[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : WATER POLLUTION : OIL SPILLS : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM: Enviros Want $5B from BP for Coastal Restoration
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- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:47 -0400 (EDT)
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ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION :
WATER POLLUTION :
OIL SPILLS :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM:
Enviros Want $5B from BP for Coastal Restoration
Enviros Want $5B from BP for Coastal Restoration
By CAIN BURDEAU
NEW ORLEANS
Associated Press
Bloomberg
Business Week
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H8OQ0G0.htm>
Environmentalists are calling on the White House to speed up the
restoration of the oil-damaged Mississippi River delta by getting BP PLC
to pay $5 billion now for environmental damage caused by its April 20
spill.
And U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., offered his own idea Wednesday on
how to use BP money to restore the Gulf Coast. He said BP should spend a
$9.9 billion tax deduction the company has said it will seek this year to
offset losses from the oil spill on restoring coastal Louisiana.
The Environmental Defense Fund, the National Audubon Society and the
National Wildlife Federation made their case Wednesday, which marked the
100th day of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by an
out-of-control BP well.
James Wilkins, a legal and policy expert at the Louisiana Sea Grant, an
extension of Louisiana State University, said the oil spill has brought
attention to the plight of coastal Louisiana.
"That may be the silver lining in this oil spill," he said.
For years, efforts to rebuild the badly eroded Mississippi River delta
have floundered due to a lack of money and thorough engineering plans on
how the restoration would be done. The delta has lost about 2,300 square
miles of land since the 1930s and wetlands continue to disappear.
The environmental groups said the $5 billion should be viewed as a "down
payment on expected payments for natural resource damages."
BP will be forced to pay for the harm the spill has caused to the
ecosystem. Teams are assessing how much damage the oil has wreaked on
birds, mammals, fish and the other wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico and the
government will present a bill to BP based on the damage.
Commentary: Politics won't fix BP oil spill, technology will
By Fred Grimm
The Miami Herald
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/28/1751119/
commentary-politics-wont-fix-bp.html#ixzz0vBCi9kzP>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/34d83tm>
Witchcraft accusations account for 40 percent of the caseload in Central
African Republic courts. Not that the judiciary necessarily believes
defendants cast hexes on their neighbors. Judges preside over these cases,
however unscientific, to keep the rabble from lynching folks blamed for
disease, natural disasters or other unhappy occurrences.
<snip>
Americans prefer a political answer, even if the problem, like the Gulf
oil spill, demands a technical solution.
What else accounts for last week's special session of the Florida
Legislature, a collision of inane political reactions to the spill, ending
in a gusher of embarrassment after just 51 minutes?
Early in the Gulf disaster, America's political sorcerers tried to hex
President Barack Obama into a presidential tantrum, as if an
uncharacteristic show of anger might plug a gusher 5,000 feet down.
<snip>
Jindal had campaigned furiously for federal approval and BP funding to
build 128 miles of sand barriers to keep the oil off Louisiana's coast --
without bothering with scientific input.
"I don't know of a coastal scientist who thinks this project is a good
idea," said Rob Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed
Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
Denise Reed, director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental
Sciences at the University of New Orleans, said Friday she worried the
berm project would exhaust finite deposits of coastal sand needed to
repair the state's barrier islands -- a project with actual scientific
backing. She worried that another Jindal proposal, to reinforce his berm
with rocks, would permanently damage the coastal environment.
But science, in Louisiana, has been supplanted by political ruckus. Jindal
yelled that the reluctant federal government was reacting with
Katrina-like indifference to Louisiana's plight. He cowed the Obama
administration into approving the first 40 miles of his berm.
Officials Fear Oil Cleanup Is Scaling Back
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYuj3c9MsTY>
Environmental Lawyers Weigh BP's Liability in Gulf
PBS News Hour
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MeYCTZkcYM&NR=1>
Environmental groups propose framework for merging oil spill response,
coastal restoration
Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 6:00 AM
Chris Kirkham
The Times-Picayune
<http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/
2010/07/environmental_groups_propose_f.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/28msgcq>
Three of the nation's most influential environmental groups on Wednesday
called for the Obama administration and Congress to speed up funding to
begin construction on long-awaited coastal restoration projects in the
wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including the creation of a $5
billion BP escrow account to jump-start the process.
The Environmental Defense Fund, the National Audubon Society and the
National Wildlife Federation proposed a plan aimed at merging the
long-term oil spill restoration process with already-existing, yet
unfunded, plans to rebuild Louisiana's tattered coastal wetlands - and
doing it quickly.
Share In addition to the $5 billion escrow account, the groups are asking
Congress to direct the proceeds from BP's Clean Water Act violations -
potentially up to $4,300 per barrel spilled - toward funding restoration
in Louisiana and along the Gulf coast. And they are asking Congress to
appropriate an additional $500 million from the Oil Spill Liability Trust
Fund to begin funding a suite of coastal restoration projects that were
authorized in 2007, but have barely gotten off the ground.
The goal is to have funds available immediately, so that restoration work
can begin as the federal government embarks on what will likely be a
lengthy, years-long assessment of damages to the Gulf Coast's natural
resources.
"We cannot wait for five, 10 or 15 years as the system continues to
decline," said Karla Raettig, the national campaign director for coastal
Louisiana restoration with the National Wildlife Federation.
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