Red Tape Entangles Potential Assistance for the Prolonged Disaster in the Gulf
By Regan Caton Tuesday, June 29 2010 at 04:07PM
In times of disaster, the people of the United States have time and time again shown themselves to be resourceful, courageous and passionate, and the current BP oil disaster in the Gulf is no exception. However, as the hundreds and thousands of animals and plant life drown in a sea of viscous petrol, the overly-detailed selection process for solutions is drawing out any chance of rescue, now, when it is needed.
According to recent reports from BP, the company that operated the oil rig responsible for the spill has received as many as 80,000 suggestions to save the flora and fauna dying every day and slow or stop the long-term effects that the oil will have on the ocean region it floods.
BP has a team of experts 40 strong filtering through the suggestions.
What does this mean? The destruction wreaked on the Gulf compounds with every minute that passes, and a “team” of specialists spends precious minutes and hours reading and analyzing suggestions from engineers, , businesses and all walk of Americans. The time for action is now, not in a week, not in a month, and while efforts have been initiated, the reins have to be taken from the BP executives that caused this tragedy in the first place.
Bill Horne, a retired North Carolina engineer, offered up blue prints for a vacuum that would lead from a fireboat under the ocean. His plan has been all but ignored, and still the mess spreads.
What Does Prolonging Effects of the Spill Mean to the Future of the Ocean?
A dead zone grows in the ocean with every plankton that is trapped from rising to the surface to feed by the wall of oil floating in the water. A reduction of plankton, the basis of the food chain in the ocean, will have absolute and long-tem negative effects on the life in the ocean in this region. On a secondary level, the plankton that do manage to feed and survive could ingest the oil and pass it on to other organisms that feed on them.
The federal government has sped up payment of oil spill recovery funds, but funds or no; action is needed now, not when the BP team decides the best course to take
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Stop the red tape encumbrance and write your local legislator, or volunteer to send provisions or funds to the teams already working in the Gulf. Every action taken will bring us one step closer to a resolution in this tragedy.
Comments
Red tape bureaucracy is hindering the cleanup efforts and there should be an over ride of any red tape that gets in the way of any positive help offered.
Was just listening to NPR in my car on the way home. Mississippi Governor Barbour's interview was unbelievable. He ended with this and I pulled over to write it down. "But I think right now every oil company in the world says, we don't want to pay a 100 million a day to cut corners on drilling a well. I believe that's where the market system works. No one has more to lose on this well than BP."
This is the problem Governor, who has more to loose? You put BP"s profit before people, planet and in this case wildlife and the eco-system! Shame on you!