I'm shocked I tell you -BP used excessive dispersants in Gulf oil spill

[malaise]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/08/01/gulf.oil.spill/?hpt=T1#fbid=YCrKhFEbgMU
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New documents released by a congressional subcommittee indicate that Coast Guard officials allowed BP to use excessive amounts of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.

Despite a federal directive restricting their use, the Coast Guard routinely granted exemptions, said Rep. Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee.

In May, the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Coast Guard, ordered the oil giant to stop surface application of the chemicals during the oil spill except in rare occasions, according to a House subcommittee on energy and environment.

In rare cases, exemptions had to be requested, documents show.

"BP carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals, and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it," Markey said in a statement Saturday. "After we discovered how toxic these chemicals really are, they had no business being spread across the Gulf in this manner."

The exemptions granted "were in no way rare," Markey said in a letter to retired Adm. Thad Allen, the former commandant of the Coast Guard who is now overseeing the federal response to the oil spill.
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[ladywnch]

1. I'm waiting to find out that the Coast Guard or at the very least,

the Admiral in charge have been paid off by BP and others to let these guys do pretty much anything they wanted to do. They let BP decide who was allowed into the area, who was allowed to fly over the area, what equipment was allowed to be used.....they've pretty much been BP's bitch since this whole thing happened. I don't think anyone is surprised that the CG allowed them to use as much of whatever they wanted to use.

I just want to know how much their conscience was sold for.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

2. what I find interesting here is that they are coming down on the Coast Guard

AND the EPA. Dare we hope that some of this collusion and corruption will be cleaned up?

[tom_paine]

3. No, we dare not hope. Sadly.

We can expect lip-service at best, followed by a sellout to the Corporate Aristocracy, as usual.

[Karenina]

4. Will the people covered with skin lesions

dogged by the Valdez crud, out of work and out of luck have anything to say? :shrug:

[Kurovski]

5. #5

That crap should be served in every BP jagbag's orange juice.

It's safe, right?


Here's another good link about that poisonous crap they dumped in our Gulf.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x491015

[Kurovski]

6. Is there some asshole from BP unrec'ing these threads?

I mean WTF? I hope that isn't a trend.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I would say that's a strong probability.

The PR war won't just be fought through the corporate media.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[obxhead]

9. k/r