[Sonic Stuff] Gulf oil spill one year later

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Gulf oil spill one year laterWhat is the cost of spilling almost five million
barrels of oil into the ocean? How do you measure that cost? In GDP
reduction? In lives affected? In environmental impact? And how do you
measure the cost when long-term effects are impossible to calculate yet, and
when a significant portion of the spilled oil is still unaccounted for? One
year since the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded, killing 11 workers, there
are measurable effects, and many more unknowns. Collected here are pictures
of the disaster, recent images of people affected by the spill, and views of
the cleanup. Pictures 4 through 10 show areas of shoreline both immediately
after the spill and the same area a year later. Click on the picture to see
it change from the 2010 view to the present. This effect requires javascript to
be enabled. -- Lane Turner (36 photos total)

An oil tar ball washes up on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La. April 13.
Tar balls and oil are still in abundance on the Louisiana coast a year after
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Dave Martin/AP)

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