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BP Is Hiding Dead Animals to Avoid Fine of $50,000 Per Dead Animal (and the Bad Publicity)
BP has been trying to hide dead birds and other sealife.
Fox News reports that BP is trying to keep animal carcasses away from public view:
Local Gulf Coast residents and those monitoring turtles say that BP is removing carcasses at night to hide them from the public:
Jerry Cope and Charles Hambleton report:
The numbers of birds, fish, turtles, and mammals killed by the use of Corexit will never be known as the
evidence strongly suggests that BP worked with the Coast Guard, the
Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, private security contractors,
and local law enforcement, all of which cooperated to conceal the
operations disposing of the animals from the media and the public.
The
majority of the disposal operations were carried out under cover of
darkness. The areas along the beaches and coastal Islands where the
dead animals were collected were closed off by the U.S. Coast Guard. On
shore, private contractors and local law enforcement officials kept off
limits the areas where the remains of the dead animals were dumped,
mainly at the Magnolia Springs landfill by Waste Management where armed
guards controlled access. The nearby weigh station where the Waste
Management trucks passed through with their cargoes was also restricted
by at least one sheriff's deputies in a patrol car, 24/7.
Robyn
Hill, who was Beach Ambassador for the City of Gulf Shores until she
became so ill she collapsed on the job one morning, was at a
residential condominium property adjacent to the Gulf Shores beach when
she smelled an overwhelming stench. She went to see where the odor was
coming from and witnessed two contract workers dumping plastic bags
full of dead birds and fish in a residential Waste Management dumpster,
which was then protected by a security guard. Within five minutes, a
Waste Management collection truck emptied the contents and the guard
departed.
Independent biologists are also being blocked from investigating wildlife.
What's the reason for this cover up?
I had assumed that all such shenanigans were just to keep the dead wildlife away from public view.
But as the Christian Science Monitor pointed out in June:
Federal laws makes BP liable for up to $50,000 per dead animal on the endangered species list, such as a Kemp's Ridley turtle.
It's not just the Kemp's Ridley. Sperm whales and hawksbill turtles are also endangered animals living in the Gulf.
So are Brown pelicans, which have been hit hard by the oil spill.
In fact, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service lists 29 endangered species in the Gulf which could be harmed by the spill.
You
already know that BP is trying to hide the amount of oil which has
leaked into the Gulf in order to reduce the amount of fines it has to
pay under the Clean Water Act (see this and this).
Similarly,
BP is also trying to secretly dispose of endangered animals killed by
the spill in order reduce its fines under the Endangered Species Act.
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No doubt lots of carcasses.. and whats worse is most of these are ending up in livestock feed that stays in the food chain. Oh, how many must die?? The poor citizens still living as refugees having evacuated the coast.. Heck, Tampa's water supply is still destroyed and when that undersea cavern implodes- look out. They even killed Simmons, those evil bastards!
Embarrasing display by the conspiracy fanatics. This is exactly what is wrong with the country today. People refuse to accept facts no matter how clear they are. GW is embarrsing himself and so is eveyone who agrees with him. It's rather pathetic and its also borderline slander.
Ridicule of Conspiracy Theories Focuses On Diffusing Criticism of the Powerful
I wonder if BP would pay me $2,000 a head?
Get it in gold.
Shut up slaves and stop fussing. BP and Big Brother have plans for you too!
I wonder how much they save by hiding a dead Matthew Simmons?
But of course they're hiding dead animals. No different than how they dumped all the dispersants in to disguise the true extent of the disaster. Meaning...all the oil that's still out there, destroying the bottom of the food web.
The real test will be will they be able to hide all the cases of cancer that will show up in the populace 10-30 years from now? My father passed away from pancreatic cancer, which is strongly correlated with exposure to petroleum products.
Did I mention he owned a home fuel company with his brother in the 70s?
Jeff?
D I T T Ø
Our vanishingly short memories will take care of that. For the few that remember, the legal system shall do the rest.
I'm sorry to hear about your dad.
