Unearthing a life.....

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British Petroleum, via BP AMERICA's chief executive Ross Pillari, issued a threat to cut production at the Cherry Point refinery near Bellingham if a federal law restricting tanker traffic in Puget Sound is not repealed. Pillari is, in effect, demanding that Puget Sounders accept more and bigger oil spills or he will slap us in the pocketbook. The late, great Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat - Washington was responsible for the restrictive "Magnuson Amendment' that has partially protected the waters of Puget Sound for past decades. We have had our oil spills here, but thanks to the Magnuson Amendment, they have been small. Now CEO Pillari's surreptitious shill, the unremarkable Senator Ted Stevens, Republican - Alaska, has quietly introduced legislation to kill the Magnuson Amendment and open Puget Sound to the ravages of Big Time Oil Spills. You'd think that after the Exxon Valdez rape of the Alaskan coast, Stevens would be slightly more enlightened. But NO! Now he wants to Share the Horror.