It Gets Worse
The Pensacola Beach Blogger is short and direct: Oil Swamps Pensacola Beach, Island.
Troy Moon at the Pensacola News Journal expands on The day the oil came
The sign at Pensacola Beach Properties boasted “Always has been, always will be — the most beautiful beaches in the world.’’
The sign was a lie.
Because surely, there was a white sand beach somewhere in the world that didn’t look like it was vomited on by Big Oil.
Surely, there was a beach somewhere that people could swim in without getting slimed by sheets of oil washing ashore. There had to be a beach somewhere that wasn’t being patrolled by Hazmat teams and work crews shoveling gunk and oily grime from shore.
Surely there was a beach somewhere that smelled like sea salt and Coppertone and not like a dirty mechanic’s garage. There had to be a beach somewhere where dolphins frolicked offshore instead of beaching themselves onshore coated with oil to die.
And yet a Federal judge says a six-month moratorium is arbitrary and too long, as he collects the dividends from his energy investments and Congressmen apologize to oil companies.
It was a juvenile dolphin that died despite the efforts of volunteers.
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Yes… It does. As always. 🙂
BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling That Some Call Risky
BP got exemption from the moratorium because it’s on an ‘artificial’ Island that BP created and the so-called *Regulator’s* decided that qualified as ‘onshore’. 🙂
The crooks and morons are everywhere I see. 🙂
The US owns the land and leases it to BP. The US should just evict BP, like any landlord, for failure to maintain the property, and creating a public nuisance… oh, yeah, and loud music after 10PM.