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TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-OIL-POLLUTION-ALLEN-INTERVIEW by Karin ZEITVOGEL
(FILES) Thiss May 28, 2010 file image shows National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen waiting US President Barack Obama to step off Air Force One at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. Most of the oil from last year's Gulf of Mexico spill is gone, and rig safety rules have been toughened up but the United States is not out of the woods, the admiral who led the US response to the disaster told AFP. "There is still oil being cleaned up," now retired Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen said in an interview with AFP. "But it's much less oil than we had, and it's mostly restricted to marsh areas," which poses its own set of problems as birds are nesting in the still tainted roseau cane and grasses of wetlands off the US southeastern coast, Allen said. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, more than 1,050 miles (1,700 kilometers) of marshland and beaches were oiled in the Gulf oil disaster, and more than 6,000 birds were found dead. Around 2,000 workers are still trying to clean up the marshlands at Passe a Loutre, off the coast of Louisiana, and Barataria Bay, a prime shrimping ground that sits at the point where Lafourche bayou opens into the Gulf of Mexico, near the Louisiana town of Galliano, said Allen. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON
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New Orleans, Louisiana, UNITED STATES |
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JIM WATSON |
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18 Aprilie 2011 |
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