April 25, 2012 "The Gulf has been dying the death of a thousand
cuts for a long time." On April 20, 2010, a reckless attitude
towards the safety of the Gulf Coast by BP, as well as
Transocean and Halliburton, caused a well to blow out 5,000 feet
below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. As the world watched in
horror, underwater cameras showed a seemingly endless flow of
oil Ė hundreds of millions of gallons Ė and a series of failed
efforts to stop it, over a period of nearly three months. Two
years later, that horror has not ended for many on the Gulf.
"People should be aware that the oil is still there," says Wilma
Subra, a chemist who travels widely across the Gulf meeting with
fishers and testing seafood and sediment samples for
contamination. Subra says that the reality she is seeing on the
ground contrasts sharply with the image painted by BP. "Iím
extremely concerned on the impact itís having on all these sick
individuals," she says. Subra believes we may be just at the
beginning of this disaster. In ev