Showing posts with label oil plumes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil plumes. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Massive weathered oil plumes off Louisiana coast

by DWG

The New Orleans Times-Picayune has been reporting massive plumes of weathered oil off the Louisiana coast.

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

The report was dismissed by the Coast Guard, which suggested the miles long orange plumes were likely to be algae.

It is déjà vu all over again.



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Friday, June 11, 2010

Underwater Eutrophication Dead Zones in the Gulf? It's a Possibility

by Lenny Flank

"Eutrophication" from the oil spill may present a deadly challenge to sea life. (This is a series of comments I made in some open threads, and some people suggested I put it in a diary to make it more widely available.  So here it is.)

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