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Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists.

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FStop7

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Jesus Christ.

Has there been an independent analysis of just exactly what it is was leaked into the Gulf? It seems like besides petroleum there were other compounds in there that maybe we haven't seen before. Heinous stuff.
 
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iamaustrian

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Mercury Fred said:
Again, all of the people at BP responsible from top to bottom should be, at minimum, in jail for life with no chance of parole. I think the death penalty might be appropriate for some of the higher ups.
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well, in that case CEOs of Union Carbide(now Dow Chemical) or Exxon Mobile should be at least on death row too

while I don't agree on the death penalty-thing I do support much stricter punishments for crimes against earth/eviroment. life-long imprisonment comes to mind
 
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Mercury Fred said:
Again, all of the people at BP responsible from top to bottom should be, at minimum, in jail for life with no chance of parole. I think the death penalty might be appropriate for some of the higher ups.
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Stop talking rubbish, drilling for oil isn't 100% safe, bad stuff happens and you either live with the consequences or go discover a safe reliable source of energy and use that instead
 
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Mercury Fred

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UnblessedSoul said:
Stop talking rubbish, drilling for oil isn't 100% safe, bad stuff happens and you either live with the consequences or go discover a safe reliable source of energy and use that instead
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BP KNEW there were very serious risks and skirted safety measures in order to save money. Heads should roll and that's not rubbish, it should be considered common sense. The BP execs are dangerous criminals responsible for possibly irreversible destruction to the planet. Fuck em.
 
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Jarmel

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People forget that evolution is organized chaos.

Looking forward to most of the gulf seafood being completely uneatable.
 
mckmas8808

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badcrumble said:
Oh wow but I thought oil spills were harmless and that all of the alarm over the oil spill was just a bunch of drama stirred up by leftists with an agenda.
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And the main stream media right? This story is probably made up too!
 
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Aristion

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Sorry.
 
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Stet

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Sho_Nuff82 said:
I actually said this out loud while reading.

So the guy caught 400 lbs of eyeless shrimp...what did he do with them? Throw them back?
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Sold them, probably. The majority of shrimp sold in the U.S. probably comes shelled already because people find the shells too "icky".
 
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UnblessedSoul said:
Stop talking rubbish, drilling for oil isn't 100% safe, bad stuff happens and you either live with the consequences or go discover a safe reliable source of energy and use that instead
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You might as well have posted "I have no idea about the circumstances and causes of the BP oil spill".
 
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JGS

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Like this article better. Far less alarmist about something that is a no brainer.

Basically eat brown shrimp

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303624004577340051283828264.html

Questions about the long-term impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico are playing out where man meets marine life: the seafood industry.

Final data on the 2011 seafood catch have not yet been released, and the impact of the spill on sea life could take still more time to show up, according to scientists and the Gulf seafood industry.

"It's easy to see oil covering a bird that kills it, but it's not as easy to see the impact of a slow leakage of oil in an estuary that over time could affect the number of eggs being laid by animals or hinder development of larva," said David Kimmel, a biology professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.

Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, said the industry was holding its collective breath to see what the seafood harvests will be like beginning in May to get a better sense of the long-term impact of the spill.

Seafood processors say last year's brown-shrimp season was good, but the white-shrimp catch was off. Oyster beds not hurt by floods of fresh Mississippi River water released to keep the oil offshore or to relieve record flooding last year have seen strong harvests. Some areas where the harvest was delayed in 2010 because of concerns that oil tainted the shellfish have seen weaker harvests.

The 2011 brown shrimp harvest in Louisiana was the largest since 2007, at approximately 37.7 million pounds, according to a preliminary analysis in the The Times-Picayune in New Orleans in January.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has conducted extensive seafood testing since the Deepwater Horizon spill, and BP BP.LN -1.44% PLC has committed $33.5 million to Gulf states to conduct sampling and testing to assure the public that Gulf seafood is safe to eat.

"My belief is there is impact [on harvests], that we'll have some scars from the Deepwater Horizon," said Mike Voisin, chief executive of Motivatit Seafoods, a seafood processor in Houma, La. "But they'll heal and we'll be able to walk again and eventually run."

The seafood marketing board's Mr. Smith added, "Our fishing communities have been at the forefront of a lot of tough times," including hurricanes and pollution from the oil and gas industry. and the seasonal dead zones created by chemicals from farms that washed down the Mississippi River.

"But our people are extremely strong and resilient," Mr. Smith said.
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This is a nice one too but not worth copying http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303624004577339943866694420.html
Jarmel said:
People forget that evolution is organized chaos.

Looking forward to most of the gulf seafood being completely uneatable.
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You & your children will live long, prosper, & die before that happens.
 
Evolved1

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make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
subsurface dispersants were such a great idea.
 
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Flo_Evans

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Cool, I never really liked staring into their beady little eyes as I ripped their heads off and sucked their brains out anyway.
 
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Nevasleep said:
Think it's cost them quite a bit in compensation, billions of GBP.
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Pastry said:
They have a shit ton of money to pay in fines but they are trying their hardest not to.
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mckmas8808 said:
No they didn't.
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Good to know. Fuckers.

