Something Smells Fishy - Reading Between the Lines that List Who are Cleaning the BP Oil Spill http://bit.ly/v7OaZY

Article by James Southland

The BP oil spill is considered by many environment experts as the worst disaster since the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of decades past. The damage is unprecedented - and so is the clean up. There is something that looks wrong in the equation though. Let's see.

Several months ago, UK-based British Petroleum reported that one of its offshore oil rigs exploded in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, it has already spewed hundreds of thousands of oil in the Atlantic, causing widespread and probably irreversible damage not only to the local flora and fauna, but also to the livelihood of everyone around it.

Thus, intense cleanup efforts has gone underway. Large corporations are currently helping British Petroleum in cleaning up the mess. So far, it is estimated that the cleanup efforts will cost BP more than 15 billion dollars to complete the environmental repairs. However, here lies the question:

Who is doing the cleanup efforts?

BP is an oil company. While it should already have available equipment for use in such cleanups, it is impossible for the company alone to handle it all. Thus, contracting third parties is essential for a speedy and effective cleanup operation. Otherwise, it would take BP forever to clean it up, let alone restore it. After some research, it was found out that most of the companies that were into contract with BP with respect to this are predominantly American.

1. The Ohio-based Proctor and Gamble, more commonly known as P and G, will be the primary supplier of cleaning liquid that will be used to remove oil from affect fowls. From a report of a leading environmental group, it was said that P and G's Dawn dishwashing liquid is the ONLY thing out there that can do the job without causing considerable side effects to the birds.

2. Ilinois-based Nalco Inc., the world's leading water treatment and services company, is the creator of Corexit, the primary surface dispersant used in directly cleaning up the oil that the busted well regurgitates. More than 2 million gallons of such have been dumped in the Gulf area since the cleanup efforts.

These two example do not include the skimmers, barges, aircraft, subsea dispersant and so on, almost all of which are sourced from companies that come from the United States.

Hence, here are the questions:

1. Did the BP spill REALLY happen in the way that it was described?Or is this some sort of a disguised economic stimulus package?