Escambia County Commissioners Know Oil On Pensacola Beach Below No Dig Zone

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Run time: 01:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_oZ1kAE-U   Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: pcolagregg Views on YouTube: 65   Posted on DU: October 12, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 866

 
Navarre Beach Clean Up Workers Digging Up Tar Mats By Hand After Shovels Taken
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Columbus Day Navarre Beach Pensacola Beach Oil And Tar Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T23OuoEpZic&feature=sub

Columbus Day Navarre Beach Pensacola Beach Oil And Tar Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq-jpBb5110&feature=sub

Columbus Day Navarre Beach Pensacola Beach Oil And Tar Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8hRinF-zY&feature=sub

Beach Clean Up Worker Says "They Took Our Shovels, Won't Let Us Dig"
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For Columbus Day today I decided since I do not celebrate mass murderer day that I would start at the other end of Santa Rosa Island near Navarre Beach and see what I could discover myself. I covered 17 miles of the beach going west into the Fort Pickens park before my camera battery died. I am in the process of uploading all of the video at True Reporting On Gulf Oil Disaster but it may take a couple of days. I am uploading some short excerpts in the meantime where workers state, "they took our shovels away". When you listen to the workers interacting with me in the video reports you will know it is not the workers who are holding back but someone else.

Every worker and every supervisor I talked to today I asked, "Who is behind the six inch rule?" No one could tell me. A wildlife officer for the National Park gave me a lame answer about the nesting turtles. I said', "So it's better for them to lay their eggs in toxins?" He had nothing to say in return.

When the oil and tar deposits on the beaches are shown to be as deep as 30 inches here on Pensacola Beach, how can our government stand by and allow this 6 inch rule to be in place? How are our beaches supposed to be returned to pristine condition when the workers are not allowed to clean up the oil?

I spoke to another supervisor today who told me that the "recon teams" had found an area about 100 yards from where we were standing that was 14 feet in diameter and 3-4 inches thick around 18 inches below the beach surface. According to him BP officials were there and ordered them to fill it back in.

These are the events that are going on here everyday unnoticed not only by the world but even by my very own neighbors. It is incredibly frustrating to try to get the truth out and to have so few standing with you.