BP says it's not responsible for paying to reseed oyster beds

[villager]

Source: Times-Picayune

BP says it's not responsible for paying to reseed oyster beds

State officials' decision to turn on a number of freshwater diversions full blast to block oil from entering coastal wetlands on both sides of the Mississippi River -- a strategy that decimated private and public oyster beds -- was not approved by the Unified Command overseeing the response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a senior BP official said Friday.

According to industry figures, Louisiana produced up to 40 percent of the oysters consumed in the nation.
"Having been a part of this response since the beginning, I can tell you categorically that the Coast Guard indicated that it was not necessary and was not seen as a viable response technique," Mike Utsler, chief operating officer of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, said Friday. "As a Unified Command, we saw this as a not-needed exercise, and the state still chose to pursue that course of action."

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[think]

1. BP should be brought to its knees

For what they have done to the gulf. No sympathy for polluting bastards here.

[roguevalley]

7. welcome to Alaska's exxon nightmare. it will never, ever end.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. thanks for nothing, BP. Don't ever let me catch one of you eating oysters.

jerks, the lot of 'em.

[Angry Dragon]

3. bp was ordered to stop spraying corexit and they did not stop

for all we know they could still be spraying it

these people should be in jail and we should not have to share our world with them

[aquart]

6. The only place I want that stuff sprayed is on BP executive food.

In lieu of public hanging.

[trud]

10. why in lieu.

Both sounds good to me.

[SpiralHawk]

4. How perfectly republicon of them

Republicons are famous for evading resposibility -- and BP continues to prove that it has Republicon Family Pharisee Values up the wazoo.

[aquart]

5. The hell they aren't, those murderous bastards.

THEY ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE THEREFORE THEY ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE GULF WHOLE AGAIN.

But God forbid it eat into a bonus or anything.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. If I hear "unified command " one more time..............

[harun]

9. Justice denied.

[Devil_Fish]

11. I'm waiting for BP to say they arn't responsible for the whole mess and blame the workers who died.

Because we all know that's comming.

[primavera]

12. Shhh!!!

Don't give them any ideas!