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"BP, to my mind, stands for bloody piss-poor."
Dame Helen Mirren
Toxicologist Joe Griffitt fears that the chemicals that BP are using to fight the oil are actually promoting the formation of oil clouds. The result could be that fish and zooplankton die off on a large scale due to the creation of an oxygen-deficient "dead zone."
"The chemistry of the sea water is being completely turned around, and we have no idea what happens next"
BP used an oil industry tax break
to write off 70% of the rent for Deepwater Horizon

$225,000 per day
camping in Florida Keys prior to landfall.
U.S. regulators allowed BP to operate with lower safety standards than is required in the North Sea

and about the same kind of regulatory regime as is asked for by the government of Nigeria in its Delta