Health expert: BP running Gulf like a ‘prison warden’
By David Edwards and Sahil Kapur
RawStory.com
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
An environmental health advocate declared that the reported four hours of training given to Gulf clean-up workers are insufficient, and ripped into BP for “endangering the health of people.”
“BP should not be running the Gulf region like a prison warden, and we’ve got to stop that,” said Monique Harden, co-director and attorney at the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
Harden appeared as a guest on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann Wednesday.
BP has faced a litany of criticism for ostensibly downplaying the magnitude of the oil spill and responding inadequately to what is now considered the worst environmental disaster the United States has ever seen.
The federal government isn’t much of a help, Harden claimed, as BP can legally get away with four hours of training. Many clean-up workers are not professionals but rather fishermen and shrimpers who have been put out of work as a result of the spill.
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“On Monday, British Petroleum promised to pay all necessary cleanup costs for this oil spill. And they said they will do it, no matter how much they have to raise gas prices.” —Jay Leno