Lasting Menace

Lasting Menace

The gulf oil-spill disaster contributes to a high level of environmental effects for decades. The lasting effects of oil spill can be devastating not only for the sea life but also to the environment. For instance, oil slicks are still found in the water due to the rupturing of the oil tanker in the mangrove swamps and coral reefs in Panama 25 years ago. Similarly, huge amount of sweet light crude spill from a broken well some few kilometers away from Louisiana coast. The oil released from this accident ultimately exceeded the Valdez spill several times, and this could ...