by Limelite
The offshore drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico is an equal opportunity death merchant, even when operating normally, meeting "industry standards." Mercury levels around some rigs are so high as to qualify for the National Priorities List, a roll call of the nation's most hazardous contaminated sites. [snip] . . .[and] eventually lead to a federal "Superfund" clean-up effort, like those at Love Canal in New York. Mobile Press Register Only they won't because the danger doesn't pose an immediate threat to humans. And because the rigs are sources of Federally permitted pollution. But there's the rub -- it does and is posing an immediate danger to marine animals. Fish. Big time commercial and sports fishing industries target the rigs; some estimate as much as 75% of all fishing trips out of Louisiana do. That's only one of the Gulf States. Shocked? Here's the BIG shocker.
continued at Daily Kos....
