Cut deals with across the gulf to dump all of this stuff. that must mean the communities are okay with it too, right? wrong. connie rocco is the president of the board of supervisors in harrison county, mississippi where the bee can grove land fill is located. how do you feel about the oily mixture coming off of the beaches and ending in your land fill. we don t want it. it s valuable landfill space and hazardous to our citizens. take your waste somewhere else or find an alternative. rocco says the county board passed a resolution not to accept any waste in this community. that doesn t matter, waste management that owns the landfill doesn t have to look at what the board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rocco and plenty of others feared they would. what concerns you most about
To another. been in haiti for a while. and there, you can see the resilience. here there s an interesting thing because so many people love to come down and pick this stuff up and take it off. they re not sure there s science involved and there s health issues involved. so it builds the frustration. people are mad about this. and they everybody understands that. and i think channeling that anger to something positive is the thing to do. i was just showing you the whole application where you can come out and take pictures on the beach or birds in oil spills and put them up. i just found it. you see tar balls. you take a picture. report in stuff. that s amazing. that s a great use of technology to deal with something that you can do something about. that s one of the things that people get frustrated. they see this stuff on television, they want to volunteer something. they come down but there s no place to vol up tier. bp doesn t want people randomly picking up oil. which is
rocco says the county board passed a resolution not to accept any waste in this community. that doesn t matter, waste management that owns the landfill doesn t have to look at what the board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rocco and plenty of others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls in this whole mixture going to the landfill. the long-term effects that we will have to endure, if it, in fact, is if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous to it gets into your water or the water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we re asking bp why it s disposed of spill waste in a county that pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn t comment. we asked ken holden to take us inside the landfill so we could see for ourselves why bp, the
given the enormity of what we re talking about here, the impact across the entire country, why do we need bp s permission. why doesn t the government, for example, foot the $8.4 million bill and let the scientists get to work to answer some of the questions that you re raising. i think bp should pay for it. i think bp should stand for bills paid. and this is certainly something that bp should pay for. i think it makes a lot of sense for this experiment to take place, especially the use of fluorescent dye in order to measure accurately how much oil and natural gas is coming out of this pipe. and and i think if it does require the federal government to pay for it, they should just put it on bp s bill. because ultimately, bp doesn t want to know the answer to the question because they have to pay a fine per barrel of oil.
People get frustrated. they see this stuff on television, they want to volunteer something. they come down but there s no place to vol up tier. bp doesn t want people randomly picking up oil. which is understandable. we funded some rescue boats for birds. yeah. y all ran a story on it. swat boats. yeah. and here s the thing a guy came to me and said i feel so angry about this. i want to do something. they had the shallow water boats. we funded the first couple. weer with set to go. rumors started going bp was controlling the cleanup, you couldn t get in. this was on the internet. people went crazy. we found out there was a simple solution and we found it and they re working now. so we ran into those problems too. there s so much information i think it s like a traffic jam in haiti, it s so many people trying to do something about it. you get to that roundabout outside of the airport. you want to give up.