Amateur Video of the Gulf Show Full Scale of Disaster. Thanks, BP. Thanks a Lot.
BP has been desperately trying to downplay the sheer scale of the disaster, and the media has helped by not showing the complete picture. I think everyone’s noticed the way the story has slowly disappeared from the headlines, but the gusher has not stopped flowing: indeed, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil every day into our largest fishery and the engine of the Gulf Stream. This isn’t a local or national disaster: it’s a GLOBAL disaster.
The video above is amateur video shot by a pilot flying over the Gulf. More at Daily Kos, but here’s the money quote from John Wathen, the guy who shot the video and is blowing the whistle:
We counted 30 boats in the pictures. All floating around while this stuff was headed for shore. No-body seemed to be able to do anything about it.
For the first time in my Environmental career I found myself using the word hopeless.
We can’t stop this.
There’s no way to prevent this from hitting our shorelines.
The best I think we can do is minimize the impact. Learn from our mistakes.
But we won’t learn from our mistakes. We never do. already BP is casting blame and trying to minimize their culpability. The media’s helping. Same as it ever was.
Game over.
