Local environmental officials throughout the Gulf Coast are feverishly collecting water, sediment and marine animal tissue samples that will be used in the coming months to help track pollution levels resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, since those readings will be used by the federal government and courts to establish liability claims against BP. But the laboratory that officials have chosen to process virtually all of the samples is part of an oil and gas services company in Texas that counts oil firms, including BP, among its biggest clients.
SIGH. Our leaders just don't get it, do they? How can we trust any for-profit company to be honest after all of this? I'm completely baffled...
Is it getting worse? It seems like we simply can't trust corporations to be honest--but I wonder if this is anything new--is the Internet allowing us to see what huge PR campaigns and a good dose of TheNaive stopped us from seeing in the past?
I really hope we all wake up and learn that we can't trust people who use the bottom line as their bottom line.
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