rick steiner disagrees. he says even a small impact matters over time. by the government scientist s own admission, if this oil is not remediated in the beaches, it will be here for decades and potentially centuries. steiner s bigger concern is out there. according to the exxon valdez oil still trustee council which monitors the environment, 12 species, including seals, bald eagles and pink salmon have recovered. ten others, including sea otters, are making progress. two species, including the herring, are not recovering at all. exxonmobil says research shows the ecosystem in prince william sound is healthy and thriving. but not to rick steiner. it s different.
it was truly a horrific scene. exxon took control of the cleanup. it hired workers to clean the shore. and wildlife biologists from around the country to save the animals. terry williams had just published a study on cleaning oil from california sea otters. the longer the marine animal is sitting in oil, the more you re going to be dealing with death. it was a race against time. we noticed that the lungs were not normal. he s been so sick. the livers weren t normal. we were seeing ulcers in the stomach.
he says even a small impact matters over time. by the government scientist s own admission, if this oil is not remediated in the beaches, it will be here for decades and potentially centuries. steiner s bigger concern is out there. according to the exxon valdez oil still trustee council which monitors the environment, 12 species, including seals, bald eagles and pink salmon have recovered. ten others, including sea otters, are making progress. two species, including the herring, are not recovering at all. exxonmobil says research shows the ecosystem in prince william sound is healthy and thriving. but not to rick steiner. it s different. you forecast it will never be the way it was before the oil
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and wildlife biologists from around the country to save the animals. terry williams had just published a study on cleaning oil from california sea otters. the longer the marine animal is sitting in oil, the more you re going to be dealing with death. it was a race against time. we noticed that the lungs were not normal. he s been so sick. the livers weren t normal. we were seeing ulcers in the stomach. some otters so sick, they faced a slow death. knowing what i know now, they re animals i would know enough to euthanize before i would put them through a whole rehab process. scientists would come to learn the oil was even more toxic than they originally