Shuttled over to the Village...errands and mail....yet another camera came...Kodak Play Sport...it's bigger and heavier than I thought....but okay..waterproof, and does hd clips, and I should be able to digiscope with it....project for tomorrow....Shuttled back...hopped off near Ozone Beach, Camp 4 stop...quiet...asked at work if I took any pics today?...nope....a ten minute snooze before work...sunny overcast warm, at lunch, clear blue....at Lunch: perched sideways on Ozone Boulder, and had the Beach View to myself...Merced up to the Boulder's edge again...quiet....Robins, Sandpipers about....Grosbeak Pair perched awaysaway...pics....and then Sandpiper...pics....a kinda quiet easy going day....observed to a friend that maybe those are the best kind...though I almost needed the Heimlich!...ate a cookie too fast at break...tourists took little notice, and once recovered, I finished the cookie...
Clearly, there's a conflict of interest in having BP try to do its own repairs and clean up, and a future policy should establish an oil emergency agency, with all the equipment and personal for any contingency. Actually, I thought there was such a thing, and am a bit mystified where it is. There are any number of environmental groups with plans and equipment and personal ready to go in the event of a spill--posted up previous link to the San Francisco group...brb...
Fauna and Flora has now attention from these groups, but I have no idea if oil technology has independent groups that provide know how...well...there's Kevin Costner's invention, but actually that's the the kind of creative forethought in response to previous spills one would appreciate.
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“Everywhere you look, if you look, you start seeing these conflicts of interest in how this disaster is getting handled,” Mr. Kirschenfeld said. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there is just too much overlap between these people.”
Conflict of Interest Worries Raised in Spill Tests
John M. Broder, Andrew W. Lehren and Michael Luo contributed reporting.
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Still, Alaska came away from the disaster with some valuable lessons. The state is much more prepared to deal with a future disaster because it has a huge response apparatus still in place. The system involves a flotilla of fishermen ready to go in the case of another disaster, including 350 vessels under contract ready to participate in a response.
21 years after Exxon Valdez led to boycott, Gulf oil spill yet to resonate at BP gas stations
By John Antczak, AP
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That from site called, Accidents and Disasters--one never quite knows when a Heimlich is required, as I can say from experience, beware blue sunny days!
Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirge-like main. The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. --Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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