I've been following this incident on wattsupwiththat.com, a reasonably credible science blog site frequented by actual scientists and engineers as well as laymen. Some of them seem to think that the acoustic switch wouldn't have stopped the leak even if it had been fitted.
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David Middilton said:
“Acoustic BOP (blow-out preventer) switches are not in common use. They are only required in two places: The Norwegian sector of the North Sea and offshore Brazil. The main reason that industry officials lobbied against acoustic switches was the likelihood that the BOP’s could be triggered accidentally. Accidentally firing shear rams while drilling a well is a bad thing. There were also doubts about the reliability, particularly in deep water.
In this particular case, an acoustic switch would have made no difference.
-The manual switch failed.
-The “deadman” switch failed.
-ROV’s have been able to access the controls on the BOP stack; but have been unable to activate the BOPs.”
Since the acoustic switch is designed to be activated by an acoustic signal from the rig or a ship (or an aircraft even) there is a chance it could be activated accidentally, which as stated above, has the potential to be quite disastrous.
I'm not trying to defend BP, just bringing some balance.
While there isn't anything Obama can do about the leak itself, he hasn't really done much to help contain or clean up the oil that has leaked, he's just been jumping up and down "finding out whose ass to kick". He's also used this incident as an excuse to shut down further offshore drilling projects... no doubt another part of the plan to shut down US industry. Doing this as the result of one oil leak is just a stupid knee-jerk reaction that shows his true anti-oil and anti-industry agenda. Oil rigs are generally pretty safe.
From the "BP Oil Spill Truth Obama Lies" video, clip of House Representative Steve Scalise:
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And I'm angry. The people back in my state are very angry right now about what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico. We've got a crisis right now that's probably the largest environmental disaster in this nation's history, and we're not getting the adequate response we need from this Federal Government. Now our Governor over two weeks ago has been asking for the Federal Government to approve a barrier plain to actually protect our marsh from the oil. And we're not getting an answer from the Federal Government. All we're getting is excuses. ... And all we're asking for is the President to fulfill his duties under the law which he is not doing.
This is because the government only pretends that it is protecting you to justify demanding taxes from you. When it actually comes time to put their money where their mouth is, they can't do it. All we get is last minute finger-pointing and sloppy relief efforts. Can anyone think of any time that the government was actually effective at protecting us?
They incite other nations to attack us to justify wars. (Pearl Harbor) They send our people into wars based on lies. (Spanish American War, Mexican American War, Vietnam, etc.) After plenty of international intelligence agency warnings, terrorists (supposedly) attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, and they did little to nothing to stop it. (They sent the attack planes in the wrong direction, among other things.) After they knew the flood walls in Louisiana were not structurally sound, a massive hurricane (Katrina) hits the area and the flood walls were broken causing massive damage. The relief efforts are sloppy and inadequate. An oil tanker spills off the coast of Alaska (Exxon Valdez), which damages the environment and all the Alaskan industry that depends on it. They still haven't finished cleaning it up, or compensated the local fishermen whose careers depended on it. Now we've got oil leaking right out of a tapped supply into the ocean, and we are expecting something new from the government?
What more do we need to know before we realize the truth? They are sucking the energy (money) out of us, generation after generation, saying that it is for our protection but offering us little to none in reality.
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Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:01 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
An oil tanker spills off the coast of Alaska (Exxon Valdez), which damages the environment and all the Alaskan industry that depends on it. They still haven't finished cleaning it up, or compensated the local fishermen whose careers depended on it.
Attorney Brian O'Neill has a lifetime of experience when it comes to the legal battles that ensue following major oil catastrophes.
After the Exxon Valdez oil tanker crashed in Prince William Sound in 1989, O'Neill headed straight to Alaska.
The Minnesota-based attorney had an interest in environmental issues and wanted to help because, as he put it, "there were an awful lot of hurt people."
He soon represented 2,600 fishermen and others affected by the spill. What he thought would be a two- or three-year "adventure" is still the biggest thing on his plate, one-third of his life later.
