You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and deformed seafood, the dead zones and the depleted oyster beds, the oiled marshlands and the dying dolphins, and the clean-up workers with crippling health issues. But now, after Hurricane Isaac whipped up some of the estimated 1 million barrels of spilled oil that's still out there in the Gulf, BP says it's seen the light. Now, 29 months later, BP insists that it's going to clean up the Gulf, and that it's serious this time:
"What we have seen to date in the form of buried tar mats and tar balls exposed by Isaac have been identified in the isolated areas that we worked" before the storm, said Mike Utsler, President of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, speaking at a news conference at a New Orleans hotel. "It's not unexpected to see this material where it's been exposed."
Seeing that oil on the beaches has been “not unexpected” by countless BP cleanup workers who have stated they were not allowed to clean up oil and instead ...