"Fox Guarding Hen House" On Oil Spill?

Environmentalists said the coastal crisis needs to bring big changes, and that it is time to act on the lessons learned from the Gulf Oil Spill.
That was the word from the executive director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in a speech to the Mobile Bay Sierra Club Tuesday night.
Dr. George Crozier said, "We've got to change the law. It may have seemed logical in 1990. It is not now. It was finally tested."
Crozier said that the current law allows the government to let a private company like BP clean up its own mess.
He said, "BP hired the contractors. BP set up the ridiculous cleaning plan. BP may have been able to stop that well, but BP did not have a clue about how to run the cleanup, and nobody knew how to contain it."
Crozier said the time has come to improve the law.
He said, "We have the ultimate 'Fox Guarding the Hen House.' They are participating and deciding on how to measure the damage, how to do the restorations, and they are paying for it up front. And it hasn't worked."
Crozier also told the group its important to make sure there's a coordinated response between governments and agencies.
He said, "There were assets at Pensacola Beach that could have been used at Orange Beach that weren't needed in Pensacola, and, yet, it never entered the mind of the Pensacola beach manager to send a cleaning crew over to Orange Beach."