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mommy1
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 Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 3:27 pm Post subject: watching the oil spill |
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watching the oil spill and thinking of all the living things effected by this.
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| It's such a tragedy. I wish they could get it stopped. First there was the loss of the human lives and now the poor sea life! argh. Maybe Michael is right and cars are evil and we shouldn't be doing this stuff to get more oil! |
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mommy1
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it is a tragedy the extent of which is not yet known. the saddest part is that it might have been prevented if bp and its associated companies had not cut costs. it is also unknow how much damage the dispersants are causing. permits for deep water drilling should not be approved without checking and rechecking by independant sources for safety compliance and nature impact. there needs to be a big housecleaning of the folks that approve permits and do inspections. oil companies that bribe officials should be permanently banned from offshore drilling. just watch the syrup sweet oratory from the bp officials. they no longer have any credibility.
we are tied to energy. have to get it somewhere. coal miners have lost lives too. nuclear energy has centuries of impact. we have to get smarter about our sources and use of energy.
watching hurricane season now. the projection is bleak - hate to be so pessimistic but, that seems to be reality down here right about now.
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| mommy1 wrote: | it is a tragedy the extent of which is not yet known. the saddest part is that it might have been prevented if bp and its associated companies had not cut costs. it is also unknow how much damage the dispersants are causing. permits for deep water drilling should not be approved without checking and rechecking by independant sources for safety compliance and nature impact. there needs to be a big housecleaning of the folks that approve permits and do inspections. oil companies that bribe officials should be permanently banned from offshore drilling. just watch the syrup sweet oratory from the bp officials. they no longer have any credibility.
we are tied to energy. have to get it somewhere. coal miners have lost lives too. nuclear energy has centuries of impact. we have to get smarter about our sources and use of energy.
watching hurricane season now. the projection is bleak - hate to be so pessimistic but, that seems to be reality down here right about now. |
Having listened to an interview (CBS 60 Minutes) of someone on the platform when this all went down, talking to cost-cutting measures, I've continued biting my tongue to not write what I think and feel.
More news this week (speculation?) linking BP to the release of a prisoner to Libya for guaranteed access to drilling on their soil. Oh, my.
The numbers of lives lost at that immediate tragedy, the jobs and livelihoods of honest hard-working people, health risks, decimation to plant and animal life, the environment at the gulf coast and beyond...
Numbers of folks are now turning in their four-legged friends to shelters for having no way to care for them as they're fighting to keep themselves fed through all of this mess... Those who'll be euthanized were not in the water but in my opinion are equally 'covered with BPs oil'...
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mommy1
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| Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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had not heard of the libya connection deb. thanks - the plot gets deeper and uglier - there is a lot of pure greed on the backs of innocents here.
they capped the well tonight - testing for pressure - hope it holds until they finish driling the relief wells.
heard a snippet on the news of more research being demanded of the chemicals used for dispersant - there really is too much there we do not know.i worry about the health of those working on the clean up -
we are seeing trickle down tragedy here - innocent animals for sure - but, like dominoes - when one business fails another supplier falls with it. we have lost some tax clients because their restaurants on the beachfront went under. the oil was just too much after hurricanes and economy woes.
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