New photographs taken at Dauphin Island, Alabama, show what appears to be oil, along with chemical dispersants, related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The images stand in apparent stark contrast to federal and state assurances that seafood from the spill region is safe to consume now. The photographs also reveal what birds, marine life, and other animals from the area must now contend with in their habitats.
Credit for all images: Rocky Kistner, a communications associate for the Natural Resources Defense Council, www.nrdc.org
(Jellyfish swimming in an oily film)
(Balls of what appears to be tar collecting on beaches. The NRDC collects them for testing.)
(The photographs originally appeared on NRDC's Switchboard)
As Kistner wrote, "No one else was on the beach. Only seabirds populated it now, oblivious to the brown crude balls that scattered in the sand like cluster bomblets." He added that there was no evidence of any official, recent attempt to clean up the beach.
Just a "dime size glob of oil" can kill a bird, according to the International Bird Rescue Research Center. The IBRRC describes how oil hurts birds at this page.
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