Red tape keeps Gulf marsh cleanup on hold

One more item that Obama and his Administration are holding up -- helping save the marshes. EPA needs destroyed if this is how they operate. Oil skimmers cannot get approval to skim oil in the Gulf if they don't make sure that 99+% of the water returned to the Gulf contains no oil. All the while they sit back and observe the oil getting closer to the Gulf. Now we learn that the EPA won't give approval to clean up the marshes of LA with this approach of marsh bioremediation which was offered right after the spill and before oil got into the marshes.

EPA needs abolished and put under a department after their failure to act in an emergency. Fire the head of the EPA and anyone involved in not approving actions that were offered to save to the marshes over two months ago. Hard to say which department as they are all headed by incompetents from what we are witnessing.

But getting approval from the bureaucracy assembled to respond to the BP oil spill is slower than trudging through marsh mud in waders.

“The bureaucracy is killing us,” said Ralph Portier, an environmental biologist at Louisiana State University who started offering his expertise in marsh bioremediation shortly after the spill, and well before oil invaded the marshes on
May 22.

“We’re waiting for people in Washington to agree with people in Robert, La., that it’s OK to talk to a guy in Houma (La.) to tell people in Baton Rouge that’s it’s OK to do something down on Dauphin Island — or wherever. Pick your spot,” he said.

The above paragraph says it all -- no one is in charge and the red tape to get anything approved is worse than ever. Dereliction of duty comes to mind for Obama and his minions in the Administration. Most incompetent people ever but they 'cannot let a crises go to waste' which is an understatement as they made this Gulf Oil Crises much more difficult. Their hands off approach for weeks strict enforcement of environmental regulations has caused an ecological disaster along the Louisiana Gulf Coast and is spreading across the Gulf States.

It is the fault of Obama and his Administration as they sat back while the BP Gulf Oil spill got worse and even on this 72nd day, EPA is still stalling clean-up efforts. Why doesn't Obama overturn the EPA? Guess it doesn't fit his agenda of passing Cap and Trade.

Red tape keeps Gulf marsh cleanup on hold
Long after oil invaded, project to spray oil-eating bacteria awaits go-ahead

by Kari Huus Reporter
msnbc.com
updated 6/29/2010 2:58:42 PM ET

At a lab on Grand Isle, La., at the edge of Barataria Bay, biologists hoping to help save the oil-soiled marshlands are at the ready with a vat containing 30,000 gallons of homegrown oil-eating bacteria. But it’s been weeks since the oil started washing up here, and still they await final clearance to begin work.

It’s frustrating for the scientists, who plan to spray large sections of the soiled marsh with this microbial stew — consisting of nutrients and three naturally occurring bacteria that eat oil — to help rid the fragile ecosystem of toxic oil.

This approach — known as bioremediation — is effective, especially if it is done soon after the oiling, they say. And it does less damage than some of the traditional methods used in marsh cleanup, such as burning and skimming.

Read more at: MSNBC