The Gulf of Mexico is Dying:
"It is with deep regret that we publish this report. We do not take this responsibility lightly, as the consequences of the following observations are of such great import and have such far-reaching ramifications for the entire planet. Truly, the fate of the oceans of the world hangs in the balance, as does the future of humankind.
The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) does not exist in isolation and is, in fact, connected to the Seven Seas. Hence, we publish these findings in order that the world community will come together to further contemplate this dire and demanding predicament. We also do so with the hope that an appropriate global response will be formulated, and acted upon, for the sake of future generations. It is the most basic responsibility for every civilization to leave their world in a better condition than that which they inherited from their forbears.
After conducting the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference for over seven months, we can now disseminate the following information with the authority and confidence of those who have thoroughly investigated a crime scene. There are many research articles, investigative reports and penetrating exposes archived at the following website. Particularly those posted from August through November provide a unique body of evidence, many with compelling photo-documentaries, which portray the true state of affairs at the Macondo Prospect in the GOM.
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Animal rehab centers still working after BP spill | World news | guardian.co.uk
Animal rehab centers still working after BP spill | World news | guardian.co.uk:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A baby sea turtle escaped from the jaws of a shark, only to get stuck in oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. A young dolphin apparently was attacked by his mother, then swam into oil.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A baby sea turtle escaped from the jaws of a shark, only to get stuck in oil spilled from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. A young dolphin apparently was attacked by his mother, then swam into oil.
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Deepwater Horizon Victims' Families Wonder If BP Will Ever 'Make Things Right' (PHOTOS)
Deepwater Horizon Victims' Families Wonder If BP Will Ever 'Make Things Right' (PHOTOS):
"JONESVILLE, La. — Roy Wyatt Kemp's family is waiting for his headstone, black marble engraved with the deer and ducks he loved to hunt. The grave, however, lacks a body.
Seven months after the fateful Gulf of Mexico explosion that triggered one of history's worst environmental disasters, the 27-year-old rig worker's family knows very little beyond the fact that he never came home. Did he survive the initial blast? Did he suffer? Could he have been saved?
'I wonder every day what happened to my son. I don't think it will ever leave me,' said his mother, Peggy.
Without a body, without answers and with only limited financial and emotional support, Kemp's family and relatives of the 10 other workers who died on the BP-leased rig are left to wonder whether the oil giant's promise to 'make things right' applies to everyone but them.
From the small towns of central Mississippi to the cotton fields of central Louisiana to the cattle farms of southern Texas, relatives of the men, in interviews with The Associated Press, bemoaned that so much of the public focus has been on the oil spilled rather than the lives lost.
'There hasn't been anybody associated with BP, Transocean or any of them that has sat down and really tried to give you their condolence and tell you what took place,' Peggy Kemp said.
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"JONESVILLE, La. — Roy Wyatt Kemp's family is waiting for his headstone, black marble engraved with the deer and ducks he loved to hunt. The grave, however, lacks a body.
Seven months after the fateful Gulf of Mexico explosion that triggered one of history's worst environmental disasters, the 27-year-old rig worker's family knows very little beyond the fact that he never came home. Did he survive the initial blast? Did he suffer? Could he have been saved?
'I wonder every day what happened to my son. I don't think it will ever leave me,' said his mother, Peggy.
Without a body, without answers and with only limited financial and emotional support, Kemp's family and relatives of the 10 other workers who died on the BP-leased rig are left to wonder whether the oil giant's promise to 'make things right' applies to everyone but them.
From the small towns of central Mississippi to the cotton fields of central Louisiana to the cattle farms of southern Texas, relatives of the men, in interviews with The Associated Press, bemoaned that so much of the public focus has been on the oil spilled rather than the lives lost.
'There hasn't been anybody associated with BP, Transocean or any of them that has sat down and really tried to give you their condolence and tell you what took place,' Peggy Kemp said.
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Sunday, 14 November 2010
Oil And Gas Leaks Continue Unabated At Macondo: Photos document oily fluid all over the seafloor | Phoenix Rising from the Gulf
Oil And Gas Leaks Continue Unabated At Macondo: Photos document oily fluid all over the seafloor | Phoenix Rising from the Gulf:
"Oil And Gas Leaks Continue Unabated At Macondo: Photos document oily fluid all over the seafloor
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Friday, 5 November 2010
BP oil spill costs to hit $40bn | Business | guardian.co.uk
BP oil spill costs to hit $40bn | Business | guardian.co.uk:
"BP said today it expects the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to be $7.7bn (£4.8bn) bigger than previously thought, pushing the total bill to nearly $40bn.
The oil giant announced the new charge to cover the cost of the Gulf of Mexico spill alongside its financial results for the third quarter of the year. It blamed the delays that dogged its attempts to seal the leak, along with higher clean-up costs and legal fees.
The new charge knocked BP's pre-tax profits for the third quarter of 2010 down to $1.8bn, compared with $4.98bn a year ago.
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"BP said today it expects the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to be $7.7bn (£4.8bn) bigger than previously thought, pushing the total bill to nearly $40bn.
The oil giant announced the new charge to cover the cost of the Gulf of Mexico spill alongside its financial results for the third quarter of the year. It blamed the delays that dogged its attempts to seal the leak, along with higher clean-up costs and legal fees.
The new charge knocked BP's pre-tax profits for the third quarter of 2010 down to $1.8bn, compared with $4.98bn a year ago.
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
Happy dolphins update on Hutchison-Lazaryan frequency generator clearing polluted Gulf waters
Happy dolphins update on Hutchison-Lazaryan frequency generator clearing polluted Gulf waters:
"We called BP, the EPA, the Coast Guard. NO RESPONSE.
We talked with LOCAL government officials, even the sheriff. Their response: 'This is great. We cannot 'officially sanction it'. We cannot help. Go talk with local private citizens that are on the beach, set up the equipment with them. And, we will not stop you from treating the water.'
This is RESTORATION of the frequency of the water.
EVERYTHING is FREQUENCY.
We received samples of polluted Gulf water in John's lab and tested them, before we came. The ORIGINAL reading on the oscilloscope of the polluted Gulf water was dramatically different from the reading of 'healthy sea water'.
After applying the audio and radio frequencies to the water in the lab, the polluted water CHANGED its frequency (to a reading on the oscilloscope that was identical to the healthy sea water).
