Oil Spill Reaches Mississippi Shores (VIDEO)

Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Mississippi Maritime News on June 28, 2010

HORN ISLAND, MS – Folks at Lake Mars Landing in Jackson County, Mississippi say their worst nightmare has come true. Sticky globs of oil are washing up in Mississippi waters.

B.D Root was one of the first people to spot the the oily mess Sunday morning. Speaking in an interview with WLOS News, he said he couldn’t believe what he saw.

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Now 69 days into BP’s oil spill, county officials say there is more than 350,000 feet of boom trying to protect our coastline.

Citizens like Rusty Little say the problem is only getting worse.

“It’ll stop boating, it’ll stop fishing here from Missouri – it already closed all the waters,” Little said.

Patrice Clark from WLOS News describes the sticky oily glob as being extremely thick and heavy and looking like chocolate.

Ocean Springs, Miss., Mayor Connie Moran is livid, saying the city is ready to take further action themselves to protect the sensitive marshes and beaches throughout Jackson County.

“The unified command’s failure to skim the oil north of Horn Island yesterday is inept and inexcusable,” Moran said Sunday. “Had they deployed those resources, the impact to Jackson County would’ve been far less today.

“Now, I’ve requested from the Coast Guard to bring in skimmer and support vessels either to be staged in Ocean Springs or to exclusively monitor the Mississippi Sound here in west Jackson County at the mouth of the Biloxi Bay. There’s still stuff out there that we can’t even see because of all the dispersant. This is just outrageous and unacceptable.”

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Patrice Clark WLOS News