FloridaRed Tide

A group of scientist did took a flight over the northern portion of The Gulf of Mexico. The good news is that they are still finding wildlife. The bad news they see huge plumes of oil headed for some very environmentally sensitive areas. Link to this post!

The scientists said it would happen. I sure can understand why no one wanted to believe it. It seemed to easy to say predictions of a massive and intense red tide bloom were inaccurate when the season started with only sporadic out breaks of red tide. And then – BAM! Tons of very intense red [...]

Seems a pilot off jetting around for a fun weekend discovered a big red tide out near Santa Barbra California. He took pictures for all the doubters too. This red tide hasn’t been documented by anyone but him so far. At least not in traditional sources. I did find lots of mention of last months [...]

The whole time the EPS has been implying to the public that they have “cracked down” successfully on the massive amount of dispersant use by BP in the gulf of Mexico, it apparently made the rules to allows almost as much dispersant use as BP wants. The EPA has set up a ridiculous formula for [...]

Senator Nelson says the U.S. Navy has more than 2 dozens oil skimming ships that are able to be deployed to the Gulf of Mexico immediately, but they are just sitting idle instead. We’d like to add two points: The plan needs to stop the oil leak!  Not enough effort to cap this well has [...]

Governor Crist gets on CNN and says all the right things, we suppose. In truth, we think there’s much more The State of Florida could be doing to keep this oil from washing up on it’s beaches en masse’. If we do, we’ll all be known (including you Governor Crist), as the heros that stopped [...]