No surprise to me. Growing up I lived a block away from a BP chemical plant and oil refinery. Every once in awhile there would be a strange smell or a fog. Once we were walking to school in a very thick fog, only to find out later that it was an accidental release of something, but we were told it was safe. A week later it was eating the paint off of the cars and houses in the neighborhood. Some how they talked the city into letting them put in deep wells to inject chemicals into. They spent time and money selling it to the citizens, saying how safe it would be. About 10 years later a girl who had worked for the EPA as an inspector at the plant came to work where my father worked. He asked her one day if she thought there were any problems with the wells and how safe they were. She said, "all I can tell is I wouldn't drink the ground water within a 20 mile radius of the plant. A few years later there were rumors of leaks in the tanks leaching chemicals into the ground water.. A few years later they sold both plants. AS a kid and as an adult I remember water used to overflow the holding ponds, when it rained a lot, into the river next to the plant, killing all of the grass and some other vegetation. They don't care. Money is all they are concerned with. I would expect no more from them and this is not surprise.

Earlier this morning, Lester Holt stated that there were 200,000 miles of booms already deployed, and another 500,000 available to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. I think he meant to say "feet" rather than "miles". 200,000 miles would be enough to go around the entire earth several times.

Louisiana Wetlands Protection

Recent Louisiana wetlands destruction from oil may be minimized in the future if the below ideas are reviewed by the US Government. I posted some links with pictures for quick review and first link is the site explaining the pictures and concept.

Regards

Ken

Wetlands restoration will produce an unstable or stable Mississippi River?

http://www.freewebs.com/wetlandsmiss/

Links to the Split Delta Conveyance Plan:

Split Delta Conveyance Channel

http://members.cox.net/pfsfst/Rivbar/Split%20Delta%20Conveyance%20Channels.JPG

Sketch Northwest Conveyance Channel

http://members.cox.net/pfsfst/Rivbar/Sketch%20Northwest%20Delta%20Conveyance%20channel%20w%20section.JPG

Sketch Northeast (S) Conveyance Channel

http://members.cox.net/pfsfst/Rivbar/Northeast%20Channel%20(South).JPG

Sketch Northeast (N) Conveyance Channel

http://members.cox.net/pfsfst/Rivbar/Sketch%20Northeast%20(N)%20Conveyance%20Channel.JPG

Results Northeast Conveyance Channel

http://members.cox.net/wetlandsrst/Results%20of%20Northeast%20Delta%20Conveyance%20Channel22.JPG

Geotubes

http://members.cox.net/pfsfst/Rivbar/geotube.doc

http://www.geotubes.com/