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BP - oil spill: an overstated disaster?

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The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now deemed the largest marine oil spill ever, with some 4.9 million barrels which have escaped into the ocean. But after months of dire predictions about the effects of the spill on the sea and coast, something strange is happening. The oil is vanishing much more and much faster than anyone expected.

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  • Rachel MARSDEN, International political and communications strategist,
    writer and journalist
  • Patrick GOUGEON, Director of the London campus of ESCP Europe

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B. P. AND THE U.S. LOTS OF B. S.

by Anonyme - 02/09/2010 - 00:53

B.P. and the United States government are LYING to everybody. They say the Seafood and the Gulf of Mexico is clean that is not true. The United Commercial Fisherman's Associaton had the seafood and the water tested by Boston Chemical Data and it is contaminated still 9-1-2010 and will be for sometime. If you want to blame someone blame BILL CLINTON he signed into LAW DEEPWATER DRILLING and in that law that the United States Government would not get involved if there were an accident. Mr Barack Hussein Obama did his best not to get involved. You can go to LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK and get the TRUTH...

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