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BP Oil Spill Still Harming at Least 20 Animal Species
BP Oil Spill Still Harming at Least 20 Animal Species
3/31/2015
At least 20 animal species are still suffering from the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history nearly five years after it occurred, according to a National Wildlife Federation report released Monday.
The common loon, blue crab, red snapper, and sperm whale are among the animals named in the NWF’s report, Five Years And Counting: Gulf Wildlife in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Those animals only make up a small portion of the 13,000 species in the Gulf, the federation’s president told reporters on a phone call Monday, implying the difficulty of determining the spill’s total long-term impact on animals.
...The report comes just a few days after BP filed papers in federal court arguing its businesses would be threatened by fines for its historic April 2010 spill...
In recent months, Morrell has led BP’s effort to communicate that the Gulf of Mexico has “inherent resilience” when it comes to oil spills and that environmentalists are overreacting about its impacts. In October, Morrell authored an article in Politico Magazine titled “No, BP Didn’t Ruin The Gulf,” which among other things argued that the “unprecedented” clean-up response “greatly minimized the spill’s impact on wildlife and their habitats.”
The National Wildlife Federation’s report argues the contrary. It blames the spill for the deaths of 12 percent of the brown pelican population in the northern Gulf, and 32 percent of the laughing gulls in the same area. It notes that compounds from both oil and the dispersant used to clean up the oil have been found in white pelican eggs in Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.
The report also cited 2014 research which found two new coral reefs in the deep ocean that were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon spill, indicating a possible impact on marine ecosystems in the hard-to-analyze deep sea. It also cited the unusual string of bottlenose dolphin deaths which have been linked the the BP spill, though BP adamantly denies culpability....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/03/31/bp-oil-spill-still-harming-at-least-20-animal-species/
3/31/2015
At least 20 animal species are still suffering from the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history nearly five years after it occurred, according to a National Wildlife Federation report released Monday.
The common loon, blue crab, red snapper, and sperm whale are among the animals named in the NWF’s report, Five Years And Counting: Gulf Wildlife in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Those animals only make up a small portion of the 13,000 species in the Gulf, the federation’s president told reporters on a phone call Monday, implying the difficulty of determining the spill’s total long-term impact on animals.
...The report comes just a few days after BP filed papers in federal court arguing its businesses would be threatened by fines for its historic April 2010 spill...
In recent months, Morrell has led BP’s effort to communicate that the Gulf of Mexico has “inherent resilience” when it comes to oil spills and that environmentalists are overreacting about its impacts. In October, Morrell authored an article in Politico Magazine titled “No, BP Didn’t Ruin The Gulf,” which among other things argued that the “unprecedented” clean-up response “greatly minimized the spill’s impact on wildlife and their habitats.”
The National Wildlife Federation’s report argues the contrary. It blames the spill for the deaths of 12 percent of the brown pelican population in the northern Gulf, and 32 percent of the laughing gulls in the same area. It notes that compounds from both oil and the dispersant used to clean up the oil have been found in white pelican eggs in Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.
The report also cited 2014 research which found two new coral reefs in the deep ocean that were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon spill, indicating a possible impact on marine ecosystems in the hard-to-analyze deep sea. It also cited the unusual string of bottlenose dolphin deaths which have been linked the the BP spill, though BP adamantly denies culpability....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/03/31/bp-oil-spill-still-harming-at-least-20-animal-species/
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