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Julie Dermansky - Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

Video: 'The Oil Crisis Is Not Over'

By Julie Dermansky
Aug 6 2010, 2:58 PM ET Comment

Has the tide turned on the BP oil crisis? That's the message coming from the White House. "What we're trying to figure out is where the oil is at and what we can do about it," U.S. spill response chief Thad Allen told the press last week, adding that the remaining oil patches were "small concentrations, very hard to detect." But in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, the landscape looks a little different. Our photographer on the scene speaks to a local resident, who demonstrates the "cake batter" sludge still coating the shorelines and waterways.



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