Sunday, October 24, 2010

The new BP/Coast Guard Lexicon: “Oil Sheen” is now “Fish Oil” & Foamy rust-colored “Oil Mousse” now “Algae”

September 14th, 2010 at 01:17 PM
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/evidence-mounts-of-bp-spraying-toxic-dispersants
Dahr Jamail for Truthout, September 13th, 2010:

[BP Vessel Of Opportunity (VOO) worker Shirley Tillman's] log from August 1 describes, in detail, an incident of the Coast Guard… deny[ing] what they found was even oil:

“Around 2:00 p.m., we started noticing a lot of oil sheen. We were North of the East end of Cat Island, but South of the Inter Coastal channel. There was, as usual, a Coast Guard on one of the boats in our team. He called in to report it, but we were told not to drop the boom, it was just ‘Fish Oil.’ In the beginning of the clean-up operation, if something was floating on the water and it looked like oil, it was oil or oil sheen. Later they would sometimes say it was just ‘Fish Oil.’ Also, if it was heavy foam with a brown or rust color, originally it was ‘Oil Mousse.’ Later it was called ‘Algae.’ We were then told to head Northwest. The further we went, the worse the ‘Fish Oil’ got. Then, the foam was mixed in with the oil. It was at least the size of a football field, around our boat alone.

Read the report here.

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