Oil reached the coast of Louisiana (39 Photos)
Oil reached the coast of Louisiana (39 Photos)
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After more than a month after the accident on the rig «Deepwater Horizon» Oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico and has nach oditsya 19 km from the coastal marshes of Louisiana. According to the governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, more than 104 km of the coast of the state have been affected by the oil spill. Company «BP» reports that no sooner will the new medium attempts to eliminate the leak, this time using the weighted solution of clay and cement. This maneuver is called "dieback" and is the best alternative for the company, which has already taken several unsuccessful attempts to locate the oil spill.
The most conservative estimate, 6 million gallons of oil had flowed into the bay, while some scholars argue that the amount of leakage has already exceeded the leakage of oil in Alaska in 1989, when the water leaked 11 million gallons.
1. The dragonfly is trying to clean the wings, sitting on the grass, the oiled Bay Garden Island, near Venice, Louisiana, May 18. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
2. An activist of Greenpeace came into the oil puddle on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico on May 20. (John Moore / Getty Images)
3. Next ship on the oil puddle on May 17. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
4. Oil reached a marshland in the delta of the Mississippi River on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
5. Dead northern gannet, covered in oil rests on the beach of Grand Isle on May 21. Member of the Society studies the protection of seabirds noted place of death of poultry.
6. An employee of the company «BP» removes oil from the beach Elmer's Island on May 22. State authorities have closed the popular tourist beach, which even the reporters allowed only when accompanied by representatives of the company «BP». (John Moore / Getty Images)
7. The workers were going absorbing oil booms of the Gulf of Mexico on May 20. (John Moore / Getty Images)
8. Bridget Hargrove, her 4-year-old son Aiden and year-old daughter Emma bathe in the children's basin nach Away from oil-contaminated water Gulf of Mexico on the beach Grand Isle on May 21. The mayor of Grand Isla David Kamardell said that the beach closed Friday afternoon because of the presence on it of oil. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
9. Spot crude oil at the foot of 8-year old Grace Hardley, strolling on the beach at Grand Isle, Louisiana, May 21. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
10. Red heron stained with oil in the legs and tail flying over the water in Grand Isle on May 20. (US Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley)
11. On the site of major oil spills are going to ultra-deep platform and other devices, where they prepare for the process, which, as the company hopes to «BP», stop the flow of oil. (John Moore / Getty Images)
12. Natural gas from the damaged wellhead hole hole tower «Deepwater Horizon» burned with a drill ship «Discoverer Enterprise», May 16, in the Gulf of Mexico. (Patrick Kelley / US Coast Guard via Getty Images)
13. The collected oil is burning on the water, 11 km north-east of the leak nefti18 May. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
14. Oil on the surface of water in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 9 km south-east of Grand Isle. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
15. Protective booms surrounded the island near the mouth of the Mississippi River south of Venice, Louisiana on May 17. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
16. Oil booms and floats around in the swampy delta of the Mississippi River on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
17. Senior Manager organization dedicated to restoring the environment after a disaster, Maura Wood takes samples in oiled marsh near Pass a Lurte, Louisiana, May 20. (REUTERS / Lee Celano)
18. Stained oil Pelican leaves the nest next to become grounded in oil on the island, which weave their nests hundreds of pelicans, terns, gulls and spoonbills in the Gulf of Barataria, 22 May. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
19. An employee of the company «Plaquemines Parish» puts neftepogloschayuschy Coupons on the background of the sky dotted with pelicans in Barataria Bay on May 22. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
20. Officer Environmental Services of Louisiana tries to catch smeared in mud pelican in the Gulf Bratariya May 23. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
