BP Destroying Evidence

BP is trying to cover-up the widespread evidence of the dead birds resulting from the oil spill.  We've known that they have done everything in their power to hide the evidence of the oil coming ashore as well as keep the media from getting those photographs of the dead wildlife and sea creatures that have suffered a cruel death at the hand of BP's greed, but now they are taking it a step further by having clean up crews rake up the carcasses of the dead birds, instead of collecting them for necropsy's in order to determine the cause of death.  In raking up the birds they are separating the heads from the bodies which means it is not going to be autopsied,  according to Dr. Riki Ott, marine toxicologist, who is down in Louisiana.  It is important that all the dead and dying animals be collected as they are needed to evaluate the damages caused by this spill.

The body count of affected wildlife is crucial to prove the harm caused by the spill, and also serves as an invaluable tool to evaluate damages to public property - the dolphins, sea turtles, whales, sea birds, fish, and more, that are owned by the American public. Disappeared body counts means disappeared damages - and disappeared liability for BP. BP should not be collecting carcasses. The job should be given to NOAA, a federal agency, and volunteers, as was done during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

NOAA should also be conducting carcass drift studies. Only one percent of the dead sea birds made landfall in the Gulf of Alaska, for example. That means for every one bird that was found, another 99 were carried out to sea by currents. Further, NOAA should be conducting aerial surveys to look for carcasses in the offshore rips where the currents converge. That's where the carcasses will pile up--a fact we learned during the Exxon Valdez spill. Maybe that's another reason for BP's "no camera" policy and the flight restrictions.

From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence

She also reports that while up in a small plane flying from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot reported that noticed "the thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the coastal barrier islands off Alabama".

The reason for doing so?  To keep the media from seeing and reporting on the oil that is reaching the beaches.   It is widely known now that the booms are not being used properly and are thusly ineffective from keeping the oil from reaching its target, which is another reason for BP to keep the media access limited.

The more we see and hear from people, the more obvious it is that BP is in charge of this with the Government playing a minimal role and one of solely deferring to whatever BP wants with regards to the clean up effort.   As stated by Dr. Ott, BP should have no say whatsoever in the collection of evidence, and allowing them to control any aspect of this is criminal.

BP Attempts Blackmail Against the United States; BP Is Pouting Over Anger Directed At Company

Yes, as if they hadn't done enough damage already now BP is threatening blackmail.

It emerged last night that BP is considering bowing to President Obama's demand to scrap its dividend payout to shareholders. It is understood the oil giant would proceed with such a move only if it could strike a deal whereby the U.S. would tone down its relentless attacks.

BP Tries To Blackmail US


It obviously isn't enough that they are dragging their feet to pay out claims that are being made to BP due to lost wages, lost business and collapsing coastal communities due to the negligence of BP, but now, now they are upset about their being "attacked".


BP is not the only one who is upset with how the United States and its citizens are reacting to this EPIC DISASTER which is of BP's own creation, no it seems that other Britons are getting into the act.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, this morning became the most senior UK politician to defend BP, saying "anti-British rhetoric" levelled at the company was a matter of "national concern" and that the oil giant was paying "a very, very heavy price" for what had been an accident.

"I would like to see a bit of cool heads rather than endlessly buck-passing and name-calling," he said. "When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the airwaves."

London Mayor Angry At US Reaction to BP & Oil Spill

So this mayor is calling this spill an "Accident"?  Like it was an unavoidable event that occurred through no fault of BP ?
Are they also going to dismiss the long and detailed history that BP has with deliberate and egregious safety violations for which has brought the company not only probationary periods in Alaska and Texas but has caused them to be fined millions upon millions of dollars and even had their behavior towards whistle-blowers  be called "tactics like were used in Nazi Germany" but a member of the judiciary?

Perhaps the British need to be reminded of the lives that BP's negligence has cost, and I am not talking solely about the sea & wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, but the many human lives that have been lost as a result of this accident and others.