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Greenpeace senior campaigner Lindsey Allen walks through a patch of oil from the Deepwater Horizon on the breakwater in the mouth of the Mississippi river where it meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana
As early as May 9 it was announced that FEMA evacuation protocol for forest fires in and around Tampa, Florida could be activated at a moment's notice in the event of the oil slick approaching Florida's coastline. One proposal is to undergo a 'controlled burn' of surface oil in the Gulf to prevent the oil reaching Florida's coast. This would result in highly toxic fumes blowing ashore. In fact, toxic fumes have already been reported elsewhere as Gulf residents complain of breathing difficulties and nausea:
The following eyewitness account came to our attention yesterday:
Hi all,






~ Eve
If a regular storm can displace oil like this, what would a hurricane do in the upcoming hurricane season? This season is predicted to be 'fierce', by the way. If weather systems can dump fish and frogs there's no reason why oil couldn't be lifted clean into the atmosphere to then fall back to the ground many miles inland. Stranger things have happened.

There is also the dispersal agent 'Corexit 9500' that BP has been used in unprecedented amounts (700,000 gallons). Sounds like very toxic stuff (it's banned in many countries around the world because it is so toxic), and fishermen have already reported getting sick from inhaling it. What are the chances that any oil that either evaporates off into the atmosphere from 'controlled burns' or is lifted clear from the water by storms then falls back to land with this toxic chemical mixed in with it?

When you see images of the oil slick and it appears as orange, the orange is the chemical dispersant. This toxic sludge is already making its way up Louisiana's marshlands and the Mississippi delta.

Just HOW did anybody think using a noxious chemical by-product of the oil industry to clean up a massive oil leak was a good idea? Probably this same pathological BP executive who should be tried, and if convicted, sentenced for crimes against humanity and the planet:



The leak has not been stopped yet but already this is the worst environmental disaster in history. It's impact on the Gulf region will be devastating:

The number of people this disaster may eventually affect is potentially staggering, and nobody is doing anything other than pointing fingers. We suspect that we're only seeing the beginning of the effects of this ecological nightmare scenario. The Gulf of Mexico is obviously an invaluable ecosystem for the humans, animals and plants that are directly dependent on it, but further afield it serves as the 'pump' for the Gulf Stream ocean current that effectively keeps Europe's climate temperate rather than 'Arctic'. Al Gore is wrong about the "man-made global warming", but only about the "warming" part. Man-made global cooling... now there's a thought.