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Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size | Mother Jones
*sigh*
Back at the height of the massive Gulf oil spill in 2010, there was quite a bit of controversy about just how much crude was blasting out of the well. According to new documents that a watchdog group released on Monday, there was heated debate among the scientists who evaluated the flow rate as well.
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Expert BP Spill Likely Cause of Sick Gulf Fish - August 15, 2011 - YouTube (by tjatnb)
Lucky Russell is convinced his days as a commercial fisherman are numbered.
“I don’t think we’ll be fishing in five years,” he said. “My opinion.”
He, like many others that fish the Gulf waters, have started catching fish with sores, fin rot, and infections at a greater frequency than ever before.….
Jim Cowan, professor of oceanography at Louisiana State University, has analyzed many of these diseased fish.
“When one of these things comes on deck, it’s sort of horrifying,” Cowan said. “I mean, there these large dark lesions and eroded fins and areas on the body where scales have been removed. I’d imagine I’ve seen 30- or 40,000 red snapper in my career, and I’ve never seen anything like this. At all. Ever.”Maybe not definitive for pure scientific research purposes, but good enough for me.
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Scientists: Fish Sick Where BP’s Oil Spill Hit (by AssociatedPress)
The researchers in this video claim that the diseases in fish around the area impacted by the Deepwater Horizon spill cannot definitively connect the diseases with the effects of the oil spill because they never really measured the health of the fish regularly before.
After watching this, I thought, “Why don’t they ask the fishermen who catch these things all the time?”
Well, someone did. (see below)
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