[kl-bogel] The explosion of the oil platform. Part 2

What is the price vylivshihsya into the ocean five million barrels of oil? And how to determine this price? What is it measured? A decrease in GDP? As the number of people affected? In what impact the disaster had on the environment? Also, what kind of price you can say, if long-term consequences of the accident are still unknown, and the exact volume of oil spilled into the ocean is unknown? A year has passed since the explosion on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 people working, but the full extent of the disaster is still unknown. We will present you with continued collection of photos taken at the crash site, telling about what impact it had on the flora and fauna, as well as the way that the elimination of its consequences. Photos from the fourth through the tenth give an idea of ​​how the coast looked like immediately after the disaster and how it looks now, a year later.

Explosion of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico a year ago. Part 1

(36 photos)

1. Resin on the coast at Port Furchon Furchon, Louisiana, April 13. On the coast of Louisiana and now a year later, often hardened chunks of tar and oil spots, formed after an explosion on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» Gulf of Mexico a year ago.

2. Fire crews are struggling with ships burning remains of the company owned by British Petroleum »(« British Petroleum ») drilling platform« Deepwater Horizon », in the Gulf of Mexico, April 21, 2010.

3. Haggard covered with oil pelican trying to get on a log in the area of ​​nesting pelicans «Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery», three miles northeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana.

4. 29. Dead sea turtles washed ashore in Veyvlend, the coast of Mississippi, May 5, 2010 and April 14, 2011. Rare species of sea turtles and dolphins are still killed in Mississippi because of the accident, which occurred last year. The cause of death is oil pollution and resin.

5. Smeared with oil pelican eggs in a nest on the island of Cat Island, Louisiana, May 22, 2010, and the same nest April 8, 2011. The photograph on the right shows the island, which was heavily polluted. It was destroyed many mangrove trees and bushes Spartina, where pelicans nest.

6. In these photographs shown nesting pelicans on oiled Gulf coast Barataria Bay, Louisiana, May 22, 2010. On the second photograph, taken in the same place, April 8, 2011 coastline has changed significantly, thickets of mangroves and Spartina virtually destroyed.

7. Oil spill impact on pelicans and mangrove trees. The first picture was taken May 23, 2010, on the island of Cat Island. The second picture was taken April 8, 2011. Island Cat Island is home to brown pelicans and terns, gulls and pink spoonbills.

8. Pelican and egret landing around the same place on the island of Cat Island, Louisiana, May 22, 2010 and April 13, 2011, respectively.

9. Coastline with still alive and already dead mangroves on the island of Cat Island, Louisiana, May 22, 2010 and April 8, 2011, respectively.

10. Nesting pelicans, 22 May 2010 and what was left of 8 April 2011, the island of Cat Island, Louisiana.

11. Dvadtsatisemiletny Courtney Kemp, widow of Roy Watt's Kamp, who was killed in an explosion on the rig «Deepwater Horizon», with their daughters, Kylie and a three-year nine-Madison, in Jonesville, Louisiana, November 11, 2010. Roy Wyatt Kemp was one of the eleven workers who were killed in the explosion.

12. Shrimp catcher San Dixie Les does not go on fishing, spending time on the boat «Quoc Viet», which stands at the pier in Grand Isle, Louisiana, March 9. San Dixie Le says that as a result of an eight-catch of shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico to the catch is now only three or four buckets. He said that the company "British Petroleum» («British Petroleum») offered him compensation of just 32,000 dollars, while other shrimp fishermen have 100000 dollars compensation. Fuel prices are rising, so that he often denied the opportunity to go fishing, which is not justified.

13. Crab Catcher Thomas Barrios and his wife Alice at the restaurant «Barrios Seafood Restaurant», which is their family business run by Alicia. The restaurant is located in Golden Medou, Louisiana. Family income depends entirely on how well the evolving industry of mining and processing of marine products. Spouses were forced to lay off several employees, and are now trying to stay afloat. Income restaurants have dropped significantly due to the damage that an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» Gulf of Mexico has caused the industry.

14. Melvin Barnes, the owner of the restaurant «Seafood Restaurant and Market» in Bay St. Louis, Miss., sits in his empty restaurant on March 29. An accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» significantly affect the number of catch, as a result, the restaurant did not receive products. In addition, visitors scary the thought of eating seafood contaminated with oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Barnes was forced to sell the vehicle to collect the cash, and now eagerly awaits the promised compensation.

15. Stan Wright, mayor of Bayu La Batre. Small town living income from fishing, and suffered significant losses due to an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon».

