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Oil giant BP, the company behind the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, reported profits of $7.7 billion for the last quarter of 2011. Company executives and industry analysts sounded bullish about the company's future in a recent New York Times article, saying they had set aside enough money to compensate victims of the Gulf spill and had plans to expand drilling operations in the Gulf.
BP seems to be recovering nicely after the disaster, which killed 11 people and pumped 170 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But stories from the Gulf suggest that the region is anything but healed.
BP Hauls in $7.7 Billion in Profits, Gulf Fishermen Haul in Shrimp with No Eyes
Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:11 PM EST
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Our ability to prevent and respond to an oil spill hasn't improved much since the BP disaster two years ago. We are still skating on thin ice, yet Congress appears keen to expand drilling.
Expanding drilling might help boost BP's stock prices, but it won't do much to bring down oil prices. Oil is a global commodity, and America simply does not have enough of it to control its price, no matter how much we drill.
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#1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:12 PM ESTMore ENGO hypocrisy, McSpocky.
The only positive I can place on this article is for once, overfishing wasn't mentioned as the cause for shrimp with no eyes!
Interesting how environmentalists have conveniently closed theirs when it comes to the ObamaAdministration, and the free market environmentalists that make up the majority of the cabinet.
US Commerce Dept. is over flowing with free market environmental profiteers, and they coddle BP, Walmart, and US Cargill.
The Sierra Club accepts gas industry money, and EDF boasts of corporate partners including BP!
Time for grass roots environmentalists to realize these organizations are the 1%, and they donate!
Open your eyes.
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#2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:02 PM EST
This doesn't help anything either.
Since 1990, oil and gas companies have donated $238.7 million to candidates and parties, with 75% of the money going to Republicans.
Political Influence of Oil Companies
That's as of 2010. This year because of the Citizens United ruling, the oil money is going to be gushing into the political campaigns.
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"Crude corruption and oily businesses" ain't good for fishing or anybody wanting a good, morally-right survival on this planet.
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And what happens to the people that eat this kind of stuff without knowing, we will be seeing the repercussions of this for decades to come.
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#3 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:02 PM ESTExactly. I love seafood, but have been careful not to eat anything from the gulf since the accident. Also no more north Pacific fish either, for reasons that should be obvious, but I've heard no warnings on the mainstream media, the masses are still eating gulf shrimp, alaskan salmon, and tuna caught off Japan.
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turn to the east you get radioactive seafood,
turn west you get shrimps with no eyes.
look up the skies,you get chemtrails
on ground, if it is not drought and fire, it is blizzards, snow and ice
then it shakes with quakes and showers with acid rain
Is this paradise in hell or heaven on earth?
Y'know what I think? It is mis-management of epic proportion spelled OBAMA...Organised Banksters-American Mafia Association.
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#4 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:20 PM ESTSame answer I gave when you put this exact comment up on other seeds.
Of course, it's all President Obama's fault. Everything was great & wonderful prior to him, all wine & roses until that fateful day he was elected, it was only then that everything went to @!$%#. / S
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I think if he actually tried to "do something" about this stuff he would wind up like the last one who did (Kennedy).
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So when all this started, polluting the Water and the Earth was only 3 years ago Obama must have been reallybusy is that right, Mkollmann, Or were you home schooled by Faux.
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Obama is just a deception after the Bush-Cheney gang had run of steam and no longer effective in pushing any agenda. Obama's theme of "change" carried the underlying change in strategy.
Some people just want to be fooled at the time. They enjoy being the victim. Their right and freedom to be enslaved. So be it.
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So when all this started, polluting the Water and the Earth was only 3 years ago Obama must have been reallybusy is that right, Mkollmann, Or were you home schooled by Faux.
President Obama is the scapegoat for all the people you mindlessly are programmed by FAUX news each day. President Obama has done a lot of good for this country, despite the record levels of republican obstructionism. President Obama's Accomplishments
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