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MSNBCAt a lab on Grand Isle, La., at the edge of Barataria Bay, biologists hoping to help save the oil-soiled marshlands are at the ready with
a vat containing 30,000 gallons of homegrown oil-eating bacteria. But it’s been weeks since the oil started washing up here, and still they await final clearance to begin work.
It’s frustrating for the scientists, who plan to spray large sections of the soiled marsh with this microbial stew — consisting of nutrients and three naturally occurring bacteria that eat oil — to help rid the
fragile ecosystem of toxic oil.
This approach — known as bioremediation — is effective, especially if it is done soon after the oiling, they say. And it does less damage than some of the traditional methods used in marsh cleanup, such as burning and skimming.
But getting approval from the bureaucracy assembled to respond to the BP oil spill is slower than trudging through marsh mud in waders.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37934128/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/
I am posting this to show the corporate media narrative at work attacking the Obama administration, and how even liberals may buy into this narrative. Now think about it. What is being proposed is to unleash an artificially grown bacteria into a fragile ecosystem. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? First, does it work? Second, even if it does work, what happens to this bacteria in a fragile ecosystem? Third, what happens when the oil is gone, does the bacteria obediently die away?
This story is on the front page of MSNBC, and the focus on the article is an attack on government regulations against simply allowing folks to unleash a lab grown bacteria into a fragile ecosystem. Look at the comments that follow, which rail against BIG GOVERNMENT!
So, instead of the BP oil disaster being about our over dependence on oil, the power of oil companies, and lax and non-existent regulation of deep ocean drilling, the narrative is about government over regulation!
Yes, up is down, and waiting a couple of weeks to study the impact of unleashing a lab grown bacteria into a fragile ecosystem is considered a bad thing. Perhaps, more money should be invested into prevention and remediation technologies BEFORE an oil disaster, rather than having a night at the improv where Bobby Jindal postures before the cameras and demands federal dollars to bulldoze what little remaining sand is in the marshes so that he can show he is taking action!
Of course, the media generally ignores the fact that the Audubon Society is extremely skeptical of Bobby Jindal's plan, but why not trust the sponsor of the DOER Act, which deregulated off shore oil drilling in 2006 on environmental matters?
You didn't know that? Yes, Congressman Jindal's sponsorship of the 2006 DOER Act is one of the more egregious examples of the corporate censorship going on.