‘The BP spill effects will be largely gone in 2-3 years. “
Perhaps the surface spill will be gone in 2-3 years. The wildlife and fish stock will not be. Nor will the economies of the gulf states be returned to normal. Heck the drilling platforms are just now starting to move out. With the long term contracts there is no way they’ll be back in that short of a time.
Considering it takes 2-3 years to build a drilling platform an entire industry is at risk. That industry has a whole lot of very powerful people who want to see it gone.
Yes, they will. There is PLENTY of data from multiple incidents that shows that ecological recovery is rapid.
After the Ixtoc spill, in the affected shoreline areas of Texas, NO difference could be detected after two years. I've posted the link to the Texas Bureau of Land Management studies elsewhere, but here's the URL once again :
http://invertebrates.si.edu/mms/reports/IXTOC_exec.pdf
"Nor will the economies of the gulf states be returned to normal. Heck the drilling platforms are just now starting to move out. With the long term contracts there is no way they’ll be back in that short of a time. Considering it takes 2-3 years to build a drilling platform an entire industry is at risk. That industry has a whole lot of very powerful people who want to see it gone."
Yes, that's all true, but those aren't ecological effects, which is what I was referring to. Those are political effects, instituted by socialists to increase the power of government.