13 BP Oil Spill Quotes That Will Make You Angry All Over Again
Nathan Johnson
Published
04/20/2015
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion
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"...It's pretty much beyond human response that can be effective. You’re looking at a long-term poisoning of the area." -
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"We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back." -
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"We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him ‘What’s that all over your face?'" -
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"I lost my hotel, my investment, my income, my benefits and my future retirement. I lost a lifetime's work." -
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"This economy is totally gone in my community. There is no economy." -
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"We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads and are seeing this every day." -
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"I do not want to live in a county where anytime a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong, [it is] subject to some sort of political pressure..." -
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"The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is." -
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"We’ll see dead bodies soon. Sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, whales...the food web will be impacted from the bottom up." -
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"We have a very, very large and very, very sick population." -
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"With 800,000 gallons of this, we can only imagine the death that will be caused." -
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"...oil is still on the bottom of the ocean, tar balls keep coming up. And nobody really is able to say what we may find in five years, 10 years. It's really distressing to me." -
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"Sadly, this accident was avoidable. It was caused by greed and carelessness."
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