Where We Live: The Big Spill
The US Justice Department has opened criminal investigations into the spill
The US Justice Department has opened criminal investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. And so the blame game begins - on what is now the largest oil spill in US history.
But here are the real questions: how will we clean up the gulf of mexico? And how do we stop the oil from flowing. After the failure of Top Hat and Top Kill - Federal officials are pulling out all the stops - even calling on stars like “Titanic” director James Cameron for their ideas.
Today, we’ll explore the oil spill and how people in Connecticut are involved in research and clean-up efforts.
We’ll get the latest on BP’s messy track record, and the next big plan to stop the leak. We’ll talk to the Seymour company responsible for making the oil containment booms, and a Coast Guard scientist studying the “fingerprints” of tar balls.
Join the conversation. How are you affected by what President Obama calls “the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history”?
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Listener email from Nina
to the question of whether the government should be more involved in the actual cleanup:
the government's role all along should have been to be a good regulator. among other things a good regulator imposes steep fines. if it had been a good regulator there would not have been the sloppiness that caused this spill and has been causing so many others. or, if such spills are truly unavoidable,then a good regulator would shut these operations down.
instead the oil companies were running the government, esp in the cheney-bush years, but obama has not changed the relationship very much. so now people are blaming the government for not being in charge of the actual clean-up instead of having the upside-down relationship with the oil companies
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