The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is unlikely to affect Massachusetts, environmental experts told a panel of state legislators today.
Although there is a small chance that oil from the worst spill in U.S. history could travel as far as North Carolina along the Gulf Stream, state experts said that is likely the farthest north any residue — likely in the form of tar balls — would go.
At today's hearing, representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection, the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Division of Marine Fisheries said it would take very unusual weather patterns to wash any tar north of the Gulf Stream’s current, and that the state also has little to worry about in the way of harm to marine wildlife.
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