[...] Applying this ANCIENT technology of frequencies to the water allows the water to 'clean itself'.
NEW OIL just hit the beaches of Venice, LA and of Bay Jimmy last week.
Apparently the well is 'not capped'...or there is another blowout we are not being told about.
Dead birds, fish, dolphins....all covered with oil.
The long term effect on these animals is DEATH.
What we are doing is bringing LIFE, the healing frequencies that have been known for thousands of years to restore damaged DNA.
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"We called BP, the EPA, the Coast Guard. NO RESPONSE.
We talked with LOCAL government officials, even the sheriff. Their response: 'This is great. We cannot 'officially sanction it'. We cannot help. Go talk with local private citizens that are on the beach, set up the equipment with them. And, we will not stop you from treating the water.'
This is RESTORATION of the frequency of the water.
EVERYTHING is FREQUENCY.
We received samples of polluted Gulf water in John's lab and tested them, before we came. The ORIGINAL reading on the oscilloscope of the polluted Gulf water was dramatically different from the reading of 'healthy sea water'.
After applying the audio and radio frequencies to the water in the lab, the polluted water CHANGED its frequency (to a reading on the oscilloscope that was identical to the healthy sea water).
[...] Applying this ANCIENT technology of frequencies to the water allows the water to 'clean itself'.
NEW OIL just hit the beaches of Venice, LA and of Bay Jimmy last week.
Apparently the well is 'not capped'...or there is another blowout we are not being told about.
Dead birds, fish, dolphins....all covered with oil.
The long term effect on these animals is DEATH.
What we are doing is bringing LIFE, the healing frequencies that have been known for thousands of years to restore damaged DNA.
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Thursday, 28 October 2010
BP Knew About Bad Cement - The Daily Beast
BP Knew About Bad Cement - The Daily Beast:
"Maybe BP’s new CEO ought to walk back his comments blaming the media for the frenzy over the Gulf oil spill: Both BP and Halliburton knew that the cement they used to seal the Deepwater Horizon well was unstable, but they used it anyway, according to the presidential commission investigating the disaster. Halliburton had conducted three tests on the cement, all of which showed that it was below industry standards; the results of at least one of those tests were presented to BP. The lead investigator, Fred Bartlit Jr., said that had the cement worked properly, there would not have been an accident.
Read it at The New York Times
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"Maybe BP’s new CEO ought to walk back his comments blaming the media for the frenzy over the Gulf oil spill: Both BP and Halliburton knew that the cement they used to seal the Deepwater Horizon well was unstable, but they used it anyway, according to the presidential commission investigating the disaster. Halliburton had conducted three tests on the cement, all of which showed that it was below industry standards; the results of at least one of those tests were presented to BP. The lead investigator, Fred Bartlit Jr., said that had the cement worked properly, there would not have been an accident.
Read it at The New York Times
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Toxicologist now dealing with at least three autopsies in Gulf
"People who’s esophagus's are dissolving.. these people have oil in their bodies"
Worker on Grand Isle dropped over dead.
I am dealing with about 3 or 4 autopsies right now.
I know of people with 4.75% of lung capacity and with an enlarged heart. I know people who’s esophagus's are dissolving and disintegrating. All these people have oil in their bodies, upper 95th percentile.
Riki Ott (VIDEO)
Worker on Grand Isle dropped over dead.
I am dealing with about 3 or 4 autopsies right now.
I know of people with 4.75% of lung capacity and with an enlarged heart. I know people who’s esophagus's are dissolving and disintegrating. All these people have oil in their bodies, upper 95th percentile.
Riki Ott (VIDEO)
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Furious Growth and Cost Cuts Led To BP Accidents Past and Present - ProPublica
Furious Growth and Cost Cuts Led To BP Accidents Past and Present - ProPublica:
"A ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. “The Spill [1],” a PBS FRONTLINE documentary drawn from this reporting, airs tonight. Check local listings. [2]
Jeanne Pascal turned on her TV April 21 to see a towering spindle of black smoke slithering into the sky from an oil platform on the oceanic expanse of the Gulf of Mexico. For hours she sat, transfixed on an overstuffed couch in her Seattle home, her feelings shifting from shock to anger.
Pascal, a career Environmental Protection Agency attorney only seven weeks into her retirement, knew as much as anyone in the federal government about BP, the company that owned the well. She understood in an instant what it would take others months to grasp: In BP’s 15-year quest to compete with the world’s biggest oil companies, its managers had become deaf to risk and systematically gambled with safety at hundreds of facilities and with thousands of employees’ lives.
“God, they just don’t learn,” she remembers thinking.
Just weeks before the explosion, President Obama had announced a historic expansion of deep-water drilling in the Gulf, where BP held the majority of the drilling leases. The administration considered the environmental record of drilling companies in the Gulf to be excellent. It didn’t ask questions about BP, and it didn’t consider that the company’s long record of safety violations and environmental accidents might be important, according to Carol Browner, the White House environmental adviser.
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"A ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation. “The Spill [1],” a PBS FRONTLINE documentary drawn from this reporting, airs tonight. Check local listings. [2]
Jeanne Pascal turned on her TV April 21 to see a towering spindle of black smoke slithering into the sky from an oil platform on the oceanic expanse of the Gulf of Mexico. For hours she sat, transfixed on an overstuffed couch in her Seattle home, her feelings shifting from shock to anger.
Pascal, a career Environmental Protection Agency attorney only seven weeks into her retirement, knew as much as anyone in the federal government about BP, the company that owned the well. She understood in an instant what it would take others months to grasp: In BP’s 15-year quest to compete with the world’s biggest oil companies, its managers had become deaf to risk and systematically gambled with safety at hundreds of facilities and with thousands of employees’ lives.
“God, they just don’t learn,” she remembers thinking.
Just weeks before the explosion, President Obama had announced a historic expansion of deep-water drilling in the Gulf, where BP held the majority of the drilling leases. The administration considered the environmental record of drilling companies in the Gulf to be excellent. It didn’t ask questions about BP, and it didn’t consider that the company’s long record of safety violations and environmental accidents might be important, according to Carol Browner, the White House environmental adviser.
