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Originally Posted by dyna mo
what does the valdez spill into the pristine prince william sound have to do with the gulf of mexico bp oil spill? you should prolly do some research on the damage done there from the clean-up. have you been to either location? I have been to both. apples and oranges.
I grew up spending summers in Galveston, my mom lives there now. tar balls on the beach have been a part of the landscape there for decades and decades. In contrast, prince william sound is not a naturally occuring seepage zone.
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Again, the oil seepage is not uniformly divided in Gulf of Mexico. And the oil spill volume/time frame per location is very different. And as we have seen the dead birds, corals and other affected marine animals, they don't seem to be very well adapted to the oil, if they were, they wouldn't have died.
And you can read about the long term effects from the Valdez. The birds and other bigger animals are not that different around there. Mammals and birds are quite uniform group regarding tolerance to oil.