he becomes inclined to do something useful while environmental damage is being compunded by Hayward's use of Corexit (
over a million gallons as of June 6).
CEO Hayward's goal: Stall an intelligent, serious engineering-design fix to the oil spill, until hurricane(s) arrive to disperse the estimated spilled 39,000,000 gallons X $100/gal =~ $4 Billion fine.
He's been using Corexit incessantly to break up the evidence, indifferent to environmental impacts; a hurricane will disperse his oil-spill, mix it with other spills or sea-leakage, and make it more difficult to assess fines.
He's also not allowed a scientific measurement of the flow from the BOP.
I consider Obama's inaction on enforcing EPA's Corexit order as complicity in this matter. He says he's talking to experts to find out "Whose Ass to kick"...but besides the "tough talk" all I see in deeds from him is
SITTING ON HIS OWN ASS and
KISSING of CORPORATE ASS, when he doesn't even make a
MINIMAL effort to stop BP's CEO from using a poison.
Disgusting, especially since he's allowed conflicted BP to continue oversight of the largest environmental disaster in America. I don't believe Obama when he says "every key action must be approved by the Feds." This inaction on Corexit -- at the expense of life, no matter what political strategy Obama may think he's playing with BP -- will probably allow the liar, "there are no plumes" Tony Hayward to get away with a large reduction in the fines his company now faces.
Get real Obama; stop behaving as if you take orders from DLC trash Rahm Emanuel and pretend you actually care about the environment and the people that elected you by a 20 million vote margin.
Pretend you're the President of the USA and not a stooge of RE and British Petroleum.
Take some MINIMAL action wrt Hayward's defiance of the EPA corexit order.
It's not sufficient merely to fine BP; it's about an expediency of protecting the environment by stopping the corexit use A.S.A.P.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8522262Three More Reasons for the President to Take Control over BP's Gulf OperationRobert Reich 6/9/10 12:04 PM
1 -- Why hasn’t BP moved more of its rigs and tankers to the site? Because BP’s first responsibility is to maximize shareholder value, and moving more rigs and tankers would be too expensive. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s man on the scene, said BP planned to move another rig to the spill site June 14, which would enable the company to boost its capacity to collect oil from the ruptured well to 28,000 barrels (1.18 million gallons/4.45 million liters) a day.
2 -- Why isn’t BP leveling with the American people about how many barrels of oil is gushing into the Gulf? Because BP’s first responsibility is to its shareholders, and a bigger leak means more liability. Government scientists estimate the leak spews 12,000-19,000 barrels a day, with one estimate as high as 25,000 barrels. BP says it’s not nearly this much.
3 -- Why isn’t BP acknowledging a huge plume of oil developing deep under water? Ditto. On Tuesday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers reported subsurface oil as far as 142 miles from the leaking Gulf well, the first clear confirmation of such a plume. On Wednesday, BP rejected the report, insisting that it has not found any significant concentration of crude under the surface. “We haven’t found any large concentrations of oil under the sea. To my knowledge, no one has,” BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on NBC’s TODAY show.