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To: mojitojoe

Note that the words “in low concentrations” were buried far down in the story. Left out of the coverage was the NOAA’s reopening several areas to fishing yesterday.


9 posted on 06/08/2010 11:44:19 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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Blinders, take them off. The Chicago thugs have got NOAA in their pocket. NOAA isn’t what it used to be.

Obama’s new hotshot at NOAA

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2008/12/obamas-new-ocea.html

Obama Picks For Science Advisor, NOAA Head Strong on Climate Change

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/obama-science-advisor-noaa-head-picks-strong-on-climate-change.php

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Admin-Warned-by-NOAA-by-Rob-Kall-100504-678.html

Former NOAA oil spill cleanup boss says Obama waited too long in Gulf disaster

Why didn’t federal officials implement an oil spill clean up plan they’ve had on the books since 1994 as soon as possible after crude began pumping into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and sinking of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 53 miles south of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico?

The Mobile Register reports that Ron Gouget, who formerly managed the oil spill cleanup department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as a similar unit for the state of Louisiana, is criticizing the Obama White House’s failure to act according to existing government plans in the event of a spill in the area now being deluged with thousands of barrels of crude oil every day.

Gouget said when he was at NOAA, the agency created a plan that required burning off an oil spill in the region in its earliest stage, if the prevailing winds would not push the smoke and soot from the operation inland. The plan is still in effect, but was not activated last week by NOAA

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Former-NOAA-oil-spill-cleanup-boss-says-Obama-waited-too-long-in-Gulf-disaster—92631189.html#ixzz0qI10xzi1

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Former-NOAA-oil-spill-cleanup-boss-says-Obama-waited-too-long-in-Gulf-disaster—92631189.html#ixzz0qI0tlPvy

Where Will Obama Lead NOAA?
Weather and oceans agency awaits new head

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2008/12/obama_and_noaa.html


14 posted on 06/08/2010 12:01:45 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ArmstedFragg

in low concentrations
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What are “low” concentrations?


16 posted on 06/08/2010 12:02:55 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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