Posted on 06/10/2010 6:57:34 AM PDT by Bulwinkle
PORTLAND — State officials and other Mainers are eager for a chance to help fight and clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has more than two miles of absorbent boom ready to go. It also wants to send oil-skimming barges and a team of trained responders.
“We’re waiting. We’ve got trained people, we’ve got equipment,” said Barbara Parker, director of response services for the DEP. “I’ve talked to people in other New England states. We’re all waiting. We can’t just go. We have to be asked.”...
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So why hasn’t FEMA asked them to get involved?
Follow the bouncing ball, never let a crisis go to waste:
Oil well explosion -> oil leak -> gusher -> crisis -> let it leak -> cap and trade.
THIS bttt
How many posts have I seen with multiple companies and entrepeneurs who have simple and viable solutions to clean up this mess. All turned down and the problem’s exponentially worse.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Øbama has used this as a political tool to prolong the situation and eventually extend him more power. Parallel to the economic disaster he’s put the country in, the more miserable we the people are, the better it is for him.
Burn in HELL, you commie crotchfruit— and every one of your supporters, too!
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