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In brief:
The US administration has banned oil drilling in new areas of the US coast while the cause of the oil spill off Louisiana is investigated.
From the AP:
"The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the Exxon Valdez, the grounded tanker that leaked 11 million gallons in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. The sheen measured about 70 miles by 130 miles as of Thursday, and officials expected to update that figure Friday.
It imperils hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life.
"This is a very, very big thing," David Kennedy, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Associated Press about the spill. "And the efforts that are going to be required to do anything about it, especially if it continues on, are just mind-boggling."
Read more here.
"The harm right now to the fishing industry and to the economic sector is just almost incalculable." - Richard Arsenault, a lawyer for a group of Louisiana shrimpers
"Every a**hole who ever chanted 'Drill Baby Drill' should have to report to the Gulf Coast today for cleanup duty." - Bill Maher via Twitter
For more information about the spill and the aftermath, visit NOAA.
2 comments:
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The oil spill has contaminated nature and the 11th largest water body on earth.There is a need to do some remedy to the spot and save the underwater life which is in a big threat.It is indeed a very sad event in history.
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