In the midst of all else going on in our world, you have taken it upon yourself to find the time and energy to do something about this impending ecological disaster. There hasn't been much focus on it, and probably won't be with everything else being flung from the fan right now, but what a mess we're facing because of this spill.
Would anything less than two catastrophic hurricanes have brought any public attention to this ongoing problem? and what happens now? Just read this morning's
article in the St Petersburg Times. It sounds like the situation is just going to get worse, and now they're scrambling to take more stop-gap measures with Ivan threatening that don't sound very promising for the bay.
Most of the articles praise Cargill for being an ecologically responsible company in an industry not known for that particular trait.
I'm sorry I don't know more about this. In spite of the praise of Cargill, have a feeling it's going to entail backroom politics and shady deals and money changing hands and companies being allowed to get away with things they shouldn't have.
Did read the 3 or 4 articles that came out during Frances about the breach and spill. Seem to remember one mentioning that the holding berm on that reservoir wasn't built as wide as it was mandated, so Cargill had been trying to reinforce it during the weeks leading up to the storm, but I can't find it now - so probably shouldn't even be bringing it up, since it may be my faulty memory speaking.
Didn't mean to run on here, just wanted to tell you thank you for trying to make a difference.
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