Keep in mind folks - this is our fine PROGRESSIVE government in charge here. These are the people many of you want to turn over all your liberties too because after all they'll take CARE of you. They're on the side of the PEOPLE.....
Now where are those oil spill trolls when you need them...
LOL.
Like anyone needs an oil spill troll.
see above
Who's to say they aren't hiding human corpses as well?
Oh, indeed. indeed. thousands of them, wearing nazi uniforms and pink tennis shoes; stuffed in land fills all over florida; but actually this is the subject of George Washingtons report for tomorrow, so we're getting a little ahead of ourselves.
Your ID is a joke of course
am thinkin probably true, truth hurts ripped chunk†
So is that why dead fish are washing up on the Jersey shore and in Massachusetts in large numbers? Who knows. I think the loop current may have brought the dead ones up along the East coast.
The fish "kill" in Delaware Bay - NJ according to a number of media outlets was a result of low oxygen count and unusually warm water which was blamed on the particulary hot summer.
Later this story emerges that claims it was a commercial fishing accident.
http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/dp-nws-menhaden-spill-20100804,0,3226331.story
The species in question, the Menhaden known locally as a Peanut Bunker or Moss Bunker is a fish that really needs well oxegenated water to survive. I know this from experience using them in their best application (besides cat food) as live bait.
My thoughts exactly!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/12/jersey-shore-dead-fish-wa_n_680150.html
what a crime scene this must represent to any sane and normal person being able to read the truth. quite frankly GW I would not of believed this written story, a year ago. really dead fish washing to shore EC? of course source coming from GOM. sickening all major players are just the mafia, waste management is CEO of mafia BP global. P O W E R to the people
long L I V E ZH
One should sue the EPA for having allowed the use
of Corexit, there are less toxic alternative choices:
http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/bp-ocean-dispersant-corexit
Lawyers are massing at the gulf as we speak.
I think I see them.
How can they be hiding dead animals? Didn't 75% of the animals simply 'vanish' for no reason?
This must be a mistake...
That's ridiculous. It isn't for no reason -- they EVAPORATED.
Or soon will in a very black & smelly stack exhaust.
Nah - they just rained down somewhere else. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/869482.stm and http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/03/its-raining-fish-hallelu...
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News Flash ... BP prevents oil from getting to the beaches, where people could see it. Cover-up alleged.
Fucking unreal.
They're just napping.
They are not actually dead - they are just zombies like the banks.
Pining for the fjords?
these are public beaches.
http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/connecticuts-highest-court-rules-favor-p...
yeah of course they have to. trick is NO PARKING. when i had to live at my sister's insane house last summer, found the most wonderful secluded beach EVER , in the world. it wasn't private but the surrounding neighbors thought it was their's, NO PARKING is how these rich folks control the power. my sister kept telling me i shouldn't go cause they will yell at me. fuck them when you got a bicycle. damn good swimming too. they had to close the public beach, Sandy beach a lot cause of high levels of bacteria. but they never posted anything at sandy cove my beach, which i think is negligent on the authorities part. i really think that is suspect not to notify public up and down the sea coast. like dead animals floating in the water. B A D B A D B A D
Much cheaper to hire someone for $8.50 an hour to go out and gather up the corpses at night.
That job could end up being allot riskier than those hires bargained for............
I suspect that even if the fine were only $1,000 or $500 per dead animal that BP and their government enablers would still obstruct and obscure. A sociopathic organization knows only one way to do business. When a problem's gotten out of hand and is becoming public, the first instinct is to hide, lie and spin for the vast majority of public and private companies.
You often hear the following at these meetings. "OK, what are we going to say" which is the natural reflex, to hide and obscure. And to those who say that it's only natural for BP or any other company to lie or spin to mitigate damage to the company profits I ask a simple question.
Considering it's natural to lie under these circumstances, exactly why should we believe anything that comes out of their spin control PR machine, including all their governmental and private enablers?
It's natural to lie for those with no moral compass. When you compensate someone so insanely that they become "comfortable" at that level and abandon their moral compass, then that individual is owned. That individual is done as a human being.
My point is how will they keep all these feet on the ground from talking to the press?