Fishermen find oil and dispersants on Mississippi shrimping and oyster grounds

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Run time: 01:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAUGiIXMwU   Posted on YouTube: August 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: adamcmahon Views on YouTube: 11159   Posted on DU: August 21, 2010 By DU Member: rusty quoin Views on DU: 384

 
From an article in the Daily Beast by Rick Outzen
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-17/bp-oil-spill-cover-up/2/

"Since the first of August, Mississippi fishermen have found oil in the marshes of their barrier islands, seen massive fish kills and scooped up submerged oil in Pass Christian. Nonetheless, Bill Walker, director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, declared on August 9, "there should be no new threats," and issued an order for all local coastal governments to halt oil disaster work being funded by BP money that was granted to the state.

Walker challenged anyone to prove there was still oil in Mississippi waters by calling his office. As of Friday, August 13, Walker told media that he had not received any phone calls.

"That's a bunch of bull," says Mark Stewart in telephone interview with The Daily Beast. "There is oil all through the water column. We've proved it, and they do nothing about it."

Stewart even has a video on YouTube showing his crew dipping an absorbent cloth into the Gulf water three-quarters of a mile off the Mississippi beaches. When it's pulled out of the water after less than two minutes, the cloth is covered with oil. There is so much oil on the surface that it reflects sunlight like a mirror. There, too, the commercial fishermen are concerned about the dispersants.

"They say the oil is gone," Stewart said on the video. "We disagree."

Stewart, a third-generation fisherman, was in Vessels of Opportunity for 70 days before being laid off August 2. He tells The Daily Beast part of his time in the program was play-acting for visiting dignitaries. "Whenever a government official would be flying over our boat, we were told to put out all our boom and start skimming for show, even when there wasn't any oil."

[another saigon]

1. k&r

:grr:

[Karenina]

2. The fisherman have no interest in poisoning those who consume their catch

but TPTB have other ideas.

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3. K&R

[lumpy]

5. Kick again

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4. Please see this thread lots of info there..and OP I posted this link on that thread as well!

thanks for the video..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8990470&mesg_id=8990470

[Devil_Fish]

6. K&R The lies need to stop. The government is in BP's Pocket. NT