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Workers prepare a ship loaded with oil barrier booms as they wait for heavy swells and wind to subside before continuing the oil clean-up operation from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster, in the Louisiana town of Venice, on May 1, 2010. A giant oil slick threatened economic and environmental devastation as it closed in on Louisiana's vulnerable coast, prompting the US government to declare a national disaster. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency and called for urgent help to prevent fragile wetlands and vital fishing communities along the coast from pollution on a massive scale. The wind started to strengthen and blow the 600-square-mile (1,550-square-kilometer) slick directly onto the coast, where a rich variety of wildlife were at risk in the maze of marshes that amounts to 40 percent of the US wetlands. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON
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Venice, Louisiana, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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MARK RALSTON |
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1 Mai 2010 |
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4035 x 2424 (1.27 MB) |
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