O'Neill successfully argued the 1994 trial after which a jury ordered Exxon to pay $5.3 billion in punitive damages to O'Neill's clients and others affected by the spill.
Exxon appealed almost two dozen times and O'Neill was there through it all.
In 2008, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where a 5-3 majority finally set punitive damages at $500 million.
It was a significant blow to O'Neill and his clients.
Today, O'Neill is working to make sure each of his clients receives the remainder of their payments from Exxon, which he expects will be complete by year end.
O'Neill spoke with CNN in his downtown Minneapolis office at the Faegre & Benson law firm about the similarities between the Exxon Valdez situation, and the current disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
CNN: What are some of the key similarities you see between the two spills?
O'Neill: The noise and the feeling that you get now is the same as the noise and the feeling that you got in the early days of the Valdez spill, with people saying the same thing and people reacting the same way.
It's going to be interesting when the limelight is no longer on the Gulf as to how BP is going to act and how the federal and state governments are going to act. Because once this is no longer on the front page of the newspaper, everybody's reaction is going to be 'We need oil.'
Oil runs the universe, and you can see governments settling with BP relatively cheaply and you can see BP at some point in time changing its attitude from 'We'll pay you' to 'We'll pay you if the court tells us to pay you.'
CNN: This week, BP agreed to set aside a $20 billion escrow account to compensate U.S. businesses and workers who have been adversely affected by the Gulf oil spill. What are your thoughts on that?
O'Neill: I hope what it means is that they're going to take $20 billion and set up a fund for victims and that you'll go to the fund and that they'll pay you interim money and then they'll pay you final money. That's my hope.
And for a lot of the plaintiffs, they may not need to ever go to court, so they're not going to get tied up for 20 years. [In that regard] it would be really positive.
If they're successful in starting to move money quickly, it'll be a huge success, but if they're going to pay anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 people, that's awfully tricky.
And it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of money to set this thing up quickly, and it only works if you set it up quickly ...
For a lot of these people who live from year to year on their fishing businesses, they could be bankrupt by the end of the year. So that's what we have to do is we've got to get money to them quickly.
CNN: Did anything surprise you once you started representing the fishermen and taking on Exxon after the Valdez spill?
O'Neill: I thought that -- like a lot of people think now with regard to BP -- that Exxon would want to settle the case relatively early and move on and I was surprised a number of times with the fact that this was World War III to them, and they dealt with it that way ...
They spent over $400 million on lawyers, essentially defending [against] our claims. They took every appeal they could take and they took every delay they could take and filed every motion they could take.
Don't kid yourself: the oil companies have the best lawyers money can buy.
CNN: Is that one of the most important things you think people in the Gulf should keep in mind when thinking about filing a claim?
O'Neill: I think that they should -- if they have a claim --file a claim with BP and see if BP will pay it. If BP doesn't pay it I think they ought to go to the federal oil spill fund and see if the oil spill fund will pay it, and then if they have to file suit with the knowledge that it's gonna be a long haul ... make absolutely sure they're not giving up any legal rights.
The major problem they face other than the legal system is that they don't know how hard they've been hit yet. You could say to yourself, if you're a shrimper, 'Well I haven't fished for the last month.'
But what happens if this toxic oil does something to that fishery? Or what happens if the presence of that toxic oil does something to the price of Gulf shrimp around the world?
You're not going to know the answer to some of those things for two or three or four years.
So you have to settle part of your case now if you can ... because the scope of the harm to you is unknown. It's as unknown as where that oil is going to go.
CNN: You mentioned the legal system would be one of their biggest problems: can you elaborate on that?
O'Neill: Well if a company is rich enough and powerful enough to hire hundreds of lawyers they can essentially bring the legal system to a halt. They can.
Most of these fishermen no longer believe that the court system of the United States provides equal justice. They've come to a conclusion that is the same as the conclusion that I've come to, and that is that our governmental institutions will always bail out big oil, and they did here.
CNN: Do you think oil still has that great of an influence today?
O'Neill: It's more than the influence that oil has. It's whoever controls oil rules the world.
