OIL SPILL, NEW TOXIC COCKTAIL, GIFT OF BP, CHEERS AMERICA!
Ben B.Boothe, Sr., from Venice,Louisiana
OIL SPILL , TOXIC COCKTAIL FROM BP
Report from VENICE, LOUISIANA
by: Ben Boothe, Global Perspectives http://www.bootheglobalperspectives.com
The 70 mile strip of the Mississippi from New Orleans, may be one of the most concentrated stretches of the chemical industry in the world. It is the funnel to the entire river, and all the run off from chemicals, fertilizer, city waste systems, and thousands of ships, concentrates here. Now the oil spill in the Gulf, has added a new "drink" for the fishery and for the people who depend upon it. For those who like their seafood cooked with oil, the Britsh have sent a gift to the Gulf. 6,000,000+ gallons of oil!
Federal Agencies have closed up and banned commercial fishing from Venice all the way to Florida because of the oil spill. Every fisherman sitting idle has been damaged, by loss of present income, and perhaps by long term damage to the fishery of the Gulf. Some believe hundreds of millions of fish and other species will die, or at least, ingest and
carry toxins that could have an impact for years to come.
The vast chemical flow coming from the Mississippi creates an algae flume in the Gulf that eats all of the oxygen. There is now a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico as large as the State of New Jersey, and it is growing. “Nothing can live in the dead zone. There is no oxygen. It is now growing because of the "BP oil spill" Stephen Soloman , author of the book Oil, the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization, told me as we discussed damage to the environment.
Dispersants have pushed the oil slick under water, with even more chemicals, but Bob Carney, LSU professor of coastal ecology and oceanography says: "The dispersants themselves are toxic. You are sacrificing the ocean systems to try to save the coasts." These coasts have had enough chemicals already, without BP's additional millions of gallons.
THE DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE
With estimates ranging from 1,000 barrels to 5,000 (some say as high as 20,000) barrels of oil having spewed out per day, even before the “containment” domes, and before valves were repaired, whatever BP does next does not alter the fact that the damage has already been done. There are 42 gallons of oil per barrel, so you do the math. 5000 x 42 x 30 days = 6,300,000 gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.That oil is there. It is now part of our food chain, and eco system. BP’s use of a 45’ tall “collector dome” is too little too late. There is another uncertainty. Fishermen familiar with ocean currents suggest that the Gulf waters will flow to the northeast, along and up the eastern...
