Now that there is less oil on surface water of the Gulf of Mexico, BP's commitment to the cleanup seems to be fading, with the surface oil sheen, and this is the worry of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and coastal parish presidents. They are complaining that the oil cleanup effort is being scaled back. The Associated Press reports that yesterday, Thursday, they had a sit down with BP officials and the federal oil-spill response chief to express their concerns. See the video.
The surface oil fade does not mean the ecological disaster is over. Far from it -- The Huffington Post reported, in a exclusive, that the oil dispersants, BP has been using to make the surface slick go away, has been fond deep in the gulf food chain.
Quote the Huffington Post -- "So much for the emerging narrative that the BP spill wasn't a big deal. Scientists tell HuffPost's Dan Froomkin that they've found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of "almost all" of the tiny blue crab larvae collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the food chain. The orange blobs have been spotted all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. -- more than 300 miles of coastline -- said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory."
Looks like it will take generations for the Gulf to recover.