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Saturday, 23 October 2010
Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico | NOLA.com
Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf of Mexico | NOLA.com:
"Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delt
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"Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delt
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Friday, 22 October 2010
No Evidence Gulf Oil Spill Killed Fish, Says NOAA | CNSnews.com
No Evidence Gulf Oil Spill Killed Fish, Says NOAA | CNSnews.com:
"(CNSNews.com) – There is no evidence the Deep Water Horizon oil spill killed any fish, according to federal and state officials overseeing the oil cleanup, while captured commercial fish passed testing by multiple government agencies. But even with plenty of fish in the sea, the fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is still suffering from a big perception problem.
“In federal waters, I can tell you, there haven’t been any fish kills reported that are linked to the oil spill,” Christine Patrick, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told CNSNews.com. “I know there have been fish kills reported in state waters, but I think they have determined they weren’t a result of the oil spill.”
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"(CNSNews.com) – There is no evidence the Deep Water Horizon oil spill killed any fish, according to federal and state officials overseeing the oil cleanup, while captured commercial fish passed testing by multiple government agencies. But even with plenty of fish in the sea, the fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico is still suffering from a big perception problem.
“In federal waters, I can tell you, there haven’t been any fish kills reported that are linked to the oil spill,” Christine Patrick, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told CNSNews.com. “I know there have been fish kills reported in state waters, but I think they have determined they weren’t a result of the oil spill.”
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf
Rocky Kistner: Six Months Later, an Oil Disaster Spreads Across the Gulf:
"For six months, I have lived and worked near ground zero of the worst oil disaster in US history. I've traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. I watched tough, resourceful people of the bayou weep at the sight of the oily tide invading precious fishing grounds.
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"For six months, I have lived and worked near ground zero of the worst oil disaster in US history. I've traveled on boats hunting thick, reddish peanut butter-colored crude that slowly washed towards the coastal marshes of southern Louisiana. I watched tough, resourceful people of the bayou weep at the sight of the oily tide invading precious fishing grounds.
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Saturday, 16 October 2010
Rocky Kistner: Feeling Abandoned, Gulf Coast Residents Issue A Call To Arms
Rocky Kistner: Feeling Abandoned, Gulf Coast Residents Issue A Call To Arms: "As the six-month anniversary of the worst American maritime oil disaster approaches, people along the Gulf coast continue to struggle with its aftermath. Many feel uncertain about their future and abandoned by the media and politicians focused on their election campaigns this fall.
So in early October, local community groups and environmental organizations decided it was time to join together and come up with a plan that calls attention to the ongoing environmental, economic and public health threat posed by 200 million gallons of BP crude that still threatens America's greatest fishing ground and life sustaining delta estuary.
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So in early October, local community groups and environmental organizations decided it was time to join together and come up with a plan that calls attention to the ongoing environmental, economic and public health threat posed by 200 million gallons of BP crude that still threatens America's greatest fishing ground and life sustaining delta estuary.
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Oil Spill Cleanup, Clean Energy, And Marine Animal Conservation: Ocean Technologies That Will Save The Planet (PHOTOS)
Oil Spill Cleanup, Clean Energy, And Marine Animal Conservation: Ocean Technologies That Will Save The Planet (PHOTOS): "Oil Spill Cleanup, Clean Energy, And Marine Animal Conservation: Ocean Technologies That Will Save The Planet (PHOTOS)
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Monday, 11 October 2010
Censored Gulf news: Kindra Arnesen. Skin barrier gone but not sprayers (video) - National Human Rights | Examiner.com
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Kindra Arnesen in her most recent interview has presented a comprehensive view of the Gulf crime against humanity, along with graphic detail of her poisoning and skin condition. She explains that the peoples' natural skin barrier is gone, but not the black ops spraying poison on the people.
The courageous young mother from Venice, Louisiana who became a celebrity by speaking out on behalf of Gulf coast fishermen at the first Emergency Gulf Summit, criticizing the media black-out of the Gulf atrocities, continues trying to defend human rights of the people of the Gulf.
On June 20th, the Examiner reported that Arnesen exposed that 60-Minutes filmed and aired documentation about truth in the Gulf Coast area but the program was pulled from the internet within 24 hours. (Dupre, D., La emergency summit fisher wife slams media black-out (video), Examiner, June 20, 2010)
Then, she finally realized she could not convince people to leave and that nothing would stop the powers that be from poisoning the people. (See Arnesen in the PGI video below).
"Everybody" in Arnesen's Plaquemines Parish residential area is sick she said, estimating that 40 million people throughout the Gulf region are now poisoned.
"They might not all be sick now, but mark my words, they will be."
Monday, 4 October 2010
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO) | Florida Oil Spill Law
Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO) | Florida Oil Spill Law: "Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO)
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Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO) | Florida Oil Spill Law
Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO) | Florida Oil Spill Law: "Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shallower waters of continental shelf (VIDEO)
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Giant Oil Plume Found Below Surface Of Gulf : NPR
Giant Oil Plume Found Below Surface Of Gulf : NPR: "If you’d asked me -- and I've been studying oil spills for 15 years -- whether or not you would see oil in the subsurface, I would have said, 'No -- doesn't oil float?'
- Scientist Christopher Reddy
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Friday, 20 August 2010
BP oil spill: scientists find giant plume of droplets 'missed' by official account | Environment | The Guardian
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"Many people speculated that subsurface oil droplets were being easily degraded," said Richard Camilli, the lead author of the paper. "Well we didn't find that. We found it was still there."
At the heart of the debate is the rate at which naturally occurring microbes have consumed the oil from the runaway well. Even by the White House estimates, about one quarter of the oil was siphoned away from the well, skimmed off the surface, or burned. But the White House, in a high-profile briefing, earlier this month suggested that microbes had eaten as much as 50% of the remaining oil.
The study reinforces earlier reports from research voyages led by scientists from the University of Georgia and Texas A&M University who detected the presence of deepwater plumes of oil.
But the authors argued that theirs was more authoritative as it is the first to be published in a major peer-reviewed journal since oil began pumping into the ocean from the broken well four months ago. The authors also noted their access to superior technology including one of the few underwater robots available outside the oil industry.
