what are people saying there about this? yeah. we ve seen the dramatic pictures from earlier in the week. scientists said that fish kill was from a lack of oxygen. they don t think it was related to the oil. another one. thousands of fish again found yesterday. people are saying it s not uncommon. it is more freekd than they ve seen in the past. and the fish kill is bigger than they ve seen in past. they re asking for more testing to make sure the oil didn t have anything to do with the oxygen depletion that killed those fish. kristen dahlgren, thank you. we have business headlines this afternoon now. in separate meetings today in houston and chicago, shareholders approved the company s $3.2 million merger. that clears the way for if creation of the world s largest airline. they expect to close the merger by october 1st. this is the last day of a two-day job fair for soon to be laid off workers at nasa s kennedy space center.
i mean, i m sorry if he s depressed about 350 acres of oiled marshes, but louisiana has lost more than 2,000 square miles of coastal marshes in the last century. that s why he should be depressed. a lot of that was because of the oil and gas industry. this oil is a blip on that scale. some of the worst critics of the oil industry in the scientific community were telling that. as for the oil under the water, that s certainly a question. i think there was a lot of fear that you re going to start seeing much lower dissolved oxygen levels. if fact, have you seen slight oxygen depletion but nothing compared to the kind of hypoxia you already have in the gulf from agricultural runoff in the mississippi basin. this is not to i hold no brief for bp in this. they re screwed up just as badly if there s not a lot of the environmental damage, as they would have if there s huge
oil and gas industry. this oil is a blip on that scale. some of the worst critics of the oil industry in the scientific community were telling that. as for the oil under the water, that s certainly a question. i think there was a lot of fear that you re going to start seeing much lower dissolved oxygen levels. if fact, have you seen slight oxygen depletion but nothing compared to the kind of hypoxia you already have in the gulf from agricultural runoff in the mississippi basin. this is not to i hold no brief for bp in this. they re screwed up just as badly if there s not a lot of the environmental damage, as they would have if there s huge amounts of developmental damage. these rigs are not supposed to blow up and 11 people died. that s a real tragedy, but the fact is, we re not seeing the kind of environmental damage that and if people are depressed it may be because people are making such a big deal about this environmental
evaporate? i m sorry if he s depressed about 350 acres of oiled marshed. but louisiana has lost more than 200,000 square miles of coastal marshes in the last century. that s why he should be depressed. a lot of it was because of the oil and gas industry. it s a blip on the scale. some of the worst critics in the oil industry were telling us that. as for the oil under the water, that s certainly a question. there was a lot of fear that you re going to start seeing much lower dissolved oxygen levels. in fact, you have seen some slight oxygen depletion. but nothing compared to the kind of hypoxia you already have in the gulf. i hold no grief for bp in this. i think they re just as they screwed up just as badly if there s not a lot of environmental damage as they would have if there s huge amounts of environmental damage. these rigs are not supposed to blow up.
dispersants there, in addition to the concerns over dispersants you have oil free-flowing once again into the gulf. what concerns for, what environmental concerns do you have now that we re in day 83, where are we in terms of the effect of all of this still on the environment down there? well, the effect of all of this oil is just incredible. you ve got really several different spills, you ve got a deep surface spill, some of that oil doesn t ever get to the surface. it stays down in the water column, serves as food for bacteria, that can use up oxygen so there s a concern about oxygen depletion and the toxic effect on the juvenile species of a lot of the marine organisms. when oil gets to the surface, some of it is being skimmed, some being burned but a lot of it is being dispersed on the surface, that gets oil down in the water column, cnn has been running some beautiful pictures, taken by divers that were down in the subsurface looking at