March 30, 2012
Corexit-dispersed oily Gulf shore deaths continue (click here)
“We have no beach left. It’s gone. We have no beach,” Gulf of Mexico rights defender Lorrie Williams has said two months after the April 2010 oil catastrophe. Dolphins and other sea mammals still find the same with their ocean home almost two years later as Mississippi residents witness death along oily Gulf shores and say this is far from normal or over.
Large bottlenose dolphins are found on the Gulf beach, “their mouths agape and their silvery bodies stretched out like aluminum mannequins on the tar ball-littered and Gulf rotten, decaying endangered sea turtles wasting away on the shores,” reports Rocky Kistner of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)....
Dead turtle in Waveland, MS, March 22, 2012
Photo: Charles Taylor
...Not far away, (click title to entry - thank you) Charles Taylor was walking along the beach on his birthday and found four dead endangered Kemp Ridley sea turtles washed up in Waveland. They were just a few of the 40 or so decaying sea turtles that have rolled in with the Gulf waves in recent weeks, making a resurgent appearance after spiking in unusual numbers a year ago....
