Environmental Nightmare for the entire Gulf!

From MSNBC.com

...The EPA's Kaufman, a designer of the Superfund legislation to clean up toxic waste, said New Orleans and the Gulf Coast face "an absolute catastrophic situation" that will take years to abate.

Louisiana, a center of the oil, gas and chemical industries, "was known for its very weak enforcement regulations," Kaufman said, and there are a number of landfills and storage areas containing "thousands of tons" of hazardous material to be leaked and spread.

"On top of that, you have dead bodies that are going to start to decompose, along with the material that was in industrial and household discharge, sewage, gasoline and waste oil from gas stations," he added. "You've got a witches' brew of contaminated water."

Given New Orleans's desperate straits, recovery teams will not be able to do anything with the toxic mess except pump it into the Gulf of Mexico, ensuring that the contamination will spread to a larger area, he said. "There's just no other place for it."(Emphasis mine)

So they pump this witch's brew out into the Gulf. It spreads to the white beaches of the Gulf, some pristine. Heavy metals are spread all over the Gulf. The marine contamination will be huge. Not only may New Orleans never be the same, but the Gulf may never be the same after we start dumping this crap into it.

Let us all point out that there is always a reason for the environmental supporting, tree hugging, animal loving hippies to stand up and fight. New Orleans, because of its anti environmental regulation stance will not only pollute itself, but the entire Gulf of Mexico. This is no longer acceptible.

"Yeah, let the market regulate itself! Tell the tree huggers to leave us alone!" Bullshit! No longer can they yell this nonsense.

•  Proud to be...

  .... a commie, pinko, tree hugging, liberal, enironmentalist!

  by gttim on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:53:06 AM PDT

•  And the poor people

  and wildlife will pay the price, while the rich politicians make more excuses.

  by Naturegal on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 08:16:42 AM PDT