Dolphin deaths and sea turtle strandings in the waters affected by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill continue to occur at elevated rates nearly three years after the disaster, environmentalists said in a new report Tuesday.
The National Wildlife Federation report asserted that while the response by BP and other officials to date has been focused on cleaning up visible oil, little has been done to repair the damage caused to marine life and their food chain.
“Despite the public relations blitz by BP, this spill is not over,” David Muth, director of the National Wildlife Federation’s Mississippi River Delta Restoration Program, said in a statement.
... BP said in a statement that it has done plenty to clean up the Gulf over the last three years and protect wildlife.
“No company has done more, faster to respond to an industrial accident than BP did in response to the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010,” BP said. “As a result of our $14 billion clean-up effort, BP funded early restoration projects as well as natural recovery processes, the Gulf is returning to its baseline condition – the condition it would be in if the accident had not occurred.” Read More