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Why wasn’t a boom, a protective barrier which would have isolated last week’s spill to the area directly surrounding the ship, utilized almost immediately? No telling yet, but early on Fish and Game said that private companies would handle the spill cleanup, companies hired by the ship’s owners. Huh? That’s the proper response an environmental and homeland security hazard? Let the industry mop up?
More on this, at MoJoBlog.
