Thursday, July 19, 2012

Unvanished yet again

The magic act continues

With oil from the 2010 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico continuing to show up on beaches and in wetlands along Louisiana's coast, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on Wednesday passed a resolution criticizing the Coast Guard for prematurely allowing BP to pull cleanup teams from coastal areas it declares clean. The authority passed a second resolution requesting the governor's office and the state attorney general's office to brief its members on whether any of the state's criminal statutes can be applied to BP.

See also: Cat Island Bird Habitat Expected to Disappear by 2013

Each lap of water on the Cat Islands' shoreline is a threat to their existence.  They've been slowly eroding for decades- a process that was put into overdrive by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Hahn says, "The oil kills the vegetation and the root system of the vegetation is what's keeping these islands together.  Once that root system is dead, these islands just fall apart very quickly."

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