In this Sept. 5, 2012 aerial photo, a combination of alluvial clay and tar mats are seen on the shore of Elmer's Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, in Jefferson Parish, La. Tests run by Louisiana State University for state wildlife officials confirmed that oil found on Elmer's Island and Grand Isle matched the biological fingerprint of the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed from BP's Macondo well. On Wednesday, BP PLC said oil from its spill had been exposed by Isaac.
BP's proposed controversial "Deep Cleaning" plan would be the biggest mistake. There are easier and safer ways to bio-re-mediate the "shallow trapped oil" which had leaked from below. Calling it buried oil implies sunken oil being covered by sediment which is totally absurd geologically speaking.
BP's "Deep Cleaning" has a sinister agenda. Hurricane Isaac (despite all the hardship and flooding) failed to churn up more of the deeper trapped oil. It only scratched the superficial trapped oil. Though it is a headache and exposes BP's follies, it failed to live up to BP's expectation of a slow kill toxic genocide.
BP's "Deep Cleaning" like the flawed TOP KILL, was meant to fail. But that "failure to clean" is secretly their success of creating irreversible environmental damage.
Use eco-friendly geological solutions which employ BIO-remediation as its principal agent of removing the toxic oil from the environment, while there is still a chance of a recovery from this environmental disaster.
We have already allowed BP the criminals to clean up their own crime scene and allowed BP a freehand (second chance) for more than a year at its recovery. What have we got? A pretty messed Gulf that "oil-slicks with every major quake events around the world" and gets all oily-mushy whenever a hurricane comes to town.
Curiously, for almost 2 years 4 months, there was no hurricane to disturb the "carefully prepared Gulf Incubation Biolab" for BP's synthesized bacteria which they had invested millions and years of research before BPGOD. All those years and millions spent, could they have not come up with something better than booms?
Honestly, if BP had adhered to its own Safety Policy, industry-standard exploration practices and economic-sense, there would have been no Gulf Oilspill Disaster. In 2009, BP applied for 5 other deep water exploration wells and had them drilled successfully. In 1999 Texaco drilled 2 km away from the ill-fated Macondo well without an oil spill disaster. So you have 6 exploratory wells that followed the rules and one that broke all rules (under the pretext of negligence).
Now guess which well blew? Allowing BP to proceed with its proposed controversial "Deep Cleaning" plan is like have a blotched nose job and agreeing to undergo chemotherapy recommended by the same quack. How many times do we need to be conned?
People rescue cows from floodwaters after Isaac passed through the region, in Plaquemines Parish, La., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Isaac staggered toward central Louisiana early Thursday, its weakening winds still potent enough to drive storm surge into portions of the coast and the River Parishes between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Waves tear apart a pier along the Mobile Bay near Dauphin Island on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Alabama took a glancing blow from Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday as it headed toward landfall in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, but the storm still threatened the coast with high winds, torrential rain and pounding surf. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/bp-oil-beach-cleanup-louisiana-isaac_n_1875248.html
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC says it wants to aggressively clean up buried oil exposed on Louisiana's beaches by Hurricane Isaac's churning waves. The company wants to dig deep into beaches and remove oil buried since a BP well blew out on April 20, 2010, leading to the nation's largest offshore spill.
But digging deep can bring its own problems — it can be harmful to creatures that live on beaches or feed on them and it also may lead to erosion by loosening up sand. Erosion is a constant worry in Louisiana because the state is losing land at an alarming rate.
Mike Utsler, the president of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, said Tuesday the company has asked the Coast Guard and state and local officials for permission to do the "deep-cleaning."