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
BP Oil Spill Coverup: Fishermen Speak Up - The Daily Beast
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Two weeks ago, as federal officials prepared to declare that some three-quarters of the estimated 5 million barrels of oil released into the Gulf over three months had disappeared, Mark Williams, a fishing boat captain hired by BP to help with the spill cleanup, encountered tar balls as large as three inches wide floating off the Florida coast.
VETERAN DC ABC NEWS ANCHOR, DOUG MCKELWAY, SUSPENDED AFTER REPORTING OBAMA ACCEPTED $77,051 IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS FROM BP
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WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, suspended reporter Doug McKelway following his alleged “partisan” comments at a liberal rally on Capitol Hill marking the three-month anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Video of the broadcast tells a different story:
WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, suspended reporter Doug McKelway following his alleged “partisan” comments at a liberal rally on Capitol Hill marking the three-month anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Video of the broadcast tells a different story:
Apparently facts are now “partisan.”
McKelway stuck to the truth about BP’s political contributions and pending cap-and-trade legislation, newsworthy subjects given that the event’s organizers were lobbying to “pass legislation to end America’s addiction to oil and urged lawmakers to donate campaign money raised from the oil industry to the clean-up efforts in the Gulf.”
According to the Washington Post, it was McKelway’s supposedly controversial comments on July 20 that led to his suspension. Anonymous sources at the station are now accusing him of “insubordination” in an apparent attempt to fire him.
Monday, 16 August 2010
The BP Cover-Up | Mother Jones
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WE'RE SWINGING ON ANCHOR this afternoon as powerful bursts of wind blow down through the Makua Valley and out to sea. The gales stop and start every 15 minutes, as abruptly as if a giant on the far side of the Hawaiian island of Oahu were switching a fan on and off. We sail at the gusts' mercy, listing hard to starboard, then snapping hard against the anchor chain before recoiling to port. The intermittent tempests make our work harder and colder. We shiver during the microbursts, sweat during the interludes, then shiver again from our own sweat.
I'm accompanying marine ecologist Kelly Benoit-Bird of Oregon State University, physical oceanographer Margaret McManus of the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and two research assistants aboard a 32-foot former sportfishing boat named Alyce C. On the tiny aft deck, where a marlin fisher might ordinarily strap into a fighting chair, Benoit-Bird and McManus are launching packages of instruments: echo sounders tuned to five frequencies; cameras; and a host of tools designed to measure temperature, salinity, current velocity, chlorophyll fluorescence, and zooplankton abundance, all feeding into computers lashed into the tiny forward cabin.
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Feds Giving Spill Data to BP—But Public Stays in Dark | Mother Jones
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The federal government is now painting a rosy picture of the Gulf spill, reporting Wednesday that much of the oil has miraculously disappeared. The folks at the New York Times bought in, proclaiming, "US Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk."
But the oil isn't gone. More than 100 million gallons of it—at least nine and a half times more oil than the Exxon Valdez dumped—remain at the surface or dispersed undersea. And the government is still keeping crucial information about the extent of the damage a carefully guarded secret—from everyone except BP.
BP Scores Stimulus Cash | Mother Jones
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The federal government is giving a joint venture involving oil giant BP millions of dollars in stimulus money to build a power plant on farmland near the tiny Kern County town of Tupman, even as the company faces heavy government pressure and a criminal probe into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP is benefiting from a $308 million federal grant over several years for the cutting-edge power plant on cotton and alfalfa fields seven miles from the western edge of Bakersfield. More than half of the money, $175 million, is coming from stimulus funds. The rest is coming from another federal program.
The stimulus portion alone ranks as the second biggest award in California to a corporation and among the largest in the country benefiting private interests, according to data reported to the government by stimulus recipients.
The federal government is giving a joint venture involving oil giant BP millions of dollars in stimulus money to build a power plant on farmland near the tiny Kern County town of Tupman, even as the company faces heavy government pressure and a criminal probe into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP is benefiting from a $308 million federal grant over several years for the cutting-edge power plant on cotton and alfalfa fields seven miles from the western edge of Bakersfield. More than half of the money, $175 million, is coming from stimulus funds. The rest is coming from another federal program.
The stimulus portion alone ranks as the second biggest award in California to a corporation and among the largest in the country benefiting private interests, according to data reported to the government by stimulus recipients.
Attorney Mike Papantonio Says BP is a Criminal, Sociopathic and Predatory Corporation « SpeakEasy
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Environmental lawyer, advocate for working Americans, and host of Ring of Fire, Mike Papantonio and his firm have handled thousands of cases throughout the nation, including asbestos, breast implants, pharmaceutical litigation, factory farming, securities fraud, the Florida tobacco litigation, etc., and has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts.
Recently, he has been making frequent appearances on The Ed Show and Hardball to discuss the ramifications and implications of British Petroleum’s oil spill, in an effort to hold BP accountable for the damage that they have caused to the environment and persons, as well as to expose the lies that BP continues to feed the news media.
Environmental lawyer, advocate for working Americans, and host of Ring of Fire, Mike Papantonio and his firm have handled thousands of cases throughout the nation, including asbestos, breast implants, pharmaceutical litigation, factory farming, securities fraud, the Florida tobacco litigation, etc., and has received numerous multi-million dollar verdicts.
Recently, he has been making frequent appearances on The Ed Show and Hardball to discuss the ramifications and implications of British Petroleum’s oil spill, in an effort to hold BP accountable for the damage that they have caused to the environment and persons, as well as to expose the lies that BP continues to feed the news media.
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Poisoning | Rolling Stone Politics
The Poisoning | Rolling Stone Politics: "On July 15th, just as this article was going to press, BP lowered a 75-ton cap over the damaged wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico and closed — at least temporarily — the gushing hellmouth of oil. How long that cap will hold is not clear. At the moment, BP and government scientists are trying to determine whether the structure of the well itself was damaged by the blowout, and, if it was, whether oil and gas could be leaking through other parts of the well, or even through the sea floor itself. Depending on the integrity of the well, the gusher could be permanently capped in a matter of weeks; or there could be oil flowing into the Gulf again tomorrow. 'This is an extremely unstable situation,' retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal response to the clean-up, told me on the day the cap was lowered into place.
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“Independent claims czar” on BP payroll
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Gulf disaster “independent claims czar” Kenneth Feinberg is on the payroll of BP, he has admitted. The administrator of the escrow account set up by the Obama administration to compensate victims of the BP blowout has so far refused to reveal how much the oil giant pays him.
