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Scientists monitoring the spill with the European Space Agency Envisat radar satellite stated that oil had reached the Loop Current, which flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida and becomes the Gulf Stream. The scientists warn that because the Loop Current is a very intense deep ocean current, its turbulent waters will accelerate the mixing of the oil and water. Ruoying He of North Carolina State University, head of the Ocean Observing and Monitoring Group, said if the oil reached the Gulf Stream, then south Florida, including the Keys, would likely be affected. On May 19, NOAA acknowledged that a small portion of the oil slick has reached the Loop Current. On June 3, a computer model showed that oil would likely reach the Loop Current and travel to Atlantic Seaboard beaches by July. Changes in weather as well as the Loop Current itself could affect the outcome, but the maximum possible speed would be 100 miles (160 km) per day. The main stream would likely stay 50 to 60 miles (80 to 100 km) offshore, but pockets of oil could reach the coast. Whether oil comes ashore farther north depends on local winds, but the Gulf Stream moves away from the coast southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, at the Charleston Bump. Few tar balls would be likely to reach the Carolinas, and significant environmental damage appeared very unlikely because oil would be heavily diluted.
James H. Cowan, a biological oceanographer at Louisiana State University, said a hurricane could result in oil reaching farther inland, even affecting rice and sugar cane crops. A hurricane could also delay actions that would lead to a permanent solution, and it could spread the oil further or deeper in the ocean. Jeff Masters, founder of Weather Underground, indicated that a hurricane’s passage over a sandy beach might help in the cleanup efforts, such as what happened during Hurricane Henri’s passage over the Ixtoc I spill area; however, it would likely not have such a beneficial effect in marshlands and rocky beaches. Additionally, Masters pointed out the possibility of more widespread damage to coastal areas, airborne oil droplets immersed in hurricane winds, and a chance that the oil spill may cause explosive deepening of hurricanes in the Gulf.
Wildlife and environmental groups accused BP of holding back information about the extent and impact of the growing slick, and urged the White House to order a more direct federal government role in the spill response. In prepared testimony for a congressional committee, National Wildlife Federation President Larry Schweiger said BP had failed to disclose results from its tests of chemical dispersants used on the spill, and that BP had tried to withhold video showing the true magnitude of the leak. On May 19, 2010, BP established a live feed of the oil spill after hearings in Congress accused the company of withholding data from the ocean floor and blocking efforts by independent scientists to come up with estimates for the amount of crude flowing into the Gulf each day. On May 20, 2010 United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar indicated that the U.S. government would verify how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asked for the results of tests looking for traces of oil and dispersant chemicals in the waters of the gulf.
Journalists attempting to document the impact of the oil spill have been repeatedly refused access to public areas by BP and its contractors, local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. Scientists have also complained about prevention of access to information controlled by BP and government sources. Airplanes carrying photojournalists have been prevented from flying over areas of the gulf to document the scope of the disaster. BP states that it has been their policy to allow the media and other parties as much access as possible, however reporters and photographers continue to claim that they have been blocked from covering some aspects of the spill.
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…discuss the environment
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A speech given in Toronto to the Ontario Libertarian Party, Nov 4 2006
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Minister of Environmental Protection of Armenia Aram Haroutounyan attended the sixth Forum for the Ministers on a bicycle.
He is not alone, though, he is accompanied with his counterparts from 55 countries.
By using these types of ecologically friendly means of transportation they show their concerns about environmental issues.
And the material expression of their concerns is the fourth evaluation report on the Protection of the European Environment which was published at the Forum.
This is the main document approved during the Forum about the state of the stable development of the European region.
Armenian Minister of Environmental Protection Aram Haroutounyan presented the works done during the last years in our country in this respect in his report.
Aram Haroutounyan
Minister of Environmental Protection
“Armenia is the only country of the region which has invested the Water Resources Pool Management System. The Water Code is adopted and actively implemented in Armenia. Several steps are also taken for recovering forest resources, which were expansively cut during the energy-crisis years. The volume of the state funds assigned for recovering forests was increased ten times during the last three years. Non-state funds are also established.”
Representatives of NGOs and international donor organizations have also participated in the Forum.
They got an opportunity to present the work they have done and the projects that still need to be implemented, further cooperation programmes have also been discussed.
Among those programmes is the joint programme of the governments of Armenia and Norway, and the World Wildlife Fund.
The programme is directed to the protection of biological diversities and their breeding.
It started in the south regions of Armenia some months ago, yet the Ministers of our and the donor country’s — Norway’s Environmental Protection met within the framework of the Forum.
Aram Haroutounyan
Minister of Environmental Protection
“Today and yesterday I had an opportunity to talk to my counterpart and I have invited him to Armenia with great pleasure. As soon as he comes, we will get acquainted with the programme together at the very place of the implementation of the programme, as well as with general environmental issues.”
The programme supported by the Government of Norway comprises the management of Khosrov and Shikahogh enclosures; the investment of eco-tourism system, as well as development and informing of the communities next to the territory in this context.
The authors of the programme are sure that the Armenians’ experience is implemented also for the other countries of the region.
Karen Manvelyan — Director of World Wildlife Fund in Armenia
“A Tourism Center will be founded in Khosrov, where tourists will get information and they can attend there. Of course, people won’t be able to go there with large groups, by busses, but rather with limited groups containing 4-5 people; special tourist routes will be created, international tourist operators will be invited.”
The Ministers of Education were also for the first time present at the above mentioned Forum, since the issues of forming stable educational curriculums for environmental protection are included in the agenda of the Forum.
Our country will not make its first steps in this sphere as well, even though as Armenian Minister of Education and Science Levon Mkrtchyan mentioned, there are still many things to be done in the sphere.
Nelly Danielyan, ‘Yerkirn Aysor’ (The Country Today), Belgrade, Serbia.
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