one big FU to the public after another. This country is so toast.

I agree, Savantster. Corruption is at every level, so if you're not rich, you're screwed. I loved eating seafood, but the oceans are so polluted and overfished that we'll be eating the weeds next–but only if the weeds haven't been dumped on by BP.

Did you expect them to take it home with them? And, after you wash the oil off of a pelican, don't they just fly back into the shit again?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

also: FUBAR

BP can pretty much do whatever they please.
Our government is so completely corrupted and owned by big corporations that it's gotten to the point where our government puts a foreign corporation over American citizens.
It's now ok for a foreign corporation to foul American waters, poison American seafood, dump on American citizens and put them out of work, foul our beaches and continually lie about it in the process…..as long as that foreign corporation has enough money to buy up American politicians and American media.

BP can pretty much do whatever they please.
Our government is so completely corrupted and owned by big corporations that it's gotten to the point where our government puts a foreign corporation over American citizens.
It's now ok for a foreign corporation to foul American waters, poison American seafood, dump on American citizens and put them out of work, foul our beaches and continually lie about it in the process…..as long as that foreign corporation has enough money to buy up American politicians and American media.

Hello Residents –

You all allowed this industry to settle and you all vote Republican knowing thier penchant for de-regulation and allowing polluters to pollute.

Karma baby, Karme.

The south gets gods wrath because they deserve it.

No, we ALL don't vote republican. A lot of us fight very hard to bring sense and reason into this region. “God's wrath”? Really? You sound like Falwell saying Katrina was God's wrath because New Orleans had a Gay Pride parade. Get a grip. So I guess that God and karma both are taking their mighty vengeance out on New Orleans because some people are too liberal and others are too conservative. You make me sick.

Residents ought to be outraged — the whole country should be. Just have a look at what's actually happening in the Gulf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDf-KkMCKQ&feat…

And if you'd like to learn the truth about Corexit and the criminal cartel that's actually behind this planned nightmare, drink this in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fldJnaNp0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj2lZDEJMw

Facing the hard truths and having one's longstanding entrenched pre-conceptions about the world in which we live turned on their head isn't particularly easy, but we're simply going to have to do it if we want to survive.

What is BP saying? They are claiming the landfill has a liner. Yes, that may be true, but having worked in landfill design engineering and regulation the past 20 years, these liners are not 100 percent effective. They DO leak, either by basic engineering flaws (too thin a liner, poor design components) or bad workmanship in materials and installation resulting in punctures or failed joints leading to leachate leaking into the groundwater table. One drop of oil can contaminate a million gallons of water. This is not a good gamble. These oil soaked Hazmat suits and such will pass oil via leachate generated from moisture in the waste into the liner and leaks, resulting in groundwater contamination. These materials should be incinerated or placed in a landfill receiving hazardous materials. OIL cannot be received in California landfills.

“BP has cut deals with Waste Management, the owners of the landfill.”

and that's all you need to know, fuck it they will dump what they want when they want and WM will look the other way while once again we the people get fucked over.

doesn't matter. $$$$$ maters to them, that's all.

i expect BP to shove that oil up their a$$

that started around the Shrubs second term

Yes, but it is the *intent* that matters. See if all those same things were being done in order to instill fear, it would be *terrorism*. But they are being done for profit, so it's okay.
I for one, am scared.

it is too funny when I hear someone say “God's wrath.” It is so obvious people are willing to hire a belief system to take responsibility for their actions. God's wrath, what a fucking joke! If there is a “God” sitting up there somewhere watching us, the only thing he's doing is crying.

Waste Management has about as good a record with those landfill liners as BP does with drilling. Many have leaked, resulting in landfills that not only cannot be used any longer but become very expensive cleanup sites. Typically they result in the municipality contracting with WM to build a waste transfer point so that the garbage can be trucked elsewhere, typically a WM chosen site. Quite profitable and I have yet to hear of an instance where WM was left paying the bill for their failure; rather it has always been the customers of the monopoly (ie, residents and businesses of the area).

WasteManagement is the BP Mini-Me.

Another failure of the government in right-wing States.. MOST states do NOT allow toxic waste in landfills, period. That the State allows the company to do it in the first place is the core of the problem.

When the Red State goobers are drinking oil water, ask them how they like that non-functioning government they elected… and elected while the people they elected SAID they can't manage to do their jobs.

Why isn't the EPA stepping in? Those cleanup materials are toxic & covered under Federal regulations for just this reason.

Ummmm… no liquid waste can be dumped there? Only solid waste is being dumped?