21. Stained oil pelican soars after environmental service workers tried to catch him on an island in the Gulf Bratariya May 23. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
22. Environmentalists draw it out of the oil swamps in Redfish Bay, along the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
23. Rainbow film of oil on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico, near the scene of an oil spill. The ship uses a protective Coupons to stem the flow of oil, you want to burn 67 km from the coast of Louisiana. (REUTERS / Hans Deryk)
24. The team of ecologists trying to clean up the island from the oil in the southern Gulf of East Bay on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
25. Environmentalists from the company «BP» clean oil from the beach in Port Furshon May 23. (John Moore / Getty Images)
26. Crab with dirty oil in the sink creeps past the bubble of oil on the beach in Grand Isle on May 22. (John Moore / Getty Images)
27. The boat is floating between a protective booms at the mouth of the Mississippi River, south of Venice, Louisiana, May 19. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
28. Oil gathered at the reeds in the north-eastern part of the Mississippi River on May 18. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
29. Ship splashing water near the scene of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 18. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
30. These marine turtles, Kemp's views are considered to be the smallest of sea turtles in the world. They were placed in an aquarium "New England" in Boston, as long as they can not be set free because of the oil spill. (Dina Rudick / Boston Globe)
31. The sun is setting over the oil-contaminated beach at Grand Isle on May 23. (John Moore / Getty Images)
32. The senior employee of Green Lindsey Allen is trying to save a little crab, covered in oil, on the beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a tributary of the Gulf of Mexico. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner / Greenpeace)
33. A small boat is floating on a thick layer of oil. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
34. Vessel shrimp collects oil after an explosion towers «Deepwater Horizon» Gulf of Mexico on May 5. (AP Photo / Eric Gay)
35. Volunteers from the project «Grassroots Mapping» a trip to a small boat (top left) on the island Shandelee, near the delta of the Mississippi River on May 9, taking the ball (green on the left) and photographic equipment to capture the effects of oil spills.
36. Dr Eric Miller washes pelican in the rehabilitation of mobile stations in Fort Jackson, Louisiana, May 15. (REUTERS / US Navy / Justin Stumberg)
37. A helicopter flies over the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, contaminated with oil spills, May 18. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
38. Young herons die in mangrove swamps, flooded with oil, May 23 along the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
39. The ship's Captain Preston Morris shows his oil stained hands after collecting samples from marshes and Loutro Pass, Louisiana, May 19. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
39 images...
After more than a month after the accident on the rig «Deepwater Horizon» Oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico and has nach oditsya 19 km from the coastal marshes of Louisiana. According to the governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, more than 104 km of the coast of the state have been affected by the oil spill. Company «BP» reports that no sooner will the new medium attempts to eliminate the leak, this time using the weighted solution of clay and cement. This maneuver is called "dieback" and is the best alternative for the company, which has already taken several unsuccessful attempts to locate the oil spill.
The most conservative estimate, 6 million gallons of oil had flowed into the bay, while some scholars argue that the amount of leakage has already exceeded the leakage of oil in Alaska in 1989, when the water leaked 11 million gallons.
1. The dragonfly is trying to clean the wings, sitting on the grass, the oiled Bay Garden Island, near Venice, Louisiana, May 18. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
2. An activist of Greenpeace came into the oil puddle on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico on May 20. (John Moore / Getty Images)
3. Next ship on the oil puddle on May 17. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
4. Oil reached a marshland in the delta of the Mississippi River on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
5. Dead northern gannet, covered in oil rests on the beach of Grand Isle on May 21. Member of the Society studies the protection of seabirds noted place of death of poultry.
