BP Still Doesn't Want You to See Its Tarballs

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— By Mac McClelland| Wed Mar. 30, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Cleanup workers on Grand Isle, Louisiana. All photos by John Hazlett.

Lots has changed on Elmer's Island. Nearly a year after the great oilpocalypse of 2010, this Louisiana wildlife refuge about 50 miles south of New Orleans isn't crawling with teams of cleanup workers raking big black pools of crude off the sand; there's no cleanup machinery or equipment; the only immediately visible remnants of the BP/Deepwater Horizon spill are the occasional tarballs, big as a kid's head, that wash onto the shore.

Not that I can just waltz onto this public beach to see all that—not everything has changed. Like some lame iteration of Groundhog Day, the hundredth time I try to pull onto the Elmer's Island access road from Highway 1 in southern Louisiana—some 200 days after the last time I tried it—I am, once again, stopped. Last year, it was cops blocking the road. Now it's private security hired by BP.

"You have to get permission from central command to come on here, and then you'll probably have to be escorted by an official," the security guard tells me.

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http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/03/BP-oil-tarballs-louisiana
Private security keeping people out of state owned parks. Sounds like fascism to me.

[Scuba]

1. Fascismts hiding their crimes...

[PJPhreak]

4. I have this pic as my desktop,Helps keep my love for "Heavy Detroit Iron" In Perspective. nt

[INdemo]

2. So how did you get this picture? I find it unbelievable that

we have a Democratic President and his administration appears to be no different that what a Bush Presidency would be when it comes to protecting BP and their coverup...

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. BUT BUT BUT I saw on the TV the other day everything was fine and clean.

The Mainstream Media wouldn't LIE...... would it?


When they came out with their BP Select Scientist saying they could not find any oil I knew they were lying.

Or they knew just where to "look"

[RC]

5. Where are the Clean, Green energy people here?

Why are they ignoring this?