I posted this on the last thread, good to see so many on the same page.
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This does not bode well. What a coincidence that another oil disaster is looming so near to the Valdez anniversary.

I don’t think people are going to wait 20 years of ‘court’ this time around.

Realistically, don’t expect the Governor to do anything, again. A human disaster was looming in the Yukon Delta villages months and months ago and if it wasn’t for bloggers sending food and money for fuel, those people wouldn’t make it to spring.

The Alaskan Governor did nothing to avert that disaster and when goaded into doing something, brought cookies and evangelicals. There was no declaration of an emergency, no state airlift of provisions — nothing. Yet, it was all in her power to organize something more than a photo shoot.

Now tell me what’s so different with this issue?

She isn’t going to do squat. She actually believes that taking action in times of crises reflects poorly on her. It’s sad, but true. In this case, there are the oil companies she wants to inveigle. oops, conflicted much?

Guess we’ll have to do it ourselves, once again. Oh it’ll embarrass the hell out of her and she’ll do anything to thwart taking some concrete preventative measures ensuring that those oil tanks don’t rupture and flood everything in oil.

That oil has to be moved, immediately, by all means necessary, no ands ifs or buts or alsos. If the Pompeiian’s had volcano detection, would they have evacuated the city? Knowing of imminent danger is one thing, doing something about it is another.

They say the dinosaur became extinct because of a radical change in climate.

The human race may become extinct when we can’t live off the polluted land anymore. Future archeologists won’t guess that it were the laws and money which lead to the extinction.

Praying things will work out just doesn’t cut it, Palin. Now move it or face your recall, you haven’t been doing your job, for all of the people of Alaska.

No roads to anywhere I don’t think, so no trucks. I believe that the oil would all have to be pumped out into tanker ships and moved on out of there. Could be difficult to do that, since the ash would affect ship engines as much as it would truck and airplane engines. NOT that I’m at all supporting the fact that this facility is at the base of an active volcano or suggesting that they were smart to leave the oil there; I’m just pointing out that it may, actually, be difficult to move it at this juncture.

Your input on this subject is illuminating and priceless. Thank you for taking the time to spell it out for us. I’ve learned a lot from your posts.