NOW Toronto: Crude awakening

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Crude awakening
This gusher will taint the turquoise Gulf forever

By Sheila Gostick


The uncapped spew of “expert” blarney and scientific blather about the mega-disaster in the Gulf of Mexico just injects another dose of slime into the killing stream.

Billions, trillions, even kajillions of dollars can’t resuscitate one single shrimp. Death is spreading across the ocean floor. The pathetic containment effort amounts to dragging a fork through the thin “sweet” petroleum oil as it passes through booms only to come out better emulsified with the saltwater and continue on its smothering way.

Like an underwater Vesuvius, the oil coats and chokes everything in its path. From the bottom up. Rockefeller/Exxon, Bush/Cheney and Anglo-Persian/British Petroleum oil men understand only the bottom line. Anything else living beneath their concern is doomed.

Under that water are the reefs formed of white brain coral. The conquering Spaniards carved building blocks out of it to construct the colonial city of Veracruz. There’s a saying in Mexico, “Solo Veracruz es bello.” (Only Veracruz is beautiful.) Not any more.

Although Veracruz is a major port, the water off the downtown pier was always transparent enough for young men to dive into and catch coins tossed by tourists from Mexico City. ...............(more)

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