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Oil Starts To Wash Ashore Off Louisiana
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Coastguards have confirmed that oil is washing up on the US shoreline for the first time after the BP rig disaster.
Teams tackling the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico reported the presence of oil on a beach of an outlying island off Louisiana.
Oiled birds including gannets and brown pelicans have been found on the Chandeleur Islands.
"We have teams that have confirmed oil on the beach, at the south end of the Chandeleur Islands, at Freemason Island," coastguard Connie Terrell said.
"This is the first confirmation that Unified Command has received of oil on a shoreline," she added.
We can clean the beaches if it happens, but they will be the easiest thing to clean. If oil gets into our estuaries and tributaries and where are our fisheries are, into those pristine marshes, it will devastate the fisheries for years to come." - Mayor Tommy Longo
"It's largely just sheen, there is no evidence of medium or heavy oil," Ms Terrell said.
BP spokesman John Curry said three emergency response teams had been sent to the island, 30 miles off the mainland.
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