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Help Restore the Gulf

Please ask your Senators to support the RESTORE Act (S. 1400) to ensure that fines collected from the BP oil spill are used to support ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

The BP disaster released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, causing devastating impacts to the region’s beaches, coastal marshes, barrier islands, and wildlife. Yet, unless Congress takes action, fines issued through the Clean Water Act will be used for unrelated federal spending instead of urgently needed environmental restoration. 

Restoring the Gulf will provide major benefits to the natural environment, and will also help protect the region’s economy including tourism, recreation, and commercial fishing.

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Stunning images and video of Gulf oil spill. This was about a month ago as well. Very sad… (slow start…weird end)

  • Jul 13th, 2010
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eatsleepdraw:

Save the Gulf! Let’s have LESS oil drilling, and MORE investments in alternative fuels.

eatsleepdraw:

Save the Gulf! Let’s have LESS oil drilling, and MORE investments in alternative fuels.


This is what an oil soaked wave looks like [Photo]

Perhaps the scariest picture yet is this AP photo of an oil-spotted wave crashing just off Orange Beach, Alabama.

Terrible!  #ocean #oilspill

  • Jun 17th, 2010
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Mr. President, BP, et al, don’t Deep Water Horizon my Vuvuzela! #oilspill

Me


a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan, political, presidential petulance [now say that 3xs fast!! You damn Yanks!]

British Conservative, Norman Tebbit

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Oil spill humor! Funny but not… 


… Russian scientists believe BP is pumping millions of gallons of Corexit 9500, a chemical dispersal agent, under the Gulf of Mexico waters to hide the full extent of the leak, now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.

Experts say Corexit 9500 is a solvent four times more toxic than oil.

The agent, scientists believe, has a 2.61 ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to “phase transition.”

This transition involves the change of the liquid into a gaseous state, which can be absorbed by clouds. The gas will then be released as “toxic rain” leading to “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top” …

Alan Perry Jr via Larry Lawhorn

Don’t know if this is true, but let’s face it, Russian Scientists are scary mofos!


Coast Guard sends 1,500 reservists, cutters to Gulf to help with oil spill

Good to see this. I was pretty critical of the USCG response in the first 3 weeks of the disaster. I felt they were acting more like Blackwater for BP than our Coast Guard. Semper Paratus!

  • Jun 9th, 2010
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