This kind of stuff really bothers me. Isn't this part of why we pay our hunting and fishing license fees? To protect our land and waters? It is terribly frustrating that people don't seem to respect our Earth enough to educate themselves on what their actions might affect. I hope there is proper ramifications for those that are responsible, if it is a malicious intent involved.
It could have been illegal dumping of waste salt water from fracking but it could also have been legal injection of waste salt water and the injection well somehow had an unknown pathway to the river through some underground pathway.
Depends on who you ask...
Although some researchers thought that the damage from the spill would rapidly resolve, three years into the recovery dolphins continue to die, fish are showing strange lesions, corals in the gulf have died and oil still remains in some marsh areas. [57] Due to both its size and the way it was handled, there is little previous research to predict long-term effects. At the 2013 "Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference", oceanographer David Hollander presented data that showed as much as one-third of the oil released during the spill may still be in the gulf. Researchers described a phenomenon called "dirty blizzard": oil caused deep ocean sediments to clumped together, falling to the ocean floor at ten times the normal rate in an "underwater rain of oily particles". The result could have long-term effects on both humans and marine life. Commercially-fished species feed on sediment creatures, meaning oil could remain in the food chain for generations.[58] Concern was expressed for commercially fished species such as tilefish which burrow in the sediment and feed on sediment dwelling creatures.[59] In 2013 researchers found that a tiny amoeba-like creatures, foraminifera, that live in sediment and form the bottom of the gulf food chain, have died off in the areas that were affected by the underwater plumes that stretched out miles beyond the spill site. The foraminifera have returned in some areas but in other areas they have burrowed into the sediments, stirring them up all over again. Noting that it took several years for the herring population to crash following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the researchers expressed concerns that it may also take years for long-terms effects to become apparent in the gulf.[57]
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
Video of the news story is attached.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKV-B_7zwc
Beat me to it. I just got the link in an email.
That's sad to see.
....and usually is left with a sock nearby
That could be any given location where tp isn't handy.
Same here. Its going to be a revelation, or a non-event.
I'm betting on some decaying layers of vegistation
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