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Originally Posted by yak'em-n-stack'em
Right. There will be no effects come august.
Like i've said from the beginning, I know about oil and marsh grass. That is what I have experience in.
When did I talk about dead zones? Maybe you thought I did. But I don't remember this
like I've told you. My only arguement with you is that this will not be forgotten by august like you claim.
Hell. It could very well still be leaking by augusy
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you know more than him???
"Crude is the least of the problem," says Dr. Paul Sammarco, a researcher at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, who has performed research on the effects of oil spills. If contained and removed in time it usually leaves no lasting impact on marshes. But other petrochemicals likely to have been loosed by Katrina -- refined products like diesel or fuel oil or gasoline -- are much more toxic to wetlands, he says. Should large amounts of those settle into marshes and other lowland areas, "they are much more difficult to deal with
http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0923-oilspills.html