This reminds me of the time Texaco started dumping the crude oil excrement onto the roads in Ecuador.

They weren't trying to cause all that pollution, it's just that all the roads were so dusty they felt it was unsafe for the drivers...

 in the rainforest. 

It's not the oil drilling I have a problem with. It's the excessive greed that leads to shoddy standards and blatant disregard for the environment. There is only one side that.

- New York Times: “Gulf Dolphins Exposed to Oil Are Seriously Ill, Agency Says

- MSNBC: Gulf shrimp scarce this season (and see the Herald Tribune‘s report)

- Mother Jones: Eyeless shrimp are being found all over the Gulf

- NYT: Oil Spill Affected Gulf Fish’s Cell Function, Study Finds

- CBS:Expert: BP spill likely cause of sick Gulf fish (and see the Press Register’s report)

- “Study confirms oil from Deepwater spill entered food chain|

-Pensacola News Journal: “Sick fish” archive

- Agence France Presse: Mystery illnesses plague Louisiana oil spill crews

- MSNBC: Sea turtle deaths up along Gulf, joining dolphin trend

- MSNBC:Exclusive: Submarine Dive Finds Oil, Dead Sea Life at Bottom of Gulf of Mexico

- AP: BP oil spill the culprit for slow death of deep-sea coral, scientists say (and see the Guardian and AFP‘s write ups)

- A recent report also notes that there are flesh-eating bacteria in tar balls of BP oil washing up on Gulf beaches {bacterium is Vibrio vulnificans, not really 'flesh eating', but will kill if they get into a wound}.

I seriously dislike the OP's source, so I researched further. BP and its partners were extremely careless, and with as much at stake as was, our government should have had supervisors on those rigs inspecting and testing equipment function.

Now it really looks like fishing will take decades to return, if at all. BP changed CEO's. Wow. I am seriously less than impressed. That company needs to be supporting the economies of the affected states until their economies recover. That's what liability and responsibility mean.

I certainly wasn't making the point that reckless companies should skate on responsibility.  BP should be, and will be, paying for this for years.  And they didn't just change CEOs.  They also created a $20 Billion spill response fund (which they are adding $1.25B per quarter to until it reaches the $20B).  They posted their US assets as against the $20B as collateral.  The did that voluntarily and without any cap or legal restriction of future lawsuits in regards to the spills.  I'm not defending them, merely pointing out that they are taking some measure of responsibility for the disaster beyond "just changing CEOs".  

However, none of what you quoted changes the fact that we have to find balance between vitriol like "They won't stop until everything around us is pure poison." and the fact that without the output of those industries our societies don't exist.  Certainly historically without those industries we, as a species, don't begin to approach the quality of life we have reached in some parts of the world.  And going forward we can talk about alternative energy all day, but the fact remains that we're stuck with fossil fuels for decades regardless.  The alternative energy sources aren't ready for prime time, not at the level countries like the US, China, or the EU members need.  

The way to go is prevention of disasters and punishment and reparations when they do occur.  

Sorry but this is the way it has to be as of right now and until we find out how to get energy another way :/

"...We may not survive the change from a Type 0 planet to a Type 1 planet."

                                                                                                        -Michio Kaku

Government supervisors actually do go around testing and inspecting stuff all the time, to no positive effect.  Jumping on the commie bandwagon for more oversight and regulation is just the knee-jerk reaction these liberal trash mongers are hoping for.

It's minor, the expected outcome everyone paying attention knew was coming from day one.  The marshes are fucked(who'd a thunk?), the gulf proper largely didn't give a shit.  Minor mutations in bottom feeders and some of the more sensitive species, particularly ones that visit the coast line and thus got more contamination, are having issues.  This is pure media hype, economic impact is negligible, environmental impact isn't even as bad as the Exxon Valdez spill was.

It would be nice if they bothered to investigate it though.  They should have followed the paper trail, starting with the inspector that found and reported the problem, to whatever asshole manager it was along the chain that buried it to make his quota look better.  That particular POS needs to be in jail for manslaughter at the least, and it's all just sitting there in old work logs waiting to be used.  Unfortunately, prosecuting people responsible for criminal activities doesn't get them anywhere on the big government agenda, so they don't bother.

There were regulatory failures, and corporate decisionmaking that looked at short-term profit over long-term societal benefits.

Public corporations will never think of long-term societal benefits in any terms outside of their own short-term benefit.  This is why governments need to force corporations to care. (and why corporation spend millions to try and keep the government out, it's often a better investment then trying to be more competitive)

Note: private corporations such as Stardock are a different beast.

BS report

 I was there and there was a significant cleanup along the Saudi coast
 there were several european and american companies and equipment there to remove the oil
 and what I stated about fishing and shrimping returning the next year is true.
 

I don't believe these reports from self-serving authors.

Agreed.

Relocated to 'Politics-the environment' .... the correct forum....

The movie Gasland is total bullshit. If you didn't have your head buried in the LSM sand you would know that by now.