The American people and especially those along the Gulf need to make sure that this issue remains an issue until it is 100% cleaned up. BP has made a lot of promises and they need to be held accountable and deliver on their promise. We are still years away from recovering from this disaster and we must hold a fire to the Washington to ensure these promises are kept and not swept under the rug.
The coal and Oil industry has been pushing this fracting disinformation campaign because natural gas is their competitor. Fracting is nothing new and has been going on for decades with very few accidents. Certainly it should be carefully regulated to prevent future disasters but coal power should be replaced by natural gas as quickly as possible because it is much cleaner and way less environmentally destructive than coal or oil.
Remember that coal is now mined by raping the land and blowing the tops off of mountains. Coal emissions have terrible health consequences which can be eliminated by simply converting coal power plants to gas.
Gas is an excellent temporary solution while we develop renewables. If we stifle it's development, coal will be the only alternative.
We live down the peninsula in Santa Clara and did not know this issue was going now. Free organic compost sounds great, but it is hard to believe that it was toxic sludge. It would be a shame if Gavin Newsom's political ambitions are preventing the truth (whatever it may be) from coming to light.
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