Hey, Scrump, TX Patriot just called me an told me about this thread. It was perfect timing as I was posting about this very thing, on another board, where some refused to believe that help was offered and not taken up. Looking at your OP, many of the dates are recent (in June).
Some of them are from April... it's a crime.
It's absolutely unbelievable... until you actually see the doc.
Here's another for your records:
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.
It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.
Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.
U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.
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link to www.chron.com]
