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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Oily Bastards
As executives of British Petroleum, Halliburton and Transocean tried to shift responsibility to (read: blame) each other in testimony at Senate committee hearings, an Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter dropped airlifted sandbags in efforts to dam off part of the marsh on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, Louisiana. (AP photo)
The people of Lafourche Parish are racing to build a barrier to protect their estuary, and bracing for the Gulf oil-spill to hit shore, the National Marine Fisheries Service has shut down most of the area to commercial and charter fishing.
Meanwhile, state regulators fined the BP oil refinery near Bellingham, Washington for 13 serious workplace safety violations. The move came a month after an explosion at another company's refinery in Anacortes killed seven workers.
BP’s safety record suggests they put cost-cutting ahead of safety on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Investigative journalist Tom Bower examined BP as part of his forthcoming book, “Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century.”
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 5/11/10, Host: Robin Young.
Every year, it's a weekend of emotional ambiguity marking two medical anniversaries with totally different outcomes.
More recently, a life saving surgery. In the distance, a reminder that one of the few potentially life saving amateur tools in which the public is trained fails 9 of 10 times.
The painful truth is that your best may not be enough to save a loved one. But because they are a loved one, you try... And live with the memory through your Sadderdays.
Earthquake, tsunami,
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