Ex-BP Employer Whistle Blows
Posted on 12 July 2010 by LynThomas in Uncategorized
As the fullness of the Gulf Impact continues to grow, more and more stories are emerging that show BP in a very poor light.
Adam Dillon, once contracted as a BP liaison officer was fired after taking photos that he believes were related to the use of dispersants and to the cleanup of the oil. Dillon was not even sure what he had photographed, but after passing the photographs on to his superiors, he was interrogated for nearly an hour, then within 12 hours he was fired.
Dillion had been instrumental in blatantly rebuffing reporters’ attempts, on his superiors’ instructions, to observe cleanup operations in Grand Isle.
“Money is the bottom line,” said Dillon. “What BP is doing to America is wrong.”
According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income, if the claimant refuses to work in assisting the spill response.
Kindra Arnesen’s husband opted to work for BP in the clean up. She believes he was one of many who were sickened by the toxic vapours from the spilt oil. BP CEO Tony Hayward tried to pass off the multiple boats full of sick fishermen as ‘food poisoning’.
The company has since discouraged use of respirators because they don’t want the task to appear dangerous. However, RFK Center President Kerry Kennedy traveled to the Gulf Coast to talk to cleanup workers and found that BP’s active denial of proper safety equipment was having a serious health effect.
“In all three states that I’ve visited, fishermen said when they went out to work on the cleanup, that if they tried to bring respirators they were told it was unnecessary equipment and would only spread hysteria,” said Kennedy.
“When I went out with eleven people, we had respirators on and within half an hour, all of our eyes were burning and our throats were closing and we all had headaches,” she explained.
Tony Hayward has been sent to the Arabic states to raise funds for BP in order to stave off a takeover bid.
Russian Submersible
In the meanwhile BP reports it has had 120,000 different solutions presented to them by a wide variety of people. “We are looking through all of these to see which are viable.”
The skipper of one of two Russian owned Mir submersibles, which can dive to 6,000m, claims that there is still time for the subs to assist BP with the disaster.
A BP spokesman told BBC News “If the Russians want to contact us, or may have done so through some other channel, we can evaluate their idea.”
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