Nothing could more clearly expose Feinberg’s pretensions of neutrality and objectivity in the distribution of funds from the $20 billion Independent Claims Facility (ICF) established by the Obama administration on June 16. Feinberg is in fact an attorney in the employ of BP. He cannot, by definition, be a neutral arbiter.
In a July 19 web chat, Feinberg said he would not say how much BP pays him, declaring “that’s between me and BP.” Last week he backtracked somewhat, saying he would reveal his pay package within “weeks.” “I don’t want to just announce what my estimated salary is for the next few months, I want to give a budget that will include that salary,” he said in explaining the delay.
Gulf disaster “independent claims czar” Kenneth Feinberg is on the payroll of BP, he has admitted. The administrator of the escrow account set up by the Obama administration to compensate victims of the BP blowout has so far refused to reveal how much the oil giant pays him.
Nothing could more clearly expose Feinberg’s pretensions of neutrality and objectivity in the distribution of funds from the $20 billion Independent Claims Facility (ICF) established by the Obama administration on June 16. Feinberg is in fact an attorney in the employ of BP. He cannot, by definition, be a neutral arbiter.
In a July 19 web chat, Feinberg said he would not say how much BP pays him, declaring “that’s between me and BP.” Last week he backtracked somewhat, saying he would reveal his pay package within “weeks.” “I don’t want to just announce what my estimated salary is for the next few months, I want to give a budget that will include that salary,” he said in explaining the delay.
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Monday, 19 July 2010
BP oil spill: US orders new emergency plan as seepage detected near capped well - Telegraph
BP oil spill: US orders new emergency plan as seepage detected near capped well - Telegraph: "Tensions emerged as the US government's point man on the worst environmental disaster in US history also told the British energy giant to report swiftly on a 'detected seep' and 'anomalies' near the well.
BP - which said Monday the bill from the leak had risen to $3.95 billion (£2.58 billion) - had earlier acknowledged that some bubbles had appeared near the wellhead but expressed optimism that the cap installed three days earlier could stay on.
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BP - which said Monday the bill from the leak had risen to $3.95 billion (£2.58 billion) - had earlier acknowledged that some bubbles had appeared near the wellhead but expressed optimism that the cap installed three days earlier could stay on.
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Saturday, 17 July 2010
Gulf oil spill's animal victims
Gulf oil spill's animal victims: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
Please follow the link to see photos on the Washington Post site that will
probably make you sad, make you cry, make you angry --
to see these harmless creatures so irreparable damaged -- the photo
essay starts out very poignantly with an egg but there will be few
chicks this year or even next.
BP claims the leak has stopped but who is asking the question about the huge
hole in the ocean floor? Where it is being reported thousands of gallons of oil are
still rising into the Gulf.
see video sidebar MNSBC July 15 Matt Simmon talking to Dylan Ratigan
The quest for resources and the greed that sustains it has gone too far --
this madness has to stop -- our food has been adulterated until we don't know
what we are eating -- mountain tops removed for coal at the expense of the
beauty of the countryside --rivers poisoned -- lakes have become dead zones,
the rain forest, the lungs of the earth are being decimated and the the skies
polluted with chemical spray, our seas used as dumping grounds, poisoned
and polluted with plastic whose parts, smaller than a millimeter and the seas
almost fished out.
The madness has gone too far and it has to stop -- will the rational minds
please stand up, and speak out -- the only way for us to live on our planet
is to live in harmony with nature --
we are here for a very short time and are stewards of the land, the air,
to take care of the water -- the animals and birds for future generations.
http://zarafas-oil-in-the-
Please follow the link to see photos on the Washington Post site that will
probably make you sad, make you cry, make you angry --
to see these harmless creatures so irreparable damaged -- the photo
essay starts out very poignantly with an egg but there will be few
chicks this year or even next.
BP claims the leak has stopped but who is asking the question about the huge
hole in the ocean floor? Where it is being reported thousands of gallons of oil are
still rising into the Gulf.
see video sidebar MNSBC July 15 Matt Simmon talking to Dylan Ratigan
The quest for resources and the greed that sustains it has gone too far --
this madness has to stop -- our food has been adulterated until we don't know
what we are eating -- mountain tops removed for coal at the expense of the
beauty of the countryside --rivers poisoned -- lakes have become dead zones,
the rain forest, the lungs of the earth are being decimated and the the skies
polluted with chemical spray, our seas used as dumping grounds, poisoned
and polluted with plastic whose parts, smaller than a millimeter and the seas
almost fished out.
The madness has gone too far and it has to stop -- will the rational minds
please stand up, and speak out -- the only way for us to live on our planet
is to live in harmony with nature --
we are here for a very short time and are stewards of the land, the air,
to take care of the water -- the animals and birds for future generations.
http://zarafas-oil-in-the-
Oil hits Louisiana's largest seabird nesting area
Oil hits Louisiana's largest seabird nesting area:
"NEW ORLEANS -- Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300-400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast - marking a sharp and sudden escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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"NEW ORLEANS -- Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300-400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast - marking a sharp and sudden escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Friday, 16 July 2010
The Gulf 20 years from now
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The year 1989.
The day everything changed forever for residents of Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
What can Gulf of Mexico residents look forward to?
More of the same.
"You've done had some good luck and you don't realize it. We're Exxon and we do business straight."
Click here to learn how you can help the families whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by BP
The year 1989.
The day everything changed forever for residents of Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
What can Gulf of Mexico residents look forward to?
More of the same.
"You've done had some good luck and you don't realize it. We're Exxon and we do business straight."
Click here to learn how you can help the families whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by BP
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
BP's paid less than half of claims | McClatchy
BP's paid less than half of claims | McClatchy: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
BP to Start Test Today on Cap That May Stop Oil Spill - BusinessWeek
BP to Start Test Today on Cap That May Stop Oil Spill - BusinessWeek: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc plans to start testing today on a new cap over its leaking Gulf of Mexico well to determine whether it can stop the largest U.S. oil spill in history while continuing work on a permanent plug.
Starting about noon local time, a 40-foot (12-meter) stack of valves secured atop the well yesterday will shut off the flow of crude, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells told reporters on a conference call. The test will measure pressure inside the well to determine whether the cap can remain in place without causing oil to burst uncontrolled through another opening.
