Amidst growing national outrage as oil from BP’s deep-sea oil well blowout spreads across the Gulf of Mexico and has just reached the delicate Louisiana coastline, what’s noteworthy about Arthur B. Robinson, running on the GOP ticket this year for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, is his stated support for disposing of oil and nuclear waste at sea which, according to Robinson, is the safest place in the world to dispose of certain types of industrial waste material.
In 2004, Robinson’s “Access To Energy” newsletter contained a column titled, “OCEAN DUMPING? YES!” which declared,
“Wastes dumped into the deep ocean will soon reach the bottom, where they are less hazardous than nearly any other place on Earth. Most materials will remain there: marine organisms are rare in the deep ocean, food chains are long, and few materials will be carried back to mankind. And that is what waste disposal is all about…
…The oil companies’ reckless greed, we are told, has devastated the oceans with their oil spills.
Baloney.”
But Robinson then went even further, claiming that the Earth’s oceans are “starved for” crude oil,
“As for oil spills in the open and deep ocean, they amount to far less than natural seeps and river runoff, and any unbiased oceanographer will confirm that they are a boon to marine life, inflicting damage mainly on the oil and shipping companies. For crude oil is a natural, organic, biodegradable product of the earth’s ancient plant and animal life, and it is this type of hydrocarbon that marine life in the open and deep ocean is starved for.”
Further, explained Robinson in another article in the 2004 newsletter, the free market, and the profit motive, are absolutely the best guarantors of a clean environment....
More:
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/05/24/or-republican-candidate-dump-oil-nuke-waste-at-sea/
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