Former Oil Worker Says Cleanup Just For Show, WKRG Channel 5 CBS Pensacola, June 24, 2010:
Former oil clean-up worker Candi Warren says… the tide and surf buried oil overnight. But they were forbidden to dig it up. … She said she was told to only clean the surface of the sand, that this is all cosmetic. …
Warren says she believes money is being wasted on the crews and says “At some point the real clean-up will have to begin, but I’m afraid the money will be gone.”
She used a shovel and dug down six, eight, maybe twelve inches into the sand to show us the layers of oil close to the shoreline.
Transcript excerpts:
Candi Warren, former BP clean-up worker: This is for show… to make the condo owners — the property owners — think that the beachers are being cleaned up.
WKRG Reporter: She became concerned when she was instructed to remove oil from only the very surface of the sand though overnight, oil had become buried underneath sand — and is still there.
Warren: Cosmetic only, this is cosmetic. they told us not to dig.
Warren: We werent allowed to talk to the media.
Warren: The money’s being used — its being abused… One day the cleanup is really going to have to happen, and the money’s gonna be gone.
