Fwd: [bangla-vision] Toxic Contamination: Gulf Oil May Not Degrade for DECADES

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From: Romi Elnagar <bluesapphire48@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:49 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Toxic Contamination: Gulf Oil May Not Degrade for DECADES
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Toxic Contamination: Gulf Oil May Not Degrade for DECADES by Washington's Blog As you might have heard, scientists are finding gigantic under oil plumes from the BP spill, including one that is more than 22 miles long, more than a mile wide and 650 feet deep. On Thursday, Dr. Ian MacDonald and and Dr. Lisa Suatoni testified to a Congressional subcommittee that the oil will stay toxic, and will not degrade much further, for decades. MacDonald is an expert in deep-ocean extreme communities including natural hydrocarbon seeps, gas hydrates, and mud volcano systems, a former long-time NOAA scientist, and a professor of Biological Oceanography at Florida State University. Suatoni has a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale, and is Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council's Oceans Program. Dr. MacDonald told Congress that the oil has already degraded, emulsified and evaporated about as much as its going to, and it is going to very resistant for further biodegradation. The oil will be in the environment for a long-time, he said, and the imprint of the BP discharge will be detectable "for the rest of my life" (he's 58, and the average lifespan for American men is about 76; so that's some 18 years). Dr. Suatoni told Congress that oil which goes into low-oxygen zones will remain in a full toxic form for decades.

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