Sharon Feinstein

Let’s not forget that drilling off the US coast is down to the all promising President Obama in the first place, the man who has just reversed the ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores. Only last month he proudly announced an expansive new policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.
Now we know that BP didn’t meet the full safety checks and why did the Government not enforce absolute safety before allowing this massive project. Frankly who cares if BP are forced to pay in view of the fact that there are 400 species at risk from the mammoth oil spill, including dozens of rare birds, mammals and of course people. Louisiana’s seafood industry will be crippled and thousands of fishermen are on course to lose their livelihoods. Still belching 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the ocean, the black slick could reach Florida’s Atlantic beaches by Wednesday and then end up in the magnificent Keys. Does Obama think that by standing out in the pouring rain in Venice, trying to look like a latter day hero and directing US anger towards BP, he is exonerated, and we have somehow forgotten his role in all this. He is a massive disappointment, this man who promised to change the world and hail the dawn of a new era. I was never taken in by him and think Americans are rapidly losing faith too. Sadly the wildlife never got to vote and BP’s funds can’t help them now. We will not learn until nature forces it upon us and who knows what Doomsday scenarios that will bring.

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