Gulf Coast Boat Owners Call BP's Cleanup Program a Corrupt Conspiracy:

Gulf Coast Boat Owners Call BP's Cleanup Program a Corrupt Conspira...

 

MOBILE, Ala. (CN) - Nearly 100 Gulf Coast boat owners who let BP hire their ships for its "Vessels of Opportunity" oil spill cleanup say BP's program was a corrupt conspiracy that left "thousands of participants ... holding the bag for millions of dollars of unpaid services, equipment, materials, repairs and decontaminations" - and that BP intended it that way.

 The 94 individual plaintiffs say BP touted its Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program for public relations purposes, but the program "was marred by mismanagement, corruption and broken promises," and that BP and its co-conspirators "intended to underpay VoO participants."

Lead plaintiff Clyde Crawford says BP promised the plaintiffs $1,200 to $3,000 a day to use their boats during the cleanup.

 Crawford says the plaintiffs signed contracts promising to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and that BP told them told several times that they would be paid their daily rate even on days they were not called to work.

 BP promised to pay for all repairs needed as the result of the work, and to pay for decontaminating the boats when their work was done, according to the 111-page complaint.

 But the fishermen say the whole Vessels of Opportunity program was a corrupt conspiracy.

  "[Defendants] BP, Parsons Corporation, Danos & Curole, HEPACO, U.S. Environmental Services and the individual defendants have engaged in an illegal and unlawful conspiracy to defraud plaintiffs and underpay plaintiffs for services, equipment, materials, repairs and decontaminations related to the VoO program and the oil spill response," the complaint states.

  "Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP established the VoO program as part of BP's response to the oil spill. Publicly, BP claimed that the VoO program would help clean up the Gulf Coast and would provide money to people affected by the oil spill. Once implemented, the VoO program was marred by mismanagement, corruption and broken promises. As a result, when the VoO program concluded, thousands of participants, including plaintiffs, were left holding the bag for millions of dollars of unpaid services, equipment, materials, repairs and decontamination's."

 

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Wow James...not only does BP and their "super" affiliates damage our waterways, and poison the communities with their Corexit cleanup but now leaves the community to flip the bill...sad

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