This was just posted at Huffington Post:
Spill Responders 'Told to Forgo Precautionary Health Measures In Cleanup'
BP Has 'Systemic Safety Problem', Responsible For 97% Of 'Egregious Willful' Safety Violations
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The following should be made available spill responders.
Are these people insane? Did history teach them nothing? This video will tell you the effects of not providing clean-up workers with the right equipment.
This is posted along with the video posted here:
markdcatlin — January 11, 2008 — More than one in ten oil spill cleanup worker were injuried or became ill from the work cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the first time an OSHA program went into voluntary compliance mode (like the agency later did during the World Trade Center cleanup and Katrina) Contact me for more information on worker health and safety issues during this spill. I was living in Alaska at the time and worked with the Alaska Laborers Union on occupational health and safety concerns during the cleanup. My email is mdcatlin@verizon.net . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at http://www.cdc.gov/... . For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at http://www.soundtruth.info/ This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaska's Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spill's effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community.
BP Stands for Bad Petroleum
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Saturday the White House warned BP that it expects the oil giant to pay all damages associated with the disastrous oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, even if the costs exceed the $75 million liability cap under federal law. BP responded Sunday saying its public statements are "absolutely consistent" with the administration's request.
When you hear dueling public statements like these, watch your wallets.
UPDATE:
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/...
Apr 29, 2010
MMS Thought Deepwater Horizon was Award-Winningly SAFE
FinalistKeelanAdamsonTransocean This afternoon Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bart Stupak (R-MI) sent letters to BP America and Transocean Ltd. requesting information as part of an investigation into the "companies' risk management and emergency response plans for accidental oil and gas releases at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and other offshore deep water or ultra-deep water drilling facilities."