• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 11 / 19 / 2010

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2010.11.19 - 09:11:25 / [email protected]. The recent massive oil spill of the British Petroleum company located in the Gulf of Mexico is among the most manipulated ecological disasters in recent years.

If you analyze the incident and what came out in the press, there is some incoherence.   Some say that it was a true drama.  Others however worked hard to make sure that it did not look alarming and even ignored what was really happening.

The truth is that, just looking at the affected region and information of independent media outlets on the dangers to beaches, swamps and coral reef areas, it was not precisely a small accident, but an alarming incident whose consequences have not clearly been revealed to the public.

However, according to recent US official data, the effects of the explosion of the oil tower seem to have been reduced to large proportions.

For some spokespersons “the vast majority of the oil, close to 75 percent of the almost 5 million barrels of crude spilled out at sea, evaporated or was contained”.

In a few words, the incident which caught the attention of millions of people and was headlines in major newspapers turned to a small spot without major consequences.

Regarding the criteria of the US government:  “The Gulf coast has been extremely lucky by the winds and currents of nature”. 
However, in face of the official evaluation which seemed not alarming, there are other scientific sources which assure that at least a third of the Gulf coast was severely contaminated and the impact on the coast will remain for decades.

In fact, with almost a quarter of the unrecovered oil in the Gulf, years will pass before scientists declare that the region has overcome the disaster.

In fact, according to Jane Lubchenco, head of the US national Ocean and Atmosphere Administration, “the amount of oil spilled was huge”, and it is difficult to rule out the serious effects to the marine environment.

Sources from the Dauphin Islan Sea Laboratory based in Alabama, recently revealed that the over 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico during the accident, rapidly entering the food chain thanks to the action of submarine bacteria.

The crude was turned into food for the ocean bacteria which at the same time are the start of the food chain that ends in the largest population species of the sea.

In fact, according to the researchers, the affected region’s animal organism that feed from plankton demonstrated larger amounts of carbon isotope than before the oil spill.

In consequence, all indicates that public management of such a sensible issue, not all smelled like oil. There is also a negative intention to the smelly scheme.

Source: ACN