Heck of a Job, B.P.!

[infrogmation]

A couple days ago I wrote, "News of the "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill just keeps getting worse." That continues to be the case.

Will it be a bigger spill than Exxon Valdez? Maybe is already, and still growing steadily. "It is so big and expanding so fast that it's pretty much beyond human response that can be effective. ... You're looking at a long-term poisoning of the area. Ultimately, this will have a multi-decade impact."

First effects begin to be seen. At least 20 dead sea turtles wash up on the beaches of Mississippi. Locals report dead fish and birds as well.

Fisheries along the east coast of Louisiana are shut down. B.P. oil offered suddenly unemployed fishermen work helping with cleanup, but first they had to "Sign a contract with BP saying they will "hold harmless and indemnify … release, waive and forever discharge the BP Exploration and Production, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, regular employees, and independent contractors … from all claims and damages" arising from helping to clean up the mess that BP has made." And the Palm Beach Post (!?) beat local media to covering this?

It hasn't hit Alabama yet, but B.P. officials have been going around coastal Alabama offering $5,000 to sign agreements waiving rights to sue.. They must think the pending damages are of an extent that 5k per coastal Alabaman would be getting off easy.

And, um... Halliburton may be Culprit In Oil Rig Explosion? So how is Dick Cheney making money off this?

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Oils well

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AP: Another week of 200,000 gallons more each a day is "the best-case scenario". (http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/9e997301051748e6b7ba5d8b60b1e3c1/Article_2010-05-03-US-Gulf-Oil-Spill/id-da4f2eb775f34c1bbde82b4edc7ed029).

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B.P. oil offered suddenly unemployed fishermen work helping with cleanup, but first they had to "Sign a contract with BP saying they will "hold harmless and indemnify … release, waive and forever discharge the BP Exploration and Production, Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, regular employees, and independent contractors … from all claims and damages" arising from helping to clean up the mess that BP has made."

Well, holy goddamn fuck. Aren't they just the altruists. Bunch of turdholes.

Thanks for making me aware of this; I hadn't heard about it yet.

Thanks, Judge Berrigan

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The Lens: Federal judge says BP can’t force local workers to sign waivers of liability (http://thelensnola.org/2010/05/03/bp-worker-agreemen/)

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On the dead sea turtles; they are now reporting that necropsies are showing no oil related CoD. However, wildlife officials are saying that they will continue to monitor any dead wildlife that washes ashore.
YIS,
WRI

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I read that. Hm, mass turtle deaths might be the result of the huge oil spill &/or the massive amounts of dispersant poured into the Gulf? I don't know. However unless there is some other unusual event happening in the Gulf of Mexico that would cause unusual mass turtle die-offs or some specific evidence to the contrary, Occam's razor suggests that something related to the enormous ecological catastrophic oil spill in the vicinity would be the prime suspect.

Cheers.