The first summer I spent with my wife, years before I knew she would be my wife, we went to her family’s beach house in Perdido Bay.

Oil sheen is seen streaking under the Perdido Pass Bridge from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010 in Perdido, Alabama. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer)

We cruised under that bridge in her father’s little boat. Soon, their house may be right up the cliff from this toxic pollution that is threatening the bay. We’ll probably never have another summer there.

Oil slicks move toward the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

The first time I met my wife in the flesh, we visited her best friend (and future bridesmaid), and we all went to Gulf Shores. The sea there was beautiful, pale blue green with pristine white beaches. Thanks to British Polluters, the earth is now bleeding poison, turning the beach red and the waters black. The fumes will be endangering the health of the few brave enough to walk there and experience the tragedy for themselves.

#24 A worker uses a suction hose to remove oil that has washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, Sunday, June 6, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The first time we met, we stayed in New Orleans for a week. We didn’t go to Grand Isle, but we passed by the freeway exits on our way to her best friend’s house. This picture isn’t here for personal reasons, but to illustrate the scale and scope of British Polluters‘ response to the crisis. The following images will continue this tale of the alacrity of their response.

Gas is flared off on the Discovery Enterprise drilling ship which is collecting oil at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast Wednesday, June 9, 2010.

Yeah, gas comes out of the well too. But we don’t have a good way to capture it. I just hope it’s natural gas (which burns clean) and not dirty ass gasoline they’re flaring off there. All oil rigs do that, 24/7 unless they have to disconnect due to storms. Even on a working well, they’re still working hard at polluting. Even if it is natural gas, everything on the ships runs off diesel generators.

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico June 9. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class John Masson)

So far the quickest way to get rid of the pollution of surface slick is to just burn the shit. Pollute the sky, why not? There’s so much sky a little more pollution wont matter, and it’s a whole lot less mediapathic when it’s disappeared as invisible toxic chemicals for the whole world to breathe. As long as it can’t be photographed in huge chunks British Polluters doesn’t give a fuck where it is or how toxic it may be, they just need this out of the headlines and the well working so they can start making money on it instead of losing cash to the cleanup.

#41 Streaks of oil sheens are seen north of the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer)

See those ships, way out there? How freaking hopeless does it look, even this small patch of slicks compared to the clean-up effort.

Can you spot the clean up effort, here? That’s right, any image that can show the whole of the slick is incapable of showing the clean-up effort too, the size differences are just too massive. And this doesn’t include the undersea plumes that the 800,000 gallons of toxic, petroleum-based dispersant British Polluters pumped into the well has created.

British Polluters has had two major oil spills in the last couple of years, as well as 760 safety violations – before the Deepwater Horizon exploded (hopefully a precursor to BP’s eventual fate). For more on this, we turn to Jon Steward for some righteous yelling. (Feed readers may have to click through for the embedded video)

This is an absolute horror, and it’s only going to get worse before it gets better as this oil finds places to settle.