BP's Missing Oil Found

Mother Jones:

Remember when the media, and then the government, announced that all the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill was gone, and then we all rejoiced because the troubles of those sad weathered Cajun dudes Anderson Cooper kept confronting us with were finally over, and then Pegasus came to my house and asked me if I wanted to make out and made me a batch of hummus that was too refreshing and light yet robust to be believed?

Well, some cleanup workers in Pensacola, Florida--which is not anywhere near as wrecked as any of the shores in Louisiana--are determined to ruin everyone's fairy-tale ending by talking about how they picked up 4,000 pounds of oil the other night (h/t @LibrlSandlapper).

Read the whole story: Mother Jones

Comments

[SrAN]

05:20 PM on 08/30/2010

Funny how the media is just willing to let people believe that a major disaster just went poof and went away. But then again I guess since we no longer have live streaming footage of oil gushing from pipes then it must no longer be a problem. Sadly, this disaster is going to have a long term impact on the environment of the Gulf. I looked at the pictures on the website provided and it is funny to me how oil under the sand is overlooked and the oil still floating in the water is overlooked. When will we get real journalism and real truth throughout a disaster instead of being emotionally driven as the disaster is taking place?

[emmanuel goldstein]

05:09 PM on 08/30/2010

This isn't very important apparently, though the Emmy's were near the top of the front page yesterday. We are Earth's mind, and we cannot live without the body. Kill the body, kill the mind. Wake up middle America, you've been had. You've allowed the cancer to spread too far and it's killing you. But you've got your trusty remote, your beer and/or your bong, your bible, w/e security blanket you use to help you forget all the lives that are destroyed to keep you comfortably on your couch watching "reality" TV.

[DorianCorso]

10:44 AM on 08/29/2010

It's a good thing HP buried this story at the bottom of the green section. A story like this on the front page could prevent HP from collecting BP ad dollars.

[Logicnotfaith]

06:43 PM on 08/28/2010

Who's to blame? Well I guess you could blame some really bad decisions by BP mid-level managers at the site, you could blame the decision makers in our regulatory agencies past and present - including Obama's appointees. But quite honestly, BP, Exxon, etal. are merely providing a product in high demand. So for starters how about blaming the millions of SUVs drivers on the roads in the USA. Bottomline, your condemnation of all things BP is grossly misguided. And the calls for shutting down BP is just plain stupid. And oh BTW many of the components of the computers that you all are using to vent your delusional tirades are petroleum based!

[BannedNBoston]

08:55 AM on 08/28/2010

Hi AlagatorHardt,
Corexit still sprayed at night!

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chemist-mercenaries-hired-bp-are-now-applying-toxic-dispersant-night-and-uncontrolled-manner

[BannedNBoston]

11:02 PM on 08/27/2010

Toxicity explained....

http://www.rense.com/general91/evv.htm

[maxfax]

07:16 PM on 08/27/2010

There's plenty to go around, from Louisiana to Florida.

[namdlogd]

07:10 PM on 08/27/2010

I am shocked, shocked I say , to find there is gambling going on in this establishment!

[maxfax]

07:16 PM on 08/27/2010

Right here in river city.

[rougebaisers]

04:43 PM on 08/27/2010

The east coast is about to find out just how much of that oil has made it around Florida already. It's hurricane time. Look out.

[BannedNBoston]

11:17 PM on 08/27/2010

Hi RB hows the lipstick holding up?
Ive been singing the French National Anthem with some Canadian friends.

http://www.national-anthems.net/fr

[BannedNBoston]

04:21 PM on 08/27/2010

Heres another BP screwup

Oil spill: safety valve was wrongly plumbed on rig, says BP executive
The safety valve that failed to prevent the Deepwater Horizon rig exploding in the Gulf of Mexico was wrongly plumbed, according to a senior BP officia

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7964890/Oil-spill-safety-valve-was-wrongly-plumbed-on-rig-says-BP-executive.html

[Doing the right thing]

01:24 PM on 08/27/2010

This story was found at the BOTTOM of HP!
This should not have slipped away, like the BP cleanup effort!
...And, of-course they lied...truth costs them $$$$$$$

[BannedNBoston]

12:17 PM on 08/27/2010

BP getting a tax break on prison labor!

But guess who is getting paid for this convict labor? BP. It's getting paid by you and me. Under a little-known tax provision passed during the Bush regime, corporations can get a "work opportunity tax credit" of $2,400 for every work release inmate they hire.

BP has been using inmates to do much of the shoveling and scooping to remove oil from Louisiana beaches.

In the early days of the cleanup, crews suddenly appeared wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with bold red letters spelling out, "Inmate Labor." Investigative reporter Abe Louise Young writes that the sight of prison laborers outraged the local community, so they were removed.

Not the inmates, the uniforms. Now they wear BP shirts, jeans and rubber boots with no prison markings, and they are moved to and from the job in unmarked white vans. No officials with BP or the feds could or would tell Young how many inmates are being used or what they're being paid. However, a local sheriff's official told Young, "They're not getting paid — it's part of their sentence."

http://www.creators.com/opinion/jim-hightower/new-outrages-keep-gushing-from-bp.html

[Sister Bluebird]

08:55 PM on 08/27/2010

Its ironic since BP should BE the prison labor.

[BannedNBoston]

11:10 PM on 08/27/2010

Hi Sister Bluebird,
Here is the BP river of oil heading to Mexico....
Maybe Mexico will take BP and Obama to the World Court.
http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/7179

Obama authorized corexit spraying when the gusher first happened.

[aligatorhardt]

08:30 AM on 08/28/2010

This is disgusting government collusion with BP to shift the expense of cleanup to the taxpayers instead of BP. If these workers were not provided with charcoal respirators then the public will also pay for the health care of those who suffer lung damage from working on the toxic materials.

[BannedNBoston]

12:12 PM on 08/27/2010

Orange Beach Alabama;
Polluted with corexit and oil.

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/24/bp-thugs-threating-independent-scientists-corexit-oil-bp-gulf-oil-spill-waters-3479/

[truth67]

11:38 AM on 08/27/2010

yes we can

[Monk2001]

02:54 PM on 08/27/2010

Find the right place to lay blame

[truth67]

03:41 PM on 08/27/2010

yes we are still trying

[lightningbolt]

11:03 AM on 08/27/2010

BP is only concerned with protecting its image and avoiding lawsuits. They are not interested in cleaning up the oil. We must continue to put strong pressure on the government to arrest the criminal executives responsible for the oil spill and subsequent crimes. We must shut down BP with protests at every gas station. BP can only be punished by force because our justice system does not work.

[whitebeach]

02:53 PM on 08/27/2010

Sigh. Isn't it kinda hard to read a story that says they cleaned up 4,000 pounds of oil on this one beach overnight and then claim that "they are not interested in cleaning up the oil"? Also, I think you need to take another look at your notion about punishing BP "by force because our justice system does not work." First, try to understand that only a tiny fraction of BP's profits come from BP filling stations, which may or may not in fact even use BP product. Second, you might reflect on the fact that if you are OK with vigilante "force" outside the law, the next vigilante who feels the same way might be coming for you instead of BP. True, our justice system is far from ideal, but it's also far better than giving everybody free reain to go after whomever they dislike.

[Jim bob]

05:25 PM on 08/27/2010

you're so reasonable. so who can we be mad at?