12 months ago
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