BP’s public relations machine is exceptional, they’ve gone to Congress and blamed Haliburton and TransOcean. Essentially saying they lease this rig from TransOcean, Haliburton poured the concrete, it’s not BP’s fault at all. BP has done well to refocus public attention and control expectations. But most egregiously, they have refused to release video of the pipeline rupture, Ed Lavandera from CNN reports,

CNN has asked BP repeatedly since the explosion for video of the leak but company officials will only tell us ‘they’ll look into it.’

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Heaping on the insults, BP run deepwaterhorizonresponse.org is publishing messages like this to citizen groups trying to lend a hand.

We are not using hair booms at this time but are using commercially available sorbent boom when possible. In a February 2010 NOAA field test, commercial sorbent boom absorbed more oil and much less water than hair boom. Widespread deployment of hair boom could exacerbate the debris problem. There is adequate supply of sorbent boom for now, but we do encourage ideas of alternative solutions by calling (281) 366-5511.

So far all alternative solutions have been rejected, but that won’t stop groups like Oiled Wildlife Rescue Volunteers, a facebook group started by Amanda Richardson Bacon of Alabama, who are collecting hairbooms and bails of hay to save their local marshes, beaches, and fishing grounds from contamination. BP’s refusal to work with community groups such as these shows they are open only to commercially available resources.

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Morning all!

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So far, they still seem to be focusing on salvaging that damn oil.

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico.



The waivers were granted despite President Barack Obama’s vow that his administration would launch a “relentless response effort” to stop the leak and prevent more damage to the gulf. One of them was dated Friday — the day after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said he was temporarily halting offshore drilling



The exemptions, known as “categorical exclusions,” were granted by the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) and included waiving detailed environmental studies for a BP exploration plan to be conducted at a depth of more than 4,000 feet and an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. exploration plan at more 9,000 feet.



“Is there a moratorium on off shore drilling or not?” asked Peter Galvin, conservation director with the Center for Biological Diversity, the environmental group that discovered the administration’s continued approval of the exemptions. “Possibly the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history has occurred and nothing appears to have changed.”



MMS officials said the exemptions are continuing to be issued because they do not represent final drilling approval.

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Eep! FBI raid near my old stomping grounds in Watertown Square (MA).



Connected to the Times Square dude....



I can't get the link, but it's top of the fold at Boston.com

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oooOOOooo Randi is pissed at bad service from Lord & Taylor. I HATE HATE HATE bad service.

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oooOOOooo Randi is pissed at bad service from Lord & Taylor. I HATE HATE HATE bad service.

not listening but shocker it's from L&T