Hating Tony Hayward - Essay - Opinions - July 1, 2010 - Sacramento News & Review
Hating Tony Hayward - Essay - Opinions - July 1, 2010 - Sacramento News & Review: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
I’m not much of a carpenter, but I have spent enough time with wood to learn the woodworker’s mantra, which is to measure twice and cut once. It’s a bit of pragmatism that can be applied to lots of things. Measure twice, cut once. Take all necessary precautions before committing yourself to a cut that may waste lumber or weaken the structure.
Precaution. The word itself has the necessary lessons built into it. There’s abundant folk wisdom of this kind, most of it ingrained in us by the time we reach middle school. “Better safe than sorry,” for instance, or “Look before you leap.” Even more commonly, there’s the Boy Scout creed, “Be prepared.”
Despite the ubiquity of such sensible notions, BP chose not to have a backup well in case of an eventuality like the one we’re all now paying for in the Gulf of Mexico. In order to save the millions a relief well would have cost, they made a corporate decision to proceed without a contingency plan, which is why we’ve seen them fumbling with Rube Goldberg solutions since the rig blew up back in April.
National Commission on oil spill covers up for BP, government
National Commission on oil spill covers up for BP, government: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling held its first public meeting in New Orleans on Monday. From the outset, it was clear the hearing would be a toothless exercise in which the reality of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico would find no expression.
The commission, appointed by President Obama in May, is co-chaired by former Democratic Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham and William Reilly, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under the Reagan administration, during the time of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Reilly has spent the past 17 years on the board of energy giant ConocoPhillips.
Monday, 12 July 2010
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Monday, 5 July 2010
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE to STOP the GULF OIL DISASTER
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE to STOP the GULF OIL DISASTER
ACT NOW! SIGN THIS MISSION STATEMENT TODAY --and urge everyone you know to do the same-- by clicking "comments" at the bottom of this Statement. Please fill out the form that comes up.
ACT NOW! SIGN THIS MISSION STATEMENT TODAY --and urge everyone you know to do the same-- by clicking "comments" at the bottom of this Statement. Please fill out the form that comes up.
Sunday, 4 July 2010
"We the corporations" | Move to Amend
"We the corporations" | Move to Amend
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
"We the corporations"
We Move to Amend.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:- Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
- Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
- Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.
Signed by 84,158 and counting . . .
Why Did The U.S. Refuse International Help on The Gulf Oil Spill?by Dian L. Chu
Despite the vow by President Obama to keep the Gulf oil spill a top priority until the damage is cleaned up, 50 days after the BP rig exploded, a definitive date and meaningful solution is yet to be determined for the worst oil spill in the U.S. history.
So, you would think if someone is willing to handle the clean-up with equipment and technology not available in the U.S., and finishes the job in shorter time than the current estimate, the U.S. should jump on the offer.
But it turned out to be quite the opposite. .
U.S. Refused Help on Oil Spill
According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.
So, you would think if someone is willing to handle the clean-up with equipment and technology not available in the U.S., and finishes the job in shorter time than the current estimate, the U.S. should jump on the offer.
But it turned out to be quite the opposite. .
U.S. Refused Help on Oil Spill
According to Foreign Policy, thirteen entities had offered the U.S. oil spill assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.
"..While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future."
Blame It On The Jones Act?
Separately, Belgian newspaper De Standaard also reported Belgian and Dutch dredgers have technology in-house to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, butthe Jones Act forbids them to work in the U.S.
A Belgian group--DEME-- contends it can clean up the oil in three to four months with specialty vessel and equipment, rather than an estimated nine months if done only by the U.S. The article noted there are no more than 5 or 6 of those ships in the world and the top specialist players are the two Belgian companies- DEME and De Nul - and their Dutch competitors.
The U.S. does not have the similar technology and vessel to accomplish the cleanup task because those ships would cost twice as much to build in the U.S. than in the Far East. The article further criticizes this "great technological delay" is a direct consequence of the Jones Act.
What Is The Jones Act?
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, deals with coastal shipping; and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.
The purpose of the law is to support the U.S. merchant marine industry. Critics said that the legislation results in increased costs moving cargoes between U.S. ports, and in essence, is protectionism, Supporters of the Act maintain that the legislation is of strategic economic and wartime interest to the United States. .
European Service Sector - Offshore Subsea Specialist
As discussed in my analysis of the oil service sector, the European companies typically possess the knowhow in offshore and subsea; whereas their North American counterparts excel in onshore drilling and production technologies.
So, it is more than likely that European firms do have the expertise to clean up the spill quicker and more effectively as DEME asserts.
Since the Jones Act means the Belgian ship and personnel cannot work in the Gulf, it does seem the Act has inhibited technology and knowledge exchange & development, and possibly prevented a quicker response to the oil spill.
Jones Waiver Time
On the other hand, waivers of the Jones may be granted by the Administration in cases of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest. It would appear the U.S. government's initial refusal to foreign help most likely stemmed from a mis-calculation of the scale and deepwater technological barriers for this unprecedented disaster, and/or perhaps ..... pride.
Whatever the rationale, and if De Standarrd's claim that the Jones Act forbids the European companies to help fight the spill is true, it is high time the U.S. government grant the Jones waiver, and let this be an international collaborative effort.
It's always better late than never.
Separately, Belgian newspaper De Standaard also reported Belgian and Dutch dredgers have technology in-house to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, butthe Jones Act forbids them to work in the U.S.
A Belgian group--DEME-- contends it can clean up the oil in three to four months with specialty vessel and equipment, rather than an estimated nine months if done only by the U.S. The article noted there are no more than 5 or 6 of those ships in the world and the top specialist players are the two Belgian companies- DEME and De Nul - and their Dutch competitors.
The U.S. does not have the similar technology and vessel to accomplish the cleanup task because those ships would cost twice as much to build in the U.S. than in the Far East. The article further criticizes this "great technological delay" is a direct consequence of the Jones Act.
What Is The Jones Act?
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, deals with coastal shipping; and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.
The purpose of the law is to support the U.S. merchant marine industry. Critics said that the legislation results in increased costs moving cargoes between U.S. ports, and in essence, is protectionism, Supporters of the Act maintain that the legislation is of strategic economic and wartime interest to the United States. .
