The media and our government can’t find the oil and they still say most of it’s gone. That isn’t true, according to eye witness accounts, and many websites and radio shows have personal observations of people still seeing the oil. Like most people, I don’t live there, so I can’t know what is being seen in the Gulf States.  All I can do is rely on eye witness reports and photos online, like this one:

The MODIS / Aqua satellite image above, taken at 2 pm Central time on July 28, shows oil slicks and sheen (encircled with orange line) that we think are likely attributable to the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, spread out across 11,832 square miles (30,644 km2) in the Gulf of Mexico.

I have been hearing on radio shows that people in the Gulf are still observing oil, oil sheen, oil in the grass and seaweed, and there are no cleanup people anywhere to be seen.  It’s like if it’s not being recorded on TV every day, most of the country doesn’t see it, and BP is apparently not going to clean it up.

That’s not right. BP needs to be there cleaning up what oil remains. It doesn’t help that our government has already reopening water for fishing.  Has water testing been extensively done? Has the EPA really exhaustively tested the waters where fish is being taken? That would be hard to believe. I would never eat seafood from the Gulf yet — maybe in a year or two.  I don’t care how many businesses close, if that seafood has oil in it, or chemical dispersants, it’s not fit to eat and it could harm people.   A person’s health is more important than an industry’s bottom line. That is my personal viewpoint, and I’m very concerned that fishing is already opening up in many areas of the Gulf where people are observing visible oil nearby.   Oil doesn’t disappear that fast. The Corexit and other dispersants don’t just disappear quickly either.  How about the non-visible oil, the oil in the water column? If the oil has sunk to the bottom, it will stay there, and it’s still in the food chain.

Below is a video of how people are concerned that BP is not sticking around to clean up the oil in the Gulf, as they said they would. The video is from PBS, and it also reports that there is still a great deal of oil in the Gulf.  Are people really eating the seafood from that area?  They are taking a big chance with their lives, if they are. This video is from August 5th, 2010.

Read the Transcript: http://to.pbs.org/9f5T5Q

The government reports that most of the oil is gone from Gulf waters and shorelines but assures that cleanup efforts will continue. Tom Bearden reports from Venice, Louisiana.

One man in this video says: “There is tons of oil in the [...]