Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Does Anybody Care?
TODAY, This article was posted on The Guardian:
“Obama takes tougher line on oil spill: Obama administration directed more fire against BP, ordering it to provide daily updates on its efforts to contain the spill.”
- (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / May 10, 2010)
It’s nauseating that the Obama Administration has just now started to demand daily reports from BP on containing the oil currently destroying wetlands and costing billions.
Why would we put the company responsible for the problem in charge of the solution, let alone give them that power without regulating it?
As predicted, the people in charge of this disaster have been more concerned with face-saving finger pointing than containing the spill. Because of this, the Deepwater Horizon will go down as the worst rig disaster in history.
We all know that the negligence of BP and Halliburton, among others, is primarily to blame, but so is the U.S. Government. The response has been generally slow, as if the quiet nature of the oil spill validates it.
Out of site, out of mind; that principle even effects the massive organizations of people who were in charge of putting an end to this before it escalated to the point it is at now.
Here are some related comments from Chris Mathews, courtesy of The Huffington Post:
“Matthews described the oil spill as ‘the scariest thing I’ve ever seen’ and used the opportunity to make a dig at Dick Cheney.
“‘I don’t know where to start,’ he said. ‘I mean, Halliburton, sound familiar? Cheney was the head of Halliburton. When he got to Vice President, the oil company gave him a $34 million signing bonus to become Vice President of the United States.’
In the coming months, the responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will continue to rival the actual containment of the spill as the most important topic of discussion.
New video of spilling oil:
Read The Guardian article here
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We need a comment from the Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry. Landry’s done this before—she oversaw the 2003 spill in Buzzards Bay, Massachussets . Then, as now, her initial reports of the spill total were way off. Landry, a Coast Guard rear admiral, has gone from taking reporters’ questions at the White House to giving reporters tours of the damage, but there are also reports that the Coast Guard is keeping reporters and photographers from getting a full picture – and doing so at the behest of BP. (The Coast Guard says they are accommodating as many media requests as they can; Landry hasn’t commented). We have got to ask how the response to the Gulf of Mexico spill compares to the 2003 Bouchard B 120 oil spill in Buzzards Bay,Massaacusetts? Two things come to mind. First the U.S.Court of appeals never allowed the state of Massachusetts to enforce the Massachusetts Oil Spill Prevention Act of 2004. The Coast Guard appealed the rules because of an intercoastal turf war leaving the state with no new laws to protect the bay. Second the residential property claims of thousands of residents have been tied up in the Massachusetts court system for the past eight years. How will residential property owners around the gulf have to wait? On April 27, 2003, eight years ago the Bouchard Barge B-120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 100,000 gallons of No. 6 oil.
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I can’t believe that only now is the President getting involved. You made an excellent point, why would you allow those who created the problem fix it! They are not children, it is not like they spilled their toys on the floor and have to clean it up. I was really disappointed reading the information that you provided. Why is that the government always seems to be jumping into the problem after so much extensive damage is done…..Katrina. So much for a fast acting government!