16. April 18, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Brad Mizel shows scars on his hands before attending a meeting Coast residents who have started a health problem due to an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon». Brad Mizel worked in a program of "British Petroleum» («British Petroleum») «Vessels of Opportunity», which was engaged in recruitment of fishermen from the local community to help clean up the coast. He believes that skin problems had begun as a result of exposure to hazardous substances and says that has lost 50 pounds and began to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, resulting in forced now to take seventeen kinds of drugs, including steroids. More than two million gallons of dispersant under the name "Corex" was used to eliminate oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Dispersing agent "Corex" is banned in Europe due to its high toxicity.

17. April 18, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Laurie Williams, Ricky Ott hugging activist during a speech Bada Waltman (left) at a meeting of the inhabitants of the coast, which started a health problem due to an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon». Miss Williams began to suffer a huge number of diseases after the accident, including polyps in the lungs, as well as thyroid problems, liver and blood. Riki Ott - a marine biologist who has suffered as a result of oil spill in Alaska in the Exxon Valdez, and is now helping Gulf Coast residents.

18. Fishermen and community members listened to an address by Ken Feinberg, administrator of the fund reserves to pay the insurance indemnity company British Petroleum »(« British Petroleum ») on March 28 during a meeting in Mathews, Louisiana.

19. Brenda Guidri of Larosa, Louisiana, during a meeting with Ken Fainberg, administrator of the fund reserves to pay the insurance indemnity company British Petroleum »(« British Petroleum ») in Mathews, La., March 28.

20. Prayer in the early morning to commemorate the first anniversary of the accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon», April 20, Orange Beach.

21. Veterinarian Institute for the Study of Marine Mammals Wendy Hetchett prepares to take samples of skin from a dead dolphin found off the coast of the island of Ono in Alabama and brought to research in Gulfport, Mississippi. Researchers say that 155 young dolphins and small whales were found dead along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico is 4 times more than the usual rate. Environmentalists claim that the cause of their deaths served as an oil spill.

22. Ecologist at the University of ecology Jessica Henkel takes blood from necked dunlin in Furchon Beach, Port Furchon, Louisiana. Scientists are trying to determine what long-term effects of oil spill was for the birds that stop on the Gulf Coast during migration. Henkel says, "is easier to see the dead pelican on the coast than to watch those long-term effects, which caused a spill of oil."

23. Dead sea turtle washed out on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss., April 16. National Wildlife Federation reports that cases of sea turtles thrown on the shore, taking place in March this year, seven times more often.

24. Commercial fishing boat anchored at dawn near Grand Isle, La., April 20. Grand Isle - Coastal Community, the main income is fishing, and tourism. The town suffered considerable damage due to an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon».

25. National Coast Guard helicopter flies over the wetlands on the road to Middle Ground, the southern part of Louisiana. A year later, after an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» significantly affected the flora and fauna, the company «British Petroleum» reports that most of the oil removed. Nevertheless, protection of wildlife of Louisiana reported that most of the so-called "cleaning" was fictitious, the oil soak into the ground and continues to destroy the flora and fauna, destroying the already damaged ecosystems.

26. Workers clean the resin on the Gulf Coast in Gulf Shores, April 20.

27. Robert Bartem organization of the Louisiana Wildlife shows oil-stained sand on 19 April in South Pass, the southern part of Louisiana. At the same time, the company «British Petroleum» reports that most of the oil removed.

28. One of the activists of the Wildlife Louisiana shows smeared with oil palm, April 19, 2011, Middle Ground, Louisiana.

29. Workers clean the part of the coastline, which was damaged in an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» at the mouth of the Mississippi River where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

30. Special sound gun to scare away the birds, preventing them to nest on the oil-soaked areas on the coast of Louisiana. Photo taken on April 7.

31. Workers use a crane to remove sections of coastline, is strongly affected by the accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon» Jimmy in the Bay, Louisiana, April 8.

32. Center operations to clear the area of ​​oil pollution in the Gulf of Barataria Bay, on April 13, Louisiana.

33. Woman on the Beach, March 13, Grand Isle, Louisiana. Local residents have reported that after the storm on the coast are still encountered traces of oil.

34. A group of scientists from Massachusetts, workers Environmental Center, spend months trying to track down and catch the tiny oystercatcher, a rare bird. Scientists want to understand how to affect this type of accident an accident on an oil platform «Deepwater Horizon». Shiloh Schulte, coordinator of the project, uses an antenna to catch the signal indicating the location of ringed birds. Also in the photo technician Laura Spikelets and Stephen Brown. Photo taken on Nov. 8, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana.

35. Island East Grand Terre Island. Oystercatcher walking on the beach, 8 November 2010.

36. April 20. Crane Beach Orange Beach. Since the time of the disaster a year has passed.

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