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BP's latest trick: It's even worse than I thought--please read!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:21 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people on the ground say things are out of control in the gulf. Even worse, as my latest week of adventures illustrate, BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability. For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the coastal barrier islands off Alabama. "There's only one reason for that," the pilot said. "BP doesn't want the media taking pictures of oil on the beaches. You should see the oil that's about six miles off the coast," he said grimly. We looked down at the wavy orange boom surrounding the islands below us. The pilot shook his head. "There's no way those booms are going to stop what's offshore from hitting those beaches." BP knows this as well -- boom can only deflect oil under the calmest of sea conditions, not barricade it -- so they have stepped up their already aggressive effort to control what the public sees. At the same time I was en route to Orange Beach, Clint Guidry with the Louisiana Shrimp Association and Dean Blanchard, who owns the largest shrimp processor in Louisiana, were in Grand Isle taking Anderson Cooper out in a small boat to see the oiled beaches. The U.S. Coast Guard held up the boat for 20 minutes - an intimidation tactic intended to stop the cameras from recording BP's damage. Luckily for Cooper and the viewing public, Dean Blanchard is not easily intimidated. With oil undisputedly hitting the beaches and the number of dead wildlife mounting, BP is switching tactics. In Orange Beach, people told me BP wouldn't let them collect carcasses. Instead, the company was raking up carcasses of oiled seabirds. "The heads separate from the bodies," one upset resident told me. "There's no way those birds are going to be autopsied. BP is destroying evidence!" Laughing gull head is separated from body during collection, rendering it useless for autopsy. Waveland, MS. May 13, 2010. The body count of affected wildlife is crucial to prove the harm caused by the spill, and also serves as an invaluable tool to evaluate damages to public property - the dolphins, sea turtles, whales, sea birds, fish, and more, that are owned by the American public. Disappeared body counts means disappeared damages - and disappeared liability for BP. BP should not be collecting carcasses. The job should be given to NOAA, a federal agency, and volunteers, as was done during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. NOAA should also be conducting carcass drift studies. Only one percent of the dead sea birds made landfall in the Gulf of Alaska, for example. That means for every one bird that was found, another 99 were carried out to sea by currents. Further, NOAA should be conducting aerial surveys to look for carcasses in the offshore rips where the currents converge. That's where the carcasses will pile up--a fact we learned during the Exxon Valdez spill. Maybe that's another reason for BP's "no camera" policy and the flight restrictions.
Quote: From a technical standpoint, BP has botched nearly every aspect of the Gulf oil spill — from malfunctioning equipment and lax operational protocols to undeployed booms, failed containment attempts, and banned dispersants. Even the act of simply cleaning up the oil was called into question when BP hired untrained fisherman, provided no safety gear and then asked them to sign liability waivers.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:34 AM
ANTHONYT
Freedom is Important because People are Important
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:46 AM
BYTEMITE
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:29 AM
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:01 PM
DREAMTROVE
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:14 PM
WHOZIT
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:29 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by whozit: If your hero that jugeared douchebag Obama had gotten off his ass sooner this may not be happening! He got offers from 17 countrys to help and turned them all down weeks ago. If this had happened under a McCain admin, half of Hollywood would have been there weeks ago!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:43 PM
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:52 PM
KIRKULES
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: According to some, they see carcasses of dead animals on the beach at night; by morning they’re GONE.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:59 PM
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:46 AM
PIZMOBEACH
... fully loaded, safety off...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:09 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Another report from someone on the scene: Dead baby dolphins bodies being removed by bp with no record to avoid paying the US for damages. for every animal killed bp has to pay the US govt for lost resources so bp is disposing of animal bodies before they can be recorded.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:56 AM
Quote: B. CERCLA Liens - Cleanup costs and other costs due to the United States under CERCLA create a lien upon the real property affected. This lien is subject to other liens. [Section 9607(1)]. 1. The First Circuit has deemed Section 107(1) to be unconstitutional on its face. Reardon v. United States, 947 F.2d 1509, 1514-17 (1st Cir. 1991) (en banc). 2. Natural Resource Damages a. Section 107(a)(4)(c) authorizes the recovery of "natural resource damages." Such damages include loss of wildlife or fish and other harms to the environment itself.
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