The killing of a heritage

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I'm thinking little to no effect in 5 years, worst case scenario.

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"I'm afraid we're just seeing the beginning of what is going to be a long, ugly summer," said Ed Overton, an LSU professor who has consulted on oil spills for three decades.

"I hope and pray I'm wrong, but I think what we're in for is seeing a little bit come in each day at different places for a long, long time -- months and months.

"That's not what I said in the beginning of this. But events have made me amend my thoughts."

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In fact, the consensus building among scientists and oil spill experts this week was that BP's mistake likely will never result in a black wave soaking miles of coast in thick layers of black oil. Instead, Louisiana is probably in for a years-long war of mostly small skirmishes against random, low-volume oilings of coastal marshes and beaches.

"I think we're looking at many months of intense activity, but then years of follow-up work," said Robert Barham, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

"I've been told by the ocean experts this stuff could hang out there on the bottom of the Gulf for more than 100 years. And as long as it's out there, it can come ashore.

"We might not see big black waves, but we may be seeing a smaller, but serious problem, for years and years to come."

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I'm thinking little to no effect in 5 years

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State waters are 12 miles out right? So SS28 and the MG rigs are off limits, right?

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