Editor, The Times:
One hundred and one dolphin corpses recovered! The number could easily be 10 times that or more. Fishermen’s nets coming up covered with an oily substance, shrimp contaminated, wetlands destroyed by oil. And now people “coming down” with unexplained illnesses – sickness that the insurance company dominated U.S. health care system simply refuses to acknowledge.
Does anyone remember the Deepwater oil spill caused by an explosion that occurred last April on the BP oil rig, setting off the largest oil spill in U.S. history? Well, I’m sure it still exists in the distant recesses of many people’s minds. Of course that mess in the Middle East has overshadowed it. And the terrible recent events still ongoing in Japan have pushed the Deepwater disaster out of memory.
However this amnesia has had a lot of help especially from the media. We were first told, well, the ‘bugs’ ate all the oil. Don’t worry, be happy, relax and enjoy life.
One of the most blatant examples of cover-up came from Canada’s national paper, the Globe and Mail. When the Obama Administration found BP guilty of negligence the Globe’s editorial gang confined this bit of information to page 14 in a postage column instead of front-page news, as it should have been!
Like the nuclear plant troubles in Japan, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be with us for a long time. I just wish there was more honesty here!
Dennis Peacock
Clearwater, B.C.