European Service Sector - Offshore Subsea Specialist
As discussed in my analysis of the oil service sector, the European companies typically possess the knowhow in offshore and subsea; whereas their North American counterparts excel in onshore drilling and production technologies.
So, it is more than likely that European firms do have the expertise to clean up the spill quicker and more effectively as DEME asserts.
Since the Jones Act means the Belgian ship and personnel cannot work in the Gulf, it does seem the Act has inhibited technology and knowledge exchange & development, and possibly prevented a quicker response to the oil spill.
Jones Waiver Time
On the other hand, waivers of the Jones may be granted by the Administration in cases of national emergencies or in cases of strategic interest. It would appear the U.S. government's initial refusal to foreign help most likely stemmed from a mis-calculation of the scale and deepwater technological barriers for this unprecedented disaster, and/or perhaps ..... pride.
Whatever the rationale, and if De Standarrd's claim that the Jones Act forbids the European companies to help fight the spill is true, it is high time the U.S. government grant the Jones waiver, and let this be an international collaborative effort.
It's always better late than never.
Global Research Articles by Dian L. Chu
Saturday, 3 July 2010
ROFFS Oil Tracking Shows BP Gulf Oil Spill Traveling Up Entire East Coast Of Florida | Alexander Higgins Blog
ROFFS Oil Tracking Shows BP Gulf Oil Spill Traveling Up Entire East Coast Of Florida | Alexander Higgins Blog
I recently wrote that oil from the BP Gulf Oil Spill may be as far north as North Carolina based on satellite data and reports of oil off the Florida keys reported June 9th by a University of South Florida professor.
I recently wrote that oil from the BP Gulf Oil Spill may be as far north as North Carolina based on satellite data and reports of oil off the Florida keys reported June 9th by a University of South Florida professor.
Oil taints food chain in Gulf of Mexico - WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi
Oil taints food chain in Gulf of Mexico - WLOX-TV and WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi
John BSLMS
says:
Lets be real folks. The Gulf Water's is gone for our lifetimes. We will not be able to sell our homes because who wants to move to an OIL POND full of dead sea creatures? So we will sit here with no more shrimp, crabs, oysters or any other Sea Food. And with no one wanting to visit our "Disaster Area" what do you think the Casino's are going to do. Say good by to them. All the Sea food resturants even the old ones will eventually close up. We will essentially end up a "Gost Coast" with Cities all up and down the destroyed beech closing because of the lack of revenue of tourist in which we survived on annually. I am not a Sinic but a Realist. Get real WLOX and tell it like it is. Haley Barbour, I voted for you twice and now I am ashamed of you promoting even more Oil Drilling in our now destroyed Gulf Coast.
This entire oil spill is too depressing. I lost my house and right leg due to Katrina. Then my wife of 28 years gets too depressed about the after effects of Katrina and commits suicide, I struggle to keep up then this HUGE OIL POND develops off the Miss. shoreline. It is making me physically ill from the fumes, so I will have to try to move somewhere else, if I can find a sucker to buy my house. Who wants to live here anymore. The Miss. Gulf Coast is cursed I feel and I believe the Casino's and the crime it has brought to the Coast has caused God to punish the money greedy City officials. Now just wait till all the Casio's all close down do to people not wanting to visit an OIL POND with it's fumes.
Its not a surprise at all. Since we have no clue how much actual oil is in the gulf and its still pouring in at extreme volumes why would it not enter the food chain. Its silly to think other wise; I do not have a PHd or anything but common since when it comes to marine animals since gowning up on a shrimp boat in the 70's; and this comes from labs. You can look at the water and see the dead animals all over and the lack of crab fry and this would tell me we are in a serious world of hurt the next few decades.
John BSLMS
says:Lets be real folks. The Gulf Water's is gone for our lifetimes. We will not be able to sell our homes because who wants to move to an OIL POND full of dead sea creatures? So we will sit here with no more shrimp, crabs, oysters or any other Sea Food. And with no one wanting to visit our "Disaster Area" what do you think the Casino's are going to do. Say good by to them. All the Sea food resturants even the old ones will eventually close up. We will essentially end up a "Gost Coast" with Cities all up and down the destroyed beech closing because of the lack of revenue of tourist in which we survived on annually. I am not a Sinic but a Realist. Get real WLOX and tell it like it is. Haley Barbour, I voted for you twice and now I am ashamed of you promoting even more Oil Drilling in our now destroyed Gulf Coast.
This entire oil spill is too depressing. I lost my house and right leg due to Katrina. Then my wife of 28 years gets too depressed about the after effects of Katrina and commits suicide, I struggle to keep up then this HUGE OIL POND develops off the Miss. shoreline. It is making me physically ill from the fumes, so I will have to try to move somewhere else, if I can find a sucker to buy my house. Who wants to live here anymore. The Miss. Gulf Coast is cursed I feel and I believe the Casino's and the crime it has brought to the Coast has caused God to punish the money greedy City officials. Now just wait till all the Casio's all close down do to people not wanting to visit an OIL POND with it's fumes.
Its not a surprise at all. Since we have no clue how much actual oil is in the gulf and its still pouring in at extreme volumes why would it not enter the food chain. Its silly to think other wise; I do not have a PHd or anything but common since when it comes to marine animals since gowning up on a shrimp boat in the 70's; and this comes from labs. You can look at the water and see the dead animals all over and the lack of crab fry and this would tell me we are in a serious world of hurt the next few decades.
Friday, 2 July 2010
The plight of the SeaTurtles
A few years ago I was pretty depressed. I had the good fortune of using a friend's place on the Outer Banks for a few days. One day I walked a beach pondering my sad state and saw a group of dolphins having a blast in the waves close to shore. I hadn't felt such comfort and joy in a long time and I know they felt my appreciation. As they playfully swam along I followed them for a long time and then said thanks and wished them safe travels. I felt better for many days. Now they are dying horrific deaths by the dozens, probably hundreds, in the Gulf while having their young - this is the season for birthing there. I've seen the videos of them dying together and have had trouble sleeping since. I feel pretty hopeless but am grateful for the people along the Gulf who are doing whatever they can for those trapped animals who are suffering a nightmare and dying. We must commit to alternative energy and conversation and we can. We really can. Check out the Transitions movement. We can't afford another disaster like this and its only a matter of time. The oil that's left demands too great a sacrifice - a poisoned environment - I'm not willing to pay that price and I doubt the next generation is either.
hasheville huffpost comment
hasheville huffpost comment
Sea Turtles Burned Alive and Drowned
Sea turtles and other protected species may be victims of sea-surface oil burning, skimming, or other efforts to control the spill.
