電影「2012」或許是想像出來的情節，
但是電影裡面所描述政府處理危機的態度
倒是跟現實世界中的政府蠻相像的。
政府太瞧不起人民了，
把人們當成無法承受得起事實的三歲小孩
拼命掩蓋事實也不願意講真話。
馬修‧賽門：
「我們殺死墨西哥灣了」
Matthew Simmons: "We've Now Killed
The Gulf Of Mexico"
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馬修‧賽門說墨西哥灣漏油事件，
遠比政府所承認的嚴重許多。
n 今天他在彭博資訊公開說：我們已經殺死墨西哥灣了。」
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如今有12萬噸的有毒物質蔓延在墨西哥灣的海床上，
所以政府所說的，根本就是歷史上
最大的一次隱瞞大眾事件。
Gus Lubin | Jul. 21, 2010, 3:50 PM
Matthew Simmons has been saying the spill is worse than anyone admits for weeks, and he hasn't been wrong yet.
Today he tells Bloomberg we've now killed the Gulf of Mexico.
Simmons says the leak is much bigger than the cameras show thanks to a big gushing hole around ten miles from the sunken rig:
"What we don’t know anything about is the open hole which is caused by the drill bit when it tossed the blow-out preventer way out of the hole…and 120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. So what they’re talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever. And they knew that that well, that riser, would finally deplete. And then they could say it’s over. And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico.”
Oil could decimate aquatic life by depleting oxygen and poisoning the food chain. This would also kill the $2.2 trillion Gulf economy.
原文（全）連結：
http://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-simmons-we-now-have-killed-the-gulf-of-mexico-2010-7
另外，中國也發生了同樣的事件。
相對於美國政府比較，
中國政府公開的聲明內容
都有在警告民眾漏油所產生的影響。
不過聰明的民眾都知道，
這些規模都應該被相關單位
「打了一個折扣」。
中國巨大漏油事件威脅海洋的生命與水質
Large China oil spill threatens
sea life, water
AP / Greenpeace
AP – In this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 photo, firemen work on a burnt-out oil storage facility in Dalian, in …
By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 21, 6:47 pm ET
BEIJING – China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.
An official warned the spill posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality as China's latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, once named China's most livable city.
One cleanup worker has drowned, his body coated in crude.
"I've been to a few bays today and discovered they were almost entirely covered with dark oil," said Zhong Yu with environmental group Greenpeace China, who spent the day on a boat inspecting the spill.
"The oil is half-solid and half liquid and is as sticky as asphalt," she told The Associated Press by telephone.
Click image to see photos of China's oil spill
AP
The oil had spread over 165 square miles (430 square kilometers) of water five days since a pipeline at the busy northeastern port exploded, hurting oil shipments from part of China's strategic oil reserves to the rest of the country. Shipments remained reduced Wednesday.
State media has said no more oil is leaking into the sea, but the total amount of oil spilled is not yet clear.
Greenpeace China released photos Wednesday of inky beaches and of straw mats about 2 square meters (21 square feet) in size scattered on the sea, meant to absorb the oil.
Fishing in the waters around Dalian has been banned through the end of August, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
"The oil spill will pose a severe threat to marine animals, and water quality, and the sea birds," Huang Yong, deputy bureau chief for the city's Maritime Safety Administration, told Dragon TV.
At least one person died during cleanup efforts. A 25-year-old firefighter, Zhang Liang, drowned Tuesday when a wave threw him from a vessel, Xinhua reported.
Officials, oil company workers and volunteers were turning out by the hundreds to clean blackened beaches.
"We don't have proper oil cleanup materials, so our workers are wearing rubber gloves and using chopsticks," an official with the Jinshitan Golden Beach Administration Committee told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, in apparent exasperation.
"This kind of inefficiency means the oil will keep coming to shore. ... This stretch of oil is really difficult to clean up in the short term."
But 40 oil-skimming boats and about 800 fishing boats were also deployed to clean up the spill, and Xinhua said more than 15 kilometers (9 miles) of oil barriers had been set up to keep the slick from spreading.
China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons of oil has spilled. That would amount roughly to 400,000 gallons (1,500,000 liters) — as compared with 94 million to 184 million gallons in the BP oil spill off the U.S. coast.
China's State Oceanic Administration released the latest size of the contaminated area in a statement Tuesday.
The cause of the explosion that started the spill was still not clear. The pipeline is owned by China National Petroleum Corp., Asia's biggest oil and gas producer by volume.
Friday's images of 100-foot-high (30-meter-high) flames at China's second largest port for crude oil imports drew the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other top leaders. Now the challenge is cleaning up the greasy plume.
"Our priority is to collect the spilled oil within five days to reduce the possibility of contaminating international waters," Dalian's vice mayor, Dai Yulin, told Xinhua on Tuesday.
But an official with the State Oceanic Administration has warned the spill will be difficult to clean up even in twice that amount of time.
Some locals said the area's economy was already hurting.
"Let's wait and see how well they deal with the oil until Sept. 1, if the oil can't be cleaned up by then, the seafood products will all be ruined," an unnamed fisherman told Dragon TV. "No one will buy them in the market because of the smell of the oil."
原文（全）連結：
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_pipeline_explosion
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