Heavy oil ‘blanket’ hits Louisiana wetlands | Video
UPDATED 5-20- 12:00 am cdt Apparently they claim the “tarballs” are not from this massive oil spill which got out of hand in the first 7 days being ignored by the White house publicly at least as big donor BP and OB figured which story they would feed the public. 
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This as predicted is getting worse and worse as oil seems to be coming up now from beneath all the efforts to contain in on top of the water which means this 10 mile funnel that’s been talked about is nothing but emulsified goop which perhaps is a plus if they can get all to stick together and not have it become entangled in plant and coral life under the waterline. No one knows what’s going to happen, all we can do now is hope that company spends their hundreds of billions in profits cleaning all this crap up..
Funny though no matter what the mess nor problem is and no matter where, we end up footing the bill somehow, this time by all the money they’ve raped us of at the gas pumps pretending that we’re running out of crude when we’re not and could probably find this all over America, the powers that be just don’t want us to know. Otherwise they wouldn’t be making 100′s of billions in profits. While I’m all for capitalism I like to at least get a couple kisses when I’m getting screwed.
VENICE, La., May 19 (Reuters) – A blanket of heavy oil has washed ashore in Louisiana’s fragile marshlands, in the first significant heavy oil landfall from the Gulf of Mexico spill, state Governor Bobby Jindal said on Wednesday.
“The day that we have all been fearing is upon us today,” Jindal said after a boat tour to the southernmost point of the Mississippi river estuary.
“This wasn’t tar balls. This wasn’t sheen. This is heavy oil in our wetlands,” he told a news conference in Venice, Louisiana. “It’s already here but we know more is coming.”
Previously, officials had been reporting “oil debris” in the form of tar balls, or light surface “sheen” coming ashore in outlying parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Jindal said Louisiana’s wetlands were “the Gulf’s nursery,” nurturing diverse wildlife and protecting the coastline against erosion.
He appealed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit to allow the construction of 80 miles (128 km) of sand levees to protect the Louisiana coastline from further damage.
That project, which would cost $350 million, has been delayed despite an intense effort by the state and Plaquemines Parish (county) officials to comply with the Corps’ requirements, added Jindal.
He said crews were ready to start building the network of sand levees as soon as permission was granted.
Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser said the sight of the oil and the delay in granting permission for the levees project affected him physically.
“Everything that that blanket of oil has covered will die. There is no way to clean it. … I am sick to my stomach right now,” he said. (Reporting by Matt Bigg; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Todd Eastham)
via UPDATE 1-Heavy oil ‘blanket’ hits Louisiana wetlands | Reuters.
Gov. Jindal should just go ahead and stop waiting for approval and do what he wants to do with this disaster. A barrier would make some sense to protect the rest of this wetland. He should have acted faster and done what other states have done and not waited for the government to give approval.
What’s frightening I said on one today is that we now know there’s no one else that can do this. BP is the only one that has the equipment and they don’t even have it. Scary man. You’d think they’d have a little sub made just for this just in case.
They sure will now and still I don’t think a human can go down that far, thank the liberals as we could be getting this oil right on flat ground right here in every state of the union probably.