However, Prince William Sound's remote location accessible only by helicopters, planes or boats, made government and industry response efforts difficult severely taxing existing plans for response. The region is a habitat for salmon, sea otters, seals and sea birds. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, eventually covered 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coastline and 11,000 square miles (28,000 km2) of ocean. Yet the spill in the Gulf of Mexico may yet dwarf this in comparison. The human impact has already easily been greater and the impact to the environment will only be visible years down the road. However if the spill is not cleaned up by the time hurricane season arrives and a depression forms then turns a category three or above toward the Gulf the impact to the entire world may be devastating. We will never be able to content with a oil spill that blankets the entire south and most our prime agricultural land. The United States will go from handing out food to begging for it and become a third world country over night! So sit back in your easy chair and do NOTHING as our government basically is, then die of starvation! |
