The environmental damage caused by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been grossly exaggerated, a growing body of experts is suggesting.
In a bold move, scientists have dismissed the torrent of grim predictions from President Obama and environmentalists as ‘hype’ with no data to back it up.
Instead, those working on the ground say the oil is breaking up far more quickly than expected and the number of birds being killed is low.
Just days after the Deepwater Horizon leak was capped two weeks ago, coastal grass began to grow back, as did trees which serve as breeding grounds for fish and other wildlife.
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1:49 pm EDT, July 31st, 2010 — Gulf Officials Optimistic That Cement Will Kill BP Well
Overhyped? Golly, what a surprise!:)
Never let a crisis go to waste.
mid island mike
This was never about the oil leak. Obama and his administration needed an excuse to demonize “big oil” and this crisis fell into his eager, grasping hands. He has accomplished so much – ran off the head executive of BP, shook down the company for 20 billion (lifted the cap on damages), stopped deep water drilling (eventually all off shore drilling), economically crippled Republican voting states, advanced his green agenda for alternative fuels that are not carbon based and will tie up “big oil” in so much red tape that they will run screaming to friendlier shores. The worst part of this is how the fire on the rig was fought – the damage to the pipes could have been avoided if the coast guard had been better prepared – it would appear that the major damage to the rig occurred when the fire was being fought. Methinks that over time the full story will be more about federal government incompetence than what BP did wrong. Cheers.