The truth about the Gulf's beaches (video)

By Sue Sturgis / February 12, 2011

alabama_beach_wathen_02-11.jpgIncensed over BP ads claiming that the spilled oil is gone and the Gulf's beaches are clean, Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama set out to document the truth.

He's released a six-minute video of footage shot along the Fort Morgan Peninsula on Feb. 9, 2011: a familiar brown stain along the tide line, tiny balls of oil scattered throughout the sand as far as one can see, ocean water with a pinkish-orange tinge, a strange lack of birds.

"These are no longer the sugar-white beaches of Alabama," says Wathen. "They have been replaced by a dirty brown mess with a path cut through the middle of it by BP's equipment."

Watch the video here:





(Photo by Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen from his BP Slick blog.)

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