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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOBRg4dYZ_s&feature=sub

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"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqOcxWriOE&feature=sub


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.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Where is the government??

The government that is suppose to protect the people and this country....

[earcandle]

2. The way you find out is you start digging. Then whoever is against this will have to show up to

stop you.  Don't be a dutiful son or daughter.  Take care of
your selves.  

[JDPriestly]

3. You guys should hire a detective to find out who is prohibiting the

digging beyond 6 inches. Allowing the public to use the beaches when the oil is only 18 inches down could be an endangerment to public health and safety seems to me.

[Generic Other]

4. Pancakes Of Oil And Tar Langdon Beach Fort Pickens Pensacola Beach 10-13-2010

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I traveled from Opal Beach to Fort Pickens today, only took photos at Opal Beach but I didn't see any clean up crews along the same 17 miles I covered on Columbus Day. No one is out here cleaning up today...

I think anyone who sees this video and sees the amount of oil and tar I am finding with a simple framing square must realize the magnitude of the amount of crude and toxins being left behind due to the "do digging" policy. We have yet to get a solid answer on who is behind this.

I will be making a video later to address the lifting of the drilling moratorium, as you can surmise, I am not thrilled by it. They still have yet to clean up their last mess.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlrNy9Ld15A

[Generic Other]

5. I talked to Gregg and he reports being threatened

over his videos! Unreal. All he ever does is walk the beaches with camera! We are being lied to and tricked people!

My heart goes out to the residents of the Gulf states. No one should have to put up with what they have gone through the past few months. The oil companies need to quit threatening and spending their money on PR and start stepping up to the plate. Everyone knows they will do nothing unless they are forced to. And by the time it is too late and massive clean-up is necessary, they will stick the American taxpayer with the bill. We all know how that works.