Originally posted by seacapt Peter and the rest , you need to stop thinking about dead birds , turtles and porpoises. Think about the devastation at the bottom of the food chain and it's effects on everything else.
Bingo.
And the dispersants used to make the size of the oil slick look less for the TV satellite shots?
As bad as the spill itself for deep-level oxygen.
Which doesn't come back very fast.)
Quote: Mel and all the other Mid- Atlanticers don't forget that Obama openned up an area in the Atlantic from Va to SC just a short time before this disaster. Keep track of local politics with regard to Atlantic offshore drilling they will try to slip it through. Our governor was trying to sell exploration leases 8 months before Obama openned the area. Kinda makes me wonder
Well, you shouldn't listen to oil companies about what's *safe,* but the areas off the Mid-atlantic which were offered to be opened, actually were offered to be opened because the currents don't *run* the same way as the Gulf does.
But obviously, Big Oil's 'expert' safety assurances are worth ...well, nothing, now, right?
I'd say all bets are off.