One clearly sees the character of these corporations in times of disaster. They have obviously spent billions developing extraction technologies, and virtually nothing on how to cope with what happens if it all goes wrong. Here is as clear an example as anyone could provide.
Dead Dolphins and Shrimp With No Eyes Found After BP Clean-up
EMILY DUGAN – The Independent (UK)
Hundreds of beached dolphin carcasses, shrimp with no eyes, contaminated fish, ancient corals caked in oil and some seriously unwell people are among the legacies that scientists are still uncovering in the wake of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill.
This week it will be three years since the first of 4.9 billion barrels of crude oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is now considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. As the scale of the ecological disaster unfolds, BP is appearing daily in a New Orleans federal court to battle over the extent of compensation it owes to the region.
Phi Beta Iota: Alert readers will recall that BP had a similar disaster elsewhere, and refused to change its practices. The Department of State was fully aware of the other earlier BP disaster, and helped cover it up. Absent integrity, we can expect no positive change in the public or private sector.
See Also:
Dolphin: 5 Lawmakers in Mississippi Die — and 10 Related to BP Oil Spill Dead….
Dolphin: Asphault Volcanos in Gult of Mexico — and Speculation About BP Oil Spill
Greg Palast, Big Oil, & PBS (Petroleum Broadcast System)
Gulf Oil Plume Video-Ticker, Maps, and Photos + PBS Suggestion-Collection from the Public
Michel Bauwens: Michael Klare on False Oil Boom and True Water Cost
Post-Katrina New Orleans Myths & Off-Shore Drilling
Worth a Look: Sick Fish in the Gulf of Mexico
