tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post4820763962517446403..comments2024-03-25T17:14:57.213+08:00Comments on Hands off Country: State budget rewards polluters but punishes environment and familiesRed Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17147253130448944470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-83534134339229638422010-06-06T09:18:46.817+08:002010-06-06T09:18:46.817+08:00Re the gulf spill,if cutting the riser pipe increa...Re the gulf spill,if cutting the riser pipe increased the flow by 20%,say 4000 barrels,and they claim to be recovering 6000 barrels,then surely they are really only 2000 barrels a day better off!So best estimate would be 18000 barrels a day until sometime in August.Say 60 days,which is another 1,080,000 barrels.Which is roughly another 4 Exxon Valdez size spills!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-45596168207795099682010-06-06T09:02:20.887+08:002010-06-06T09:02:20.887+08:00Another great piece from Bob Herbert,New York Time...Another great piece from Bob Herbert,New York Times June 4 2010,"Disaster in the Amazon".This follows another article,"An Unnatural Disaster".This is well worth a read.Just a few excerpts. "The quest for oil is,by its nature,colossally destructive.And the giant oil companies,when left to their own devices,will treat even the MOST MAGNIFICENT OF NATURES WONDERS LIKE A SEWER.But the riches to be made are so vastly corrupting that governments refuse to impose the kinds of rigid oversight and safeguards that would mitigate the damage to the enviroment and its human and animal inhabitants." And,"The companies pretend that spills wont happen.They always say that their drilling operations are safe.They said that before drilling off Santa Barbara, and in the rainforest of Ecuador,and in the Gulf of Mexico and everywhere else they drill." And a spokesman for chevron said"...even if Texaco had caused some pollution,it had cleaned it up and reached an agreement with the Ecuadorian government that precluded further liability." Also,"The indigenous residents may be suffering,[they're in much worse shape than the people on the gulf coast],but the Chevron-Texaco crowd feels real good about itself.The big money was made,and the TRASH LEFT BEHIND."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601355103716900050.post-43026415311799517982010-06-06T08:32:43.622+08:002010-06-06T08:32:43.622+08:00"Woodside admits floating lng would save its ..."Woodside admits floating lng would save its shareholders billions",from the wilderness society website.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com