Louisiana's sand islands may do little to block oil spill

Early this past summer, the state of Louisiana started constructed a series of islands made of sand about a few miles off the coastline, according to The New York Times. The project is being funded by BP. The oil company promised the state 360 million dollars, and thus far the state has used 240 million. However, the multi-million dollar project that requires hundreds of workers may be all for not.

Scientist think the oil is far to dispersed for any sort of structure to prove useful in the cleanup.

“It certainly would have no impact on the diluted oil, which is what we’re talking about now,” said Larry Mckinney, head of the Gulf of Mexico research center at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.

It is believe the oil well spewed out five million barrels of oil. Thus far, the islands have only capture 1,000.