The Corporate Environmental Catastrophe

On March 1, when we last wrote on this blog about the corporate polluting of the waterways, little did we know that the corporate nemesis would turn real bad policy on their part into an outright catastrophe. The BP oil company, virtually unregulated by Uncle Sam, and acting as the practical government of the Gulf of Mexico, ignored problems and took huge environmental risks in order to save a relative small amount of money, and have now ruined the entire Gulf through a massive and ongoing offshore oil runoff. The Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) made matters worst by allowing BP to use some of the most toxic chemical dispersant available in huge quantums. Instead of allowing the runoff oil to naturally coagulate so it stays on the water surface, thereby making it easier to skim off and clean up, the dispersant makes the oil sink to the bottom where it is more likely to harm the Gulf aquatic species, along with the dispersant itself. Moreover, the dangerous dispersant may eventually spread to other channels of water by way of the Gulf stream. Both the E.P.A. and BP have made a mess of the Gulf. It is time for the Obama administration to seize BP's assets, kick them out of the Gulf of Mexico and out of the nation, and start stringently regulating the corporate nemeses that are causing havoc to our environment and our economy.

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