May 2010
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“This is a company that views itself as above the law.”
– Apparently, BP doesn’t just view itself as above the law. It is above the law, according to Jeanne Pascal, an attorney at EPA’s Seattle office, who points out that BP has been involved in five major environmental “incidents” in the last decade. See her remarks in ...
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“A tragic and shocking event.”
– Professor E. J. Milner-Gulland, the chair of the Saiga Conservation Alliance, describing the discovery that 12,000 Saiga, our Endangered All-Star #26, have died in western Kazakstan over the past week. Speaking in a news release from the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature),...
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“With all due respect to the president, who is a very smart man, how is it...”
– Bob Herbert, in another fantastic column in the New York Times.
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“Where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together...”
– President Obama, in today’s press conference.
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“Helplessness”
– Great column by Bob Herbert in the NYT: “Spreading right along with the oil is a pervasive and dismaying sense of helplessness from our leaders in Washington.”
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“If We Are Going to Try to Save our Coast, We Have Got to Take Over.”
– Deano Bonano, chief of the Homeland Security Department for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, speaking to PBS Newshour’s Tom Bearden. See a full transcript of Bearden’s report here. Bonano’s remarks are a devastating indictment of both BP’s failures and the federal...
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“They’re wrong and they know it.”
– Rick Steiner, University of Alaska marine conservationist on NOAA’s failure to undertake research measurements of the extent of oil in the Gulf. From Dan Froomkin’s report at Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill: Government Remains Blind to Underwater Oil Hazard. Froomkin questions...
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BP's profits in 2007? $17.2 billion. →
“Slick Operator,” by Michael Isikoff and Michael Hirsch, Newsweek, 7 May 2010. Reporting that tells us, among other things, that BP’s “advisers” have included Leon Panetta, Christie Todd Whitman, George Mitchell, and Tom Daschle.
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Sack Salazar →
Important piece at Mongabay on the disastrous reign of Ken Salazar at Interior:
Anatomy of an Oil Disaster: Heckuva Job, Kenny! by Nikolas Kozloff
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“Boosterism breeds complacency and complacency breeds disaster.”
– Rep. Edward J. Markey (Democrat, MA), quoted in “U.S. Exempted BP’s Gulf of Mexico Drilling from Environmental Impact Study,” Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
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