Gulf Researchers Getting Roadblocks from BP

[highplainsdem]

Source: WUSF

ST. PETERSBURG (2010-06-08) - Some USF scientists who have been in the forefront of research into the effects of the Gulf oil spill say they've been getting resistance from BP officials after asked the company for help.

Researchers from NOAA and the University of South Florida say they have definitively found undersea plumes in several directions from the Deepwater Horizon site. But at least one scientist says he was rebuffed by BP. USF oceanographer David Hollander was trying to get a sample of oil coming out of the wellhead to compare with oil an expedition found in the depths of the Gulf.

"I tried to get a piece of the oil from a BP representative," says Hollander, "and it was met with resistance. He barked severely."

Hollander says he plans to ask for a sample a second time. USF researchers won't be able to definitively connect the undersea plume to the well until they can compare the samples. BP officials did not return a call for comment.



Read more: http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/06/08/gulf_researchers_getting_roadblocks_from_bp

[BeatleBoot]

1. Time to send in the Marines

Not into the Gulf.

In BP's headquarters.

Enough is enough.

[wordpix]

2. agreed, the military is needed to bring the foreign multinational traitors under control

acting like they own the ocean, they need to find out whose waters these are.

[Mind_your_head]

3. BE A MAN!!!! GET THAT SAMPLE.....no matter WHAT!!!

That's what saints and sinners have been made of for centuries!

(try not to get caught).

That's my best advice.

Peace and wish ya'all well.

M_Y_H

[wordpix]

5. get special ops out there if necessary. Get all criminal evidence at the crime scene

Otherwise, we will be arguing with BP about what a "plume" is for decades.

[nashville_brook]

4. k n r

[BeFree]

6. And NOAA?

Is NOAA getting turned down too? Obama's people are just sitting on the sideleines whiddling their thumbs? Or what?

NOAA must not give a shit. Otherwise they'd have all the oil the researchers ever needed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. He should complain to Congress. BP should not behave like Rottweillers

They should ask for a hearing at the committee to see what is going on.