re: #4 garhighway

Oh, please. How could BP possibly “cover up” this spill? It is what it is: an environmental catastrophe. But because they don’t want a snapshot of every dead bird they are engaged in a coverup?

Yeesh. This is bad enough without bullshit allegations making it worse.

A downding for ignorance. You bet they are going to limit as much evidence of the impact as possible. They know that people respond emotionally to visible evidence of the loss of life to wildlife and marine life, and they base their opinions and decisions thusly. They want to preserve their image of “doing everything possible” in the aftermath of this spill. It was their greed and impatience that caused the spill in the first place.