Thursday, July 1, 2010

Oil Enters Food Chain & Deep Dead Zones Grow in Gulf

by FishOutofWater

Oil spewing from the blown BP well is entering the food chain. Marine biologists have discovered oiled crab larvae in uncontaminated marshes. Oil from the Gulf is being taken into otherwise uncontaminated areas by contaminated crabs.

Offshore, in deep water, methane levels as high as 10,000 above normal have been confirmed by new data.

On June 26, a lake of oil built offshore of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle, before winds and waves from hurricane Alex swept across the Gulf.



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