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BP’s new cover up is literally covering up the beaches. I am getting reports from Grand Isle, Louisiana, from C.S. Muncy, a freelance photojournalist for the New York Times, that BP is now trucking in sand to cover up the Gulf beaches instead of cleaning up the oil that spreading on our shores. When asked if it was true that BP has been covering some of the oil on the beach with sand: “Yeah. Yeah, this is interesting…We went down onto the beaches, and we started inspecting them. There were tar balls, tar residue, and there was some oil on the beach. Apparently, the day before there was a lot of tar balls, and BP was working in the area pretty heavily, and we started noticing there was a different consistency in the sand. Closer to shore, there was this grainy, very rough shell-filled sand, and then you could see almost like a border where it just spilled over onto the beach sand, which is a very fine-grained sand. And it looked as if it was dumped. I mean, you could dig a few inches down, and you could see that it was a different type of sand beneath that, you know, without all the shell and grit, and what not. It looked very much like that. Our first assumption was, yeah, that they were dumping sand to cover up the tar balls.” Read the rest on the original post. added by: CLGreen