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The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins June 1, and scientists tracking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are beginning to think about what would happen if a storm hit the growing slick.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration won’t release its initial hurricane season forecast until Thursday, but experts said it would only take one storm in the Gulf to complicate the ongoing effort to stanch the gushing oil and limit its environmental impact.
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Old Carpet to Aid In Oil Spill Cleanup
Getting stains and spills out of your carpet can be a nightmare, with carpet fibers quickly absorbing and retaining liquids if not tended to right away. Though an inconvenience for homeowners, these properties make carpet the ideal material for oil and sediment absorption.
But county officials in Walton County, Fla. realized this component could be beneficial. Made into a product called GeoHay, soiled or tossed out carpet is recycled into barrier filtration products typically used in erosion and sediment control. The highly absorbent product has also been found an excellent defense for
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Gulf Oil Spill: Cleaning Wetlands May Be Impossible, Scientists Say
NEW ORLEANS – The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said.
Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil.
They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good. The only viable option for many impacted areas is to do nothing and let nature break down the spill.
More than 50 miles of Louisiana's delicate shoreline already have been soiled by the massive slick unleashed after the Deepwater Horizon rig burned and sank last month. Officials fear oil eventually could invade wetlands and beaches from Texas to Florida. Louisiana is expected to be hit hardest. Further inland, workers pumped fresh water from the Mississippi into the marshes, attempting to repel the oily seawater washing up on shore.
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Oil spill threatens fragile, resource-rich Louisiana wetlands
Oil spills have long been known to wreak havoc on coastlines, blackening otherwise sandy beaches and killing off birds, turtles, fish and other wildlife.
This time could be even worse. Louisiana’s coastline, which has become the latest battleground against oil’s slimy march, is made up of kilometres and kilometres of delicate marshland — shallow waters comprised of metre—high emerald green grass.
This habitat is a perfect breeding ground for
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Some oil spill events from Monday, May 10, 2010
By The Associated Press (AP) – May 10, 2010
Helicopters dropped large sandbags in Louisiana to try to protect the Lafourche Parish marshes from the massive oil slick. The spill began creeping farther west of the Mississippi River last week. About 300, one-ton sandbags were expected to be used as a makeshift boom to protect the coast.
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Gulf oil spill: Are chemical dispersants a threat?
Chemical dispersants may be an essential tool in breaking up swaths of the massive gulf oil spill as it moves toward beaches and wetlands. But a political battle over their makeup and possible health effects is brewing, with local officials and environmentalists demanding that BP reveal the composition of the material it is spraying onto the oil. On Monday, three top Louisiana officials released a letter to Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, expressing “serious concerns about the lack of information related to the use of dispersants.”
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Story pick: The lasting effects of oil spills
As engineers try to cap British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon blowout off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists fear the thick, crude oil that is seeping into the gulf at a rate of nearly 210,000 gallons a day will become an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions to wetlands, shorelines, sea and wildlife, the tourism industry and the fishing and local communities.
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Oil Spill Threatens Louisiana's Fragile Wetlands
The oil spill is a tense day-by-day waiting game for environmentalists in Louisiana tracking how badly the state's wetlands and a small set of barrier islands, the first line of defense against hurricanes, are affected. Their continued erosion is considered just as catastrophic as the spill.
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Researchers Ponder a Hurricane Hitting the Oil-Slicked Gulf of Mexico
The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season begins June 1, and scientists tracking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are beginning to think about what would happen if a storm hit the growing slick.
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Bohemia Spillway in Plaquemines Parish might be put to use to help flush oil from wetlands
An engineering team assembled by regional levee commissioners has identified a spot along the Bohemia Spillway embankment that they think can be cut to allow Mississippi River water to flow into adjacent wetlands threatened by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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