Katrina's Canine Victims 0001
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Photograph by Tom Fox / Dallas Morning News / Corbis
According to National Geographic:
"Near New Orleans a small oil-slickened dog was seen wandering in Chalmette, Louisiana, as cleanup crews recovered oil from a ruptured refinery tank on September 6, 2005. Tens of thousands of barrels of oil had spilled and mixed with receding floodwater from Hurricane Katrina.
"Oil, gasoline, chemicals, feces, and other pollutants have so tainted New Orleans's water supply that safe drinking water may be largely unavailable for years, U.S. and Louisiana officials announced on September 7. Key sources of contamination are two oil spills, submerged cars and other machines, 2,200 facilities with underground fuel tanks, 25 major sewage-treatment plants, and tens of millions of tons of solid waste, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality."
Comments
heartwrenching. your photo says a lot.
Posted 28 months ago.
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poor thing, I wonder where is it now
Posted 21 months ago.
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Poor little dog. Good photo. Do you know what
happened to the dog?
Posted 10 months ago.
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No, I don't! Every time I see the photo, I
wonder whether the photographer rescued
him...
Posted 10 months ago.
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What a sad photo hopefully he was rescued
Posted 5 months ago.
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Smiteme, did you rescue the dog?
Posted 5 months ago.
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Awesome shot!!
Posted 5 months ago.
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OMG.. I wonder if he's okay... why do the
animals have to sufffer...when they have done
no wrong... =(
Posted 3 months ago.
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Ugh. What a heart rending photo.
Posted 3 months ago.
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