A Picture Is Worth... 'Oil Threatens Pelicans' - NOLA.com

[WillyT]

Oil Threatens Pelicans
Added by The Times-Picayune
on May 22, 2010 at 6:55 PM

Nesting pelicans are seen landing as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now impacting large stretches of the Louisiana Coast.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Link: http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2010/05/oil_threatens_pelicans_4.html

Still not getting used to it...

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[WillyT]

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An oil stained pelican leaves its nest as oil washes ashore.

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[WillyT]

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Pelican eggs that appear to be stained with oil sit in a nest on an island in Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish.

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[WillyT]

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A.J. SISCO / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE An oil coated dead seabird on the shore of Elmer's Island Friday,
May 21, 2010. Cleanup crews spent the last two days trying to remove the oil from the beach after
it came ashore from the blown out BP oil-well in the gulf.

Link: http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2010/05/dead_wildlife_found_on_beaches.html

Still not getting used to it...

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[WillyT]

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From current front page of HuffPo...



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[WillyT]

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Latest shot from space, 5/18 (that I could find)...

It is a heartbreaking sight from space, station astronauts said.

"Just 30 minutes ago we passed over the Mexican Gulf and we took a lot of pictures of this oil spot," space station commander Oleg Kotov, a Russian cosmonaut, told reporters on Earth via a video link.

"It looks very scary," Kotov said. "It's not good. I really feel ... not good about that."

Also visible from their vantage point on the station is ash from the massive ongoing eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

"Yes, we can see ash above the Europe, especially in the evening hours," Kotov said. "We cannot see the volcano itself. Many ecological problems we can observe and monitor from this space station. It's very useful for this perspective."

NASA astronaut Piers Sellers, a trained ecologist currently at the station as part of the visiting space shuttle Atlantis' crew, said the oil slick is an unshakeable example of humanity's effect on its home planet.

"These things aren't good," he said of the oil slick. "When you fly around the planet you get to see the thumbprint of man all over the place."

While mostly that thumbprint is positive, such as sustainable cities and cultivation of the land for agriculture, there are also signs of the damage humanity has done to Earth. Nonetheless, he said, the sight of the globe gave him hope.

"We're optimistic, I think, that people will eventually learn to look after the planet," Sellers said.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37221379/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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[WillyT]

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From 5/21...



For enlargement, go here (click on image): http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/05/bp-gulf-oil-spill-deeper-into-loop.html

[Subdivisions]

3. HOW THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING! ARRRRGH! GOD DAMN IT! n/t

[ShamelessHussy]

4. K&R

thanks for sharing those important links and images... how awful, for all :cry:

[WillyT]

20. Your Welcome, And Me Too...

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[ShamelessHussy]

22. I know the PR folks for the corporations and the Gov will do their damnedest to block these images

just like they do with the horrors of war, but these images MUST be scene, and I sincerely believe it is even a bigger crime to aide in the cover up of the initial crime.

shame on our media, they are even more guilty than the perps imho.

[WillyT]

23. Yeah... I'd Like To Hear More About Media Access To The Area...

This was a pretty good report on NBC tonight (first 3 reports): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#37304243

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[Selatius]

5. The federal government shouldn't have to pay anything to clean it up. BP should pay for it all. nt

[intheflow]

8. I don't think you can "clean" wetlands.

I think once their fucked to this extent, they're dead. Oil's in the water. It's in the plants. It's in the sand. It's in the food chain. This is worse than the DDT that threatened these same Brown Pelicans with extinction in the '70s. These birds were just removed from the Endangered Species list last year.

[Selatius]

11. Then BP should have to carry the burden of trying to prevent the species from going extinct.

They should be the ones made to sponsor breeding programs and animal relocation programs. It may be far too late to save this particular marsh from destruction, but that doesn't mean we also don't have an opportunity to extract a pound of flesh from the people who caused this disaster.

[lunatica]

7. It literally looks like shit

[treestar]

9. It does

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. K & R

This type of information MUST be spread. The MSM has too much of a lid on the awful fallout that is occurring.

[WillyT]

12. Hey HCE SuiGeneris !!! - Did You Design That Logo !!! - Because...

A) It's fantastic, and

B) Greenpeace is having a contest that you might be interested in...

Go Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8395816

Check the graphic in the middle of the piece.

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. I "borrowed" it from another poster here on DU

and shrunk it down a bit. I wish I could name our creative poster I stole it from. Let me do some digging...

"blindpig" is the source. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8388606&mesg_id=8390290

I will pass along the info! :hi:

[WillyT]

14. Cool, Thanks !!!

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[blindpig]

25. I didn't do it...

Found item, here at DU.

It is properly disturbing.....and folks, it only scratches the surface. There's a monster on the loose...Capital, a beast with a thousand heads. Godzilla ain't gonna save us, we are going to have to wield the stake & mallet.

[underseasurveyor]

24. Wow that bp logo brings back horrific memories

of another tragic time in American (human) history.

Very powerful.

I did note that it was blindpig who is the genius behind that. Here's to blindpig :toast:

[leftstreet]

17. K&R

[liberalla]

18. This just makes me sick

It's important to see it, but it's heartbreaking.

Like you, still not getting used to it...

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[charlesg]

19. Gulf oil spill: 'I trust' BP chief Tony Hayward, Coast Guard commandant says

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-i-trust-bp-chief-tony-hayward-coast-guard-commandant-says.html

[WillyT]

21. Saw That...

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[Tsiyu]

26. K & R

so many hearts breaking

"how can i turn away...brother, sister go dancing through my head..."

though DM wrote about humans it applies to our bros and sis' who fly and crawl and swim and walk on all fours... as well as to those humans who must suffer because of this crime

[Ganja Ninja]

27. I took the time this weekend to drive out to the mouth of the Crystal River here in Florida.

I wanted to get some photos before the oil hits here. I plan to use them to contrast and document the destruction later on. The habitat is similar.

[csziggy]

29. Yes, we drove out to the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge a couple of weeks ago

I plan to go back maybe next weekend, or maybe even drive to Panama City to go to some of the wildlife areas around there. I'm not too worried about the white sugar sand beaches around PC - they are pretty artificial, have little wildlife (other than college students) and easy to clean - but there are still some wild area left that would be severely affected. Such a tragedy, when there is so little natural coastline remaining in that area.

If I go to PC, I would drive down to the coast and follow it as closely as possible. It's been years since I made that drive, so it would be nice anyway. At least for now.

[Raster]

28. Kick!

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[Jamastiene]

30. K&R

[suffragette]

31. K&R

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