The fact that you came downtown in a car that needs oil [and the fact that] the electricity in the office is probably the result of oil are everyday reminders of the strategic importance of oil to the United States, and if you're a judge or you're the president...you're aware of the fact that you need BP and Exxon, so why the heck would you punish BP or Exxon in any way that impairs their ability to survive?
You wouldn't, no matter how many people they hurt.
CNN: Do you have any regrets from this case?
O'Neill: I regret that I haven't done a lot of other professional things for the last 21 years, I do. It was never my plan to be a trial lawyer until I was 63 years old.
I was going to go off and do something else, teach law school probably. But I didn't get the chance to do that so that's my biggest regret.
Second regret is it's hard on you emotionally, so then it's hard on your family to always be worrying about the same thing all of the time.
But we got through it ... I am proud of the work I've done. I am not proud of the fact that I didn't make my clients whole.
I had expected in 1989 that in the end of the day, everybody would be fully compensated for their losses, and they weren't. And that's in part my fault.
So while I'm proud I lasted 21 years, the result was not what my clients deserved.
Note how the US Supreme Court (which one not mentioned) reduced the claimants' compensation to $500 million from $5.3 billion. That's a 10.6x reduction, which can't possibly have compensated the fishermen adequately (barring fraudulent claims of course). If that's all they paid, then now we know how and why the local fishermen have still not been compensated yet. If they really needed billions, and all they got was millions, then a large portion of their industry was crippled.
Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:06 am
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BP Oil Spill: Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Needs to Evacuate
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This Venice LA local has been granted full security clearance... has seen the disaster from every possible angle and is NOT impressed.
Hear the horrors of the front lines and behind scenes workings of the BP Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe.
Nice one MT. Here's the transcript from Project Avalon if anyone wants to read exactly what she said. (The audio isn't perfect so some of her words are muffled.)
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Thank you. OK, I'm not usually a speech-giver. So, you guys try to bear with me; I'll try to make this as painless as possible.
To explain to you where I live, I am indeed the one on the very end. I am at Point 5 on Highway 23 in South Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Keep in mind through what I have to say, that I am the mother of a five-year-old little boy and an eight-year-old little girl who look like their dad.
That being said, when this first happened, I really didn't know what to do, who to ask questions to, who was going to give us answers.
The first day we were introduced to anyone from BP, they came into our building and said: BP does business right. Yeah! Can you believe that? BP does business right and we're here to take care of everything, folks. Well, 61 days later, that's a joke, to say the least.
Just to give you guys kind of a perspective of where I've been: Four weeks ago, I stood up at a town hall meeting and I indeed did pin down all involved and I had them stuttering by the end of their speech. At any rate, I was invited the following week to go behind "enemy lines". They gave me, of all people, security clearance to go into the base of operations meetings in Venice, Louisiana.
8 a.m., open door invitation to sit like a fly on the wall. Can you believe it? It's really going on.
They also gave me security clearance to go into the Homeland Incident Command Post which is over the entire region of Louisiana. I've been in Coast Guard planes all the way out to the site itself.
Helicopters. Boat rides. I have been everywhere anybody could ever want to go to really get an inside look as to what's going on.
Now, I want to start by telling you guys that I am not at all impressed. Someone told me this morning that they thought I had crossed over. Well, I picked a team a long time ago. My father was a commercial fisherman and my husband's a commercial fisherman. Every man that I've even known, loved, and respected is on the water. They're good men.
At any rate, for the past week I've heard in the ops meeting: We need to cut cost. Yes, that is what they said, that they need to cut cost. I almost came out of my chair the first time I heard it. But I'm trying to stay where I am because someone has to be on the inside overlooking and seeing as to what's going on around. That being said, where I've seen cutting costs is quite unfortunate. What we call, in Venice, what they call...
First we've gotta understand this phrase: ponies and balloons. Well, the only place I've ever seen ponies and balloons is at a circus. Right? At any rate, about a week-and-a-half in, I learned what ponies and balloons meant. Ponies and balloons means that every time an official is headed anywhere near here, they get a heads up. All assets are deployed into the hardest hit areas.
