Aerial photos from the Pensacola News Journal of that pesky little oil spill in the Gulf. This gigantic plume is six miles offshore Pensacola Beach but tarballs and oil sheen have already reached the beautiful white sand beaches. As you can see, there's not much of a line of defense out there.
That is so tragic, so utterly despicable and totally avoidable! Those beaches and the wildlife and the lives of people who make their living off the waters there will be damaged for decades because of the careless disregard of companies whose bottom line is money. Rant, rant, rant...Thanks for the pictures, Chris. They really show how big and horrible the oil slick is. (Altho at first I thought you were trying your hand at some artsy painting!)
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This makes me so sad and so mad! Such a tragedy!
ReplyDeleteThis breaks my heart. The magnitude of it is too big to imagine. Zootsuitmama
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine is out there, among the crews who are trying to stop it. This is what he said two weeks ago:
ReplyDelete"Still in Pensacola and inspecting ocean boom and replacing and repairing as needed in case the oil slick heads this way.
Still about 20 miles offshore of us [the main spill]. BUT they say with hurricane season coming that could change overnight with winds and such. We started to mobilize to Louisana yesterday with the boats and they turned us around to come back. WAY to many chiefs and not enough Indians."
I was living in Alaska during the Exon Valdez disaster. The fishing industry has and will never be the same. And Sarah is still chanting drill baby drill. Time to take a closer look at alternative energy sources, don't you think? This is just a heart breaker. It will take decades to clean the horrific mess up.
ReplyDeleteWhen will we ever learn? Probably never, until a very large number of people STAND UP and say they will not take this any longer.
ReplyDeleteI live in Nova Scotia along the Atlantic coast and we were told that this oil spill could affect us if the right conditions are in place....like a hurricane to take it for a ride up here!
I hope BP goes belly up because of this. The pictures of the wildlife dying should be enough to convince people we need to find another way.
ReplyDeleteWow! At first glance, I thought you had been dabbling in abstract art. I can't even begin to imagine the damage this is doing to the coast. It will never be the same.
ReplyDeleteHeartbreaking :-(
ReplyDeleteReally is sad. We pride ourselves on being such an "advanced society" yet, we can't fix things like this in a timely manner. I agree with Atomic Ranch House...."too many chiefs." Praying for a resolution soon.
ReplyDeleteI felt I was just now sucker punched going from "Wow, that is pretty? A painting? Some rare gem stone?" to Ugh.
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