[Ostlandr]

Good post, but not news. They knew right away that the "control" areas (left oil-covered to test the effectiveness of the cleanup) recovered faster than the beaches they pressure-washed with hot detergent.

[spanalot]

oil is after all organic.

[RightWhale]

Lots of good jobs for a while. Got to spend the cleanup $ billions quick.

[Species8472]

John, who attests to having been at “many, many oil spills, maybe three or four hundred of them,” observes that, “they are not the environmental problem that they are made out to be typically.” He says that in most cases, “their effects are transient and there are no great long-term consequences.”

Needs repeating. Prince William Sound is my back yard. I have boated, fished, and hunted there for more than 30 years. There were a couple of rough years after the spill, but things recovered much more quickly that the MSM press would have you believe. Today you cannot find any evidence that the spill even occurred. I have a freezer full of salmon, halibut, shrimp and crab to prove it. Any tarballs are more likely to have come from a natural seep than be leftover from the spill.

[Tinian]

All sea life in the Pacific Ocean was destroyed by 1944 because American capitalist pigs sunk thousands of Japanese ships that were peacefully engaged in establishing a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

And I have the pics to prove it:

The stuff you're eating, and think is seafood, is really a Tofu like substitute manufactured from MIDEAST OIL by BusHalliburton.

Hope that helps.

[thackney]

The National Academy of Sciences has published "Oil in the Sea" which summarizes sources of oil pollution:

Nearly 85 percent of the 29 million gallons of petroleum that enter North American ocean waters each year as a result of human activities comes from land-based runoff, polluted rivers, airplanes, and small boats and jet skis, while less than 8 percent comes from tanker or pipeline spills.

Oil in the Sea