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News / Biz The summer of oil
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Unfortunately, at this rate, this is just the first summer of oil.
Every time Linda Young takes her dog out for a walk, morning or evening, she can smell it. Young, an environmental activist who lives near the beach in Navarre, next door to Pensacola Beach, said the odor of oil is now a constant part of her life.If the wind is blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, she said, "the oil smell is often very strong, too strong to be outside."
In ways big and small, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is reshaping the Gulf Coast. It's doing more than damaging the tourism and fishing industries; it's permeating the air people breathe and the way they think and feel, altering habits formed over a lifetime.
"This is impacting more lives than any hurricane does," said Jack Sanborn, who runs a canoe rental business in the Panhandle called Adventures Unlimited.
Some people are calling it the Summer of Oil, but the oil's impact will continue well beyond August, when a relief well being drilled by BP is supposed to shut down the undersea gusher at last. So much oil has spewed into the gulf that Florida officials say even if the relief well works, the spill is likely to keep tossing goop onto Florida beaches until at least October.
Read the rest of this St. Petersburg Times article, by Craig Pittman, here.
Here's video from Pensacola Beach, Fla., from July 7:
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