Barack Obama hates black people.
Posted on 06/17/2010 9:42:02 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Since the past few weeks, British Petroleum has been attempting to plug the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Latest figures suggest that BP is losing about 40,000 barrels of oil a day. Response to the spill has been a huge media, public and government attention. It is now estimated that the cost of cleaning up the spill is about US $1 billion.
A new report in the United Kingdom Observer by John Vidal reveals a sharp contrast between the response to the Gulf of Mexico's spill with the daily oil spill in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The report says that the average daily oil spill in the Niger Delta region coupled with the attendant environmental consequences is much worse than the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, yet the region receives little or no attention. "More oil is spilled from the Delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico", the report says.
It gives recent examples of spill in the Niger Delta to include the May 1 ruptured ExxonMobil pipeline in Akwa Ibom with a loss of more than a million barrels of oil in seven days, the Shell Trans Niger pipeline as a result of attack, and a large oil slick found floating on Lake Adibawa in Bayelsa and another in Ogoni Land.
These spills have not received the proportionate attention that the Gulf of Mexico's spill has received. In response to the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there has been daily briefing by BP, the oil company and President Obama, the head of the government, which underscore the seriousness attached to such an incident.
Why is the response different in Nigeria? Or why is there an indifferent attitude in the country? In the report by the UK observer, a community leader was quoted as saying "oil companies do not value our lives; they want us all to die". We believe he is right, but we also know that oil companies will not value the lives of Nigerians in the Niger Delta more than the government would.
The response BP has given to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico derives from the value the US government attaches to both lives and the environment in the country. Oil companies operating in Nigeria will respond to the aspirations of Nigerians when the government does, through regulations, laws, activities and attitudes.
The report mentioned that oil companies in Nigeria cite damaged pipelines, vandalism, theft and general sabotage as the main reasons for oil spill in the Niger Delta. They argue that rusting and corroding pipelines, faulty storage tanks, and old well heads are responsible for only a small number of oil spills in the Niger Delta.
However, in the report, a spokesman for the government's national oil spill detection and response agency (NOSDRA) believes oil spill is common in the Niger Delta "due to lack of laws and enforcement measures within the existing political regime".
And we ask: Who will make and enforce the laws? The answer is simple-the government. The Nigerian government must take full responsibility for its behaviour and that of businesses, including foreign businesses, operating here in the country. Foreign firms will continue to operate with impunity in the areas of environment, immigration, workers rights etc until government stops them.
Barack Obama hates black people.
How very sad, as mother earth is destroyed so are its citizens. Thank God we value life here, our problem is the fool in charge...
And he still hasn’t called for the Skimmers.
By the way, after that ‘wonderful’ news conference last night, wonder where he is today? Nary hide nor hair of him.
...it’s not just the monkey, the organ grinder and his boss are the greater danger to us all and need exposing to have any good result from all this mess..
Do realize hundreds of skimmers are working the spill now? Skimmers were sent to the spill days after the fire.
They may not be Dutch Skimmers, but skimmers have been working this spill from the beginning. Not sent by President Obama of course, but by BP.
What is often labled as skimmers are two shrimp boats pulling boons, the kind set out along the beaches.
They haven't been trying to plug anything. They want to capture the oil.
Skimming operations at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident 17 May 2010 
Boats scour the surface of the Gulf of Mexico off Grand Isle, LA 
Shallow water skimming operations at the contaminated marsh at Pass A Loutre, LA (Nearest City: Venice) 
Workers use a skimmer to collect oil that has been funnelled by the booms in Perdido Bay near Orange Beach, AL. 14 June 2010 
Thanks!!!!!!
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