Sunday, June 6, 2010

NOAA & the US Fish & Wildlife~ doing what they do best


The NOAA website posted a list of a few of the major laws BP has broken:


Relevant Laws: For summaries and links to these, see: 
http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/about/laws.html#OilPollution 
Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990  (NOAA promulgated regulations for assessing natural resource 
damages under OPA.  (15 CFR Part 990) 
Clean Water Act  
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA or 
Superfund)  
National Marine Sanctuaries Act  
Anadromous Fish Conservation Act (AFCA)  
Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)  
Endangered Species Act (ESA)  
Executive Order 11988—Construction in Floodplains  
Executive Order 12898—Environmental Justice  
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (FWCA)  
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)  
Park System Resource Protection Act  
Rivers and Harbors Act 
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, 40 CFR Part 300.  


COLLECTED DEAD:

527 BIRDS
235 SEA TURTLES
30 DOLPHINS

NOAA is monitoring the movement of the oil, testing for water safety, and doing excellent reporting. 

US Fish & Wildlife are charged with reporting all incidents. Since BP put a kind of gag order on workers not to speak w the press, and have made a concerted effort to not have dead animal photos recorded, it is necessary to have guardians of the wildlife, and the truth told.  The problem with having the corporation in control, it they have a conflict of interest in controlling their liability. 



2 comments:

nonnie9999 said...

i'm waiting to see the list from the justice department. i hope homicide is on the list.

Fran said...

They've only just begun....