Why Isn't This A Top News Story? 'BP acknowledges oil washing ashore in Florida'

[another saigon]

Imagine a country with a free/unhindered by corporate press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100831/bs_yblog_upshot/bp-acknowledges-oil-washing-ashore-on-florida-coast/print




BP acknowledges oil washing ashore in Florida

By Brett Michael Dykes brett Michael Dykes Tue Aug 31, 10:02 am ET

For days, as thousands of pounds of oil washed up on the Florida coast, BP officials stuck to an "Oil? What oil?" stance. Despite howling by local officials, fishermen and laid-off cleanup workers, BP officials denied all knowledge of the existence of oil in the area.

On Friday, though, the Coast Guard said that an oil slick roughly a quarter of a mile long lurked just 50 to 60 feet off of the beach at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Then on Saturday a BP spokesman finally acknowledged the slick, saying that the company had "spent considerable effort to get people to concentrate" on cleaning it up.

A local fisherman employed by BP in the cleanup effort told the Pensacola News Journal that the oil giant is trying to sweep the oil under the proverbial rug.

"They're just trying to keep it quiet," he said. "Out of sight, out of mind."

[Silent3]

1. If that oil dares to try to open an Islamic community center...

...then the media will pay attention.

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, but it's "dispersed" oil washing on shore...

...nothing to see here, move along.

[TheKentuckian]

3. Because the government and the press are cooperating to cover up the debacle the best they can

They got deepwater extraction agenda to profit from.

[fascisthunter]

4. because no wealthy person is being directly effected

that's why... the spoiled rich get what they want, always. The rest of us, are just in their way.

[hughee99]

5. Give it some time...

Of course there are wealthy people with beach front property in Florida, but it's August, so they're not there right now. Wait until October when they get to their "winter homes" and realize what's been going on.

[chill_wind]

6. BP reverses, admits there's oil in local waters

Commercial fishermen working for BP have been recovering oil for over a month in Pensacola Bay while government officials deny the existence of this oil in the local waterways. (Special to the News Journal)

Oil spill: BP reverses, admits there's oil in local waters

Kimberly Blair • [e-mail] • August 29, 2010

Despite persistent denials from BP last week, thousands of pounds of weathered oil is being pulled from under the surface of Pensacola Bay every day.

During more than a dozen interviews last week, BP officials and spokespeople for a number of government agencies working on the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill response denied knowledge of oil in the bay.

Even as they spoke, however, Escambia County officials and local fishermen were reporting finding weathered oil, as they've been doing for weeks. BP's own crews were hand-scooping it up, and a submerged-oil team from BP's Deepwater Horizon Response Incident Command Post in Mobile was investigating.

"BP says it's all gone, but it's not. I've known it was out there for a month," said a commercial fisherman who asked not to be identified because he is working for BP in the cleanup and feared losing his job.

more- http://www.pnj.com/article/20100829/NEWS01/8290333/Oil-spill-BP-reverses-admits-there-s-oil-in-local-waters

[Poboy]

7. K&R!

[Poboy]

8. .

[KakistocracyHater]

9. I recc it too

just rarely mention it

[Poboy]

10. .

[IBEWVET]

11. K&R!

[raccoon]

12. Because FL would lose tourism money if it were publicized widely.

I suspect TPTB in FL used their connections to suppress this news.

[HopeHoops]

13. Easy to answer: Paris Hilton got busted for Cocaine.

They need SOMETHING important to "report" on.

[thereismore]

14. WTF does it matter if BP "acknowledges" it or not? There is oil, period. nt

[SoCalDem]

15. Why? Michael Douglas has cancer..Paris got arrested again..Bush won the Iraq war

Boehnner is the speaker-elect..dems are gonna lose.. there's a hurricane gonna blow by the atlantic coast..and Lindsay Lohan wants her career back..
and don't forget..

Obama redecorated the oval office, and Ari Fleischer thinks that if "you went to a guy's apartment & it was decorated "that" way, you'd turn around & leave"..

oil on Florida's beaches?

c'mon, get real.. probably some guy changed his oil & spilled the drip pan...

did you hear? it wasn't Paris' purse...just her stuff in the purse, ...well all the stuff except the cocaine :rofl: