If history repeats itself…

“Experts are warning of ‘extinction,’ and the Canadian government had vowed to take ‘every possible measure’ to protect the whales. Could Canada have done more to protect the ocean and coastlines by holding BP to the same standard for offshore drilling safety as countries like Australia and the U.K.? That would have meant requiring BP to house a ‘capping stack’ near the new drilling site. These 130 tonne steel giants, covered in tentacle-like pipes, were developed to seal the kind of underwater spill that decimated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. As things stand, the nearest one is a two-week Atlantic crossing away, in the coastal city of Stavanger, Norway.”

 

Joel Ballard – National Observer – May 2018

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