BP: Clean-up show was not fake, workers will be brought back tomorrow as proof

[charlesg]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/28/gulf.oil.spill.bp/?hpt=Sbin

Parish official: BP shipped in workers for president's visit

(CNN) -- A Gulf Coast official accused BP of shipping workers into Grand Isle, Louisiana, for President Obama's visit to the oil-stricken area Friday and sending them away once the president left the region.

Early Friday morning, "a number of buses brought in approximately 300 to 400 workers that had been recruited all week," Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told CNN's "Situation Room." Roberts said the workers were offered $12 an hour to come out to the scene at Grand Isle and work. But, when Obama departed, so did the workers, he said.

BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles downplayed the claim Friday evening, saying it is not unusual to see people wrapping up work in the afternoon.

"These individuals are working out in the heat of the sun. These are long days. They start early in the morning, and they stop early in the evening," he said. "So the fact that they were leaving the location late in the afternoon was not unusual. It's not associated with the president arriving."

Suttles added that the workers would be back Saturday morning to continue working.

[boston bean]

1. How reassuring. Were they there yesterday??

[chill_wind]

3. Doesn't sound like it.

"The level of cleanup and cooperation from BP in the last week in no way compares to the effort shown on the island today," Roberts said.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/23711711/detail.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Per local authorities, they were bussed in at $12/hour as opposed

to the $10/hour fewer of them were being paid.

[monmouth]

2. Landscape people do the same thing down here in Florida. They start

work right after the sun starts to rise and then quit in early afternoon. Just too hot...

[WeDidIt]

4. This time, they won't leave until the journalists leave n/t

[laughingliberal]

7. +1 nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Lets see them still on BP's payroll 6 months from now

with no checks bounced.

[flyarm]

8. there is not a damn thing these bastards can say that i believe..not a damn thing!

oh and my backyard is the GUlf of Mexico..I have had to breathe the stinking air they have brought us..and we don't even know what shit we have had to breathe!

Anyone who believes these bastards is a fool!

I have only one thing else to say..

COVERUP!