Cleanup Draws Critics Over Speed and Care

[highplainsdem]

Source: NY Times

Cleanup Draws Critics Over Speed and Care
By LESLIE KAUFMAN and JAMES C. McKINLEY JR.
Published: May 30, 2010

PORT FOURCHON, La. —

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Environmentalists accuse workers of running roughshod over wildlife and delicate grasses. Conversely, state and local officials are worried that the crews are not doing enough, fast enough. And most agree that the effort has been wildly uneven.

Here in Port Fourchon, vehicles have not only flattened sand dunes, one of the few lines of defense against erosion by the gulf waves, but have also plowed through nesting sites of the least tern.

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Some local officials complained about delays in the crews’ arrival. In Plaquemines Parish, home to the Mississippi River Delta, the companies hired by BP to clean up the marshes have been slow to respond, sometimes waiting a week to 10 days after oil has been spotted in the marshes to attack the problem, officials there said.

And where they have acted, the workers have at times trampled on flora and fauna as they deployed large absorbent pads to sop up the oil, the parish president, Billy Nungesser, said in an interview.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/us/31cleanup.html

[rpannier]

1. Hekuva Job BP

...Don Norman, a wildlife toxicologist, to evaluate the harm that the oil and the cleanup are doing to birds here.

He said he had seen the all-terrain vehicles that roam up and down the beach spin through nesting colonies and had even witnessed the occupants honking at baby Wilson’s plovers for fun.


Nothing like many a bad situation even worse

[waronbanks]

2. Everything BP does and everything BP says

...is about PR. The cleanup workers arent about cleaning this shit up. Its about perception management. BP does not care one bit about those workers health or the health of the environment they are destroying they only care about the message. They are just throwing workers wherever they think the media will most likely follow them and video them cleaning up. They are operating just as American politicians...spin spin spin, lie, spin again and pretend.

But they cant spin that oil. America"s history will be forever marked as BEFORE the oil and AFTER the oil. We know how it was before. When the history is written on the after, I believe it is going to be very scary story indeed. Im not sure an already frayed America can hold together when we see the final carnage this this seemingly endless geyser is going to produce.

[Jamastiene]

3. I hate BP more very day.