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about. and this is lighter oil, it s a much warmer gulf. and the mississippi river water kept a lot of that oil away from the shore. we heard that this was going to be a catastrophe for the marshlands. so far there have been about 350 acres of marshlands. every year louisiana is losing 15,000 acres through manmade processes that were already happening like one of the scientists from the autoban society told me this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient. let me go back to mr. charbonnet. what s been happening on the shoreline in the new orleans area? what are you getting in terms of daily reports on damage to the ç wildlife, the fisheries, everything you re trying to get down there in terms of food and employment? chris, let s talk about the the 358 acres he s talking about. that has everything to do with
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