What are your thoughts on BP, The response, the actions, the ecosystem and fisheries

[LuckyLady]

I am not sure what to think some of me wants to believe everything is ok and somethings make me think they are not ...

What side of the fence are you on? What is your thoughts??

[jaws]

It's funny how it was part of our everyday news for months, now you don't hear A word about it. I'm sure the people that live on the Gulf coast know how it really is. I'm sure it's not over for them by A long shot.

[Big Fish Billy]

I'm sure the bulk of it is laying on the ocean floor, in canyons and such....luckily no hurricanes blew through this year, not sure what will happen when they do...the BP station in town is gone, as are a few in neighboring towns...not sure what that means...

[LuckyLady]

I'm sure the bulk of it is laying on the ocean floor, in canyons and such....luckily no hurricanes blew through this year, not sure what will happen when they do...the BP station in town is gone, as are a few in neighboring towns...not sure what that means...

Here is an editoral that I received in my email the other day


Jane's affliction

In some respects, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill must have looked like a blessing to Dr. Jane Lubchenco and her NOAA colleagues.

Of course, not right away, when no one knew what kind of toll it might take. But after the well was capped and wildlife seemed to have stayed afloat tolerably well, and tourism began to return to the coast, the federal agency ought to have looked upon the spill as a great public distraction from what their left hand was doing in the Northeast.

Just before the gulf spill, fishermen in New England were finally making headway after years of complaints that NOAA's enforcement arm was overzealous in its punitive measures against the fishing industry, from fishermen to a local auction house.

An internal review put Dale Jones, NOAA's top cop, under scrutiny, and he responded by shredding 75 percent of his own documents. Though his unauthorized "shredding party" was not found to be an obstruction of justice, it was not appropriate behavior, and he was punished by being reassigned to another six-figure post at the agency. Indeed, no one at NOAA has been fired or prosecuted more than a year after the investigation began.

Lubchenco has flat-out refused to answer questions on the subject.

So what's to stop this all from happening again if the head of the agency takes a myopic view of widespread corruption?

I am keeping my fingers crossed (because that's my last option) that this story is finally breaking into the mainstream news.

Last night, CBS news reported on the investigation. It's a topic that most certainly falls under the jurisdiction of NBC Nightly News' "Fleecing of America."

Things go wrong in vast bureaucracies. You are bound to run across a bad egg from time to time. What we as taxpayers should not tolerate is the lack of accountability and consequences for what happened.
Thank you for your time.
Jessica Hathaway
Editor in chief, National Fisherman
www.nationalfisherman.com
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[seapower]

I just got off the phone with someone that in our course of conversation said that BP hasn't made good on the money's that were promised to be paid to those down there hit severly. Fishermen commercial and charter. I don't know how to look that kinda stuff up, but it sure got quiet quick. Frank

[turbocc]

I work on a transocean/bp rig and we hope to start drilling in a few weeks. We have spent the last few months doing major overhauls on equiptment.

BP shouldnt pay a dime to the to anyone that can't show a tax return from last year. Many of these fishermen havn't fished in years and now want to take advantage of the situation. Many of the hotels on the coast were turning down customers because it is easier to get a check and not have to pay service hands and grounds keepers for the upkeep of the hotel.

The spill was bad and extremely unfortunate but i assure u the safty and protection to the enviroment is top priority on the rigs.

[LuckyLady]

I work on a transocean/bp rig and we hope to start drilling in a few weeks. We have spent the last few months doing major overhauls on equiptment.

BP shouldnt pay a dime to the to anyone that can't show a tax return from last year. Many of these fishermen havn't fished in years and now want to take advantage of the situation. Many of the hotels on the coast were turning down customers because it is easier to get a check and not have to pay service hands and grounds keepers for the upkeep of the hotel.

The spill was bad and extremely unfortunate but i assure u the safty and protection to the enviroment is top priority on the rigs.

I agree and couldn't of said it better. Sadly there is always going to be hands out where they don't belong. I think some benefited pretty well from. The situation by being put to work rather than out of work. Some made more helping and working to clean up situations than their business could even produce sadly there will always be. People looking for hand outs

[marine4003]

when is the last time ANY major corporation was held accountable for its actions? aside from a petty fine and slap on the wrist,its business as usual, the effect of the disppertants is what worries me,oil will take years to go..but man made chemicals dumped at amounts never before used..thats the question. BP is one hell of a large corporation and has many pols in its pockets,and to think both BP and the Govt are being fully forthcoming..now thats a laugh.

[Fortunate One]

I saw on the news 17 dead baby dolphins, either stillborn or dead soon after birth, have washed up on the beaches of Mississippi and Alabama.

How many are crab food that didn't make it to shore?

They are going to do autopsies to see if they can determine the cause.

I've read where 90% of that oil is still there in the gulf.

Scientists estimate that last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico killed more than 20 percent of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna. What's going to happen this year?

I think the effect of the spill will impact the ecosystem for years to come and we're just beginning to see the result of this disaster.

As far as BP paying any type of pollution penalties...... if the Exxon Valdez case is the standard, BP has nothing to really worry about.

But spill a gallon of diesel as your fueling your boat and let the environmental police see it, then good luck to you.