Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill: What Obama Is Overlooking

Gulf Oil Spill: What Obama Is Overlooking:

"Out in the deep ocean, sea turtles and other animals are ingesting the oil thinking it's food, larvae from threatened species such as bluefin tuna are inevitably dying in a toxic soup, and so are the tiny but essential organisms that sit at the bottom of the food chain.

'It's really impossible to fully gauge the magnitude of the impacts,' Savitz said. 'We just know they're big.'

'If all you care about is what gets on the beaches, that's one thing,' said Shaw. 'But we're now poisoning the ocean itself. The deep ocean is what's at risk.'"

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