6. An employee of the company «BP» removes oil from the beach Elmer's Island on May 22. State authorities have closed the popular tourist beach, which even the reporters allowed only when accompanied by representatives of the company «BP». (John Moore / Getty Images)
7. The workers were going absorbing oil booms of the Gulf of Mexico on May 20. (John Moore / Getty Images)
8. Bridget Hargrove, her 4-year-old son Aiden and year-old daughter Emma bathe in the children's basin nach Away from oil-contaminated water Gulf of Mexico on the beach Grand Isle on May 21. The mayor of Grand Isla David Kamardell said that the beach closed Friday afternoon because of the presence on it of oil. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
9. Spot crude oil at the foot of 8-year old Grace Hardley, strolling on the beach at Grand Isle, Louisiana, May 21. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
10. Red heron stained with oil in the legs and tail flying over the water in Grand Isle on May 20. (US Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley)
11. On the site of major oil spills are going to ultra-deep platform and other devices, where they prepare for the process, which, as the company hopes to «BP», stop the flow of oil. (John Moore / Getty Images)
12. Natural gas from the damaged wellhead hole hole tower «Deepwater Horizon» burned with a drill ship «Discoverer Enterprise», May 16, in the Gulf of Mexico. (Patrick Kelley / US Coast Guard via Getty Images)
13. The collected oil is burning on the water, 11 km north-east of the leak nefti18 May. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
14. Oil on the surface of water in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 9 km south-east of Grand Isle. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner)
15. Protective booms surrounded the island near the mouth of the Mississippi River south of Venice, Louisiana on May 17. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
16. Oil booms and floats around in the swampy delta of the Mississippi River on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
17. Senior Manager organization dedicated to restoring the environment after a disaster, Maura Wood takes samples in oiled marsh near Pass a Lurte, Louisiana, May 20. (REUTERS / Lee Celano)
18. Stained oil Pelican leaves the nest next to become grounded in oil on the island, which weave their nests hundreds of pelicans, terns, gulls and spoonbills in the Gulf of Barataria, 22 May. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
19. An employee of the company «Plaquemines Parish» puts neftepogloschayuschy Coupons on the background of the sky dotted with pelicans in Barataria Bay on May 22. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
20. Officer Environmental Services of Louisiana tries to catch smeared in mud pelican in the Gulf Bratariya May 23. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
21. Stained oil pelican soars after environmental service workers tried to catch him on an island in the Gulf Bratariya May 23. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
22. Environmentalists draw it out of the oil swamps in Redfish Bay, along the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
23. Rainbow film of oil on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico, near the scene of an oil spill. The ship uses a protective Coupons to stem the flow of oil, you want to burn 67 km from the coast of Louisiana. (REUTERS / Hans Deryk)
24. The team of ecologists trying to clean up the island from the oil in the southern Gulf of East Bay on May 23. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
25. Environmentalists from the company «BP» clean oil from the beach in Port Furshon May 23. (John Moore / Getty Images)
26. Crab with dirty oil in the sink creeps past the bubble of oil on the beach in Grand Isle on May 22. (John Moore / Getty Images)
27. The boat is floating between a protective booms at the mouth of the Mississippi River, south of Venice, Louisiana, May 19. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)
28. Oil gathered at the reeds in the north-eastern part of the Mississippi River on May 18. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
29. Ship splashing water near the scene of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on May 18. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
30. These marine turtles, Kemp's views are considered to be the smallest of sea turtles in the world. They were placed in an aquarium "New England" in Boston, as long as they can not be set free because of the oil spill. (Dina Rudick / Boston Globe)
31. The sun is setting over the oil-contaminated beach at Grand Isle on May 23. (John Moore / Getty Images)
32. The senior employee of Green Lindsey Allen is trying to save a little crab, covered in oil, on the beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a tributary of the Gulf of Mexico. (REUTERS / Sean Gardner / Greenpeace)
33. A small boat is floating on a thick layer of oil. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
34. Vessel shrimp collects oil after an explosion towers «Deepwater Horizon» Gulf of Mexico on May 5. (AP Photo / Eric Gay)
35. Volunteers from the project «Grassroots Mapping» a trip to a small boat (top left) on the island Shandelee, near the delta of the Mississippi River on May 9, taking the ball (green on the left) and photographic equipment to capture the effects of oil spills.
36. Dr Eric Miller washes pelican in the rehabilitation of mobile stations in Fort Jackson, Louisiana, May 15. (REUTERS / US Navy / Justin Stumberg)
37. A helicopter flies over the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, contaminated with oil spills, May 18. (REUTERS / Daniel Beltra / Greenpeace)
38. Young herons die in mangrove swamps, flooded with oil, May 23 along the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)
39. The ship's Captain Preston Morris shows his oil stained hands after collecting samples from marshes and Loutro Pass, Louisiana, May 19. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)