Dear Editor:
For the past month, the news media has plagued us with the oil spill in the Gulf. My heavy heart goes out to the folks in that area for all the misfortune they have been subjected too over the past several years. And that does not even begin to tally the loss of life that can never be replaced. Unless you fail to recall these folks are still rebuilding from the hurricane. We are having a Haiti disaster on our own shores.
BP hasn't been able to slow down, curtail, or even remotely stop the flow of oil. Millions, yes, if not trillions of oil that has blown out of a well after an explosion on April 20.
"We are doing everything we know to stop the flow," quotes BP. Well that's not much. Where were the contingency plans, you know the "What if" scenario if the oil hits the fan? What did they learn after the disaster in Alaska? I know, BUTKUS!
All of this pointing of fingers is almost akin to the Congress with their tongues wagging as to who is to blame for the financial crisis are in. Or did you forget about that? Was this a plan of Obama? "Yes we can" to take the heat off of trillion dollar debt, a failed health care system; or how about a mortgage crisis that we are facing and millions of jobs lost. Obama and the Congress are blaming BP for no contingency plans for a disaster of mega proportion and they should. But and there is always a but where is the contingency plans in the Obama administration to put this country back on track for the mega disaster our country is facing. Perhaps they should take their heads out of the sand and do a reality check. You need to plug the holes, Obama, yea right, but which one?
From the pen of
K. Treger
Lehighton
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Just within the past few days we have learned that the Obama Administration and BP - who does not act without government approval - refused oil skimmer ships offered by The Netherlands to help clean up the gushing oil and help mitigate potential damage. This was what was used by the Saudi's to prevent oil splii damage and clean up when they had a massive spill. Why was this help refused? Gov. Jindal of Louisiana wanted to build miles and miles of sand berms to stop the oil before it hit the marshes and the shore. Permission DENIED by the Administration. Sure, a few token barriers have since been approved but they are too little, too late. A company in Maine has thousands and thousands of feet of oil boom ready to go and the capacity to make more and more. They have contacted the government weeks ago and are still waiting. A company in Houston has a small fleet od skimmer ships and barges lined up and ready to go. They have appealed to the Administration to be able to go to work on the cleanup. No Action by the Obama Administration. The local citizens on the Gulf are prohibited by the government from taking any clean up actions on their own. All Fact! Check it out!
There is plenty there for me to come to a conclusion that most of the inaction is politically driven by the Obama Administration to insure that a crisis of monumental proportions was allowed to develop and be used to advance his progressive political agenda. There may be some ineptness involved but to me, it is intentional neglect! Where am I wrong?