it s not like that thick tarry glop that you had in the exxon valdez. there s still a lot of oil in the water and you know, we don t know what we don t know. there could be severe long-term impacts but when you look at the wildlife count so far and how many marshes have been affected by the oil so far, there really isn t a lot of the evidence of severe environmental damage. certainly compared to spills in the past and certainly compared to the ongoing environmental catastrophe happening in southern louisiana which is really the disappearance of that state s coastal marshes. mr. charbonnet, your assessment based on being on the ground down there on the shoreline. i read the article, chris. it s too early to tell. the article is written, one is a federal contractor and one s an indirect employee of bp. i m not feeling this article. you know, you don t just measure disaster by how many fish and how many oysters are gone. i mean, pelicans at the end of june, there were 1550 pelicans
ecosystem is not as great as everyone feared. he joins us now along with bernard charbonnet. let me go to michael first. i must have been wrong because i kept asking people for weeks ever since the spill occurred, will this biodegrade. i was told over and over again it would not, they would be stuck with this up to perhaps 60,000 barrels a day, accumulate up to about 4 million barrels in perpetuity till it finally eroded. you re saying that the evidence so far is that it has eroded rapidly.รง well, look, you know, all oil is biodegradable. some more than others. this is pretty light stuff. it s not like that thick tarry glop that you will in the exxon valdez. there s still a lot of oil in the water and you know, we don t know what we don t know. there could be severe long-term impacts but when you look at the wildlife count so far and how many marshes have been ached by
this is thick, tary stuff. there s still a lot of oil in the water. we don t know what we don t know. when you look at the wildlife count so far and look at how many marshes have actually been affected by the oil so far, there really isn t a lot of evidence of severe environmental damage, certainly compared to oil spills in the past, and certainly compared to the ongoing environmental catastrophe that s happening in southern louisiana, which is really the disappearance of the state s coastal marshes. your assessment based on being on the ground in the shoreline? i ve read the article. it s too early to tell. one a contractor. one is an employee of bp. i m not feeling this article. you don t just measure the disaster by how many fish and oysters are gone. at the end of june 835 pelicans