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So everyone around the world has heard about this oil spill off the coast.

However all i have been hearing about it is the Political side. Well i don't care about hte politics in it. there are only a seldom few int he media who are touching base with the Nature side of it.

They have caped off the leek but it's still letting some oil out and now the suspect that there is an leek underground. helpers are doing a great job on cleaning out the water as much as they can and clearing the beach. some are helping out the animals a great deal, also and things to me seemed to be looking up.

However as i was watching the news about the south and the southeast, it is nearing Hurricain season. this posses as bad news. The oil isn't gone and will take a long time to be cleared out completely. if the hurricains roll in will this cause "oil waves" to wash up on shore? this ill cover the beach againa and more voulnters will be needed to help clean, but then there is alway sa chance that in hurrican season, will the damage and stuff that may be cause people won't voulnter as willingly or as much.

Also the chemical fromt he oil is spreading all over the ocean techically, no one has said how this will effect other countries and their surounding wildlife or landscape. what this may do to the sea life's miragtions and breeding routes.

It was also metioned in the news that there was another acadent of some sort before the leek that, cause a gas chemical to go into the air. letting out 17 pounds i think they said of a chemical that has the potiental to cause cancer. this is bad for us humans but it is also bad for the animals as they can get cancer as well. and we haven't any clue wha that chemical is doing to the atmostphere or the Biosphere.

I am a bit bothered that the effects this acsadent has on the invorment isn't being talked about on the news. I am also suprised Peta isn't knee deep in this aswell. lol


anyway any thoughts on the Nature aspect on the oil spill?

and i wnat to say sorry for my spelling and grammar ahead of time lol

(When I saw this title I was thinking "Please don't call it British Petroleum, please!", luckily though, you didn't mention any of the two companies involved)

Personally, I think people are getting over-hyped about it, and very Anti-British; thanks to (Censored - Politics). I mean, there have been hundreds of oil spills all around America, maybe not as big, but have done much more damage.

Perhaps this could be a new incentive for a car that runs on water?

I've heard about this; though the cap isn't permanent. They only put it there to slow it down meanwhile. I really haven't been paying much attention to it, as I don't watch or read the news. What I do know is that they're burning out the oil right now.

Obama is more interested in slagging off the British then dealing with the oil spill.

And Mighty, there using many different ways, burning is just one of them. But when they capture this oil they burn most of it, the rest they use.

I've read a little about this, but I care little about it. One company broke it, they need to fix it. Their fault, their fix.

Actually, it wasn't a BP component that broke. Which is what frustrates me.

I've heard all about the oil spill for the past few months on tv. Yes it is capped. But the cap isn't permanent and the hurricane season won't help the relief efforts to cap it. Don't say they aren't trying to cap it for those months. I can assure you they were. They have never had to deal with a catastrophe like this. It was one thing with the Exxon Valdese oil spill up in Alaska. That was a ship and had a limited amount of oil. It was not a complete oil well that had almost a seemingly infinite amount of oil in it. So don't go around saying the government of the United States of America is doing nothing.

I think the main reason it took so long to cap was the fact that we had to fight a "war" if you want to call it that on two different fronts. We had to help contain the oil in a restricted area so it wouldn't stray any further out of the Gulf of Mexico. We had the clean up efforts, done mostly by civilians on the gulf coast states of, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. We also had the attempt to build a device to cap the leak. Which is not easy to do since we could not send down any divers to put a plug in the leak. It all had to be done robotically. And yes I know it isn't permanent but at least it's something for right now. They still are trying to find a permanent solution to the problem of the oil spill.

Another thing I am surprised nobody has mentioned yet is all the jobs effected. I'm not talking about the people of BP Amoco. I'm talking about all the fisheries that are effected. Thousands of jobs of honest American and I'm sure Mexican workers lives have been drastically changed by the spill. Their fisheries are no long healthy and good to fish. The spill has delivered a big blow to the whole ecosystem in the gulf. Which has effected the fishing industries today and many years to come.

To all who haven't figured out I am taking the side of the American government with this one. Through my eyes as an honest American I've seen them do nothing wrong. It was not the Americans fault that BP had poorly maintained it's drills. Yes the drill was another company's but who decided to use the drill and keep it maintained? It was BP. So this is not all America's fault. Part of it has to be blaimed on the fokes that work for BP over in Britain. America has done all it's could so far to keep the oil contained and cap it. And I greatly appreciate their efforts.

erm very nice repies but this post is to talk about the Inviroments point in this Nature? you know trees and stuff i said i was tired of seeing the political point of the story and you guys have come here with the politics of it? really? did you read my whole post or did you just through it out the window?

Hahahahaha. So, Obama's "anti-British" sentiments have worked. What on earth does the executives in Britain have to do with it? Operations in America are done by the BP US-HQ (in Houston), NOT in Westminster.

The item that exploded was made, maintained and controlled by another American company, BP was overseeing the project, so really it's on a third their fault.

You should see how many big American companies have their hand in BP profits ;P

But yeah back to OP's point, personally I think the reason why the "nature aspect" isnt getting covered is because we've seen it all before, the American media have a choice between filming some birds covered in oil, something everyone has gotten used to and are no longer shocked by. Or they can make a story about "British" Petroleum spilling oil all over their wuvely beaches.

Yes the nature aspect is a definite concern but we all already know the dangers assosciated with oil spills on the natural environment, its happened so many times now.

But it's not called British Petroleum, they dropped that name in 1998.

Being that I live right next to the Gulf of Mexico, where oil was really bad, I've heard a lot about it. Pretty much daily.

thank you emily for not bringing politics into this post.

as for everyone else

i said i didn't want the politics side in this yet thats all you keep talking about here which is making it off topic stop trolling for don't post at all. geez don't you people listen!!!!!

and i will report you for breaking the rules that we ar enot to be talking about political things.

The wildlife side is sad, but the politics side is by far much more interesting, it will also make this topic more popular.

well then start your own topic about that, but my topic is about the wildife, and your not suposed to be talking about polotics on teh site anyway, geez