Incompetent Obama and BP turned down Dutch help with Gulf Oil Spill:
Dutch Consul General Geert Visser in Houston told Radio Netherlands Worldwide he was disappointed. The US response, says Mr Visser: “‘Thanks for your help, but at the moment we can manage ourselves.’ And that was it.” He puts the reticence down to pride.
One month into the crisis, when the President started receiving criticism for the administration’s feeble efforts in managing the cleanup, the administration changed its mind,
“Almost a month later – a month too late, of course – Washington did make a request to send the sweeping arms to Houston in Texas,” says Mr Visser. “They arrived in three 747s, ten days later. They were then transported to Louisiana to be mounted on ships.”
American ships have been now fitted with those arms and should be helping with the cleanup efforts any day now.According to Dutch officials, each pair of arms can clear around 20,000 tons of oil a day.