The official comes in, flies over, Good job, fellas, pats ‘em on the back. When that official disappears out of the hardest hit area, so does 75 to 80 percent of the response. It's happening. It's happening every day. I'm watching it. I'm seeing it. I don't agree with it. Anyone in this room's not gonna agree with it. Anyone in our great nation's not gonna agree with it.
We are expendable to these people. We do not matter.
Now, I'm gonna get off that and I'm sorry I talk in circles, but that's the coonass in me. As y'all follow me, then just let me know.
At any rate, I'm gonna go into the health issues for a moment, if you don't mind. I sat through endless hours of meetings with BP's safety officers. I sat through an hour and 45 minute meeting with the Coast Guard Safety Officer, both in the Homeland Incident Command Post, as well as a gentleman from OSHA.
In order to obtain a respirator for our responders — now this isn't just commercial fishermen — I'm talking about Coast Guard members, all responders, people off the street, everybody involved.
Number 1: They have to fill out an OSHA questionnaire.
Number 2: They have to have a physical evaluation by a medical professional.
But, EPA is doing air monitoring. Everything's OK. It's great. Yeah, imagine that.
At any rate, there is in fact some Act somewhere in OSHA's law, that says that volunteers have a right to wear a volunteer respirator. But, as we all know, BP is taking over our Gulf. BP rules right now, our Gulf, I mean... Bottom line, that's who's in charge of the situation.
They couldn't even run their own company and they are in charge of this response! I'm totally appalled!
They can't wear a volunteer respirator because if they're not properly trained... BP's rules are, they have to be properly trained in order to wear a respirator. Now, BP said that they will provide the training and they will provide a respirator. But, everything's OK! So, they don't need to be trained and they don't need a respirator. And as far as the right to wear volunteer respiration? Guess what? If you don't follow BP's rules, you don't have a job. And that's what they told me.
Now, I asked them to discuss the seven men that were brought, one by helicopter and six by ambulance... I asked them if they were at liberty to discuss that with me. And they said, Yes Ma'am, we are. I guess these guys didn't realize who they were talking to.
Number one response from Mr. Hayward was food poisoning. Four different boats, all in… way away from each other. Food poisoning.
Second response was heat exhaustion.
Then last Wednesday — I'm sorry, Wednesday a week ago — when I sat with OSHA and BP's Safety Officer, the OSHA man informed me that all four boats took Pine Sol, sprayed it all over their boats, and then sat and breathed in the fumes all day long and that's what caused the chemical poisoning.
Hold on a second! I've been on boats all my life. I've been with captains all over the place. When we spray something on our boat, we wash it right off. If not, it eats the paint off the boat. We take care of our stuff.
So that right there was just a blatant out lie. So, then I asked them — I throwed one out of left field at them — I said: Well what about the people on 9/11?
He said: It's funny you asked about that, because I was working that job. We were following them around with respirators, begging them to put them on.
And he actually pointed the finger at our New York Firefighters. Yeah, he did! People who are dying a slow death as we sit in this room right now, from chemical poisoning; pointing the finger at them and said that they turned around and gave him the one finger salute, and said: We're not wearing a respirator, we're looking for our friends.
Trained firefighters? In New York? Are you serious?
I wanted to just slap him in the face! But, I was good.
At any rate, you know, my children have broke out in four rashes. My child broke out in a rash the first time. I took her to Florida for four days. It magically cleared up. I brought her back, she broke out again. I left, she cleared up. Now today, she's broke out again. Not to mention that my beautiful, healthy, straight-A student, gorgeous daughter has a double ear infection, upper respiratory problems. I left and went to Baton Rouge and as I drove back home: clearing the throat, the stickiness, the upper respiratory irritation.
You know, the bottom line here is: this morning I contacted Miss Marla Cooper, who is District 9 Councilwoman for Plaquemines Parish. And Miss Marla has three grandchildren in our area and she's just a great grandparent and a good mom. And I told her: Miss Marla, we have got to call an evacuation of our area. We can not allow our citizens to sit like we're out in the middle of the...
