From: EcoWatch
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The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as 12 miles from the site of the collision.
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The oil spill off the coast of Galveston, TX, has the potential to get a lot worse than previously expected. The 168,000 gallons of thick, sludgy fuel oil that escaped a barge—whose hull was breached after a collision with another ship—is proving extremely difficult to contain. As of yesterday morning, oil was reported as far as 12 miles from the site of the collision.
From the start, wildlife experts have said this spill could not have
been in a more sensitive spot in Galveston Bay. The area, particularly a
Globally Important Bird Area called the Bolivar Flats, hosts huge
numbers of migrating birds from a wide variety of species. The collision
occurred in the Houston Shipping Channel. It has bird nesting and
roosting sites on both of its banks.
“We expect this to get much worse,” Jessica Jubin, a spokeswoman for the Houston Audubon Society, told the Houston Chronicle. Houston
Audubon is the manager of the Bolivar Flats preserve. Experts are
concerned the true toll of the spill will be known over a period of
years, not days.
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