On Seven of May, 2010 2 days before the start of the annual fishing seasonoil bounced off Grand Isle and flowed into Terrebonne Bay. In fact, oil fouled 35 p% of the US Gulf Coast’s 2,625 kilometers of shoreline before the spill was done.
The murky waters of the Mississippi River Delta hide a vast variety of life, hence the abundnt local commercial and sport fishng. But they also hide the longterm impacts of Deepwater Horizon’s oil spill from the public. The oil that reached shore has been absorbed into the sponge-like wetlands or drifted to the sediment bottom, hurting a shoreline that serves as a nursery for sea life, coastal habitat and a stopover for the birds .
4 years after BP’s oil spill, however, its impacts are largely invisible, hidden
The murky waters of the Mississippi River Delta hide a vast variety of life, hence the abundnt local commercial and sport fishng. But they also hide the longterm impacts of Deepwater Horizon’s oil spill from the public. The oil that reached shore has been absorbed into the sponge-like wetlands or drifted to the sediment bottom, hurting a shoreline that serves as a nursery for sea life, coastal habitat and a stopover for the birds .
4 years after BP’s oil spill, however, its impacts are largely invisible, hidden