Wow, good thing it never rains in Mississippi, we wouldn't want all that solid waste becoming liquid!

Why is BP above the Law? why is illegal President Obama above the law? why is no one obeying the constitution anymore? Fuck our leaders, bunch of freeloading mother fuckers. I pray all of them die in some horrible accident. The real terrorists are those working in the white house, congress and the judiciary system.

Dump it in Heywoods swimming pool…

Waste Management is also responsible for birth defects in Kettlemen City Ca…
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/22/toxic.injustic…

Shit, why didn't I think of that.

I bet you're a chimpy man.
Idiot. It's a recession that the previous “admin” dove head in.

When are the states going to takes responsibility and exhaust their resources before whining like you?

Am I alone in being totally perplexed by the whole Gulf/BP catastrophe. the agenda “Wicked BP” bad practice wilful disregard for safety, does not adequatly explain video of oil seeping from rocks well removed from the site of the wellhead.
Perhaps I have missed it but has there been any attempt to correlate the recent seismic activity in the carribean/Gulf area eg the Haiti quake with a possible fracturing of the bedrock in the same area.
I seem to be reading of seismic activity on an unprecedented scale from china to chile, sinkholes in latin america and asia.
Is there a pattern emerging here which is being kept off the front pages. I am really uneasy about these eventsthe whole coverage of the disaster is being managed in a way that precludes discussion and investigation by truly independent sources.
I do not pretend any expertise in the area of oil spills but the hair on the back of my neck seems unusually erect. I would welcome some reassurance.

My name is Lynn Brown and I’m the VP of Corporate Communications at Waste Management. BP contracted our services to assist with the cleanup of Gulf of Mexico oil spill debris. Waste Management is currently providing the people, equipment and containers for transportation and disposal support to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up efforts. I’m writing to assure you that we are managing this process with care, caution and concern, paying heed to both state and federal regulations for this type of waste.

To be clear, through a rigorous analysis and review process that involves state and federal regulators, the waste material being picked up along the coastline has been characterized as non-hazardous waste. This is similar to the types of materials Waste Management has been properly and safely handling for decades. In addition, the landfills we’re using, including Pecan Grove in Mississippi, have been specifically permitted by the state of Mississippi’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to handle this type of non-hazardous waste. These engineered landfills include a range of safeguards and protective features to ensure that local communities are not affected by the disposal of non-hazardous oil-related cleanup waste (http://www.wm.com/wm/environmental/documents/An…). And Waste Management is following the proper environmental and safety guidelines for waste disposal specifically set forth for this situation by state and federal authorities. No oily waste is being brought from out of state.

For instance, before moving, treating or disposing of this material, our waste approvals team reviews data about its contents in advance. We compare that to all state and federal regulatory and permit requirements to ensure that requirements for safe handling and disposal of this material are carefully followed. Here’s how the process works:

1. Waste Management receives the cleanup waste material from BP’s shoreline crews at a “drop zone.”
2. At the drop zone, the DEQ characterizes whether or not the waste is hazardous or non-hazardous. Waste classifications are initially set by the Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gove/bpstill/waste.htlm#sampling…). The oil material Waste Management is collecting and bringing to the permitted landfills is considered by the EPA to be non-hazardous special waste (http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/specia…).
3. Once the waste has been characterized as non-hazardous, Waste Management then transports the approved materials to the landfill site.

Many of the safeguards at the landfills in use for cleanup efforts have been in place throughout the existence of these landfill sites. According to a recent study conducted by Geosyntec Consultants, modern municipal landfills are equipped with a variety of safety mechanisms to protect the surrounding environment (http://www.wm.com/wm/environmental/Geosyntec_re…).

“Scientific studies and testing have shown that the service life of typical synthetic materials used in liner construction (most commonly, high-density polyethylene membranes) is estimated to exceed a thousand years. Composite liner systems consisting of a synthetic membrane liner overlying a compacted clay layer, similar to those used at Subtitle D landfills, have been designed for radioactive waste depositories requiring the highest standards of containment for tens of thousands of years.”

For more on this technology plus to read about our Gulf response efforts, please visit our website at http://www.wm.com/gulfcoastoilspill.

In addition, we are experimenting with additional ways to dispose of oil waste without impacting our landfills. In the last month, we have begun to stockpile oily sand at Springhill and at Baldwin County landfill, so that instead of putting this material in the landfill, WM is evaluating biotreatment, composting and land farming options to clean the sand so that it can be beneficially reused. Additionally, we have also been permission by regulators to investigate options for cleaning and recycling oil booms for additional use in this clean-up effort. We remain committed to finding various green solutions to address these issues.

