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BP FAILS!
They’ve tried plugging it, clogging it, cutting it, and as of last Friday capping it. With fingers crossed, this last ditch effort was their last and only hope. But as of this past weekend, BP’s efforts to halt the constant flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has failed!
Now, perplexed and defeated officials have been forced to admit that BP’s ruptured well will linger in the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, or perhaps later, prompting the U.S. government to seek more equipment to help prevent the crude coming ashore, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said.
“This is a siege across the entire Gulf,” Allen, who is in charge of the government response to the leak, said yesterday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” broadcast. “There will be oil out there for months. This will be well into the fall.”
President Obama has faced a sea of criticism recently for his perceived detachment from the initial leak when the accident happened in April, killing 11. But the White House has fought back against such charges, calling them outrageous and pointing out the president first chose to allow BP to handle the disaster since they were best set-up to handle such a crisis. The president’s engagement was also noted when he made a 2nd trip to the region a few days ago and extended an invitation to the White House to the families of those who were killed.
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The real damage to the Gulf and those people won't be seen for years. But it will be beyond devestating. So sad.
This is an EPIC FAIL of multiple industries!And it crystallizes, at least for me, a few major points:First: The corrupt and sleazy state of affairs between “Big business” and the U.S. government. H*ll, in some cases drilling permits were approved in as little as 10 MINUTES!..and so-called “regulations" and oversight” are a joke. Now you have 11 people DEAD and untold injury is being inflicted upon the environmental and ecological systems in the gulf_and other regions as the oil drifts; to say nothing of the economic impact. This is SERIOUS sh*t and We're all going to end up paying the price for it, one way or another! Second: Experts now admit that research into effective crisis management for dealing with crisis of this nature has been pretty much NON-existent since the late 80ss_which means the U.S. is at least 20 YEARS BEHIND in oil-rig crisis management technology while technology for drilling deeper and deeper _and lucrative drilling CONTRACT$ have been “full speed ahead” over the same time period.Every administration since Reagan (including the Obama admin) and in particular EVERY politician that’s been bought off by big Corporate CRIMINAL Enterprises (like BP) share the blame for this catastrophic yet PREVENTABLE man-made disaster!So here’s my question: How on earth is the Obama admin going to investigate this oil spill without also investigating ITSELF and the Bush/CHENEY admin’s complicit role in the criminal actions clearly undertaken by BP and related corporations??? I fully support a REAL investigation into this entire mess. And no doubt, the Obama administration is under a tremendous amount of public pressure to hold BP legally accountable for this HIGH crime via uncapped financial liability AND JAIL TIME for some BP execs. But quite frankly, IF anyone is actually ever charged in this spill, I will be surprised! Very Pleased. But surprised.