Should have been breaking news...
MANY OF THESE COMPANIES ARE DOING NOTHING OR MAKING THINGS WORSE, eg Killing birds, burning turtles, removing "evidence" of this carnage.
:thumbsdown: :cry: :grr::banghead:
The true story of the BP disaster is how private contractors, not the government, are handling the response. Of the 25,000 people responding to the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of the nation, 21,000 are under contract to the foreign oil giant BP. This private army includes workers shipped in from California making $10 an hour to clean the beaches ,ex-military public relations experts, and submarine robotics companies. There are no contractors working directly for the government.
The Center for American Progress — like many other outside observers — recommends that the government take over operational control from BP, to resolve conflicts of interest between the foreign corporation’s shareholders and public health and safety.
BP has been notoriously secretive about the network of companies working to run practically every aspect of the Deepwater Horizon response, including claims processing, hazardous material cleanup, boom deployment, scientific monitoring, and call centers. BP has ignored the state of Louisiana’s request on May 7 for a list of contractors and subcontractors.
...Below is an overview of the other thirteen top contractors identified by Unified Command as working for BP on the disaster, as well as other major contractors now governing the Gulf Coast region:
THIRTEEN TOP CONTRACTORS
O’Brien’s Response Management - Houston Texas (the ones RESPONSIBLE FOR BURNING ENDANGERED TURTLES ALIVE)
The Response Group
National Response Corporation
Marine Spill Response Corporation
Oil Spill Response, Ltd
WELLHEAD RESPONSE
Fluor
HAZARDOUS WASTE RESPONSE - (BEACH CLEAN UP - are these the guys destroying eggs and baby chicks?)
Vessels of Opportunity (Parsons Corporation)
U.S. Environmental Services -(USES is a private “professional, full-service environmental contracting firm specializing in environmental emergency response...BLA BLA BLA". USES Chief Operating Officer George Malvaney is a former Klu Klux Klan member who reformed after going to prison for an attempted military coup of Dominica.)
Eagle-SWS
Miller Environmental Group
Oil Mop, LLC -- (Environmental Safety and Health founded by Lawrence X. “Trey” Boucvalt III. The company’s current president is Davian M. Ploger. In an unusual move, Terrebonne Parish, LA is contracting directly with ES&H to handle the spill response, bypassing bP.)
CLAIMS PROCESSING - (provided by ATI Staffing, which held a disastrous jobs fair in Gulfport, MS on Wednesday.
ESIS, Inc. (subsidiary of the public corporation ACE Group (ACE) “is currently working at BP’s direction to administer claims associated with the Deepwater Horizon incident.”"
WILDLIFE RESCUE AND SCIENTIFIC MONITORING
Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, LLC
Total Safety US Inc.-based in Houston, TX
http://theglobalrealm.com/2010/06/20/bp’s-secret-army-of-oil-disaster-contractors/