We are! This stuff's on all three sides of my home! I walk outside and there's a haze. They're called "bad air days". Folks, stay inside, put your air conditioning on recirculation. Everything's just fine!
Well, why would we need to lock ourselves up in our house? Do you really think that's gonna cut it? Do you really think that's gonna make the situation better? No, it's not! Where do you think air comes from that's in the house? Outside the house.
These people, they never cease to amaze me.
The lack of humanity, here.
I know that my Parish only makes up two percent of Louisiana's population, but does that make my people expendable?! This is unacceptable! They are slowly poisoning every person that I've ever been close to in my entire life and I'm standing here saying, no more!
Now, if I ruffle some feathers, and make some people mad, so be it. I don't care. My people are more important to me than their bottom line. And that is my bottom line.
So basically, this whole ponies and balloons act... If someone does not come in and properly oversee this response... Our marsh now is being used as a boom, an overwhelmed boom, a big, giant sponge.
It's on both sides of us. It will fill up, it is filling up, constantly. We have heavy, heavy crude penetrating our marsh all over the place right now as we speak. They deploy, and then they pull ‘em back in when a politician comes in, and this is not acceptable!
They're not cleaning it up; they're covering it up! This is... We're barely into this. This could go on for years and years and they are already cutting costs! Cutting costs, cutting corners, and taking shortcuts is why we're all sitting in this room today.
Enough is enough!
Now, as far as EPA, OSHA, NOAA, BP and Federal Government, they... Every one of them's in collaboration with each other. That comes from someone at the top of NOAA. That's the kind of people I've been talking to. That came from someone at the top of NOAA, that they're all in collaboration with BP.
Are you serious!?
Who do these people work for?
I thought these were our agencies to protect our better interests, our world, our Earth, our lives and what is going on here? Are we that dependent upon these banks, to just roll over and let them poison our world, and our people in it? This is unacceptable!
A week after this started they want to say: Nothing's going on. Nothing's dying ? A week after this story, I traveled 70 miles east of the original site. There was these shells floating all over the top of the water. Hundreds of thousands of them. They were empty because they were dead. I've never seen a shell float in my life. Dead. A week after.
Four weeks ago when the oil was trajected to hit the west side of our peninsula, I was so mad after I went down to Pascaloocha and seeing what wasn't being done there, that I got in my boat — my dime, my time — and I took a trip. I was like Fox national news on my boat.
I traveled from Red Pass 10 mile... to Four Bayous, about 10 miles, the east side of Grand Isle.
Now, the oil was trajected to hit that side of the peninsula that day. 30 miles! I did not run into one responder! I did not run into one piece of boom, hard or soft. 150 feet of sandbags on a 30 mile stretch of shoreline. This is unacceptable!
So, I decided on the way back, well let me just go out on the coast a little bit and see what's going on. I ran into oil 3/4 of a mile off our coast. Not sheen. Crude. As I'm traveling along back towards Red Pass, I looked over the Gulf and I notice that there's big swarms of birds. That's not unusual. I figured they was diving on bait. But what where they diving into oil sheen? Because birds don't know any better.
We traveled out towards the birds. I wanted to see what they were diving into. I was... I want to know. As we get out to the birds... I don't know if you've been on the water much, or even if you've seen a big school of fish. They have like a boil in the water. It looks like a pot boiling. The fish boil the water; it moves. As we drift into it, it's big Bull Reds with their mouths open, on top of the water, laying sideways, swimming upside down in a circle.
Again, hundreds of thousands of them, school after school after school. They were dying. They were so disoriented that they were running into the side of my boat.
[unclear question from the audience]
That's a real good question. Fox national news swears it's on their website, but I've search it up and down. I've even... You know what? I've got the camera man's phone number in my purse right there. We can call him after and find out exactly where it's at. I've called and asked them for it over and over again, and they won't give it to me. You know what? Everybody is saying a media blackout, a media blackout.
