It's been 20+ years and the Gulf is already back to normal (or so says the lying government and MSM).
"In Alaska, Louisianans learn from Exxon spill; Environmental, social damage still lingering" by Theresa Vargas, Washington Post | September 7, 2010
CORDOVA, Alaska — Twenty-one years have passed since the Exxon Valdez oil tanker, under the neglectful command of an inebriated captain, rammed into a reef off the southern coast of Alaska, releasing an estimated 11 million gallons of oil into pristine Prince William Sound. For more than two decades, ExxonMobil has been paying for that night.
Related: Saturday Morning Gas Up
They look like they are doing just fine now.
In the years after the spill, it spent $2.1 billion for the cleanup effort, which included hiring locals who were dubbed “spillionaires’’ for the paychecks they pulled in.
Was it worth it, Alaska?
Had it with the MSM insults, readers?
In 1991, the company paid $1 billion to settle criminal and civil lawsuits brought against it by the state and federal government. Most of that money went toward the acquisition and protection of ecologically critical habitat....
And they made all that back and more in ONE QUARTER of this year!
The group from Louisiana — professors, politicians, and community leaders — spent a week in Alaska, looking to learn from those who’ve been where they’re headed. They discovered that spills have a way of lingering long after the water is declared open and beaches deemed safe.
Related: Globe Endorses Government on Evaporated Oil From Gulf Gusher
If Alaska is any indication, the first year after a spill is not the hardest. It’s the years afterward when the environmental, cultural, and societal consequences really surface....
But, but, but.... GOVERNMENT and MSM said it was JUST FINE!
What, if anything, will be the Gulf of Mexico’s herring — the creature that dies off en masse years from now?
Related: Slow Saturday Special: FDA's Gulf Coast Feast
But EAT UP, AmeriKa!!!
Oil breaks down more quickly in warm water and the government has said about three-quarters of the estimated 205.8 million gallons of oil that fouled the gulf have been removed by man or are being broken down by nature.
And then they backed off that.
Nice OMISSION, MSM and Globe!
But scientists say it’s difficult to predict the environmental damage because of the volume of oil released and the unknown long-term impacts of the dispersants used to break it up.
See: Corexit Health Risks
Yeah, they actually DO KNOW the EFFECTS!
But hey, what is ONE MORE NEWSPAPER LIE in a PAPER FULL of them!!?
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Also see: Obama's Asphalt Ocean
Oh, that's nice.
"BP report on oil disaster spreads blame, defends design; Company says no single factor caused spill" by Steven Mufson and Joel Achenbach, Washington Post | September 9, 2010
WASHINGTON — BP released a long-awaited report yesterday on an internal investigation into the causes of its Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout, blaming multiple failures by BP and other firms but absolving its much-criticized well design.
The BP report stressed that “no single factor’’ caused the April 20 blowout that killed 11 workers, sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and led to the largest oil spill in US history.
Instead, with lawsuits and a Justice Department criminal investigation in progress, BP spread the blame widely, declaring the disaster a “shared responsibility.’’
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Other oil company executives have said BP used a well design that was cheaper and easier to implement instead of a safer but more expensive design....
The decision to send an unusually large amount of spacer fluid down the well was apparently motivated by an exemption in Environmental Protection Agency rules stating that certain fluids used in a well can be dumped directly into the Gulf of Mexico rather than shipped at great expense to a hazardous waste facility on land....
Critics of BP called the report self-serving....
Related: Key evidence in gulf oil spill brought up from seabed
Also see: Second Straight Sunday With No Oil Spill Story
Gee, that new spill was sure covered up, 'er, cleaned up quick.
