If this had happened under George W. Bush's watch, the mob of protesters surrounding the White House would be 10 blocks deep. It's day 79. Øbama has enjoyed a dozen rounds of golf since this began and the oil is still spewing.
Posted on 07/08/2010 10:15:42 AM PDT by TruthHound
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The mud is thick, black and lifeless. And it stinks. Dead stumps - what used to be thick green mangrove swamps - protrude out from the mud as far as your eyes see.
It looks like a scene captured by a camera attached to an unmanned spacecraft that has just landed on a lifeless planet in another galaxy.
Nothing is growing here, and I can’t imagine anything growing here in a very long time.
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"We went through that here. Nobody wanted our fish, they said, ‘your fish are contaminated because of the oil.’"
Of the 6,000 fishermen who used to fish Guanabara Bay, only about 2,000 are left da Silva said. Most have been forced to find other lines of work.
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The total amount of oil spilled in 2000 in Guanabara Bay was about 8,000 barrels and even by the most conservative estimates that is only about 25 per cent of the oil being leaked into the Gulf Coast everyday.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.aljazeera.net ...
If this had happened under George W. Bush's watch, the mob of protesters surrounding the White House would be 10 blocks deep. It's day 79. Øbama has enjoyed a dozen rounds of golf since this began and the oil is still spewing.
Oil does not make water disappear.
Look at the Ixtoc 1 spill in 1979 that when on for nearly 10 months. With 30,000 BPD that spill didn't cause the doom-n-gloom devastation you want to claim.
AlJazzera?
Do you understand what a MANGROVE is? It’s usually dry half the time, under water half the time. Healthy ones are green and teeming with life—wet or dry.
Al Jazeera?
I did some investigating about this place and seems there’s some exaggerating going on here.
Guanabara Bay IS polluted, but sources say the pollution is as much about mindless sewage dumping, deforestation and that sort of thing rather than damage by any oil spill. In fact it’s still considered a beautiful place and if greedy humans were to give it time it would probably heal and become pristine again.
Need to keep a calm head and in perspective.
Muslim propaganda to make us reliable on their oil.
Boy, I can’t imagine what interest Al Jazeera would have in encouraging us to shut down oil drilling. Who could have guessed that they would do such a thing?
Blame 0bama and the EPS’s Lisa Jackson for doing their utmost to sabotage use of skimmers. Skimmers can keep a lot of oil from getting into mangrove swamps and estuaries. These two fiends have sabotaged other efforts to keep the oil out
If the two relief wells fail look for even larger Demon-rat losses in November. There is no plan B if the relief wells fail and I give them only 50% chance
Heh. that pic is of a swamp...they are supposed to look like this...the water leaves/dries up, then fills up when the rains come.
This Truthhound guy is after anything BUT the truth it would seem.
The Water Quality in Guanabara Bay is far more a function of the sewage of Rio de Janeiro than it is from a 10 year old minor oil spill.
http://www.cibg.rj.gov.br/qualidadedaagua/sessao.asp?cod_secao=bacia_guanabara&lng=
Thank you.
Just a quick search and I discovered the same thing.
Pollution is nothing new to Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists say many of the city’s waterways now represent a grave threat to public health and Rio’s tourism industry.
In January a stretch of the Barra da Tijuca beach was cordoned off after toxic algae appeared in the water, and at the end of March authorities removed a tonne of dead fish from the Guanabara bay.
Dark stains known as “black tongues” periodically appear on Rio’s beaches, and strips of white and yellow foam - the result of untreated sewage, environmentalists say - have started to show up off the upmarket beach neighbourhood of Leblon. After a large crimson stain appeared at Leblon government officials claimed the “red tide” was the product of harmless algae. Environmentalists are unconvinced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/apr/28/brazil.pollution
RIO DE JANEIRO
When world leaders arrived in Rio for the 1992 Earth Summit, their nostrils were assailed by a particularly nasty example of the ills they were here to debate: the dense, putrid stench of Guanabara Bay.
Ten years later, after a huge internationally funded cleanup, and a week before another Earth Summit opens in Johannesburg, one thing hasn’t changed:
Guanabara Bay still stinks.
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Each day, some 470 tons of raw sewage are dumped in the bay, along with about 10 tons of solid garbage, five tons of oil and an unknown quantity of industrial waste. In four of eight areas tested, sewage had almost entirely replaced sea water.
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The first phase of the cleanup began in 1993. A 10-year plan called for building two new sewage-treatment plants, improving existing ones and installing more than 3 million feet of sewers. Once in place, the theory went, this system would be able to treat 55 percent of all sewage flowing into Guanabara.
Today, of the bay’s eight sewage-treatment plants, only three are fully operational. The others work intermittently, or not at all. One plant was inaugurated twice, by two different governors, but still isn’t connected to a sewerage line.
“They inauguratein·au·gu·rate
tr.v. in·au·gu·rat·ed, in·au·gu·rat·ing, in·au·gu·rates
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..... Click the link for more information. sewage-treatment plants, but they don’t build the systems to bring the sewage to them,” complains State Environment Secretary Liszt Vieira.
Rio de Janeiro state’s Sanitation Secretary, Agostinho Guerreiro, admits that only about 15 percent of the sewage that spills into the bay each day is treated. But he blames past administrations.
I wouldn’t click on an al jizm link for money.
Yes, this is all just Muslim propaganda. The future for the Gulf of Mexico is just ROSY. /sarc
I wish there were a U.S. media outlet reporting this instead of AlJazeera, but you know THEIR agenda. FWIW, it’s from the AMERICAS blog, and the situation there is what it is. Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZNKcQ4ba8&feature=player_embedded
Granted they have a severe pollution problem, but the before and after stories from the Brazilian locals are telling.
I was raised in Mobile, Al. I have waded in and around the fragile wetlands around the Bay, Gulf Shores the Florida Panhandle, Biloxi, Grand Isle.
I leave on July 19th to help with the cleanup. What are YOU doing?
Mangroves do grow in shallow water but its tidal water. Its not going to dry up when the leaves die. Also, mangroves are swamps and the ground never gets bone dry. You have the tide coming in every 10-12 hours to keep things nice and wet.
the oil will kill the trees and the fish though.
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