10 Reasons to Still Be Pissed Off About the BP Disaster

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— By Kate Sheppard

Tue Apr. 19, 2011 12:01 AM PDT

1. BP is gunning to get back to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. When the Department of Interior issued its first deepwater permit since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, it was for a well that BP owns half of. Earlier this month, company officials also announced that they are seeking an agreement with the US government to resume drilling at their 10 deepwater wells in the Gulf this July, arguing that they will follow tougher safety rules, the New York Times reported earlier this month. This comes even as the government is said to be considering manslaughter charges against the oil giant for the deaths of 11 workers last year.

2. People are sick. Nearly three-quarters of Gulf coast residents that the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental justice group, polled this year reported health concerns that they believe are related to the spill. Of the 954 residents in seven coastal communities, almost half said they had experienced health problems like coughing, skin and eye irritation, or headaches that are consistent with common symptoms of chemical exposure. While the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is conducting health monitoring for spill cleanup workers, residents in the areas closest to the spill are concerned that their own health problems have gone unattended.

3. Fish and other sea life in the Gulf are still struggling after the disaster. The death toll for dolphins and whales in the Gulf may have been 50 times higher than the number of bodies found, according to a recent paper in Conservation Letters. Earlier this year, a large number of dead dolphin calves were found on the coast, and scientists have linked many of those deaths to the oil disaster. Anglers are also reporting dark lesions, rotting fins, and discoloration in the fish they're catching in the Gulf, as the St. Petersburg Times reported last week.

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[FBaggins]

1. Are there people who *aren't* ? n/t

[stuntcat]

4. :((

I have inlaws who don't care even a tiny bit about this kind of screw-up. Nothing we do to the animals or the oceans can phase them. I mentioned once the 40,000 dying of starvation each day, their answer was a smiling "not at this table!" I tried to tell them about mountaintop removal, they said something like "that's way over there in the mountains with the stupid mountain people" even though the power from it comes to us, where WE live.
;(
It horrifies me seeing how selfish 'good' people can be. And this is my family, all up close in my life. Yet I'm supposed to have great hopes for humanity's goodness.
(sry, it's just got me so sad.)

[AtheistCrusader]

2. I still won't buy anything from them.

I try and keep 'up' on the reseller market too, so I'm not buying anything from them indirectly.

Fuck BP.

[jwirr]

3. Between BP and the radiation in Japan - we just stopped eating

fish we have not caught on our own hook.