Posted on 06/06/2010 6:55:17 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- When tourists and owners at Sugar Beach condominiums started tracking oil and tar from the sand onto a boardwalk Saturday morning, property manager Patrick McIntosh called BP PLC and asked for a cleanup crew.
He expected that help would be there in minutes, as that's what he said he was told during meetings with city officials earlier in the week.
Instead, he said he was asked if the property was public or private.
After answering private, McIntosh said, he was told that he would have to file a claim and clean the boardwalk himself. The operator asked for his e-mail address and phone number.
"It's BP's problem," he said midday Saturday. "I don't understand why they can't."
He got a slightly different response an hour or so later when he called again, he said. This time, the operator told him she was unsure whether BP would clean the boardwalk.
Just afterward, McIntosh said, he spotted about 50 to 75 workers about a mile away at a state park, and figured they were headed east toward his Orange Beach condominium. By 2 p.m., however, the workers disappeared. Heavy rains began to fall, and oil still stained the beach in front of the condominium units.
"They never got within an eighth of a mile, and there was plenty of (oil-stained) beach to the east of us," McIntosh said.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.al.com ...
Folks will need to bring detergent bottles to the beach to wash their feet for years into the future. Assuming tarballs are the worst they see, and not a total sludging of the beaches.
This is going to be a Katrina Part Deux with everyone standing around with their thumbs up their noses whining about everyone else not doing anything for them. The condo owner should get off the couch and clean his own boardwalk if he were so concerned.
This is why we should not allow foreign owned companies to operate anywhere in the Gulf and that includes Mexican companies in Mexican waters.
It’s time to make the Gulf an American lake.
[groan]
If one wants things done one’s way, one has to do it one’s self.
The Republican politicians of this state will make sure that BP does pay. This has already become a huge election issue in the state.
Because an American company would have sent a crew to clean tarballs off this guy's boardwa1k?
Where’s Obama when you really need him?
And then intermediately file suit against BP for time, labor, materials, damages, lost business, filing costs and attorney's fees.
Sorry we are too busy dealing with Obama’s boot on our neck to help you out. We are kinda busy trying to plug this hole here. Why not call the govt they have plenty of resources to help you with your problem. They have been on this crisis from “Day One” you know.
I’m reminded of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRBchZLkQR0
Property owners, although it IS BPs fault and yes, they SHOULD clean every drop of sludge, they kind of have a BIGGER issue to deal with RIGHT NOW! You are on your own about cleaning your boardwalk.
Also, WHY in the world don’t folks look where they are stepping?
People can be such idiots sometimes!
“Media fail repeatedly to mention the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 giving POTUS complete responsibility for immediate action in cleaning up an oil spill. Once again Barack Hussein Obama is derelict in his duty.
OPA, among other things, amended Section 311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Section 311 now provides in part that:
(A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States), the President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.
(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government
(i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and
(ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.”
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/23926
“Critics like Sununu say that’s a dodge and that the White House has yet to establish a coherent structure for the response.
They need to separate this into two pieces: stopping the leak, which is BP’s responsibility, and the clean-up, which is the government’s job but the Obama administration hasn’t figured this out yet, Sununu said. All you need from BP for the cleanup is a check. They shouldn’t be involved otherwise.
This is an administration that believes in management by rhetoric,” he added. “They really haven’t come to grips with this.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38161_Page3.html
After answering private, McIntosh said, he was told that he would have to file a claim and clean the boardwalk himself. The operator asked for his e-mail address and phone number.
That may be the key right there - private vs public areas...the company didn't say tough cookies they responded that he'll need to file a claim.
Different systems at play here for public and private clean up?
So he should clean it up and file a claim.
KD has some thoughts on Florida. This is his neck of the woods.
Complete with maps:
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/2376-BP-Four-Specific-And-Immediate-Needs.html
My cat kicked cat litter on the carpet...I have emailed Tidy Cat for clean-up assistance, but, so far, they are ignoring me...should I sue or are you going to initiate a Federal Clean-up program?;-)
I have to agree with you get of ones but and get to work If this happened of the coast where i live i would go down there and help out
May 23, 2010
Palin Links BP Donations to Obama to Explain Gulf Spill Response
President Obama’s oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been hampered by his relationship to BP, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday in the opening salvo of a verbal cage match with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
fox news
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/23/palin-links-bp-donations-obama-explain-gulf-spill-response/
President Obama’s oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have been hampered by his relationship to BP, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Sunday in the opening salvo of a verbal cage match with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs
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