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WILD NEW JERSEY: The Star-Ledger: N.J. monitors Gulf oil spill in case slick reaches East Coast

The Star-Ledger: N.J. monitors Gulf oil spill in case slick reaches East Coast

BP crews clean oil off of the beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana on Monday.
Photo Credit: Steven Johnson/Miami Herald/MCT

New Jersey is forming a team of specialists to monitor the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in the unlikely, but worrisome event the slick reaches East Coast shores.

Fearing the potential impacts on Jersey Shore tourism and the state’s fishing industry, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin said he is not taking any chances as he announced today the creation of a “Gulf Spill Team” to closely monitor the disaster. The team will create a scientific model of the likely path of the contamination and develop a plan of action, although scientists have said it will require a “sequence of unlikely events” for the slick to hit the east coast.