Brendan Calling

More BP BULLSHIT

Forward from my Gulf contact:

—— Forwarded Message
From: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Reply-To: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
To:
Subject: Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events

DATE: June 23, 2010 19:19:38 CST
Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
Key contact numbers

* Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
* Submit alternative response technology, services or products: (281) 366-5511
* Submit your vessel for the Vessel of Opportunity Program: (866) 279-7983 or (877) 847-7470
* Submit a claim for damages: (800) 440-0858
* Report oiled wildlife: (866) 557-1401

Deepwater Horizon Incident
Joint Information Center Phone: (713) 323-1670
(713) 323-1671

NEW ORLEANS — Two members of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response died today in unrelated events.

At approximately 7 a.m. the Unified Command at the Incident Command Post in Mobile was notified that a master of a Vessel of Opportunity (VOO) died in Gulf Shores, Ala. The Gulf Shores Police Department is conducting an investigation. Questions should be directed to (251) 968-2431.

The Unified Command at the Incident Command Post in Houma, La. was notified of the death of a subcontractor. The death was not associated with the member’s Deepwater Horizon Response duties. The incident is being investigated by the Gretna Police Department. Questions should be directed to (504) 363-1700.

Incident commanders from Houma and Mobile expressed their thoughts and prayers for the friends and family members of the lost members of the response teams.
For information about the response effort, visit www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com .

“The death was not associated with the member’s Deepwater Horizon Response duties.” That sounded a little ass-covery to me, so i emailed my reporter friend back and asked “is this about the guy who killed himself the other day?” His response: ‘I believe so.”

The charter boat captain they called Rookie made his home back where the oak and pine woods humming with cicadas meet the Bon Secour River and where the asphalt peters out into a dead end.

This is where friends came to ask how William Allen “Rookie” Kruse was doing, back in April, when the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ended his $5,000 fishing trips for marlin and red snapper and put a crimp in his wife Tracy’s seafood business.

Fine, he said…

On Wednesday morning, Kruse reported as usual to the Gulf Shores marina to work for the company that had ruined his fishing. His two deck hands said that when he sent them on an errand before 7:30 a.m., he seemed fine.

But shortly afterward, Kruse climbed up to the wheelhouse of the Rookie, retrieved a Glock handgun he kept for protection and apparently shot himself in the head.

His family and friends say he is the 12th victim of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which killed 11 crew members. And they worry that there will be more among the captains idled by the worst spill in U.S. history.

“But for the oil spill, I don’t think he would have done this,” said his identical twin brother, Frank Kruse.

No, nothing at all to do with his Deepwater Horizon Response duties. BP ruined his livelihood, destroyed his home, and made it so the only way the guy could earn a living was by participating in BP’s clean cover-up.

Two weeks ago, Kruse went to work for BP, turning his 50- and 40-foot boats, the Rookie and the Rookie II, into what the oil giant calls Vessels of Opportunity. He was never given a day off.

“He told me he hated it,” said his 12-year-old stepson, Ryan Mistrot. “He hated going out for BP.” Marc Kruse said his brother thought the Vessels of Opportunity were just BP window-dressing.

His mother recalled the day last week that Kruse told her his chickens were hungry.

“They always are,” Ryan said, as he played with Kruse’s Jack Russell terrier, Isabel.

“Yes, but what he was saying was, ‘I don’t have food for them’.”

Frank Kruse, who lives in nearby Fairhope, Ala., said he watched his brother’s spirit shaved down by the relentless bureaucracy of BP, heaping concerns on a man who for years had never worried about much except the weather.

No, nothing at all to do with his Deepwater Horizons. BP’s hands are almost as clean as Charles Manson’s.

Kruse filed a 52-page claim for lost income to BP on Monday. The company also owed him for two weeks’ work — about $4,700. He half-expected BP would reject it. By then, he was down to 185 pounds, from 219, his brothers said. He had to pay for the house, his Ford F-250 pickup, the boats and an 80-acre hunting camp near Pensacola, Fla., where he and other captains hunted white-tail deer.

“In a few weeks, the repo man’s at your house,” Marc Kruse said.”That’s a very scary situation.”

His business is destroyed, he’s working for the people who destroyed it, and they’re two weeks late on the pay. No, nothing at all to do with his Deepwater Horizon duties. Nothing at all.

FUCK YOU BP.

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