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OFF TOPIC DISCUSSIONS => National - International - Global News Around the World => Topic started by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on May 25, 2010, 12:13:44 AM

Title: BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Millions of Gallons of Oil Polluting Ocean
Post by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on May 25, 2010, 12:13:44 AM

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Live Video Feed to piss you off:

        http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

      PORT FOURCHON, La. — For weeks, it was a disaster in abstraction, a threat floating somewhere out there.

Not anymore. In the last week, the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has revealed itself to an angry and desperate public, smearing tourist beaches, washing onto the shorelines of sleepy coastal communities and oozing into marshy bays that fishermen have worked for generations. It has even announced its arrival on the Louisiana coast with a fittingly ugly symbol: brown pelicans, the state bird, dyed with crude
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/earth/25spill.html         

Title: Re: BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Millions of Gallons of Oil Polluting Ocean
Post by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on May 25, 2010, 12:16:09 AM

Disheartening Picture Album of the devastation taking place:


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html?camp=localsearch%3Aon%3Atwit%3Abigpic