{"id":6625,"date":"2010-08-05T07:51:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2010-08-05T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:51:58","slug":"better-than-advertised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/08\/05\/better-than-advertised\/","title":{"rendered":"better than advertised"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weird news snippets I’ve heard that I don’t really trust.\u00c2\u00a0 Call me crazy.<\/p>\n

For nearly 3 months the world was mesmerized by watching the live feed of oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf. Now, only a few weeks after the leak was capped, crews are having trouble finding any of the spilled oil to clean up. Despite hundreds of boats and spotter planes looking for spilled oil, there is little to be found.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]
\nThe most logical answer is the cleanup efforts worked better than expected. British Petroleum burned off much of the oil and the dispersants they used caused much of it to break up. The rest, thanks to the large number of skimmers in the area, captured more than anyone realized.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not as much here<\/a>:
\nShortly after BP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s catastrophic oil spill in the gulf, the New York Times spoke to Quenton Dokken, the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, about the environmental impact. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The sky is not falling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dokken told the paper, adding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ProPublica dug into the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, and reported that the Times had failed to disclose that Dokken and his group are funded by a consortium of oil companies with business in the gulf, including companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig, Transocean and Anadarko. Today, the Times reported that the Foundation has been downplaying effects of the spill, possibly because of its funding from oil companies.<\/em><\/p>\n

As around here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.
\n“This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way,” said Cary Nelson.
\nBP is facing lawsuits after the oil spill, which has destroyed the livelihoods of many people along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
\nA copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP, which the BBC said it had obtained, said scientists are not allowed to publish the research they do for the oil giant.
\nThey are also not allowed to speak about the data for at least three years or until the government gives final approval for the company’s restoration plan for the whole of the Gulf, said the British broadcaster.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “good News” on the “biggest oil spill” ever should really just end around the news of Massive Savings Discounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weird news snippets I’ve heard that I don’t really trust.\u00c2\u00a0 Call me crazy. For nearly 3 months the world was mesmerized by watching the live feed of oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf. Now, only a few weeks after the leak was capped, crews are having trouble finding any of the spilled oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}