A couple of random thoughts
#1 Oil spill ruminations. BP the owner of the oilrig that has caused the biggest ecological damage in the Gulf of Mexico in history, says that as the shutoff valve is not working they will sue the manufacturer of the valve. How about this - the Government of the USA fine BP a huge sum of money for each day of the spill for not checking to see if the valve could work ,at regular intervals, like every month! AND the money for the fine must come from profits, sale of assets or other company sources and not from higher prices to consumers. This Company deserves to be bankrupted, after paying the fines and costs of cleanup, for this kind of negligence.
#2 Jaffer ruminations. Mr Jaffer is coming under great criticism for not registering as a lobbyist and for contacting his conservative buddies for grants for projects that his company was trying to shepherd through the bureaucracy. How about fining the MPS he spoke to for not reporting lobbying activity. It's in the Accountability Act that lobbying has to be reported!
#2 Jaffer ruminations. Mr Jaffer is coming under great criticism for not registering as a lobbyist and for contacting his conservative buddies for grants for projects that his company was trying to shepherd through the bureaucracy. How about fining the MPS he spoke to for not reporting lobbying activity. It's in the Accountability Act that lobbying has to be reported!
2 comments:
The Gulf of Mexico spill is heart breaking, and not just because I like seafood.
Making BP Oil pay big for this is only fair and I hope Obama will do it, but he'd better not forget that other corporate villain in the story, Halliburton, owned by none other than former VP Dickhead Cheney. It's his company who apparently didn't quite cap the well properly in the first place.
BP, for its part, claimed in its design phase that a spill of this magnitude was next to impossible. I'd like to know which government flunky ok'd their plan.
For us here, CBC concluded quite reasonably that this could indeed happen in Canada too, and warned that with Arctic drilling in the works, that would be a spill we'd have little capability of containing, with no equipment on hand to fight it.
But hey, drill baby drill. Gotta have our oil no matter the costs.
Well of course we gotta have our oil.
I suppose it is necessary to get the villains (corporations), make 'em pay and pay. Really, they should and hundreds if not thousands of people in the oil industry should be rendered jobless for their complicity in this crime -- staff from top to bottom should pay.
And all the dividends from profits being ploughed into pension funds adinistered by big business on behalf of teachers and workers pension funds should all be seriously diminished for their complicity in profiting from all big industry and corporations.
I pronounce myself complicitous because a portion of my pension comes from the profits of big oil among others.
To my credit, I never owned a car, van, truck, so I was not that grossly complicitous with big oil cartels compared with the selfish pigs who owned and drove motor vehicles and polluted the air that I breathe and my son breathes with their second-hand carbon monoxide. Owners and drivers of cars should be made to pay through the nose for this oil spill as well -- after all, it was they, with their petro demands that drove the wells in the first place. And there is the complicity of auto union workers making the vehicles that consume and polluute and demanding a bigger cut in the profits from big corporations that consume all that oil.
Why, it's as if everyone is a villain. Where I do I turn myself in?
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