Interactive Map
Jun. 16th, 2010 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenI just found an interactive map on CNN that shows the disaster area. It's pretty amazing. Seeing it on TV is one thing; moving around the Vermont-sized disaster area is another.
Everyone's talking about the Horizon Oil Spill DISASTER. And we should be talking about it. We should be making lists of things that were handled wrongly - on all fronts - and figure out better response methodologies. The US CEO of British Petroleum said the other day that there haven't been enough spills in the last 10-30 years to provide us with the need to improve our spill clean-up technologies. How idiotic and uninformed.
Friends are calling me and saying that Obama is doing nothing. "No one's allowing thinkers to put forth their ideas. We have all these people going down there or offering their solutions and no one's listening."
What those friends don't realize or even know is that British Petroleum is turning people away. Yeah. Any other ideas than their own aren't being considered because British Petroleum thinks they will look bad.
THEY ARE BAD. The situation in Gulf areas where relief workers came in protective clothing is chaotic BECAUSE BP doesn't want to take other, more experienced peoples' advice. It's not about looks anymore; who the fuck cares about how you look? Look at the damage your greed and deregulation has caused us, our nation, our ecosystems, and our non-oil, Gulf-based industries.
Inasmuch as Obama might seem to be doing nothing, what about the BRITISH government?? Why aren't they stepping in and working with British Petroleum (who carries their name) to force them to do anything? Right now everything is still political. Obama is putting extreme pressure on BP at a time when and in a way in which no other president is noted as having done more than him during major oil spills. Our government's hands are tied because of tax payer money. It is frustratingly British Petroleum's responsibility to spend their money to clean up the mess they've made. British Petroleum have promised to clean it up and they're not doing it. But, politically, we can't step in and do anything. Britain can't step in and do anything; British Petroleum has to carry the whole thing and they're not looking for help or accepting help.
All of the British Petroleum leaders should go to jail for a long, long time and rot there. They should be exposed to tar poisoning about once every two months, so they have time to recuperate and then get sick again - like all the animals trying to escape death or like all their OWN people trying to clean up their mess.
Everyone's talking about the Horizon Oil Spill DISASTER. And we should be talking about it. We should be making lists of things that were handled wrongly - on all fronts - and figure out better response methodologies. The US CEO of British Petroleum said the other day that there haven't been enough spills in the last 10-30 years to provide us with the need to improve our spill clean-up technologies. How idiotic and uninformed.
Friends are calling me and saying that Obama is doing nothing. "No one's allowing thinkers to put forth their ideas. We have all these people going down there or offering their solutions and no one's listening."
What those friends don't realize or even know is that British Petroleum is turning people away. Yeah. Any other ideas than their own aren't being considered because British Petroleum thinks they will look bad.
THEY ARE BAD. The situation in Gulf areas where relief workers came in protective clothing is chaotic BECAUSE BP doesn't want to take other, more experienced peoples' advice. It's not about looks anymore; who the fuck cares about how you look? Look at the damage your greed and deregulation has caused us, our nation, our ecosystems, and our non-oil, Gulf-based industries.
Inasmuch as Obama might seem to be doing nothing, what about the BRITISH government?? Why aren't they stepping in and working with British Petroleum (who carries their name) to force them to do anything? Right now everything is still political. Obama is putting extreme pressure on BP at a time when and in a way in which no other president is noted as having done more than him during major oil spills. Our government's hands are tied because of tax payer money. It is frustratingly British Petroleum's responsibility to spend their money to clean up the mess they've made. British Petroleum have promised to clean it up and they're not doing it. But, politically, we can't step in and do anything. Britain can't step in and do anything; British Petroleum has to carry the whole thing and they're not looking for help or accepting help.
All of the British Petroleum leaders should go to jail for a long, long time and rot there. They should be exposed to tar poisoning about once every two months, so they have time to recuperate and then get sick again - like all the animals trying to escape death or like all their OWN people trying to clean up their mess.
