While the mainstream media may be slow to report the true devastation forecast to come to the Gulf of Mexico and the states that surround it, we are finally hearing what we've long expected -- ecocide.
More and more reports are coming in of marine life crowding further and further in shore and this suggests that their own habitat is becoming toxic. They say that "crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen."
Greenpeace has seen "dolphins by the dozen frolicking in the oily sheen and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young." ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/oil-spill-forces-animals-_n_615003.html )
And further catastrophe awaits the people onshore in Florida:
..Emergency planning sources in Florida have informed [me] that the state faces severe fresh water shortages and power blackouts if the thick crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster clogs sea water intakes at the largest seawater desalinization plant in the United States - the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalinization Plant at Apollo Beach.
The plant, which uses seawater reverse osmosis to turn seawater into 16 to 19 million gallons of drinking water daily for residents of the Tampa Bay area, faces the threat of filtration membranes becoming clogged if oil from the Gulf of Mexico enters its intake pipes. Such an event would render the plant unable to process seawater, resulting in a major fresh water shortage for Tampa Bay.
Similarly, oil clogging the water cooling intakes at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant on the Gulf of Mexico coast, some 80 miles north of Tampa, could force the shutdown of the Unit 3 pressurized water nuclear reactor. Such an event would result in power shutdowns in the Florida areas served by the power plant.
http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Satellite-imagery-shows-up-to-three-oil-leaks-in-Gulf-FL-power-and-water-supplies-may-be-at-risk
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