Saturday, September 04, 2010

Killing the Gulf

On August 20th scientists produced new evidence of vast undersea plumes of oil drifting for miles. This week, another team of scientists in the journal Science confirmed the discovery of a massive 22 mile subsea oil plume the size of Manhattan and, most dismayingly, very little evidence that the oil was being broken down by microbes.

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“They want everyone to think it’s over,” Charlotte Randolph, Lafourche Parish president said of the [August 4] NOAA report: “This week in Lafourche parish we had hundreds of barrels a day washing in.

  Anne McClintock

Q: Does the EPA monitor BP in the Gulf?

A: Yes, but they use the data from a privately owned corporation called CTEH (Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health) that collects toxicology data and makes risk assessments.

Q: Who pays CTEH to collect the data and make assessments?

A: BP

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