Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Climate Change and Environmental Issues BP Oil Spill

Check my icon and screen name and you'll see Florida listed as my location. Where did you pull the damaging the Alaskan environment vs. the Gulf environment issue from? I said that Congress recently passed legislation opening up areas that are known to be among the largest oil reserves in the world and that's where we'll get our oil once we're cutoff from Mideastern supplies. IMO- we will eventually be cutoff. Those people aren't rioting for "democracy," but rather food and opportunity.

If you were one of the fisherman, crabbers, oyster-men, restauranteurs, or businesses dependent upon the Gulf, you'd find it catastrophic. If you were one of the people that have been physically affected by the oil, microbes, and corexit, you'd have all the doom and gloom that you need.

Where do you get your information from? BP's full page propaganda adds? Take the time if interested and view some of the videos that I've posted. Most of these stories never made MSM. They were censored.

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So you do not consider the BP Oil Volcano to have been a catastrophic event, or to have had catastrophic consequences?

One wonders what you would consider to be a catastrophe !!!

I just hope that when you do find it, that I am quite far away from you.

Man persists in defining nature's time frames in terms of his own existence as so many here have ably demonstrated. >Mech

And when fishing comes back better than ever will you cede BP some credit JK ? >Mech

The Moncondo Spill was godsend (can I say that in Obama's America ?) for the OA. A "crisis it didn't let go to waste" the Obama Administration seized control of the runaway, staffed its control efforts with compeletely inexperienced "experts" that fudged and fuggled along as slowly as possible to create the needed excuse to shutdown exploration/development operations long enough for leased deepwater platforms to be made available to its big campaign contributors. Never mind the impact upon a Gulf longshore economy successfully struggling to recover from hurrican Katrina. Or, perhaps, because it was recovering from the depradations of decades of Demoncratic theft, extortion and mismanagement of billions of tax dollars intended to defending New Orleans from hurricane surge.

I predict Gulf fisheries will recover better than ever. Thanks to Katrina and Moncondo the Gulf fisheries have gotten some needed relief. For decades experts have warned the industry overfishing and by-catch was threatening the eco-system to no avail. Sadly, too many have drunk the "eco-wacko kool-aid" dispensed by the media regarding the state of Gulf beaches and inshore fisheries to the detriment of those businesses. But since when did this president - or the watermelons - care about hard-workng capitalistic american entrepreneurs ? >Mech

Why? And, that's a big "If" and not "when."

The "spill" wasn't a "godsend" to the people on the Gulf Coast. Incidentally, I voted for Nader in the last presidential election. IMO- Big Oil along with other financial interests run this country. BP directed the spill response, and government followed instructions. Coast Guard planes even sprayed corexit. Both BP and the government-IMO- are complicit in this tragedy and continued cover-up.

I hope that you're right.

JK,

"...BP directed the spill response, and government followed instructions...."

You really believe this ?

I'll stick by my conclusions. Moncondo "wasted" a lot of oil, yes. But the energy won't go to "waste". Bacteria will metabolize the oil. Krill will eat the bacteria. Small predators, (and large) will eat the krill. Larger fish will eat them and so on.

Cruel as it might sound, short-term fishing bans will slough off some fishermen, but those with the resources/stamina will survive. The Gulf fisheryo will recover - not so much from the Moncondo Spill - as from overfishing. It remains to be seen if those earning their living from the Gulf learn it isn't an infinite resource and agree to manage their take.

FWIW, in a former employment I spent a lot of time in LA and along the River. I enjoyed the people, the culture and the food. It hurts to know a lot of those friends I made have suffered so. Yet I know they're of a strong stock and culture that can weather this event as they've weathered so many past. >Mech