Native Orleanian---BP Cover-Up: "the island had been sanitized before Anderson Cooper Arrived"

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Tue Jun-01-10 05:18 PM
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Native Orleanian---BP Cover-Up: "the island had been sanitized before Anderson Cooper Arrived"

Edited on Tue Jun-01-10 05:24 PM by kpete

photography from a native and his first-hand account of the potential cover up going on:

Made 2 trips down to Grand Isle last week, the first was on Tuesday 5/25/10. Spent some time initially on the West End of the island by Caminada Pass��things looked pretty clean at first, Anderson Cooper of CNN was arriving that day so this is no surprise, we started to find oil in very strange places, one being on the dry side of the jetties, which appeared to have been moved out a bit. I am very familiar with the area having spent a considerable amount of time shrimping and fishing on Elmers Island and Grand Isle, we have a family home down there�.I was accompanied by friend and fellow photographer Andy Levin on my trips, when I suggested we stop looking on the sand and go back towards the marsh grass, he seemed a bit puzzled, but knowing the mindset of the locals, and trusting my gut, I felt that if there were shortcuts to be taken, that would be the place to look. Immediately upon entering the brush, the STRONG stench of death overcame me, and this is where we found at least 13 Bull Redfish, whole bodies, some covered in oil, discarded and rotting. No one would ever throw away such a catch and it was obvious to me what the cause of death was��..additionally, we found the exposed freshly rotting head of what appeared to be a dolphin, at the top of an unnatural sand mound about 20 yards away. On my return trip, I attempted to dig, but the smell was overwhelming, all kings of bones were surfacing and it was obvious to me what was under there. To me that would explain many strange occurrences at the west and east end of the island, namely solid oil being exposed under some places where one would walk, under the sand��.so how does oil get under the sand��.behind the jetties, the scary thing is that these are heart fish. Redfish this size would take 20 to 30 minutes to reel in for a fisherman, yet they apparently succumb to oil rather easily, as dolphins apparently do to. Why hasn�t anyone heard about this, and why is BP burying such things without any reporting, warning, things are not as they appear through the media, and I am afraid that it will get a whole lot worse sooner than later�..And btw, on my return trip 5/28 the Dolphin head was nowhere to be found��.I have aso poste some of the images from the great performance for the President�

Trip 2� On my second trip to the island last week, we were treated to another crafty production by BP and the cleaning army, the only thing is there was nothing to clean, the island had been sanitized before Anderson Cooper Arrived on Tuesday. Accompanied by friend and fellow photographer Andy Levin, we approached the �cleaners� on many occasions, asking them who they were there for, how much they were paid, etc��mum was the word, no one wanted to talk, one poor guy said, � Please Mr. don�t make me talk to you, they told us not to say anything��..eventually found out BOP put up fliers in Laplace and Houma the day before, and were able to corral about 400 people into 8 or 9 public school buses�.we actually thought they were with a church or something at first. Meanwhile while the production was going on pretending to clean on the beach, oil coats all of the rocks across the on the bay behind Grand Isle�..all you had to do is turn the top rocks over to see, and even more disturbing were all of the small hermit crabs, trying to escape the water exposing themselves to terminal heat, (72 degrees is all they can take and it was in the 90�s)�.the water had a milky tone to it, kinda reminded me of the Audubon Park Lagoon when it was polluted years back�..So you say whats the big deal, hermit crabs are dying(btw thousands reported in same shape in Elmer�s Island), I assure you, much much larger animals have been succumbing to the oil��more to come

LOTS of pics and videos:
http://nativeorleanian.com/bp-smoke-mirrors-and-oil-2/