"Death in the Gulf."
BP and Halliburton committed ecocide. Mitigation efforts so far have had minimal effect. This WineRev Model series focuses on biological impacts, the science underlying oil and its transport away from the DWH blow out site, and associated human responses.
Today's diary reviews the July 10th NAACP letter to BP. No surprise, Blacks and Vietnamese fishermen are depicted as being assigned the most dangerous jobs and denied access to compensation programs.
Meanwhile, updated 2010 deep water maps of the upper GoM for cyclone and anticyclone currents remains unavailable.
The yellow-green offshore areas circulate counterclockwise. The blue anticyclones circulate clockwise. Both of these flow patterns hold DWH's deep water oil, keeping it from reaching the Loop Current and exiting the Gulf.
MBTF :::
continued at Daily Kos....
