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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."
- Margaret Mead
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BP Spill Live Feed |
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Live video from the Gulf sea floor, site of BP's primary oil leak 5,000 feet below sea level. BP has announced the cap on the well placed July 15th has stopped the flow of new oil and methane into the Gulf, but scientists are watching to see if pressure from the well is building under the sea floor. If so, more severe damage could occur to the sea floor as the oil and natural gas pressure builds and leaks into the Gulf from other locations.
Sonar readings of the sea floor taken last month by the NOAA vessel Thomas Jefferson at the BP site revealed multiple oil and methane leaks under the sea floor near the Deepwater Horizon site. The oil gusher from Bp's main well has already dumped over 180 million gallons of toxic crude oil into the Gulf's once pristine waters since the April 20th explosion and sinking of BP's Deepwater Horizon surface oil platform.
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Millions of gallons of crude oil from the spill along with Corexit surfactant sprayed by BP at the site of the spill has destroyed much of the fragile Gulf marine habitat, which serves as the nursery for one third of the US supply of seafood. Cleanup work due to the BP spill is expected to continue for years.
Donations are desperately needed for both equipment and manpower that is needed to assist in the massive cleanup efforts in the Gulf. Please donate now.
At this time, the #1 priority of this Society is to assist in communications for these cleanup efforts. We commend the recent action by President Obama to force BP to setup the $20 Billion Oil Spill Trust Fund, but that is only the beginning. We STRONGLY RECOMMEND that the President direct the federal government to use the US Navy and whatever additional US military assets are required. More manpower and equipment is still needed to cleanup the damage already done to the Gulf.
We applaud the recent news that BP management has announced plans to sell over $30 billion of its assets in order to provide funds for the massive oil cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. We sincerely hope these funds will be used exclusively to restore the once pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its beaches, and habitats to the condition they were in prior to BP's devastating oil spill. This effort must be undertaken to the fullest extent humanly possible. In addition to being held legally liable and ultimately responsible for all cleanup costs, BP must also be held accountable and liable for all costs related to mitigation of health effects of this oil spill to both humans and marine life that have arisen from this toxic spill.
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Why we are working so hard |
"What we are fighting for is not just the fish and the birds. We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities, and if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us. We're not protecting nature for nature's sake. We're protecting it because it enriches us, yes, it enriches our economy and we ignore that at our peril. But it is also enriching us aesthetically, recreationally, culturally, historically and spiritually. Human beings have other appetites besides money. And if we don't feed them, we're not going to grow up…we're not going to become the kind of beings that our creator intended us to become." - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Gulf Coast Preservation Society is a nonprofit, 501c3 educational organization that was founded to inform people about the major environmental threats facing the Gulf of Mexico, and to find solutions to these problems. The Society works with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, the Ocean Conservancy, Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society, as well as other nonprofit organizations and community minded businesses that are dedicated to maintaining a clean, healthy marine and coastal environment in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you would like to donate your time, money, or other valuable resources to help further the work of the Gulf Coast Preservation Society and our parter organizations devoted to maintaining a healthy ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico, please click on the "DONATE" link above, or email us at info@gulfpreserve.org
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