BP Wants To Wash Away the Evidence

Written by Matt Rota

“On Monday, July 19, BP requested that the Corps give them the go-ahead to, instead of clean up and dispose of the oil, just push the contaminated sand on Grand Terre Island back into the Gulf!  They call this process “Surf Washing,” the idea being that the waves will “clean” the polluted sand.  To add insult to injury, BP wanted “verbal approval” of this project on the same day that they submitted their request to the Corps!  While this “surf washing” has apparently been done on public beaches where they want to clean up “stained” sand, I can’t see any justification to do it on Grand Terre Island.”