NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is seeking public comments and suggestions on how best to spend the billion dollars BP has to pay for restoration due to damage from the Deep Water Horizon blow out.
http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/...
Submit a comment or suggest a project here
Read what others have written here
http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/...
All in all there weren't that many comments, seemed like less than a hundred.
That's a hundred million a comment!
Though I've spent time out in the gulf on rigs and on boats I really don't know enough to make a non snarky suggestion.
Of course my thoughts go to the 11 guys that won't be coming back to their families.
roughnecking is good paying if dangerous work. Maybe they could pay a thousand guys that are blue collar workers and usually work those type of jobs a six figure income restoring the beaches and marshes for a hundred years? If they just put the money in an interest bearing account they could use the interest even at todays rates to pay a thousand guys six figures forever.
Better than tripping pipe for 12 hours shifts and they'd end up with more fingers.
Below is a wide angle video that looks like it's from the view of the derekman.
I do know the water is often shallow, waves develop quickly when the wind begins to blow and they come close together. I haven't been following closely but from the sounds of it environmental damgage was a lot less than originally thought. I'm sure there's some good way to spend a billion, any thoughts.