THREE MONTHS after poor regulation, shoddy construction and sleazy corporate attempts to avoid quality controls allowed British Petroleum to unleash an ecological disaster upon the Gulf, the leak is capped… for now.
Hooray.
To use a cliche, this is the tip of the iceberg that we have already run aground on. There’s years of environmental repair ahead of this, ASSUMING the cap holds and new leaks don’t form. It’s going to be a long, hard road. Don’t let this fall off your radar, and DON’T let British Petroleum out of the hot spot. They, not the Republicans, or the Democrats, or the federal government, or even the Marshall Islands, are the ones at fault.
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