Exxon Valdez lawyer recounts ongoing horrors of oil spill
Cleanup crews in Prince William Sound, 1989 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill | Photo by Jim Brickett
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What a powerful story.
It's confounding and sad how many right-wingers just don't care about the environment, and therefore don't care about people. I'm convinced many right-leaning businessmen and politicians are sociopaths, and have their wiring misconnected. That would explain a lot, like why they are unresponsive to logical arguements and evidence to the contrary, and why they reject olive branches. We need a new way to deal with these miscreants.
While most folks recognized Friday as the 2nd anniversary of BP's Macondo Well blowout in the Gulf, it was not until Earth Day when the well sunk and the oil bean to flow uncontrollably. 20 Exxon Valdez sized spills later it was finally stopped. Then, as in Valdez on that Good Friday in 1989, the spill response effort was a made for tv mockery. Then as now BP was in charge of the spill respone effort. As the primary operator on the North Slope and manager of the TransAlaska pipeline, it was BP's responsibility to have a "state of the art" spill response system in place. Hope you enjoyed a bike ride on Earth Day, just don't fill up at BP in the future.
You want cheap oil. You want somebody to carry. Accidents do happen. Its sad that it happened and it was disastrous. So
everybody must think what is the root cause. Don't oppose pipe lines. double walled pipelines will be better solution. Still risk is everywhere.
<a href="http://www.dolphinhousea1.com">Girish Patil</a>