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The actor in this film, Marty Shutter, just got back from visiting the Alabama shores where he's been vacationing every summer since he was a child. But after returning home from a visit this year, he tells me that he's very unlikely to be returning to those beaches for a very long time.
The photos in the video were taken by Marty, but what doesn't come across in them is something which too little has been said about, which is the smell from the oil. On the beaches and in the towns, the smell from the oil is so strong that people with respiratory difficulties are not going to be able to handle it for long. Marty said just one day of it was enough to force him to leave the coast. He couldn't take a deep breath without feeling nauseous.
And so, here we are at day 76 of the BP Oil Spill -- what may be the greatest man-made ecological disaster in history, and we still really haven't heard much about what's going to happen to all that oil crud they've been cleaning up in the Gulf and on the beaches. I find it difficult to believe that BP is going to be able to find enough landfills to take all the hazardous materials they're cleaning up -- so what are they going to do with it all? It smells, it's incredibly flammable, it will eventually leak into the ground water wherever it is where it will continue to wreak havoc with the environment.
I think they should transport it to BP's corporate headquarters in the UK so they can study the matter up close and personal.