Friday, April 30, 2010

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Obama 'too slow to act against oil slick disaster' threatening species along the coast

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:23 PM on 30th April 2010

President Obama was facing a growing backlash last night over the U.S. government's slow response to the oil spill disaster.
Ten days after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and 210,000 gallons a day started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, a massive slick hit America's southern coastline.
As a massive operation was launched to try to protect threatened wildlife, critics compared Mr Obama's belated attempts to contain the catastrophe to George W Bush's dithering over Hurricane Katrina.
Manatee
Brown pelican
In peril:  Manatee thrive in the coastal regions that teem with marine life, and brown pelicans are also highly threatened

NASA shows the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico
Closing in: The 600-mile circumference slick nears Louisiana in this Nasa satellite image

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