Yes ma'am, there is a media blackout. Sydney, Australia's 60 Minutes came over and they did a real nice piece. I watched it on their website. The transcript is still there. 24 hours after the video hit the website, it disappeared.
[Ed note: it can be seen here on YouTube.]
You know, as far as the fisherman can catch shrimp elsewhere comment, I want to make something real clear. We have been fighting imports and regulations for the last 20 years. They have regulated us to the point, as commercial fisherman, that my husband personally has seven different permits. The only thing that my husband does not do is oyster.
So, if there's shrimp somewhere else, or we can use gill net or whatever we need to do in order to provide a food source for this country, a natural way to feed people, then somebody point me in that direction and let me know where it is, because I've looked all over the place.
I came back here four-and-a-half years ago and rebuilt on dirt because this is my home and I love Louisiana. I live right out in the middle of nowhere in the boondocks. The bottom line here is, that if the country does not stand up and say no more...
We must take action. We cannot sit back. And if this stuff does not stop, guys, this is gonna go global. It will destroy one-third of the world's water. Bank on it! If they do not stop this — every ocean is connected — it will go on and on and on.
As my daughter says: infinity plus two.
Enough's enough.
I'll take any questions after. Thank you for listening.
Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:38 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Oil / Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC
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Oil and water samples were taken from both the Shores of Grand Isle and from 20 miles out. The preliminary analysis was done at an academic analytical chemistry laboratory. Looking for the likely pollutants from the deep water Horizon Oil spill. It was focused on the detection of benzene and propylene glycol. Benzene and other highly toxic contaminants were very low however the concentration of propylene glycol was between 360 and 440 parts per million. Just 25 parts per million is know to kill most fish and propylene glycol is just one of many ingredients found in Corexit. In short, the Gulf is being poisoned by BP's usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May. We are willing to provide ANY respected/known laboratory these samples or provide them with more. This is very serious to all people and marine life in and around the Gulf.
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Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in th
Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf
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CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access by the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill.
Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:08 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
BP Doesn't want you to See this Video!
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Shot by Robert M. Young and Edward James Olmos on a trip to the heart of the oil spill in the Gulf. Edited by Stephen Cohen.
Robert Young and I jumped on a plane and went to the Gulf of Mexico just to lend our support by documenting what we saw...
Well, the people that we met took up all of our time. It was brutal! I was not ready for the human aspect because no one had prepared me for it.
I thought they would be angry. They are devastated.
Take a look at this video and see for yourself. People are afraid to talk and you will learn why watching this...
Please pass it on, recommend it.
If you feel like doing something, just go down there (anywhere on the Gulf) and support by spending time and energy in the region.
They need our support. Thank you for Caring.
Edward James Olmos
For More information on what some local organizations are doing on the ground go to:
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Cause of Oil Spill is BP's Iran trade
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BP has extensive trade links with Iran. In Britain's North Sea it has a 50% partnership with Iran, also in Azerbajain a partnership with Iran, also BP has partnerships in Russia and Libya. While no-one forsaw such an environmental catastrophe, the aim from the beginning was to break-up BP and sell it off. All of the circumstantial evidence supports this hypothesis. Apart from circumstantial evidence - we are only getting what is Government assisted and sanctioned news.
Halliburton has just announced an 83% rise in this quarters profits - lucky it is registered in Dubai.
Again the Zionists?
Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:55 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8624 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Town Hall reveals BP is STILL using dispersant on oil spill
Town Hall reveals BP is STILL using dispersant on oil spill
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*** This is a shortened version of the 3 part upload by Cajun Filmmaker Eric Breaux at http://www.youtube.com/user/ericbreaux
Please watch the whole series on his channel. ***
BP representative Jason French meets with residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana on July 29, 2010:
At 5:45 in: "They're still spraying the oil at night... It's happening everywhere in the Gulf right now"
Tourists are going back to the Gulf shores 12 months after the BP oil leak was stopped. Keeping that in mind, British Petroleum went to court, saying its damages agreement should be lowered. Others, however, believe reports of a tourism growth are definitely not correct. I read this here: Rise in gulf tourism prompts BP to ask for discount.
