Plumes of Gulf oil spreading east on sea floor

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

CNN) -- A new report set to be released Tuesday renews concerns about the long-term environmental impact of the Gulf Coast oil disaster, and efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well have been delayed again.

Researchers at the University of South Florida have concluded that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected -- and at levels toxic to marine life.

Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that dispersants may have sent droplets of crude to the ocean floor, where it has turned up at the bottom of an undersea canyon within 40 miles of the Florida Panhandle. The results are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but CNN obtained a summary of the initial conclusions Monday night.

Plankton and other organisms at the base of the food chain showed a "strong toxic response" to the crude, and the oil could well up onto the continental shelf and resurface later, according to researchers


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/08/17/gulf.oil.disaster/?hpt=T2#fbid=sC95XYs-YXc&wom=false

[midnight]

1. This is why Robert Kennedy Jr. worked to stop the use of

these dispersants.

[Earth_First]

2. That's impossible! The government said that the oil has been raptured... n/t

[xchrom]

4. Raptured! Brilliant! Nt

[Spheric]

7. +1 The oil has been raptured. /nt

[Roland99]

11. ah ha ha ha ha ha!!

[earth mom]

17. Raptured-that's a good one! I may have to borrow it! nt

[fishwax]

18. raptured! lol!

:thumbsup:

[Melissa G]

20. Best Oil Comment so far!

:rofl:DUZY!

[madrchsod]

3. smell the fish before eating and the swimming is fine!

[nashville_brook]

5. i love the smell of benzene in the morning.

[JJW]

6. Centrifuge

Sounds like a job for that Kevin Costner machine.

[lldu]

8. Time to send all the BP execs....

with very long straws to that underwater valley and suck all that stuff out.

[bdamomma]

10. I second that

:thumbsup:

[Cetacea]

9. Breaking: 79 % of oil remains, scientists

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_government_report_on_gulf_oil_spill_inaccurate_scientists_say_at_least_79_of_oil.html

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, maddezmom.

[QC]

13. This is a damned lie! Baby Jesus called the oil up to heaven on golden sunbeams.

I know it's true because that's what the government said!

[another saigon]

14. any report on cnn 'news'?

I don't watch it but will be amazed if this makes it to tv.

[Greyskye]

15. Kick for the raptured oil.

:rofl:

:cry:

[leveymg]

16. Ah, nothing to worry about - benzene and other PAH carcinogens can take decades to kill you.

By then, BP and the other multinational energy giants will have destroyed the world, anyway. Global Nigeria.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

19. K&R

[Sabriel]

21. There's some Left Behind oil in my garage

I was hoping it would be raptured so I wouldn't have to take it to the landfill next week.