BP’s latest oil-spill cleaning tool: paper towels?

From the time the oil from BP’s busted well first came ashore in Grand Isle, Louisiana, Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland has been snooping around, and posting what she’s seen, smelled and heard there on the magazine’s website and her Twitter page.

This week she traveled to Grande Terre, a small island just east of Grand Isle that BP has fought hard to keep reporters away from. She reached the island  by kayak and was greeted by an odd spectacle: Strewn all across the island were oil-soaked paper-towel sheets. Is this the latest high-tech weapon BP is employing to rid the Louisiana marsh of crude?

While McClelland was on Grande Terre, a BP cleanup contractor approached her and warned, “We don’t need this on camera.” Really? We can’t imagine why.

— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.



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