Well, the GoM isn’t dead, so it was never killed in the first place.
No, that doesn’t excuse their actions or the vast amount of damage they did. And while the damage may well last centuries, it will eventually go away. After all, there are millions of us who are, even now, eating the products that come out of the Gulf. So, even the “poisoning” is already mostly over and done with. So, yes, it will “just go away” given time.
Exaggerating the effect they had on the Gulf doesn’t help the discussion. It only makes you appear to be taking a deliberately provocative, irrational position.
Yeah, I bet you’d like us all to believe that beating a horse to death with your bollocks is such an everyday occurrence for you that you think nothing of using it as metaphor. But I can spot when someone’s just trying to blow their own trumpet. As it were.
And of course, oil mousse did get into the wetlands (pdf warning). And then there are the million-year-old ecosystems on the sea floor, smothered by oil
BP is getting off too easy. They need to get back here and clean up their mess. I don’t know how they’ll do it, but I didn’t know how they’d cap the well at the time either. Not good enough isn’t good enough!
It’s like blaming the drug dealers for your drug addiction.
Oil production can be a messy business and shit happens (but then again, I don’t understand why BP as a company with a history of ‘shit happens’ is allowed to operate anymore).
I’m no troll, silly. Look at the ignorance on display in this thread. People seem to think that because shrimp are coming out of the Gulf, then everything is hunky-dory! That since the Guardian says the oil will have dissipated by a year from now (not true), we might as well act as if it is all gone now and just forget the whole thing. One of the worst ecological disasters in history, and never-you-mind? No way. Call my posting excessive on the topic if you like, but shutting up about it isn’t going to inform anybody.
Penguins were better dressed for the occasion? Comprising less than 1% of the bird population, they can never expect to attract the widespread sympathy enjoyed by more common birds?
Sounds like a reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Because I’m not equally up in arms about Alaska then my compaints about BP aren’t valid, is that it? That’s wrong, allow me to explain.
As I understand it, the Exxon Valdez spill was almost or entirely the fault of a single drunken sailor. One guy steering a ship ran the thing aground and caused a horrible disaster (whose effects are still with us).
BP touches my ‘this is downright evil’ nerve because the fault seems to lie with the entire system from the top down. They went so far as to manipulate the regulators with bribes to get them off their backs and avoid scrutiny. BP perpetrated the massive lie of “You can trust us, we’re the experts!” when they were excused from regulatory attention, and instead of acting responsibly they took the opportunity to cut corners in all kinds of dangerous ways, just like every corporation who funds every single GOP candidate who carps about regulations- they’ll fuck the public and the world right in the ass if it means higher profits, guaranteed.
The spill was not the result of a single yahoo. From knowledge of malfunctioning equipment to doing an entirely half-assed, incomplete job in the first place to ignoring weird readings that would have tipped off a qualified operator that the drilling needed to stop, the entire organization clearly displayed a “we just don’t give a fuck” attitude. And now they are welching out of their responsibilities to their victims and seeking to squirm off the hook, assisted with moral support from ignorant people who act as if it is all over, it doesn’t matter, or everything is back to the way it was. And all this comes after BP was clearly warned for their Texas City Refinery disaster.
My feelings could hardly be more clear. I continue to condemn BP and call for their banning from US soil. Nobody has ever provided any sufficient reason why I should change my mind.
What about you? You’ve stopped by the thread, won’t you answer my little question?
You understand little. Go read the wikipedia entryfor a basic primer. You have no idea what you are talking about. Your grip on the facts Deepwater Horizon incident is probably similar.
Do you think BP is worse than any other oil company (or non-oil company)? I see them all as about the same, and BP just is the most recent one to have a fuck up. Could have just as easily been Shell or Exxon/Mobile. It’s a dirty business, and no one is paying too much attention until something like this comes to light.
It is nice that you have your personal opinion when facts are only seconds away.
BP is one of the main reasons that the oil industry has a bad reputation. Its record is significantly worse than most, if not all, other companies. It should have its license to operate as a company revoked.