Efforts to Repel Gulf Oil Spill Are Described as Chaotic

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Efforts to Repel Gulf Oil Spill Are Described as Chaotic
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: June 14, 2010

GRAND ISLE, La. — Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials.

It was late May. Oil had been creeping into the passes around Grand Isle. Two fleets of fishing boats were supposed to be laying out boom, the long floating barriers to corral oil and protect the fragile marshes of Barataria Bay.

But the boats were gathered on the inland side of the bay — the wrong side — anchored idly as the oil oozed in from the Gulf of Mexico. BP officials said they had no way of contacting the workers on the boats, Mr. Bonano recalled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/science/earth/15cleanup.html?hp

[Chulanowa]

1. Because walkie-talkies cost money

And we can't have BP spending money on this, oh no. No no no no.

[Fumesucker]

3. And nobody in Louisiana has a fucking cellphone..

But it would require some actual intelligence to get worker's cell numbers so they can be contacted.

Or someone that gives the slightest fuck.

[Chulanowa]

6. After seeing the photos from Grand Isle on the Mother Jones blog...

I'm sadly certain there is a severe shortage of "give a fuck"



Things that make this former Gulf Coaster go "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"

[Fumesucker]

8. I haven't been to Grand Isle but I have been to Delacroix Island..

And yes, this makes me livid also..

[whyverne]

2. Most responses to unprecedented disasters covering 2000

square miles go much smoother. Damn Obama.

[Fumesucker]

4. No, damn BP..

They are the ones in charge of this..

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. Obama better take charge of this...

He's allowing his own political Waterloo. And it will make Bushs' Katrina look like good P.R.

[Fumesucker]

7. That would require interfering in the free market..

Are you some kind of communist or something?

[Gregin Orlando]

9. This is WAY worse than we are being told

There may be more of a threat from the air than the water in the Gulf. The far-reaching implications of this disaster have barely been touched upon by the corporate media. While the threat to wildlife and the economy have been mentioned, few outlets have mentioned the health risks to Gulf coast residents from breathing in toxic fumes when the oil hits shore. There are unconfirmed rumors that FEMA has been quietly discussing evacuation plans to clear the shores as far as 200 miles inland if the air becomes unfit to breathe. For more information, check out this article and others by this author: http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m6d15-Toxins-in-air-from-evaporating-oil-may-pose-greater-threat-to-Gulf-residents-than-oily-water