BP's Crazy Scheme

Starring Marty Shutter as The New BP Oild Guy. Photos of the Alabama shore taken by Marty Shutter who just got back from vacationing in the Gulf and has reported back to me on what a personal tragedy the mess is to him. Places that he has been visiting for over 20 years are now reeking of diesel and the beaches are covered with tar balls and other oil waste.
So, we're at day 76 of the BP Oil Spill, what may be the greatest man-made ecological disaster in history, and we still really haven't heard much about what's going to happen to all that oil crud they've been cleaning up in the Gulf and on the beaches. I find it difficult to believe that BP is going to be able to find enough landfills to take all the hazardous materials they're cleaning up -- so what are they going to do with it all? As a multinational oil company ("oil major") BP is the UK's largest corporation, with its headquarters in St James's, City of Westminster, London. BP America's headquarters is in the Two Westlake Park in the Energy Corridor area of Houston. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" (vertically integrated private sector oil exploration, natural gas, and petroleum product marketing companies).[5] The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has been convicted of two felonies for environmental crimes, including one felony for which BP pleaded guilty in connection with the Texas City refinery explosion in 2005 that caused 15 deaths, injured 180 people, and forced thousands of nearby residents to remain sheltered in their homes. On 20 April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico,[42] resulting in excess of 200,000 gallons of oil (approx. 5,000 barrels) leaking every single day after a blow-out preventer designed to stop oil from flowing out during an emergency failed to activate. The spill was expected to continue until the blow-out preventer could be activated or another containment method implemented. Though 115 workers were evacuated from the site, eleven missing workers were presumed dead. On 28 April 2010, the US Coast Guard set fire to some sequestered portions of oil which had leaked from the uncapped well located five thousand feet below the Gulf of Mexico. On 29 April 2010, the economic impact from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion on Gulf Coast shrimpers led to a suit naming BP as well as Transocean and Halliburton as co-defendants. Two similar lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Courts in New Orleans and the adjacent Gulf state of Alabama on 28 and 29 April, respectively, accusing the companies of negligence