Foxes meet henhouse
May. 18th, 2010 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged Monday that the federal government doesn’t have the resources or expertise to deal with an oil spill 5,000 feet below the sea, and must largely depend on oil companies to deal with an incident of such magnitude.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/98209-offshore-drilling-agency-refuses-witness-for-senate-oil-spill-hearing
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I don't usually like conspiracy theories, but here's a nasty one. If the Gulf becomes an environmental lost cause, already too damaged for recovery -- then the oil companies have a good argument for Obama and Palin's drill baby drill there.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/98209-offshore-drilling-agency-refuses-witness-for-senate-oil-spill-hearing
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I don't usually like conspiracy theories, but here's a nasty one. If the Gulf becomes an environmental lost cause, already too damaged for recovery -- then the oil companies have a good argument for Obama and Palin's drill baby drill there.