[BCNnet] Gulf Science Blackout

[Carolyn A. Marsh]

FYI, Carolyn Marsh

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/opinion/25hooper-Bui.html?_r=2
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New York Times ed-op

August 24, 2010

A Gulf Science Blackout

By LINDA HOOPER-BUI

Baton Rouge, La. 

THE Deepwater Horizon blowout may be capped and the surface oil slick
dispersed, but the scientists' job has just begun: hundreds of us are
working in and around the gulf to determine the long-term environmental
impact of the drilling disaster. 

Although we are all doing needed research, we're not receiving equal money
or access to the affected sites. Those working for BP or the federal
government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment program are being given the
bulk of the resources, while independent researchers are shoved aside.
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