The cleaning up will probably take forever

Calling Gulf Coast cleaning up after the BP oil spill a mission done is just touching the tip of the ice berg. There is more to that than the eye can see. Deep beneath the ocean, sea creatures are finding pollution too much to tackle. What amount of oil ingested by these creatures will never be known? You can imagine just how devastating the oil spill brought about if you will see tiny oil blobs floating in the sea. It is everywhere the eye can see, and even on the shores and the sand. The oil, in millions of tons has not disappeared; neither has it evaporated like the way BP officials have assured. It is still there. Someone, somewhere is taking in the oil, and most probably, will not be able to get it out of their systems. The result is slow death. But who is concerned about it?

In a knee jerk reaction, the US government declared a moratorium on deep sea oil drilling after the disaster. But like all things political, it is no use crying after the milk had spilt. Is there really a need to stop oil drilling? What about the thousands of people the oil companies had employed prior to the oil spill? Are they supposed to find new jobs? Maybe they can find jobs elsewhere where there is no stop work but that will mean they have to get out of the country. People living in the Louisiana coast are the worst hit because they have very much depended on the oil industry all along. Now, there is no activity and the big spending has come to a halt. They have to clean up and look for other jobs but there seems to be none available, until this moratorium stops.

Meanwhile, devastated people are supposed to get help from oil giant BP. Or at least that is what BP has promised. Unfortunately, the procedure to dish out compensation is not a straight forward game. There has not been any precedent of this kind before and naturally, there is no urgency on the part of BP to dole out the money because there are no physical manifestations that these people have been struck with disaster. Still, there is plenty of ground work to be done around the area, even as no money has come forward to be dished out. The beaches on the affected coast do very often shows signs of small globulin of washed up oil. Every time when there is a storm, oil globules come crashing into the sand. It gets stuck there. The only way out is to put out excavators fixed with special shovels to dig up the dirt. Maybe someone should invent a special machine to trap out the oil from the sand since the oil globules washing up into the beach will be a permanent feature for a long time to go. You saw the videos of the oil gushing out from under the sea; it had to go somewhere though.

what about the near shore that is under water? Are the oil stuck there as well? Perhaps we should ask the excavator people to design special machines that can do a continuous work on these sand bank under the water! If what we don't see doesn't mean it is not there. It is indeed there and the whole coast is affected. Companies that specialized in amphibious excavators like Ultratrex should be engaged to design these machines. We don't have much time left. If BP were to be left to their devises, nothing will come about. We have to do something and fast!