WPCNR NEWS AND COMMENT. By John F. Bailey. May 19, 2010:
Buried on page 18A of the Journal News today was a chilling front page story, that should have been on the front page, but was buried as usual because it is important.. The Associated Press reported:
“The federal government announced Tuesday it was nearly tripling the size of an area in the Gulf of Mexico that’s closed to fishing because of a massive oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it had closed nearly 46,000 square miles, or about 19 percent of federal waters.”
Well, this is sobering. Just 20%. No problem.
The new Black Death is still leaking with creeping horror into America’s greatest fishing grounds.
The geniuses at BP have fit a small pipe into the large pipe to capture “some” of the oil, but they do not know how much. They are hopeful they can perhaps refine it. This is being played as fixing the leak. But the black hole is still leaking.
Come on, saving your stinking investment is ludicrous.
At the beginning of this week, scientists in a New York Times dispatch, speculated that the Gulf currents are going to bring the Black Death into the waters and perhaps onto the West coast of Florida, and onto the coral reefs of the Florida Keys.
Dead Sea II here we come.
Better get those mansions on the West Coast of Florida, Mississippi and Alabama up for sale now before the white beaches turn black—or the water becomes polluted.
So the Gulf is being turned into a dead sea by these energy experts. It is not the first blowout either. But they have not been able to cap this one. I want to repeat that: They have not been able to cap this one.
These corporate giants caused this horror. And they cannot fix it, yet.
BP and Haliburton in combination with systems maker are responsible.
What has our President done to them?
Nice concerned speeches.
Has he canceled all government contracts with Haliburton for their alleged incompetence?
No.
Has he suspended BP’s rights to drill elsewhere at other rigs across the Gulf, or wherever they may be under U.S. control, pending termination of their contracts?
Forget about the law suits. Stop them making money and hurt them big time.
They have killed an ocean. Killed a way of life.
Of course not.
Theyr’e still drillin.
Haliburton and BP who ran this rig were on duty, folks.
This forgiving nature that is being extended by our condescending government to the corporate robber barons of 2010 – from Goldman-Sachs to Citibank to Bank of America, and all the banks, the Wall Street ganovim—(sounds like vermin) — to Haliburton to BP – fills me with disgust.
BP and Haliburton have wrecked an ocean with their technical incompetence that failed. Pointing to the past as proof all this technology should have worked, is no excuse.
The only organized activity that has any accountability is baseball and fastpitch softball – when someone makes an error – the fans know who it is. No question. Even so, the official scorers are so lenient these days that unless you’re at the game, you really don’t know whose incompetence really created the win or loss.
I am tired of lenient government official scorers.
And where are the oil-soaked bird pictures? The dead fish photos? Is the national media covering up the damage?
Come on. If President Obama has any shot of getting reelected in 2012, he has to treat the oil boys really nice, and go through the motions of wrist-slapping and improving regulation, just like he’s doing the wrist-slapping of Wall Street, while ignoring the hoarding of loan money that the banks just are not pushing out.
Everybody’s better on Wall Street, in boardrooms of the banks, and now even Detroit is getting better.
The Gulf is never going to get better.
Everywhere you look the incompetence, greed, and corner-cutting philosophies of the “captains of industry,” read that, “gang leaders” are every bit as dangerous to the well-being of the common man as street gangs – instead of tattoos and secret symbols they wear pinstripe suits and white shirts – and say they are “sorry,” and like Mercedes symbols.
Wall Street – hey – the government should have never allowed those bonus payments – earned thanks to the bailout – those should have been garnished once those dirty rats touched the money. And calling them rats, insults the noble rat who is resourceful, bold, and does not cheat, continue to float balloon mortgages, and forecloses because they can.
Does any one realize that the lower south and southeast part of the United States property values are about to be destroyed by this oil spill?
That our supply of seafood from the Gulf is about to disappear like that?
What are they going to do put up signs to fish saying: AVOID OIL AHEAD. OCEAN CLOSED.
That the southern Florida paradise may become a wasteland by the sea? The Coast Guard reported to the Senate Commerce Committee that tar balls had washed up on Key West. Admiral Thad Allen told the comittee the coast guard was analyzing the balls to see if they came from the Gulf Spill. How are they going to determine that? You think maybe they didn’t?
I do not want to hear about being green any more.
I want those responsible for ripping off the people and wrecking the planet with their greed suffering big time.
I want all BP interests declared unwelcome in this country, and give them a year to divest themselves.
Remember Haliburton and their facility Kellogg Brown Root’s faulty showers that electrocuted soldiers, built for the army in Iraq? No punishment. That company’s contracts were not cancelled.
Haliburton’s “connections” should not save them after this one.
Well failure again has cost us – this time it is costing us an ocean…and all the food in it and who knows.
The President should go after these two behemoth bunglers.
Put Haliburton out of the government contracting business big time – and throw BP out of the country, strip them of their government contracts – suspend their wells, and if that is not practical—fine them the amount of their profits on U.S. sales or hey world-wide for that matter.
You cannot begin to imagine the cost the new Black Death is about to cause.
There will be more Gulf Horrors.
And where are the nation’s environmentalists on the Gulf spill?
Could we have a little protest please?
Where is the 100,000 march “Gulf Day” protest?
This is the greatest environmental disaster the United States has ever had and where are you?
On Memorial Day weekend the environmentalists need to memorialize the Gulf.
Meanwhile the black death continues to spew.
No American should buy any BP gas – not one gallon of it again.
Punish them on the bottom line.
And get those windmills up in the gulf for wind power…because it is about to become a Dead Sea.
Hey Detroit – get those electric cars rolling.
Big Oil may have already cost us the planet.