We’re proud of the role we play in this effort and take this challenge seriously. Waste Management has nearly 4,200 employees in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We live and work there, we raise our families there and we value our coastlines. This effort is vital to our communities’ health and well-being. Our focus remains on protecting the health and safety of Gulf residents, shorelines and local communities. I hope that local officials and the community will become familiar with our efforts to assist in the cleanup. Getting debris from the coastline to the finish line will help complete the Gulf cleanup.

My name is Lynn Brown and I’m the VP of Corporate Communications at Waste Management. BP contracted our services to assist with the cleanup of Gulf of Mexico oil spill debris. Waste Management is currently providing the people, equipment and containers for transportation and disposal support to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil clean-up efforts. I’m writing to assure you that we are managing this process with care, caution and concern, paying heed to both state and federal regulations for this type of waste.

To be clear, through a rigorous analysis and review process that involves state and federal regulators, the waste material being picked up along the coastline has been characterized as non-hazardous waste. This is similar to the types of materials Waste Management has been properly and safely handling for decades. In addition, the landfills we’re using, including Pecan Grove in Mississippi, have been specifically permitted by the state of Mississippi’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to handle this type of non-hazardous waste. These engineered landfills include a range of safeguards and protective features to ensure that local communities are not affected by the disposal of non-hazardous oil-related cleanup waste (http://www.wm.com/wm/environmental/documents/An…). And Waste Management is following the proper environmental and safety guidelines for waste disposal specifically set forth for this situation by state and federal authorities. No oily waste is being brought from out of state.

For instance, before moving, treating or disposing of this material, our waste approvals team reviews data about its contents in advance. We compare that to all state and federal regulatory and permit requirements to ensure that requirements for safe handling and disposal of this material are carefully followed. Here’s how the process works:

1. Waste Management receives the cleanup waste material from BP’s shoreline crews at a “drop zone.”
2. At the drop zone, the DEQ characterizes whether or not the waste is hazardous or non-hazardous. Waste classifications are initially set by the Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gove/bpstill/waste.htlm#sampling…). The oil material Waste Management is collecting and bringing to the permitted landfills is considered by the EPA to be non-hazardous special waste (http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/specia…).
3. Once the waste has been characterized as non-hazardous, Waste Management then transports the approved materials to the landfill site.

Many of the safeguards at the landfills in use for cleanup efforts have been in place throughout the existence of these landfill sites. According to a recent study conducted by Geosyntec Consultants, modern municipal landfills are equipped with a variety of safety mechanisms to protect the surrounding environment (http://www.wm.com/wm/environmental/Geosyntec_re…).

“Scientific studies and testing have shown that the service life of typical synthetic materials used in liner construction (most commonly, high-density polyethylene membranes) is estimated to exceed a thousand years. Composite liner systems consisting of a synthetic membrane liner overlying a compacted clay layer, similar to those used at Subtitle D landfills, have been designed for radioactive waste depositories requiring the highest standards of containment for tens of thousands of years.”

For more on this technology plus to read about our Gulf response efforts, please visit our website at http://www.wm.com/gulfcoastoilspill.

In addition, we are experimenting with additional ways to dispose of oil waste without impacting our landfills. In the last month, we have begun to stockpile oily sand at Springhill and at Baldwin County landfill, so that instead of putting this material in the landfill, WM is evaluating biotreatment, composting and land farming options to clean the sand so that it can be beneficially reused. Additionally, we have also been permission by regulators to investigate options for cleaning and recycling oil booms for additional use in this clean-up effort. We remain committed to finding various green solutions to address these issues.

We’re proud of the role we play in this effort and take this challenge seriously. Waste Management has nearly 4,200 employees in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We live and work there, we raise our families there and we value our coastlines. This effort is vital to our communities’ health and well-being. Our focus remains on protecting the health and safety of Gulf residents, shorelines and local communities. I hope that local officials and the community will become familiar with our efforts to assist in the cleanup. Getting debris from the coastline to the finish line will help complete the Gulf cleanup.

Did you know that the great old USA was the last industrialized country to get rid of slavery? We in the North had to fight the southern rednecks in order for that to happen.

Pretty sad.

What goes around comes around.

If you not a Rethug then get the hell out of there.

____________________________________________________________
42" LCD TV for $29.46?
Are these prices for real? YES! You WON'T Believe What We Found…
http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4c3…

[...] Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills [...]