"Come on down to the Gulf, our beaches are fine, our seafood is great".

Did anyone REALLY believe all that oil would just disappear?
The shit-load of chemical stew they dumped, Corexit, or whatever they called it, as a dispersant and to hide/sink the oil is also likely to be a culprit in this eco-disaster.
Devastating in all respects.

I remember Haley Barbour making some idiotic pro BP statements as well.
Truth will out! It always does eventually.

Auburn researcher finds dangerous bacteria in tar balls from Gulf oil spill
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2012/03/auburn_researcher_finds_danger.html

was done by the republicans alone?

This is a crime committed by the corporatocracy that owns both parties in America. Even when we were told how "our leaders" got BP to put up $20B to mitigate this disaster, many of us called BS, warning that even though $20B was not going to be enough, we would never even see that much without criminal investigation and prosecution.

Here comes the chorus of "nobody could've predicted".

All you can be is outraged at what they do for your benefit or outraged at what they do for others benefit. These days your either an investor or a protester.

and they have....then they are as powerful as they want to be.
If we can't take back the government then we can do nothing but submit.

Ecological disasters on the scale of the BP spill ripple forward to subsequent generations of marine life, and those 'ripples' become tsunamis when the fauna population suffers the additional stress of fishing.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

our children. Thanks for this thread.

for the children - just the debt they ran up in their illegal wars.

what do they catch next year?

now unemployed.

I hope they all sue BP and the rest of scumbags.

Two reasons.

1 Contamination.
2. Remaining stocks cannot be depleted.

I do believe the cod fisheries have still not recovered in Newfoundland due to overfishing. This will be the same for the Gulf.

Note: After digging up a few articles, it sounds the like cod fishing problem has spread to New England. We may have to ban cod fishing in NE, just like the Canadians did in 1992 in Newfoundland and Labrador.