The Hits Keep Coming
Y’all know I’m just a guy with a website, so what do I know. McClatchy talks to the Experts: Legal issues driving BP’s oil spill stance. They had to talk to “experts” because people with websites couldn’t just read the publicly available information and realize immediately that BP was taking its orders from their legal department. OTOH, the lawyers actually work for BP, while all of their technical people come from “body shops”.
Rick Outzen of the Independent News blogging at The Daily Beast has a BP memo that was part of the discovery when their refinery blew up in Texas and killed 15 workers. It shows the “fun loving” side of BP.
Melissa Block of All Things Considered was down in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish talking to fishermen about the effects of the spill.
If you listen pay attention to the end where a boat collecting water samples has come back. He has a bucket of water pulled up from the 30-foot bottom. The oil is on the bottom of the bucket under the water. That’s what the dispersant does, it makes the oil heavier than water so that it sinks and isn’t seen. Who cares about the oysters and crabs on the bottom? Who cares about the plants that the fish and turtles eat? No one can see it until the sea-life starts dying in what looks like clear water. Out of sight, out of mind.
