Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills

[Donnachaidh]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0709/bp-dumping-oil-waste-gulf-landfills/

The Gulf area may have to live with oil long after the beaches have been cleaned. Some residents are outraged that BP has been dumping oily waste in landfills in their areas.

After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even workers' protective suits, gloves, shovels, rakes and anything else that touches oil is buried there.

The Board of Supervisors in Harrison, Mississippi passed a resolution saying they don't want any BP waste in their community but there is little they can do. BP has cut deals with Waste Management, the owners of the landfill. They answer to the state instead of local county government.

"We don't want it," President of the Board of Supervisors Connie Rocko told CNN's Randi Kaye. "It is valuable landfill space and hazardous to our citizens. Take your waste somewhere else or please find an alternative."

[LiberalFighter]

1. Waste Management owns the landfill? How come the local governement doesn't?

I guess Mississippi just loves privatization.

[Uzybone]

3. Amazing aint it.

They give everything to private industry, and whine when private industry does what it does.

[On the Road]

2. Since It's a Modern Landfill,

it should be sealed and vented. I can't think of a better place for it.

[lunatica]

4. So oil companies have no way of dealing with their waste also?

Does everything they touch carry death?

[blindpig]

5. Just goes to show who is the boss

Capital trumps the public interests every damn time.

Kill Capitalism

[jody]

6. Gulf state governors should activate their "unorganized militias", declare martial law for the

BP Oil Catastrophe, and protect state lands.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Wait and see

I have a feeling that we will deal with this death and destruction for generations.
The cost is going to be in health and dead zones in the water and on land.
It will cost this country dearly in money, enough I think to bankrupt this country.

[GCP]

8. I'm sure Haley Barbour has no problem with it

Him being such a lover of big oil and corporations in general.