The oil-well is finally closed but the pain will remain

Last week, the US government and BP pronounced that the oil-well in the Gulf of Mexico was finally sealed and that there won’t be any more oil spilling in the future. This means that after five months and 4.9 million barrels of oil that leaked into the ocean, the largest maritime spill ever was declared dead.

Certainly that does not mean that from now on all the problems are solved. There are still lots of oil in the water, straining the life in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Besides the 11 people that died on April 20 as the oil rig exploded, besides all the animals that perished because of the oil in the water and besides all the people that depend on fishing for their survival and that still can’t sell their fish, there are also long term effects that yet, no one can determine.

Even though this catastrophe does not yet affect the Yucatan Peninsula directly, it means a lot to EcoColors as an environmental aware tour operator to draw your attention to this big issue so that this won’t happen again to our planet.