It's hard to turn on your TV these days and avoid those cloying spots for Gulf Coast tourism that BP is spending millions of dollars on -- proving that the only thing the company behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster actually works hard on cleaning up is its image. You know the ad -- the one that declares to an uptempo zydeco soundtrack that "'I'm glad to report that all beaches and waters are open for everyone to enjoy!" (Which is not true, by the way.) Obviously BP didn't run this commercial past Tony Kennon, the mayor of Orange Beach, Ala. Kennon is furious at the British oil giant and when you learn about what's going on down in his Gulf Coast resort town, it's easy to understand why. Last weekend, with the peak tourist season just days away, a contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was dredging an area near the Perdido Pass Bridge when it struck oil -- and not in a good, "Beverly Hillbillies" kind of way. The dredging unearthed a thick gooey tar mat that was underneath the sand. The activity released both a nasty odor and an oil sheen that covered the water east of ...
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