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Special Report on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill by Taiga Mossberg
In the Gulf of Mexico there has been an oil leak that is big. It was when an oil company
was drilling through the sea for oil. The drill was in the Gulf of Mexico when this
happened.
One of the disasters is that people might have problems with fish and shrimp because
seventy-two percent of the shrimp is coming from the ocean where the oil is. Another tragedy
is that the water at the beach is covered with oil and can make people very sick.
Meanwhile fisherman are losing jobs because all fish are getting covered with the oil.
The supply of food is also beginning to decrease since the oil started because animals are
sometimes our food.
One of the fixes is they are trying to contain the oil in a big boom. The fisherman are helping
to put the booms in the water. They have tried a controlled fire on the oil. The waves are
too strong for fires plus they tried a new thing by sending a robot down to try and fix
up the oil spill before it gets to the surface. Finally they tried spraying chemicals down
on the oil to stop it but it did not work.
Finally one of the most important is animals that we have to save. One of the animals is
the Ridley Sea Turtle - twelve of them are dead on the beach with oil on their skin.
The oil is like mustard or sludge so it is very thick on sea animals and land animals.
Dolphins have oil on them also they are the ones who protect us from sharks. The oil spill
is larger than Exxon Valdez oil spill and a lot of animals died. People hope that this
will never happen again.
Done.
(transcribed by Andrew Mossberg. Copyright 2010 by Taiga Mossberg. All Rights Reserved)