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Texas oil riggers offer black beaches with radioactive material to swim in:
"Oil drilling platforms are visible off in the distance and there is oil and gas exploration at the park. The visitor's center warns about the tar that washes up onto the beach from all of the oil production in the area and about the dangers of medical and chemical debris that ends up on shore as a result of the prevailing currents. While there's a mile or two of natural beach, the vast majority of the shoreline is open to four wheel drive vehicles. In fact, the beaches are designated Texas public highways."www.hubis.com/blog(scroll all the way down-next to last pic)
(Last paragraph before conclusion on below link minimizes danger of radioactive material-??????)
The bull is high and it stinks, the regulations sketchy and vague, and someone got paid to compromise this land. This is the visible result, I don't have statistics on the radioactive material that people swam in, but I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Padre Island National Seashore - The White Paper (U.S. National Park Service)
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About 250 opponents of offshore oil drilling gathered on Clearwater Beach to mount the biggest protest in Florida history by joining hands along the coastline Saturday. The statewide "Hands Across the Sand" demonstration opposes proposals to permit oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Even the seagulls got into the act joining together aswell.

They looked like dark spots of tar freshly washed upon the shore.

The black sweaters and jackets they wore on the chilly Saturday afternoon symbolized what could happen to South Florida beaches in the event of an oil spill caused by offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The Gulf Stream would bring it here in 24 hours," said Ed Stroble, a self-proclaimed "green Republican" who attended the event. "There are alternatives to this."
More than 60 people showed up at Fort Lauderdale's beach to hold hands in opposition to drilling for oil off the Florida coastline. Called Hands Across the Sand, the protest is aimed at raising awareness about legislation brewing in Washington and Tallahassee that could open the Florida waters to drilling. Oil companies could drill as close as three to 10 miles from the beach.