Attached is a scan from Sunday's Tacoma News Tribune-from The Associated Press:
I saw an episode of Spanish Fly, fishing off the coast of Louisiana examining the after effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill. While Jose appeared to be gilling every fish he landed, he said the guides were reporting the fishing was great, possibly due to less fishing pressure because tourists had been scared away. Spin by the guides to get the tourists back? There did appear to be signs remaining along shoreline vegatation of the spill. Careful monitoring and mitigation should continue.I think it is great to remain vigilant but I am suspicious of this one. Jose Wehebe and Larry Dahlberg both did specials on this and went out and caught fish with the folks that have been sampling the all species of fish since the spill. They looked at the impacts on the shoreline and questioned those working in the fishery too. They were definately looking for a problem but found none. All the thousands of fish flesh samples that were taken since the spill tested negative for any hydrocarbon problems. The guides and commercial guys seem to think the fishing was better than ever. There may be something to these new allegations but I would move slowly to pass judgement until we know the facts.
I don't believe there has been a herring fishery in Prince William Sound since the oil spill, not so easy for those guys to "move on". Not to mention every thing that feeds on those herring.By the way, these environmental disasters are never properly mitigated. If it were as simple as just cleaning it up, the clean it up and move on approach would be viable. But first, rarely is there good base line data to assess before-and-after spill conditions. In a lot of cases, the true extent of the environmental damage is nearly imposible to quantify. Then, there is the compensatory damage and the frought subject of ecosystem valuation. It's not just a matter of clean it up and move on.
Speyfisher, If you don't like supporting foriegn oil imports--you should buy a prius and stop your complaining.
You guys are a bunch of enviro-terrorists. Until the day comes that we no longer need to import crude, the price of fuel will continue to rise.speyfisher said:does not mean we have to shut everything down forever---take proper precautions to insure these accidents do not happen again, and move forward.
Don't EAT the EYELESS shrimp!!Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientistsEyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html
I'd love to see and hear you guys chant and sing "Drill Baby, Drill" together at a barbeque while eating "eyeless shrimp kabobs"!"WTF have you guys been smoking? Alan Combs special blend? Or what?"
Speyfisher...too funny
The USA is exporting petro products.[quote We can't drill in the ocean, we can't drill on the land. And, even though no one has ever so much as stubbed their toe at a nuke plant, we can't even utter the word, 'cause it could happen
Boot- You left out the Spanish company "Repsol" logo, I think will be drilling off the coast of Cuba.....50 miles from Florida shores!New Orleans Aquarium today... View attachment 14635
Although I am in completely in favour of calling anyone an ignorant slut, I have no idea what you are talking about.Derek,
You ignorant slut.
How can you say that we are giving money to big oil?
It is the governments job to help companies in need.
If big oil failed then we ( the Gov.) could take them over
and lower the costs to everyone.
That wouldn't be right,
dK