It's been more than a month since oil started gushing out of a well in the Gulf Coast, and we've been covering it ever since. We'll answer your questions on the spill, from the use of dispersants to taxing the oil companies to pay for clean up. What questions do you still have about its long-term effects and the effort to contain the damage?
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I believe it's going to take years to clean up the oil already reaching our shore . Also this spill will kill the coral off our southern shore which has takin nature thousands of years to produce. These coral reafs are living vital marine life habitats. This acts as our oceans filters removing various organizms from the water help to keep our oceans from becoming polluted. Once these corals are gone it would take hundreds of years to recover if at all.
I believe it may be a little late the damage has already been done and at this point all off sure drilling should be shut down perminently .
After all of the cover your but (ass) statements made by BP and others isn't it true to say the where no satifactory safe gaurds or capabilities to handle such a damaging spill !
All of these off shore rigs are just like accidents waiting to happen and this should prove my point!
Shut all these unsafe rigs in our waters now without delay would be the best way to prevent the next spill .
i am vary scard this will be a end we need scientise please help we have done for you
Why can we not weld the massive pipe back together with the broken piece and extend piping out of the ocean and collect it on the outside for as long as it takes to deal with this matter....
at least it would not continue to pump into the ocean. This should be done already
re-routed and collected on the outside...one way or another............
This could be done
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