Gulf spill pushes 'thick, black cake-mix type oil' into Barataria Bay

[highplainsdem]

Source: Times-Picayune

Gulf spill pushes 'thick, black cake-mix type oil' into Barataria Bay
By Allen Powell II, The Times Picayune
June 03, 2010, 7:15PM


For the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana 46 days ago, oil began pushing into Barataria Bay in thick, heavy concentrations, prompting local officials to put out a call for more absorbant boom to combat its spread.

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts said that the oil, in some places several inches thick, had been spotted Thursday by several people and that fishers were working hard to get boom into place to protect the marshes and wildlife.

"It's no longer sheen or tar balls," Roberts said from Lafitte on Thursday evening. "It is thick black cake-mix type oil."

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"I've flown out there before, and you were looking for oil and you'd find it in small streaks when you caught the light just right," Jackson said. "Today when you flew into Barataria Bay from the north, you said 'Oh my God.' It was streaking everywhere."

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Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/gulf_spill_pushes_thick_black.html

[flamingdem]

1. Cake mix. More like super sheisse, it doesn't come off your hands by rinsing ewww nt

[wordpix]

2. it was obvious this would happen but meanwhile,bamboo stakes are "holding" the booms in place---not

See Rachel's show tonight to see what I mean.

Fucking criminals.

[Frank Booth]

3. Yummm... Black cake.

I hope it's edible.

[depakid]

5. Not...

edible.

[Nihil]

6. F*ck.

There are just no words.

:cry:

[uppityperson]

4. k&r& tears