BP's Gross Negligence: By Greg Palast

In 1989, Greg Palast was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the Exxon Valdez disaster. Bottom line, the party most to blame for the destruction was British Petroleum. Now our environment is once more in "deep shit" because of that company! Basically, containing spilled oil is really quite simple and easy, but BP has figured out a very low cost way to prepare for this task: BP lies. BP fabricates and "obfuscates. That's because responding to a spill may be easy and simple, but NOT at all cheap, and BP is cheap. To contain a spill, you need a lot of rubber, long skirts of it called "boom". You need to quickly surround a leak or burst, then pump it into skimmers or disperse it, sink it or burn it. Rapid response is the KEY! In order to save the environment, you have to make certain that you have to have lots ready for any potential emergency, with crews on standby in helicopters, and on containment barges, ready to roll. They have to be in place around the clock, all the time, just like a fire department. Before the Exxon Valdez disaster, BP Alyeska had hired Alaskan Natives, trained them to drop from helicopters into the freezing water, and set the boom in case of emergency. Alyeska also certified in writing that that a containment barge with equipment was within five hours sailing of any point in the Prince William Sound. They also falsely told the state and federal government that it had plenty of boom and equipment cached on Bligh Island, but all of it was a lie!
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