{"id":28686,"date":"2010-06-23T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:40:16","slug":"3686-slow-motion-tragedy-for-sea-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/3686-slow-motion-tragedy-for-sea-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow-motion tragedy for sea life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out on the water, it starts as a slight rainbow shimmer, then turns to wide  orange streamers of oil, whipping through the waves. Later, on the beach, we  witness a vast, Olympic-sized swimming pool of dark chocolatey syrup left behind  at low tide, and thick dark patches of crude bubbling on the sand.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"810\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"811\" \/><br \/>\nThe smell of the oil on  the beach is so strong it burns your nostrils, and leaves you feeling dizzy and  headachey even after a few minutes away from it.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"964\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"965\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to  Alaska-based marine biologist Rick Steiner, my companion on a boat ride through  the slick, this is the most volatile and toxic form of crude oil in the waters  and lapping on to the beaches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grand-isle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Isle<\/a>, the area at the heart of the slowly  unfolding environmental apocalypse that has engulfed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisiana<\/a>, and is now moving eastwards,  threatening Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida_Panhandle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panhandle<\/a>.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1377\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1378\" \/><br \/>\nFifty-three days after BP&rsquo;s ruptured well began  spewing crude oil from 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) below the sea, the wholesale  slaughter of dolphins, pelicans, hermit crabs and other marine life is only now  becoming readily visible to humans.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1620\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1621\" \/><br \/>\nSo too is the futility of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama  administration<\/a>&rsquo;s response effort, with protective boom left to float  uselessly at sea or &ndash; in the case of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com\/go\/doc\/2931\/589083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Bess Island<\/a> pelican sanctuary that we visit  &ndash; trapping the oil in vulnerable nesting grounds.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1871\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"1872\" \/><br \/>\nSteiner, 57, a veteran  of America&rsquo;s last oil spill disaster, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Exxon Valdez<\/em><\/a> in 1989, says he is in the Gulf of  Mexico &ldquo;to bear witness&rdquo;, and for days he has been taking to the beaches and the  waters in a Greenpeace boat gathering evidence.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2116\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2117\" \/><br \/>\nThe first casualties  on Steiner&rsquo;s tour appear minutes after our boat leaves the marina and moves  through Barataria Pass, prime feeding ground for bottlenose dolphins. Several  appear, swimming, eating, even mating in waters criss-crossed by wide  burnt-orange streamers of oil. All are at risk of absorbing toxins, from the  original spill and from more than 1.2 million gallons (4.5 million litres) of  chemicals dumped into the gulf to try to break up the slick, says Steiner.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2592\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2593\" \/><br \/>\n&ldquo;They get it in their  eyes. They get it in the fish they eat and it is also possible when they come to  the surface and open their blowhole to breathe that they are inhaling some of  it,&rdquo; he says.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2788\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"2789\" \/><br \/>\nThe  Greenpeace crew turns up the throttle and the boat pulls up to the  orange-and-yellow protective boom around Queen Bess Island, which was intended  as a haven for the brown pelican. These birds, until recently, were on the  federal government&rsquo;s list of endangered species and were doing OK &ndash; but now that  recovery appears to have been abruptly reversed.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3144\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3145\" \/><br \/>\nA dark tide line of  oil encircles the island, and has crept into the marsh grasses, where the  pelicans nest. Many, if not most, of the adult birds had patches of oil on their  breast feathers. Nearly all are doomed, says Steiner &#8212; if not now, then at some  point not too far in the future. &ldquo;The risks in here to birds are not just acute  mortality right here, right now,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;There is mortality we won&rsquo;t see for  a month or two months, or even a year.&rdquo;<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3601\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3602\" \/><br \/>\nHe points out a pelican standing so still it looks  like it&rsquo;s been made out of a slab of chocolate, another frantically flapping its  spread wings to try to shake off the oil, and then another manically pecking at  the spots on its chest. &ldquo;He could be a candidate for cleaning, and he may  survive,&rdquo; Steiner says. &ldquo;He obviously won&rsquo;t if he&rsquo;s not cleaned.&rdquo;<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3954\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"3955\" \/><br \/>\nRescue teams have  plucked hundreds of birds from the muck. But stripping oil from the feathers of  stricken birds is a slow and delicate operation, and there is no assurance of  the birds&rsquo; survival. About a third of the rescued birds have died so far.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"4205\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"4206\" \/><br \/>\nAs we pull up to Queen  Bess Island, two crew boats are at work shoring up the two lines of defence for  the island: an outer ring of orange-and-yellow protective boom intended to push  the oil back out to sea, as well as an inner ring of white absorbent material  that is supposed to suck up any of the crude that gets through.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"4531\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"4532\" \/><br \/>\nSince oil began  lapping at the Louisiana coast, the government has set down 2.25 million feet  (685,000 metres) of containment boom and 2.55 million feet (nearly 780,000  metres of absorbent material. But local sports fishermen on Grand Isle complain  that response crews bungled the protection zone for Queen Bess because they only  put a portion of the island behind the orange-and-yellow barrier boom. That  turned the boom into traps that pushed even greater quantities of oil onshore.  Steiner agrees: &ldquo;I would say 70% or 80% of the booms are doing absolutely  nothing at all.&rdquo;<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5108\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5109\" \/><br \/>\nThe efforts on the beaches seem equally futile. By  day workers in white protective suits march along the sands of the state park on  the eastern end of Grand Isle, trying to suck up the oil. But as the tide goes  out there is only more oil to be found, and dozens of dead hermit crabs that  have struggled to flee to shore.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5430\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5431\" \/><br \/>\nSteiner says he has seen it all before, after the  <em>Exxon Valdez<\/em> went aground in 1989, and then in other oil spills he has monitored  around the world from Lebanon to Pakistan. There is, he says, a drearily  familiar pattern. &ldquo;Industry always habitually understates the size of a spill  and impact as well as habitually overstates the effectiveness of the  response.&rdquo;<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5793\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"5794\" \/><br \/>\nIn the  case of the <em>Exxon Valdez<\/em>, he says, the environmental impacts persisted for  months or years after the tanker went aground. That catastrophe, which saw 11  million gallons (nearly 42 million litres) of crude dumped into the pristine  waters of Alaska, occurred within the space of six hours.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6089\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6090\" \/><br \/>\nThis spill is much  worse. BP&rsquo;s well on the ocean floor has been spewing greater volumes of crude  oil into the water since April 20. Even by the US administration&rsquo;s most  optimistic forecasts, it will keep gushing until August, and the clean-up could  last well into the autumn.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6366\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6367\" \/><br \/>\n&ldquo;This is just the start. It is going to keep coming  in even if they shut the damn thing off today,&rdquo; says Steiner.<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6481\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6482\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6485\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> www.guardian.co.uk\/<\/a><br goog_docs_charindex=\"6505\" \/><br \/>\n<br goog_docs_charindex=\"6506\" \/><br \/>\nCopyright Guardian News and Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Homepage image by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibrrc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Bird Rescue Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the BP oil leak, the wildlife haven Grand Isle is at the  heart of the environmental catastrophe engulfing the US coast of Louisiana,  writes Suzanne 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