Just yesterday Congressman Markey is asking if more dispersants were used than BP disclosed to the public. There have been a lot of questions surrounding the use of dispersants, from their level of toxicity and the usefulness to them in a spill of this size.
I wrote about the mix of using booming and dispersants and how people actually questioned doing both at the same time (although there has been a lot of talk as well how booming was bust and not done very well either). But rounding up dispersed oil in booms makes no sense. The whole operation by BP seemed rather, well, highly questionable. The technology for drilling had come a long way, but not the technology for dealing with oil spills and the health of the workers for cleaning them up.
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