Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate

eldavojohn writes "People in mainland Louisiana are seeing the beginnings of the oil's full effects on wildlife in the area. Sticky, rust-colored oil covers the reeds like a latex paint, indicating that the efforts to lay miles of floating booms to keep it away from the fragile marshes are useless. They are experiencing what the Plaquemines (mouth of Mississippi River) saw last week, and it now appears that their defenses were inadequate. Only time will tell how much worse it can get as BP still scrambles for a solution. NPR also ran a story critical of Obama's 'scientific approach' that he promised to use in office and how well it's being applied and holding up during this crisis."

Comments

This is a joke.

[Antisyzygy]

This wouldnt even be a problem if we would stop relying on oil. Government and industry should invest more money into sustainable eco-friendly energy rather than defense or the next best entertainment unit. There is NO reason we shouldnt be relying on high speed rail between cities, solar energy plants, geothermal energy plants, nuclear energy plants, and wind farms. Additionally, we could easily use ultra-capacitors to power electric cars that would take us in a range of 500 + miles and have fast recharging. If you ask me, the entire system is designed to make the most profit for people that are already extremely well off. Its a joke.

Re:Not very critical, actually.

[Ethanol-fueled]

Don't any of you know what's going on? This so-called disaster is just a smoke screen for setting up a secret weapon able to control and manipulate the flow of all information with its powerful AI.

How can we hold the NSA accountable for something they're doing in international waters? Nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Not very critical, actually.

[greg_barton]

Remember that there are still many "burrowed in" officials left over from the Bush administration, particularly in the Minerals Management Service, which had "oversight" in this case. Thankfully that should be rectified soon.

Re:Not very critical, actually.

[spun]

Wow, you fail. All climate change data is available for anyone to see. Anyone can look at the data and come to their own conclusions, of course, deniers have already made up their minds, so they don't need to look. If it doesn't fit their preconceived conclusions, it must be false anyhow.

Re:Not very critical, actually.

[spun]

I went for Hillary in the primary...