What's under Elmer's Island?

[charlie and algernon]

Grand Isle, Louisiana (CNN) -- The gate was wide open, so I just drove down the dirt road without stopping. A few hundred feet past the gate, a dust cloud kicked up. I slowed down, veered right, and stopped. A white Ford truck blocked the road to Elmer's Island.

A short black haired security guard sat behind the wheel. He stepped out of the car, and told me to turn around. I ask him "Why?"

"You can't be on this beach without clearance," he says coldly. "What if I make a run for it on foot?" I joke. "It would be trespassing," he says. "Who do you work for?" I ask. "BP," he says. "BP doesn't own this island," I tell him. "The state does. It seems they should be the ones telling me to leave."

It turns out that while Elmer's Island belongs to Louisiana, for all intents and purposes it's managed by BP.

(snip)

Louisiana state officials say BP is pushing to have Elmer's Island declared safe and re-opened. BP did not return a request for comment by deadline. But Portier's dated test results have raised enough red flags to keep the beach closed until more tests are done. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham says he's asked for the federal government to test for more hot spots. He says officials with the U.S. Coast Guard kept telling him the testing would be completed.


CNN found these tar balls on a beach near Elmer's Island, Louisiana.

Much much more here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/15/gulf.spill.elmers.island/index.html?hpt=C1

Fascinating article.

[gateley]

1. The coverup -- and complicity -- continues. nt

[gratuitous]

4. I'm sure Bobby Jindal will get to the bottom of this!

Right about, oh, never. Does that work for the people of Louisiana? Is never a good time for them to find out just how badly their environment has been poisoned?

[KamaAina]

9. That's "Booby" to you

:P

[H2O Man]

2. Thank you.

Recommended.

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

[FiveGoodMen]

5. What's that word ... for when corporations run the government?

It's on the tip of my tongue...

[Uncle Joe]

7. Does it begin with a F and end with an ism? n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

11. That's it!

*Lucy tumbles backward from the force of the exclamation*

[freshwest]

18. What FDR fought against. No wonder they've hated him all these years.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked, recommended and here is the billion dollar question.

"Why is it still locked? If it's cleaner than it was before, unlock the gates!" says Hopkins.

Thanks for the thread, charlie and algernon.

[charlie and algernon]

8. yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for an answer to that question

Gotta hand it to CNN for getting that question out there, though.

[Uncle Joe]

10. I agree with you and will give CNN credit for that one, but they and the rest

of the corporate media have a long ways to go.

[charlie and algernon]

14. heh, of course since I posted the article, CNN has buried it

it went from the main article on the front page to one of the small side articles on the US page. Someone at corporate got pissed off, methinks.

[Uncle Joe]

15. It probably represented too much decent, candid journalism for them to stand.

That's why, they're known first, last and foremost as the corporate media, they; project and primarily represent the corporate point of view not that of humans.

[Aerows]

12. Why does a UK oil company

Have sovereign authority over American soil?

[blindpig]

13. That's Capitalism for ya. n/t

[ddeclue]

16. A Wascally Wabbit?

:shrug:

:rofl:

[girl gone mad]

17. k & r

[intheflow]

19. K&R - BP controls public land now?

We're all screwed.