{"id":9010,"date":"2010-05-06T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/the-cleanup-that-wasnt\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T17:45:02","slug":"the-cleanup-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/the-cleanup-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleanup That Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/91692\/The-Cleanup-That-Wasnt'>The Cleanup That Wasn&#8217;t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a title=\"Despairwear T-Shirt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/deviall1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ep.yimg.com\/ca\/I\/demotivators_2105_32516\" align=\"text-top\" height=\"216\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently BP is far more culpable in the handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill than many think, and to add fuel to the fire, they were also the main culprit in the Exxon <em>Valdex<\/em> disaster.  Asshats.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;[C]ontaining spilled oil is really quite simple and easy [&hellip;] but not  at all cheap. And BP is cheap. Deadly cheap.&rdquo; Investigative journalist  Greg Palast (<a>wiki<\/a>),  who <a>investigated  the Exxon-Valdez spill<\/a>, on how it and the Gulf spill could have  been managed: <a>&ldquo;Slick  Operator: The BP I&rsquo;ve Known Too Well&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in a related bit of ick from <em>Wired<\/em>: <a>&ldquo;Toxic  Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better Alternative&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleanup That Wasn&#8217;t Apparently BP is far more culpable in the handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill than many think, and to add fuel to the fire, they were also the main culprit in the Exxon Valdex disaster. Asshats. &ldquo;[C]ontaining spilled oil is really quite simple and easy [&hellip;] but not at all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/the-cleanup-that-wasnt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cleanup That Wasn&#8217;t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}