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Since then, scientists have been working to answer questions many people have: What are the effects, short and long-term, on our ecosystem, public health and our seafood?
At the Civic Center in Biloxi, three experts told a group of people we are far from realizing the extent of the damage.
"Right now, the negative signs are piling up,” said Dr. Ed Cake who specializes in oysters.
Dr. Scott Milroy is an oceanographer and professor at University of Southern Mississippi. He said the toxin levels in the species in the Gulf are higher than the FDA led us to believe and registered as unsafe through his studies following the spill.
"What does it mean moving forward as far as how’s it going to affect those organisms long-term as far as survival - Whether they will reproduce in the next generation for shrimpers and oysters next year? Will they have a crop to go out and harvest? All of these questions are a little more concerning if you have a level of contamination in these species which was higher than people thought,” said Milroy.
Dr. Ed Cake said the oyster industry has been decimated, and we can’t hope to see an improvement anytime soon.
"So if were talking about what's happening here, we already know at 18 months there’s no recovery started. Even if the oysters begin setting in the spring, that will be another 5 years before that's crop of oysters to be ready, so were looking at least 5 years,” said Cake.
Finally, there's the issue of human health.
Dr. Wilma Surba has been studying the crude crisis' effects on people mentally and physically, and she has found serious problems.
"It’s a lot of respiratory problems, skin rashes, skin lesions, decreased lung functions - problems that are acute in the beginning and are now very chronic problems,” said Surba.
Each of the panelists said the effects of the oil spill cannot be fully realized just yet.
Through private studies like theirs, they said we will find the lasting footprint of the oil spill.
Experts present disturbing findings about oil spill effects | Fox10tv.com
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Yet nearly a year after the spill began, it seems clear that the worst-case scenario never came true. It's not that the oil spill had no lasting effects — far from it — but the ecological doomsday many predicted clearly hasn't taken place. There is recovery where once there was only fear. "A lot of questions remain, but where we are now is ahead of where people thought we'd be," Safina says. "Most people expected it would be much worse."
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This what I had been saying all along. They blew up the worst case scenario so that it can never come to pass. Once the worst is over, anything else looks like a blessing.
The fearsome scenario of a giant oil batholith swelling up the whole sea floor and exploding like an undersea magma volcano generating tsunami has no sound geological basis (figures 150-2 & 150-3). It was conjured up and propagated by pro-BP advocates to scare the public into surrendering their demands for justification and transparency, in return for BP to save them from such a nightmarish scenario.
http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/10/6443959-part-1-mystery-of-the-new-found-oil-revealed
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#1 - Tue Dec 6, 2011 7:52 PM ESTOh one more thing. Last week before I left the Florida panhandle? I had read from locals that the spraying of corexit was still happening. This means there is still fresh oil leaking from 3 possible sites. And to trust BP to investigate? To tell us more lies? Is American insanity at it's best. Unbelievable. You are listening to BP? And really believe what they say on a fox channel? My friend you are being duped. Lied to. Ask the real people the ones that haven't been bought off by BP. And trust me. Many people have been paid off ,, all the wrong people. Not the people who need thus help.
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#2 - Tue Dec 6, 2011 7:56 PM ESTThis year has been an unprecedented one for natural disasters. By the end of June, economic losses totaled $265 billion, according to German reinsurer Munich Re. That easily exceeds the total figure for 2005, which was previously the costliest year.
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#3 - Tue Dec 6, 2011 8:02 PM ESTThanks for the seed, BK. It seems many have forgotten about this. I haven't.
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#4 - Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:18 AM ESTThanks for remembering, ETVA.
We have received conclusive evidence that the Mega Oil spill was a preplanned disaster. In fact, the first blow out on 20 April 2010 failed to cause the oil spill. It was a normal gas blowout from the top hole. They had to resort to plan B to blow up the well 2 days later to cause the 2nd bottom hole blowout which breached the well and started the massive oil gush from the Macondo reservoir. This was a Gulf Depop event (in addition to other agenda) ~ from insiders.
The recent assassination attempts to disrupt the truth movement, confirms this. It is only a matter of time before these shocking revelations become public.
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