The BP way to hide the extent of the disaster:
1. Forbid the press to enter the affected areas and do the same to the public. Use the excuse that the affected places are now you're work area and the clean-up may be hindered or dangerous situations may be created for the clean-up workers...(?!) Threat curious journalists with imprisoning and large fines.
2. If one area seems to be unaffected superficially (meaning: no visible tar balls nor crude oil on the beach because it is covered with a new fresh layer of sand obviously from somewhere else (see other unconfirmed blogs stating this here), nor affected water because Corexit broke the big oil layers into small droplets spreading everywhere in the water) invite the press so they can spread the news of the 'clean' beaches and water. If a politician or alike will visit the beaches, invite 100s of temporary workers to clean them at an unseen speed and send them home after the politician and cameras have left.
3. Buy popular terms on search engines to control the information availability of the public. Costs: only $50 000 000.
4. Make sure clean-up workers are being photographed cleaning the beaches, but let them do as less as possible as no outsider is around.
5. Prohibit clean-up workers to wear respiratory protection or any other necessary health protection gear because they are bad for your reputation even though the product's factsheet you are spraying in the air says you need to ware respiratory protection.
Where concentrations in air may exceed the limits given in this section, the use of a half face filter mask or airas well as gloves, regular protection clothing and protecting goggles...
supplied breathing apparatus is recommended.
According to CNN, 128 clean-up workers got sick.
6. Forbid clean-up workers to spread anything by way of talking, writing, taking pictures or filming what they see on the disaster sites. Let them sign a contract.
7. Don't mind if the Corexit mixture is up to 4 times more poisonous for people and marine lif
e then the crude oil itself (see for extra information about toxicity of Corexit here) and the mixture can never be retrieved while crude oil on the surface can be skimmed off easily: just use that Corexit in order to prevent that satelites may be able to make pictures of the full extent of the disaster from the skies. The use of Corexit will make the oil sink and as a consequence: invisible to the public as it will fall apart into small droplets beneath the surface (see picture left).Don't mind that the ecosystem will need maybe more then half a century to recover (at least 3 decades, see Exxon Valdez where Corexit treated areas are still not recovered!) while other solutions such as bacteries can restore the ecosystem in 3 years!!
That this will damage crops and water supplies is just colateral damage. See here everything about Corexit inclusive the letter from EPA to BP where it asks to use more effective and less toxic dispersants: http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/dispersants.html
8. Threat everyone whose trying to break up the huge efforts being taken for censoring the full extent of the disaster you created.
Local photographer Lance Rosenfield says:
He said I could show him the pictures or he could handle this another way, including calling Homeland Security and taking me in. I agreed to show him the pictures on the back of my camera, while he took my driver's license. Meanwhile, the truck that had been following me showed up, driven by a security guard with a BP patch on his uniform.Read more here: http://www.propublica.org/article/photographer
-tells-of-being-followed-by-bp-security-and-then-detainedBP's economist admitted they would never have enough money to restore the environment completely. As we all know, e.g. thanks to Kindra Arnesen for this, BP does everything to minimise clean up costs. Astonishing less clean-up workers and equipment are used, and they aren't used effective... But BP seems to have money to pay these men in blue shirts (see right). Who they are? BP security guards. To prevent whistleblowers...
Is this the beloved American freedom?
Your article was really interesting and it's important you spread this news! I'm tired of the silence in the entire world! Where are the manifestations, the ngo's who are supposed to fight for this cause (Greenpeace, WWF,...). It's for sure that they are under the same pressiure as the press. THEY should speak out but we don't hear them. It's digusting and I don't know what I can do to help...
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