The TTP going through 4 states aquifers is one of the dumbest things I can think of especially when this tar sands will NOT benefit Americans that are taking that awful risk....maybe too much money and power are dangerous to the rest of us and it is time for the common man to put a stop to this.

. . . As Papantonio points out, because BP has gotten away with this in large part because the current administration's DOJ refused to pursue criminal charges.

My Reichpublican friends all espouse the notion that the amount of oil to water ratio is so miniscule, they can't fathom why anyone would even be concerned.

To them I say, grab your kids and have a feast then.



Polish up that, ..., that, ... rose and put a new face on it. This is the definition of progress.

Caused by all that drilling..there are hundreds of deep well platforms in the Gulf, and even more abandoned ones, where the wells were simply left, not plugged.
Plus the leaks from all the pipelines on the bottom.

The methane leaks was a brief topic when BP had its live cam on the leaking wellhead.

Environmental atrocities like the BP oil spill will soon become a routine part of business as usual. After the eyes of the corporate media are off the issue, the politicians will stop posing and pretending to do something about the problem. And so it will be, environmental disaster after environmental disaster, until there are no more of us human beings left to watch the corporate nightly news.

I don't know if any of you all remember this little incident, but I believe it was Mitt Romney during the last presidential debates - I don't remember now if it was vs. Obama or the other Republican candidates, it doesn't matter - but he was talking about the Keystone XL, and saying shamelessly, as the abject corporate whore that he is, something like the following: "Why wouldn't you be so thrilled and delighted to sign such a deal into law?"

If we the people no longer have any meaningful say in our government, there may be nothing better to do than to simply sit back and watch the major corporations and their cronies and henchmen on Capitol Hill chop up the planet for firewood, for their own corporate fun and profit.

Rmoney probably did say something to that affect and I know all of the brainwashed drone Republis I know of would be all for any type of planetary raping in the name of profit, if they had there way. Fox Entertainment says regulations on such things are a bad thing. Guess what the drones say? The same.

And they openly admit they're leaving the planet worse off than the way they found it, but by-gosh, that's for the next generation to figure out. So cavalier and shortsighted about the whole matter.