Enviroment: Gulf oil spill: Vacuuming Gulf's bottom successfully begins

National Public Radio (NPR) website is carrying a goodnews story after all the heart-rending twists and turns of the Gulf oil spill by a British Petroleum (BP) rig. The seabed is now being vacuumed successfully to remove a huge enviro-negative oil aggregation into "a 21-inch pipe nearly a mile below" the sea surface, remove that oil into a tanker.

The details are found in an article by NPR's staff and newswire sources, entitled "BP: Tube is sucking oil from Gulf well." This development by no means solves all elements of the problem of oil in Gulf waters, and does nothing to remedy the coastal disaster to beaches, marshlands, and wildlife -- nor to the loss of fisheries and other mostly small-business income-sources to people of the coastal areas, such as those that cater to tourists and vacationers.

-- EconoMix