>>1227422
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not really
Remember when we found out that Corexit actually makes the ocean more toxic when applied? Remember when the EPA demanded that BP use a better, approved product? And then remember how BP declined the demand and everybody promptly forgot about it? Now we have massive toxic underwater plumes floating around, 100% thanks to dispersants applied directly at the leak, applied to make the slick on the surface look much nicer.
It's little things like that. And the way BP started running the Coast Guard and police, chasing off reporters. And when it hired on fishermen, $30/hour for captains with a boat (no expenses paid), with the agreement that they couldn't talk about what they say and couldn't sue for anything. The government just kind of stood by. And they didn't do anything when we learned that BP's employees were completely incompetent at laying boom, as they'd never been trained. The National Guard were never really used, they could have laid it on the beaches, around wetlands, and built temporary barriers. (Okay, the federal government released the Guard, but the states never put them to use. Jindal whined that Obama wouldn't give him any troops, and Obama never replied or pushed the issue to deply them.) And right now, all the fishermen who work in cash -- reportedly, that's a majority of them -- aren't getting paid anything, because they can't prove their income to BP. Back when the spill started and it looked like a quick thing, a lot of them accepted a settlement for a few thousand dollars, with the agreement that they can never sue BP for anything ever again. And our government? That doesn't really same to register with them.
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