Disaster Capitalism Hits the Gulf & the "Colorless, Ordorless Cloud" over Clatsop County...

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Tue, 06/15/2010 - 12:00am
Oregon LNG hasn't given up on its pipeline plans & from New Orleans BP stalls clean-up.

This morning's interview with the New Orleans Chapter of the Sierra Club flickered about three minutes in - storm, y'know...Jill Mastrototaro describes BP's clean-up efforts as less than adequate, unless it's clean-up in public relations terms that we are actually talking about.  this is Grand Guignol  'Disaster Capitalism'.  It is so bad  that at some point it almost seems like a cog in the Oil Industrial Machine...almost as though it were deliberate...   

Just to the North, LNG is not a dead issue.  And let's bear in mind, we won a battle, not the war to save ourselves from the liquefied natural gas cleptocracy.

In Coos Bay an Australian-owned company is one permit away from strip mining logged forestland for  chromite, zircon and garnet. Oregon Resources Corporation - catchy name?  -   will truck 700,000 tons of ore a year to a new plant 18 miles away,   doubtless contaminating streams and aquifers all the way to the bank with hexavalent chromium.  This stuff is a toxic chemical lethal to young fish and known to cause cancer in humans.    Government scientists say the risk has been overstated - but aren’t they supposed to be protectring the public from the depredation of the private sector?  And in less than ten years the resources will be tapped-out, the company decamped and the state left with clean-up costs and a mountain of lawsuits:  strip that.

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One of the reason BP refuses to do anything, in addition to the fact that they are fascist war-mongering earth destroyers is they now have a Margaret Thatcher conservative in power in the UK, who obviously doesn't give a damn about people or the environment or international relations. If you read BBC news, its plastered with divisive rhetoric of nonsense about how America hates England--they are trying to stir up nationalism. It would be nice to hear some analysis of this on your show in the near future. Love ya

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