June 24, 2010

BP oil spill: Clean-up efforts along the Gulf coast

Locals and fishermen join official clean-up operations as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to affect wildlife, fishing and tourism along the Gulf coast

Deepwater horizon: BP Oil spill : Barataria Bay, Louisiana — The oil-affected shoreline in the northern reaches of Louisiana's Barataria bay is ringed by booms and work boats
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: marshland in Barataria Bay, Louisiana — Work crews use booms and vacuums to clean marshland affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill near Bay Jimmy, near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana
Photograph: Lee Celano/Reuters Photograph: Lee Celano/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oild spill: Bay Jimmy, near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana — Marsh grasses covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen in Bay Jimmy
Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill : oil-stained Sandwich Tern in Long Bay, Louisiana — Oil clouds the surface of Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, Louisiana
Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — Thick crude oil from the spill. Plaquemines parish officials are using portable vacuums to slowly collect the oil at their own expense
Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: Bay Jimmy near Venice, Louisiana — Allen Sreiy stands next to oily booms on his shrimp boat as he helps with clean-up operations
Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana — Workers vacuum oil along the northern shores of Barataria bay
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — Plaquemines Parish employee James McGee uses a portable vacuum to suck up thick crude oil in the Bay Jimmy marsh section of Barataria bay
Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater Horizon BP oil spil — Barges with vacuum trucks are seen along the oil damaged shores in the Northern reaches of Barataria bay
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: A shrimp in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulpher, Louisiana — A shrimp lies dead after becoming stuck in a pool of oil in Bay Jimmy
Photograph: Sean Gardner/REUTERS Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — US Fish & Wildlife Service information board at their temporary headquarters at Dennis Pass in the Mississippi delta near Venice, Louisiana
Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: oiled Sandwich Tern, Louisiana — Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn catches an oiled sandwich tern. Biologists with the US Fish and Wildlife Service are using locals to help them find birds oiled by the BP oil spill
Photograph: Matthew Hinton/AP Photograph: Matthew Hinton/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill : oil-stained Sandwich Tern in Long Bay, Louisiana — An oil-stained sandwich tern
Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: Workers catch a brown pelican near Venice, Louisiana — Workers try to catch a brown pelican covered in oil in Rock Canal near Venice, Louisiana
Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: Deepwater Horizon BP Oil spill impact on Louisiana coastline. — A deep sea trawler is anchored while working as an absorbent boom supply boat in Barataria bay
Photograph: Bevil Knapp/EPA Photograph: Bevil Knapp/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill: Out of work fishermen, Louisiana — Out of work fishermen sign up for Vessels of Opportunity - a scheme designed to give local boat operators an opportunity to assist with clean-up activities
Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP Oil spill : Damaging Economies, Nature, And Way Of Life — Phillip Boudreaux fishes for catfish along a bayou in Lafourche, Louisiana. Commercial fishing, including areas in Lafourche, has been banned in much of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Photograph: Spencer Platt/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill : Tony Hayward Testifies Before House Hearing On Oil Spill — Embattled chief executive Tony Hayward stepped aside yesterday as US BP executive Bob Dudley was appointed the head of a new unit to manage the response and clean-up operation. Earlier in the week, protesters disrupted a speech by the company's chief of staff at a major oil conference as Hayward cancelled what would have been his first public appearance in the UK since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began
Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Photograph: Alex Wong/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP oil spill : coast of Perdido Key, Florida — A skimming crews scoops oil out of the water not far off the coast of Perdido key, Florida
Photograph: Dan Anderson/EPA Photograph: Dan Anderson/guardian.co.uk

Deepwater horizon: BP Oil Spill Continues To Flow Into Gulf Of Mexico — In this satellite image, oil spreading north-east from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well is seen from Nasa's Terra satellite. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-grey ribbons in the Gulf of Mexico. Click here for more satellite images of the spill
Photograph: NASA/Getty Images Photograph: NASA/guardian.co.uk

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