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Oil Spill Leaking 70,000 Barrels A Day Not 5,000!
Why not a safe, effective solution?
It's easy to make fun of these guys - and that's exactly what the mass media is doing (to the extent that they're paying any attention to them at all.)
But here's the reality:
1) Hay was used successfully to sop up a major oil spill off of Santa Barbara in 1969
2) At a minimum, it can use used to help clean up the beaches
3) Hay is non-toxic, bio-degradable, renewable, and in good supply
Questions:
1) What exactly is the substance BP is currently spreading to "bind with the crude and sink it"
2) Is it biologically safe?
3) What does it cost? Who makes it?
Here are some answers from the New York Times:
"So far, BP has told federal agencies that it has applied more than 400,000 gallons of a dispersant sold under the trade name Corexit and manufactured by Nalco Co., a company that was once part of Exxon Mobil Corp. and whose current leadership includes executives at both BP and Exxon.
Another 805,000 gallons of Corexit are on order, the company said, with the possibility that hundreds of thousands of more gallons may be needed if the well continues spewing oil for weeks or months.
But according to EPA data, Corexit ranks far above dispersants made by competitors in toxicity and far below them in effectiveness in handling southern Louisiana crude.
Of 18 dispersants whose use EPA has approved, 12 were found to be more effective on southern Louisiana crude than Corexit, EPA data show."
If the bailout of Wall Street did not show Americans that the Government has different rules for the people than business this spill should.
When Americans had millions defaulting on their houses the US government did not set up a program to help those people. A simple program, with simple rules, could have given money to Americans needing to make mortgage payments and allowed a controlled rate of defaults.
Instead the US government was not concerned that people couldn't make their payments, they were concerned the Banks were not making enough profit. So transferred billions to the banks and financial companies and still required the people to pay their underwater mortgages. Whose back did the government have there?
Now in this spill we see that oil companies are not required to have plans and systems in place to handle major spills.
And it is clear that they have no intention of doing anything significant about the spill, whatever is easy and cheap.
If they were even going to pretend to collect the million gallons a day pouring out they would have tankers, large oil tankers, positioned in the spill to collect it up.
Instead look at the pics. The boats skimming oil in the spill cannot handle more than a few thousand gallons when millions need to be collected. But it would be to expensive to divert a tanker so let the oil flow.
That the US government is holding business to a different set of rules should be clear to everyone in the US. If you are on a US waterway and you spill even a little bit of oil you will be chased and fined, even jailed. You are not allowed to "disperse" it or sink it, you must skim it and pick it up no other option.
Different rules and no one to represent the citizens, the country. Not a democracy thats for sure.
Time to stop being ruled by people thousands of miles away, from a different culture, with different politics, different ethics."
An average of two oil spills are reported worldwide every week.
Yet clean up workers still not prepared, not given proper equipment, and not trained as to the dangers they face.
Over twenty years since the Valdez spill little has changed.
To make matters worse, the "dispersant" BP is spraying in the Gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons is a petroleum product that will end up in the lungs and tissues of the people doing the clean up work.
EPA Whistleblower Says Federal Government Covering Up Lethality Of Corexit And Lying About BP Gulf Oil Spill Water Samples To Save BP Billions.
Democracy Now has published a shocking interview with a top EPA official, Hugh Kaufman, who tells us that NOAA and the EPA are covering up the lethal effects of the neurotoxin pesticide dispersants and lying about Gulf Oil Spill water samples to save BP billions of dollars in fines.
Whistle blower to testify on oil spill worst fear:BP deliberately sinks oil with Corexit as cover up.
In a shocking interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on June 29th, Allegiance Capitol Corporation V.P. Fred McCallister said that BP is deliberately sinking oil with the toxic chemical disbursant Corexit, to hide the size of the oil spill. By sinking the oil before it can be collected, BP won’t have to pay fines on it.
What are some of the common business relationships shared by the Board of Directors of NALCO...makers of COREXIT...the Oil Absorbing...sink it to the bottom of the ocean...so it won't be seen any longer...CHEMICAL?
Their KEY mutual relationships include: Lehman Brothers, Monsanto, ExxonMobil (former owners of NALCO), Lockheed Martin and Goldman Sachs...to name some.
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