Posted on 06/15/2010 11:37:44 AM PDT by jazminerose
Within about two weeks of the BP oil spill, a number of countries stepped up to offer assistance including the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
Research and technical expertise, booms, chemical dispersants, pumps, skimmers and wildlife treatment were offered. As the president insisted “everything possible” was being done to respond to the spill, offers of help were being flatly refused.
Just three days after the spill, the Dutch government offered to provide ships with oil-skimming booms and proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands. (Bobby Jindal got nowhere with the sand barrier idea either). In response, the Dutch embassy got a nice letter from the Obama administration saying: thanks, but no thanks.
How much devastation could have been avoided if early offers of help had been accepted?
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