The American Fisheries Group on Google posted this article that bears reading – albeit a quote from a BP environmentalist is not worth pondering in my book. But there appears to be a trace of hope here that the BP oil spill might be mitigated by forces greater than a greedy multibillion dollar company. The one thing that is not being measured here is the fragile ecosystem of the humans of the Gulf South. My…
I spoke to a friend in Croatia yesterday who said he was keeping abreast of the BP oil spill by reading my blog but that I don’t post updates often enough to keep him informed. I thought to myself afterwards, well that’s good because that means that nothing is happening because if it were, I’d know and write about it, right? This morning I learned the tar balls have made their way our way. The…
So far have two friends who have been to Bay St. Louis and around Alabama’s Gulf Shores and said the coastline is looking clean. Just heard from someone who got back from Destin yesterday morning, and said the shore was clear (except he heard that tarballs washed ashore last night after he left). A friend continues to blog about the shoreline in Florida. I continue to have hope that the ocean is mightier than human…
In his opening statement, Barton, the top Republican on the committee overseeing the oil spill and its aftermath, delivered a personal apology to the oil giant, BP. He said the $20 billion fund that President Obama directed BP to establish to provide relief to the victims of the oil disaster was a “tragedy in the first proportion.” Shame on you, you stupid son of a bitch.
It’s a real head scratcher, why would one of the largest O&G companies in the world cut costs and risk a disaster of catastrophic proportions? I sit here trying to understand (did they need more money?) (were they incompetent?) (were they clueless?) and no answers come to mind. Over and over again I hear Hayward say he wants his life back and I think of that poem that a friend wrote many years back about…
A friend writes: BP = Devil this is what happens when profits are deemed more important than life itself. when balance is gone – life is horror story
With the cluster fuck going on in the Gulf over BP’s irresponsible handling of an oil leak gush of proportions that most of us might never know the repercussions in sum, I bring you several thoughts on the subject: A) Thoughts by Rachel – very unfortunate accident and then reaction by BP in a crisis. They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going, but BP has proven to be a poor communicator,…