Oilpocalypse and the Importance of the Apalachee Bay

by gulfgal98

The oil from the Deepwater Horizon oilpocalypse has already reached the most westerly part of Florida's panhandle in the Pensacola area, and is now threatening the entire northern Gulf Coast of Florida.   Most people are familiar with the beautiful beaches of much of the Gulf coast of Florida, in particular, the stunning Emerald Coast  along the north Florida Gulf Coast from Panama City Beach west.  The Emerald Coast is a popular vacation haven. Kristina40's beautiful diary captures the incredible visual wonder of the Emerald Coast. This diary is about how this oil threatens another very important area of the north Florida Gulf coast, Florida's Forgotten Coast, and in particular, the Apalachee Bay.  (Excellent picture in the Forgotten Coast link)

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BP's Disaster - Mississippi Gulf Coast Edition - 1 June (Tuesday) Diary #29

by khowell

NEW ROV POSTED - Please move discussion to ROV #30, hosted by Nika7k. You are in the current BP disaster ROV, number 29. If you'd like to go back to see what we've said in days past, visit the current mothership. This is where you want to be for discussion, worrying, tearing up, and caring for each other.  It's also where you're welcome to be angry and scream and curse and cry and rant at the criminal negligence and greed that have brought us all together.  Most importantly, though, it's where we can learn from those kossaks among us (I'll not name names for abject fear of leaving one of you out, but you know who you are.) who bring the light of knowledge - sometimes with heat, sometimes without it - and teach us about what's happening beneath our Gulf of Mexico.

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