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To: koan who wrote (73198)	4/30/2010 12:11:33 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Hello, The Gulf Oil Spill Is Obama's Katrina businessinsider.com

To: koan who wrote (73198)	4/30/2010 12:30:33 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

The Oil Storm newyorker.com

To: koan who wrote (73198)	4/30/2010 2:32:51 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

To understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana's coast from the oil that began washing ashore Thursday, pollution clean-up veterans offered this starting point: Forget the word "spill." "This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse." It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more. If that prediction holds, much of the state's southeastern coast will become a world-watched environmental battleground that hasn't been seen in the United States since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska 21 years ago... nola.com

To: koan who wrote (73198)	4/30/2010 2:42:51 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

An interesting perspective from an Alaska fisherman -- shared on a big New Orleans newspaper website... nola.com I am an Alaskan Fisherman who lost my fishery because of the Exxon Valdez spill and was never adequately compensated. Here's what Gulf residents can expect: 1) BP and the CG will (and have been) underreporting the actual size of the spill 2) Brave and articulate spokesmen/women from BP will stand at a microphone and declare "we will make you whole". And then they spend 20 years litigating the exact opposite. 3) The oil will kill and kill and kill beyond your wildest expectations. Long lasting, perhaps permanent damage will result. We still have unrecovered fisheries and oil to be found up here in Alaska. 4) The response itself will get lots of coverage, but in reality it is far beyond the capability of humans with mechanical devices (or dispersants, which studies have shown to be extremely toxic and harmful) to deal with. Little skimmers taking 50 foot bites of sheen don't have much effect. The wind will drive the mousse to shore. 5) People will discover in the end that the oil spill response plans that are in place are woefully inadequate, and that if industry spent the right amount of money on prevention, the dollar would go much further. 6) The driving force for these types of failures is corporate greed. The public is deceived into thinking that there are solutions for oil spills when in fact there are not. Lobbyists write laws to allow this to happen. The public domain will suffer far longer than a balance sheet for BP. My heart goes out to all who are about to be severely impacted. Posted by Alaska Fisherman April 29, 2010, 8:55PM