tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post679565935331565610..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Former BP Boss Overseeing Minnesota Project Safety. And EnvironmentJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-28139112719576430562011-07-27T10:14:44.295-05:002011-07-27T10:14:44.295-05:00Here's a thought: a massive oil spill in the G...Here's a thought: a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico eliminates the need to protect a 'pristine' resource. Why object to continued drilling when the damage has already been done? Now, the same guy who presided over the Deepwater Horizon spill has been reassigned to work in an even cleaner and more heavily protected region. Maybe Tony Hayward has been sent to Minnesota and the Great Lakes to oversee the permanent contamination of our environment IN ORDER to blow the doors off full-scale resource exploitation across the entire region. With Koch Bros/tar sands pipelines in play, one [more] major spill could, at least in PR terms, pave the way for multiple additional mines -- why object to any one new proposed mine after an 'accident' has compromised the entire system and dealt a death blow to the core objective of preventing new pollution sources from hitting Lake Superior or the fairly clean Great Lakes as a system?<br /><br />Time to run Tony Hayward out of Minnesota.richnoreply@blogger.com