that the chairman was misunderstood and he is very much in charge until the leak is stopped. the company is taking another round of criticism that it put profit ahead of safety with a key operating safety called a long string. we have a picture for you. it s a pipe that goes to the well but they say it s very dangerous to use that method in high pressure situations or above pressure wells. if the company had put a liner system which is the other system which provides more protection and safeguards, it would have cost the company $7-10 million but would have been more costly. last night operators on the discovery enterprise drill ship had to stop after it was blocked. today we have lightning storms that prevented workers from collecting oil. those prettyers resumed a short time ago and cleanup workers, they have been cooling getting
eventually they called the jefferson parish sheriff s office on us. we didn t call the sheriff s office. they called them to intervene. the sheriff s office basically said it s a public beach. they can go where they want to go so we eventually got over to that tent which was my goal in the beginning was just to get to the tent with the cleanup workers. didn t really expect them to talk but wanted the opportunity to ask them if they had anything to say. when you got to them were you able to ask some questions of those workers? i was able to ask. once i got there and had some had clearance but i did have to tell the supervisor there that the guy down the beach told me i could and he, after i told him that told the workers, don t answer his questions. don t answer his questions. point blank. i said, well this guy down the beach told me i could ask the questions. now you re telling them not to answer the questions. so after that, i did ask the questions with, you know, ignoring his
provided they were told by bp representatives they would be terminated from employment if they worth and had to get rid of them. and our next guest sparred with bp s on-site supervisor on grand isle, louisiana over access to parts of the beach cleanup workers. every security guard here has been given instructions to every single news crew you can be outside of a hundred yards of the workers along the boom. who is saying that? because nobody can tell me unless you re the jefferson parish sheriff s office, you re the coast guard, or you re the military, can you tell me where to go on this public beach. i can tell you where to go because i am employed to keep this beach, i am employed to keep this beach safe. joining me now wdsu news anchor scott walker. thanks for your time tonight, scott walker. no problem. glad to be here. okay. can you describe the rest of that exchange that you had there? well, from there they
so bp has what s known in the trade as a pr debacle on its hands. as in, they are responsible for pretty much destroying the gulf of mexico in reckless pursuit of some of the greatest profit margins in the history of the world. we have a flower for our logo. does that help you not hate us? in the 59 days since their private spigot of money became the american public s toxic underwater volcano, bp has done two things to manage press coverage. the first was to try to keep the news media from covering the scene on the shoreline and interviewing cleanup workers. bp did this in part by hiring private security firms like the menacingly named talon security to block media access. bp s coo said the charges were untrue but then we shot this footage. if there s something on
interviewing cleanup workers. bp did this in part by hiring private security firms like the menacingly named talon security to block media access. bp s coo said the charges were untrue but then we shot this footage. if there s something on break, i m interfering with his job? yes. sir, you cannot talk to anybody there. can i yell from a distance? no. sir, you cannot interview the workers. the other is less obviously threatening and would be hi layerous if not for the environmental armageddon. it s the fact that bp has its own fake media. we found bp s preferred story lines under the heading, reports from the gulf, at bp.com.