Ken Feinberg believes the Gulf of Mexico will be recovered by 2012.
British Petroleum disputes this time-table as being too lengthy.
A new study released by the University of Georgia however, reveals Feinberg and BP may both be inhaling far too many fumes from their vanishing oil.
At a science conference in Washington Saturday, marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia showed the results of what she found with submarine dives that travelled across 2600 square miles of the Gulf’s seafloor where her team took 250 core samples, “I’ve been to the bottom. I’ve seen what it looks like with my own eyes. It’s not going to be fine by 2012,” Joye told the Associated Press. “You see what the bottom looks like, you have a different opinion.”
She showed pictures of bottom dwelling creatures that are choked with oil. They included dead crabs, and brittle stars that normally would be bright orange and wrapped tightly around coral. Instead they were pale, loose and dead. She also saw tube worms so full of oil they suffocated.
“This is Macondo oil on the bottom,” Joye said as she showed slides. “This is dead organisms because of oil being deposited on their heads.”
Damn Ken, even Jane Lubchenco from the NOAA says your 2012 time-frame isn’t right, and she has a hard time finding oil under the hood of her car.
This is far, far from over, no matter what anyone who is, or receives money from British Petroleum might want the country and the courts to believe.
Read the article:
Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
Have a nice day.
Drake Toulouse: Photography and Words 
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/20/2881134/baby-dolphin-deaths-spike-on-gulf.html
I am just sick, sick. How the hell do these arrogant bastards say things are returning to normal and get away with it? The Gulf will not be back to what it was in my lifetime and probably not my sons either.
I loved watching the dolphins play in the MS Sound early on summer mornings. Right from the beach, they would come so close. Like they were saying “Hi, life is beautiful, isn’t!?”
I hope to God as things like this happen more and more, those that are doing the testing are not paid off by BP to say it was the heat or the algae that killed the marine life.
I had hoped that at some point this year I could go a day or two without even thinking about BP in any way. Fat chance. I don’t think I have ever been so disgusted in my life. They don’t even care what they have done to a vast area of marine life, their own workers, and to business and families in 4 states. They have no sorrow in the least for the devastation they have caused.
BP is but one of many…people, environment, jobs, schools, community are of minor concern if a concern at all…as the director of the agency I work for said yesterday in a conversation, “I grew up in a time of hope and change, where things were getting better, I never thought I would grow old in the age of the robber-barons.”
-Drake
i wonder if the gulf coast will start to protest or push back we got to do something.