Post by harryHello,
Any news on the oil spill?
Truly
Truth will set you free, according to Jesus in John 8:32
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/49760
“Very, Very, Modest” Impact? How About Twenty-four Miles of Dead
Marsh, Mr. Hayward?
Earlier this week, BP CEO Tony Hayward had the audacity to tell the
lie that the environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill will
be "very, very, modest":
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Throughout the disaster, BP has been doing its best to control
information flow about the extent of the damage, but reality is
beginning to creep into public awareness. An article appearing on the
front page of today’s New York Times describes in great detail the
conflicts of interest inherent in how the government has allowed BP to
control all testing of samples from the disaster:
Local environmental officials throughout the Gulf Coast are feverishly
collecting water, sediment and marine animal tissue samples that will
be used in the coming months to help track pollution levels resulting
from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, since those readings
will be used by the federal government and courts to establish
liability claims against BP. But the laboratory that officials have
chosen to process virtually all of the samples is part of an oil and
gas services company in Texas that counts oil firms, including BP,
among its biggest clients.
Some people are questioning the independence of the Texas lab. Taylor
Kirschenfeld, an environmental official for Escambia County, Fla.,
rebuffed instructions from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to send water samples to the lab, which is based at TDI-
Brooks International in College Station, Tex. He opted instead to get
a waiver so he could send his county’s samples to a local laboratory
that is licensed to do the same tests.
The tragic truth is beginning to come out, though, as the real impact
of the spill begins to be felt. Here is Billy Nungesser of Plaquemines
Parish, Louisiana, describing the oily death of a marsh that has a
twenty-four mile shoreline
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How’s that "very, very modest" claim of impact looking now, Mr.
Hayward?
Well, there is a good chance that the twenty-four miles of dead marsh
is very, very, small compared to the total miles of shoreline in the
Gulf and beyond that will die before the flow of oil is even stopped