FIVE YEARS AFTER THE BP OIL SPILL, GULF COAST RESIDENTS SAY “BP HASN'T MADE THINGS RIGHT”

By Julie Dermansky • Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 21:31

If you ask Dean Blanchard, the largest shrimp buyer and wholesaler in the region surrounding Grand Isle, Louisiana, things “went from paradise to hell” in the five years following the BP oil disaster.

But BP's advertisements insist the company is making things right. A BP report on the State of the Gulf five years after the spill claims there is no lasting damage to the ecosystem. 

Behind the industry public relations spin, many coastal residents, including Blanchard, have seen their livelihoods destroyed and their health comprised. 

Read more at the link here:

http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/21/five-years-after-bp-oil-spill-gulf-coast-residents-say-bp-hasn-t-made-things-right

Dead pelican next to a tar ball on the beach on April 9, 2015 in Grand Isle, LA. ©2015 Julie Dermansky

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FIVE YEARS AFTER THE BP OIL DISASTER: A BARRIER ISLAND FOR NESTING BIRDS DEVOID OF LIFE

 by Julie Dermansky on April 19, 2015

Cat Island, off the Gulf Coast in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish, was home to a vibrant bird rookery inhabited by brown pelicans, seagulls, spoonbills, and egrets before BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Five years after the largest oil spill in American history, the barrier island has just about disappeared.

Despite ongoing efforts by former Plaquemines Parish coastal zone manager PJ Hahn to restore the island, only the needed building permits and an engineering plan have been completed.

“Cat Island was ground zero of the oil spill,” Hahn told DeSmogBlog.

Read more at: http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/19/five-years-after-bp-oil-disaster-barrier-island-nesting-birds-devoid-life

Photo by Julie Dermansky