I've never heard about this Bhopal disaster.
Others estimate 3,000 died within weeks and another 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.[4][5] A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
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In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former UCIL chairman, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by law.
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You're fucking kidding me.
 
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smurfx

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just because the media stopped giving a damn doesn't mean the effects of the oil spill aren't going to be felt for generations.
 
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JGS

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Gentleman Jack said:
Brit Hume denied the oil spill's magnitude, joked that 'the ocean can handle a lot!' and implied the oil that people were seeing was 'natural seepage.'
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I just Youtube'd it and technically he's right- the ocean can handle a lot and a lot of oil seepage (Including one from a few days ago on the Gulf) is natural although he didn't imply the gulf spill was seepage which would have been wrong altogether. Plus he said it around a month after the spill as opposed to last year. Plus he was blasted by his fellow Foxxers. It was not a newscast but an opinion show. No, I do not like Fox, this was all on the Youtube video.

I don't think facts about the oil spill have anything to do with the damage the oil spill caused to the areas affected by it. The entire Gulf was not poisoned, many parts have recuperated, but that doesn't mean it still didn't cost the area billions of dollars either. It's pretty clear that the environment was damaged, businesses hurt (By both real harm & perception), & that BP and whoever their partners in running the rig should fork over tons of money to fix it. As a point of perspective, we were in Florida eating Gulf seafood in July of that year. Then again, we weren't in Louisiana and Mississippi.
 
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wetwired

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So seeing as though they have no eyes I will make the natural assumption that they are telepathic. Obviously that means they have superstrength and can fly as well.
 
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JGS

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wetwired said:
So seeing as though they have no eyes I will make the natural assumption that they are telepathic. Obviously that means they have superstrength and can fly as well.
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Fortunately, they still communicate in 'Shrimp' so they are unaware of the danger.
 
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Gentleman Jack

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JGS said:
he didn't imply the gulf spill was seepage which would have been wrong altogether. Plus he said it around a month after the spill as opposed to last year.
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When the facts brought forth by scientific inquiry are months from taking shape it's a sly, apologetic move to call for 'perspective' like Hume does because there's no way to bring the discussion above his level of cheap conjecture at that moment in the coverage.

Hume wouldn't have brought natural seepage up if he didn't want his audience to think about the visible oil that way. He knew exactly how to derail Williams' call for a greater sense of environmental responsibility, by misdirecting the conversation to a tangent about natural seepage and by abstracting the damage done to 'the ocean' as if that were the real problem, not tourism and fishing losses. Classic 'everything's under control, nothing to see here, move along' scuzziness.
 
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makes sense that these are the most affected

crabs, shrimp, lobster they're basically the bottom feeders of the ocean, they're cleaning up BP's shit with their health/lives.
 
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JGS

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Gentleman Jack said:
When the facts brought forth by scientific inquiry are months from taking shape it's a sly, apologetic move to call for 'perspective' like Hume does because there's no way to bring the discussion above his level of cheap conjecture at that moment in the coverage.

Hume wouldn't have brought natural seepage up if he didn't want his audience to think about the visible oil that way. He knew exactly how to derail Williams' call for a greater sense of environmental responsibility, by misdirecting the conversation to a tangent about natural seepage and by abstracting the damage done to 'the ocean' as if that were the real problem, not tourism and fishing losses. Classic 'everything's under control, nothing to see here, move along' scuzziness.
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Not really disagreeing with that. He clearly brought it to minimize the importance of this spill's seepage in comparison to natural seepage. It was a stupid thing to say since the BP spill has nothing to do with natural seepage and damage was caused.

Let's assume BP was paying him to say the spill was a non-event There was still no reason to imply that it was natural considering the oil spill had occurred, you could see it, but it wasn't covering the beach like the Valdez spill.

In any event, it wasn't a news item, it was a commentary piece.
 
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Gentleman Jack

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JGS said:
In any event, it wasn't a news item, it was a commentary piece.
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The show is named "Fox News Sunday" and the word "News" floats behind the talking heads. It's risky to think Fox doesn't cast every hour of their narrative cycle as news items, only to hide behind the 'opinion' cover every time BS gets called on them.
 
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Gentleman Jack said:
The show is named "Fox News Sunday" and the word "News" floats behind the talking heads. It's risky to think Fox doesn't cast every hour of their narrative cycle as news items, only to hide behind the 'opinion' cover every time BS gets called on them.
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Welcome to cable network news. News is like 10% of anything now, its 90% magazine shows and panels of opinions. Why? Because people want to see other people yell at each other and have their own opinions validated by seeing "news" people agreeing with them, not "news".
 
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Gentleman Jack

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Enron said:
Welcome to cable network news. News is like 10% of anything now, its 90% magazine shows and panels of opinions. Why? Because people want to see other people yell at each other and have their own opinions validated by seeing "news" people agreeing with them, not "news".
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Didn't mean to imply that CNN/MSNBC don't attempt the same. They're just not as good at it which is why their ratings are meager by comparison. If memory serves, the first people Jon Stewart called out on this rubbish worked for CNN.
 
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aw fuck it.
 
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