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saving a couple pennies 15 years from now to fuel my car is easily worth the mess caused right now
 
Beyond the economic and environmental costs, eleven workers presumably died in the accident. Very sad.
 
Interesting read Monky. One more person on the jerk list. Where have all the hero's gone?
 
Obama administration helped BP quash environmental challenges to Gulf drilling
By Tom Eley
11 May 2010

The Obama administration intervened in court to ensure that BP’s Gulf drilling operations would go forward, even in the absence of serious environmental and safety studies, a World Socialist Web Site analysis of 2009 legal documents reveals.

The administration’s efforts applied not only to deep sea drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, but specifically to the site that would be used by BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill rig, which on April 20 exploded, killing 11 workers and generating an oil slick that is inflicting an unprecedented environmental and economic disaster on the Gulf Coast.

A May 11, 2009 legal brief written on behalf of Obama’s secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, requested that the Washington, DC federal court of appeals overturn or amend an earlier decision blocking new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico’s outer continental shelf. The petition referred specifically in several instances to site “206”—the same area where the Deepwater Horizon would explode in a blowout less than one year later.

The source article.
 
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I was shown that interesting piece of news by a friend. It appears legit to me, can you prove otherwise?
 
It sounded like no one knew who was in charge. What a sad recipe for disaster. I'm all for prosecution especially since it appears that this could have been prevented.
 
So where are all the "Save the Gulf" concerts?
Where are the TV benefits with celebrities and musicians giving heart
felt speeches on the poor fishermen, wildlife, beaches, loss of income
and sabotaged gulf economy? I find it rather strange how these people
(including our own dumacratic government) are so quick to help Haiti and
...other countries, but sit on their butts for this one!
 
Looks like this was the disaster that wasn't. The oil sure spilled but it can't seem to be found. Apparently the earth has remarkable curative powers. Far more than we expected. Looks like humans don't have all that much effect on the earth dynamics after all. If a concrete, measurable, clear cut disaster like this spill is already over and done with, how can a nebulous disaster like global warming be taken seriously?
 
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