Beer Steak Bullshit

Ever since the oil started spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, BP has been lying to people. At first they said that around 1,000 gallons of oils leaks into the sea every day, then it was 5,000 gallons a day and then the underwater video of the pipe gushing oil into Gulf of Mexico was posted on the internet and everyone with half a brain could see that the estimates were purposefully low. There are several litres of oil that get spewed into the sea every second. It’s a disastrous amount, definitely more than 5,000 gallons a day (see video below).

BP now claims that they are capturing about 5,000 gallons of oil from the leaking pipe every day. This basically proves that their initial estimates were way off and didn’t reflect the reality. But the most shocking fact about BP’s efforts is that instead of stopping the leak to prevent this ecological disaster from continuing, they focused on salvaging as much of the wasting oil as possible. As it always goes, none of the mainstream media picked up on it. It took me, the blogger to point the finger and say the truth out loud.

BP’s corporate greed won. In the name of preventing the ecological disaster, they are doing their darnest to capture as much of the leaking oil as possible because each litre captured is money in their pocket. And it makes them look like they are doing something for the environment now that poop has already hit the fan. Look at it this way:

The very last interest of any oil conglomerate is the environment. Why would it be otherwise? Carbon footprint of the modern civilization exists because oil companies make sure we are dependent on their source of wealth. It is natural that non oil dependent, environment friendly solutions endanger their positions. Oil companies make so much money selling oil, they can easily afford to lobby against and boycott production of electric cars, halt implementation of maglev trains and put a plug on every other means of sustainable transportation or production of energy. Their corporate greed has been on the win side since the first oil well was drilled and is now as strong as ever. And we’re supposed to believe that efforts put into containing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by BP are environment focused? Forget it – they are solely and strictly profit focused. BP is doing everything to make the most out of the disaster hence the efforts to capture as much of the leaking oil as possible before any other efforts.

The scary part is that Hurricane season will start in the Caribbean soon. Too much oil has already been spilled and continues being spilled every day, but when hurricanes come and start stirring the seas, creating huge waves that will hammer the shorelines and halt all efforts to stop the spill, then we could see the oil affecting much broader a landmass than imaginable. Meanwhile, the corporate greed of oil companies continues to grow as fast as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Video of the oil leak shows the pipe that’s 20″ in diameter spewing litres of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every second:

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For all the green thinking people out there, the 2010 Environmental Performance Index was released on January 28, 2010 to show with of world’s countries are the greenest so to speak. the 2010 Environmental Performance Index was based on a research conducted by Environmental Law & Policy at Yale University and The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of Columbia University in collaboration with World Economic Forum
in Geneva, Switzerland and Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. The 2010 Environmental Performance Index is their third release and is being revisited every two years after initial research started in 2006.

Not surprisingly, Iceland is the undisputed world leader when it comes to “addressing pollution control and natural resource management” as stated in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) press release. What does surprise me is the presence of Costa Rica in top 4 placements which contains countries with EPI scores between 85 and 100. Iceland scored 93.5 point and remains the only country with more than 90 points. Switzerland scored second with 89.1 points, Costa Rica ranked third with 86.4 points and top scores list is concluded with Sweden which scored 86.0 points.

Aside from surprisingly high scoring Costa Rica which is a very rough and vastly unsafe country, other than a few tourist trap spots, I was also surprised to see Denmark all the way down at spot #32, scoring mere 69.2 EPI points. Denmark has been ranking for many consecutive years as a country with highest standards of living in the world but surprisingly, they don’t seem to focus on the environment as much as I would like to think. Switzerland on the other hand that’s been hanging right behind Denmark in ranks of quality living is only a few points behind Iceland making it both environmentally friendly and high standard of living providing country.

My home country of Canada is way below Denmark yet. Shame on us. I know many Canadians think green and use reusable bags and what not, but we drive cars everywhere, public transport is a joke, idling is normal and oil field multibillion dollar companies only care about profits, not the environment, so I’m not that shocked Canada failed a bit on the 2010 Environmental Performance Index list.

I have been to Slovakia and can confirm that it is an amazingly green country with great laws in place ensuring protection of their beautiful forests and people always eager to preserve their stunningly jaw-dropping nature. Slovakia is one of the finest countries in the world and if you haven’t visited yet, you’ll be up for a pleasant surprise once you do. People and the country itself are amazing. You won’t find that anywhere else – except from maybe Iceland.

United States of America ranks worse than Canada on the 2010 Environmental Performance Index list. Perhaps for many Americans it could be surprising their country got this high because as it is with Canada, there is more than too much room for improvements when it comes to environment protection. Industrialized countries are known for being world’s biggest polluters so seeing Canada and the USA this low on the list is not all that shocking. Greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution were main contributors to low ranks of our countries, but we didn’t go all that down thanks to forest sustainability and provision of safe drinking water.

I’m glad to see Cuba in top 10, even though I’m surprised Slovakia ranks below Cuba. I have visited both countries and would definitely consider Slovakia greener than Cuba. Slovakia is not a communist country anymore so profit often goes before health and many food producers dope up their produce to speed up and boost sales. This doesn’t take place in Cuba which is likely why their life expectancy and child mortality rates are some of the lowest in the world and quite possibly why it outranked Slovakia on the 2010 Environmental Performance Index. However water in Cuba is vastly unsafe which must have contributed immensely in loss of many points so seeing Cuba this high on the list is amazing.

Bhutan is another major surprise. This Asian country located on the slopes of the Himalaya mountains has been closed to foreigners for a long time and has only recently opened but restricts tourists rigorously making for an extremely exclusive feel for those who get a chance to visit it. These restrictions are in place to ensure that Bhutan’s nature and culture live on hence it’s surprising to see them all the way down at spot #68 – even lower than the Dominican Republic.

Speaking of the Dominican Republic – it’s another country I have visited and while there are places with pristine nature protected by the government, I didn’t find it all that green. However is anyone surprised that their neighbor – Haiti is one of the worst ranking countries on the 2010 Environmental Performance Index. It only proves exactly what I have said about Haiti before – it is one of the biggest shitholes on the planet and channeling millions of dollars to them after the earthquake may not be the smartest of ideas. Given how ridiculously corrupt Haiti is, the money will not find its way to where it’s meant to go. Most of it will disappear in the hands of corrupt officials, the rest will be stolen. And don’t forget to check out the difference between forestation on the border separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic. The reason why Haiti ranks at the bottom of the Environmental Performance Index will be instantly clear.

The 2010 Environmental Performance Index took into account 25 different metrics to derive their rankings from. 163 countries were put into test in 10 categories including air quality, environmental health, biodiversity and habitat, water resource management, fisheries, forestry, climate change and agriculture. More information about the 2010 Environmental Performance Index can be found on Yale University website HERE.

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