BP; the "P" stands for "Poisoning"
It's not a leak, it's a freaking gusher. At 25,000 barrels or so of oil a day, that is over a million gallons of oil a day. That's not a leak. That's roughly like filling two Olympic-sized swimming pools with oil each day and dumping them into the Gulf of Mexico, and then adding several tons of toxic chemicals to break up the oil.
Oh, that's right. BP CEO Tony "I would like my life back" Hayward says that the reason that the fisherman working to clean up the oil are getting sick is because they are eating bad food, not because BP's dispersant is poisoning them.
"I'm sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it was anything to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning or some other reason for them being ill," Hayward said. "You know, food poisoning is clearly a big issue when you have a concentration of this number of people in temporary camps, temporary accommodation. It's something we have to be very, very mindful of. It's one of the big issues of keeping the army operating. You know, armies march on their stomachs."
Oh, and while I am on the subject of the environmental fuckery of the oil companies, it may be worth paying attention to the large-scale and long-term pollution of the Niger delta by Exxon/Mobil, Shell and other companies.
I think she meant ravaged, but hahahaha!
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After we the taxpayers bailed out the banks, now we have to bail out the oil companies? Although the Constitution says "We the People" it seems like the country has been run like "We the Corporations". Whatever happened to concepts like fairness and honesty?
Bob Herbert
...The result of the American people being told, for the last 30 years, that they can have everything for nothing, that they can spend beyond their means, rape the environment, and not pay to support the national infrastructure (except for our military infrastructure, you betcha).
For a nation that can't stop bragging about how great and powerful it is, we've become shockingly helpless in the face of the many challenges confronting us. Our can-do spirit was put on hold many moons ago, and here we are now unable to defeat the Taliban, or rein in the likes of BP and the biggest banks, or stop the oil gushing furiously from the bowels of earth like a warning from Hades about the hubris and ignorance that is threatening to destroy us.
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Instead of staring mesmerized at the tragedy in the gulf, like spectators at a train wreck, we should be trying to regain that innovative can-do spirit that made America the greatest of nations.
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The dispersant that they are using, Corexit, is reputedly the most toxic one available. So BP is deliberately poisoning the Gulf of Mexico in order to make sure that the oil is less visible. The oil is still there.
Robert Reich has been writing about why it may be necessary to take over BP for he short term. His blog is worth reading.
Oh Boy
"The worst-case scenario is Christmas time," Dan Pickering, research director for energy investor Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., told Bloomberg News for a story Wednesday. "This process is teaching us to be skeptical of deadlines."
Ending the year with a still-gushing well would mean about 4 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf, based on the government's current estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking a day. That would wipe out marine life deep at sea near the leak and elsewhere in the Gulf, and along hundreds of miles of coastline, said Harry Roberts, a professor of Coastal Studies at Louisiana State University.
So much crude pouring into the ocean may alter the chemistry of the sea, with unforeseeable results, said Mak Saito, an Associate Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts...
Maybe I don't want my tax dollars going to pay your salary, or to fund the murder of Palestinians, Nancy.
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