At a meeting here of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, chairman Rodney Barreto said he was confident that everything was being done that could be done to prepare for what may lay ahead. He said the spill remained 400 miles or so from Florida’s west coast.
After studying winds and currents, scientists are not expecting much to change in the next seven days, Barreto said.
Capt. Tim Close, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, said that tar balls found off Key West were not related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began last month after a fire and explosion at BP’s drilling rig off Louisiana.
"Locally, we haven’t seen any impact to any coast on the west coast of Florida," he said. "The likelihood remains low we’ll be impacted" along the 400 miles that make up the Coast Guard Sector St. Pete, stretching from Taylor County to Collier County, he said.
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That is funny since I just seen on another site that the oil was 30 miles from Pensacola ????
Officials: Florida is prepared, but oil spill remains 400 mi
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