In addition, many animals exposed to oil at sea will die by drowning or poisoning without ever being counted.
We can find no official public record of the numbers of animals being caught up in the oil slick or injured during response efforts. Current wildlife casualty reports only include the captured and collected animals, not those animals exposed to oil and left to die in the wild.
We need your help. Please take action today. Urge the Unified Command and federal agencies to:
- Place qualified third party wildlife observers on "Vessels of Opportunity" responding to the BP oil disaster;
- Publicly report all wildlife observations in the oil impact areas;
- Postpone burns when protected species are present to allow for appropriate intervention and immediately implement measures to eliminate avoidable harm to all protected species; and
- Coordinate wildlife rescue interventions when necessary.
We also ask that the agencies charged with safeguarding wildlife and protected marine species systematically collect and publicly report field data on oiled wildlife, not just those animals captured and collected, so that the public can see the real toll of this disaster for wild animals large enough to be effectively counted.
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see all 22 photos) | Reporting with a camera
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see all 22 photos) | Reporting with a camera
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach
(click to see all 22 photos)
Deepwater Horizon exploded about 11 p.m. on April 20 and later sank. Visit our special report page for the latest reports on the gulf oil disaster.
The tide came in Tuesday night, under a moon almost full, and when the sun came up and the water retreated there it was: a broken band of oil about 5 feet wide and 8 miles long.
It looked like tobacco spit and smelled foreign, and it pooled in yesterday's footprints as far as you could see. State officials called it the worst show of crude on shore from the gusher 120 miles away. READ THE STORY: Oil blankets Pensacola Beach.
Times photos by Edmund Fountain
Monday, 28 June 2010
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Friday, 25 June 2010
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization
PETA is calling on the attorneys general of the Gulf Coast states to file charges of cruelty to animals.
PETA is calling on the attorneys general of the Gulf Coast states to file charges of cruelty to animals.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010
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Sunday, 20 June 2010
There's no oil slicks here, Tony:
White House blasts BP boss as he watches yacht race 4,500 miles away from Gulf disaster
B.P. SHOW US THE MUDLOGS!
By geologist, Chris Landau
Reasons for the mudlogs
1) A mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored. Without looking at the mudlogs and e-logs, we are all navigating blind. They are the forensic tool that you use to discover what happened. The mudlog is your map and your compass and your guiding star.
Do not burn the oil on the sea in the Gulf of Mexico. Do not drill other wells into the existing B P well.
These actions will burn people, boats and property. Wind gusts will blow the flames out of control. The heat from the flames will create their own winds. This is just making a bad situation worse. Is there nobody handling this situation that is thinking of the consequences of their actions?
ChrisLandau (geologist) Follow the link to more articles
opednews.com
June 11, 2010
http://www.opednews.com/articles/B-P-Halliburton-and-Trans-by-Chris-Landau-100611-452.html
B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon and now there is no stopping it. Senator Bill Nelson has told us how bad it is.
This is our worst nightmare. The oil industry has killed the Gulf of Mexico.
My worst fears have been realized. If this link is true and the oil is coming through the sea floor, they have either blown out the formation or blown out the cement (which we know they did anyway to get the blowout to occur).
I’m beginning to realize why they have not wanted to close the valves on the cap. The more they close it, the more oil is going to come up through the sea floor, next to the well casing.
I listed 12 points in my attached article. The really big concern here is that their directional wells are now pointless. They are GUARANTEED to fail because you cannot pump mud or cement into a blown-out well. It just does not set with oil and gas roaring past.
The next biggest concern is that they have to get 8 new wells in immediately to relieve the background oil and gas pressure. The oil is going to start coming up at an ever increasing rate along the casing and theblowout preventer.The oil and gas is going to act as a high pressurepressure washer and erode away all the sandstone and mudstone.There is nothing they can do about it.
This is also the end of B.P. The claims will go on forever.
What these guys do not understand is that it is much worse than they think. Here is the reason why.
They need to date the oil to find out how old the oil is. The rock formation might be 30 to 200 million years old here. I do not know and have not looked at under sea maps.
The oil is either old oil, say, almost as old as the formation, or they have drilled into a massive active fault zone that is reducing carbon dioxide to methane. If it is high in hydrogen sulfide, it is reducing calcareous sediments to oil and more natural gas in the presence of salt solutions.
Now they are providing more saltwater, so via the Wurtz Synthesis more oil is going to be created than natural gas. The methane is going to be converted to ethane, propane, butane, pentane and other long-chain organic compounds.
You see, if oil is being made now, at a very rapid rate in this area, the pressure is never, ever going to drop off along the casing and the oil is going to flow into the gulf forever. The only hope to reduce the pressure will be by sinking more new wells into this area and try and drain off the oil and gas as quickly as it is being made.
You see oil is basically inorganic. It is not made from dead squashed plankton. It is not a fossil fuel. It is an inorganic chemical compound reduced from calcareous sediments and carbon dioxide and methane gas.
My peer-reviewed published papers using chemical and thermodynamic equations show how this occurs. The link to the papers is available below.
Of course although I was published by The American Institute of Professional Geologists in 2009 and the Association of Environmentaland Engineering Geologists in 2008, it does not mean that my theories are accepted by the majority of geologists.
It will probably take 50 years, as with the theory of Continental Drift, to get accepted by geologists in general. Maybe this disaster will shave off 20 years. Things evolve slowly in geology!
We can only hope it is old oil. We can only date oil back 100 000 years by carbon dating, but that is fine. We need to know if this oil is 10 to 100 years old and if its age is changing as it escapes. Is the escaping oil getting older or younger? So we need to start dating the oil on a weekly basis to see what is happening.
I volunteer for the job.
One last point that the public does not understand. It is not about deep water drilling where the problems have arisen. It is about high pressure oil and gas drilling that creates the problems.
These zones can be found on land as well as at sea and can start from as little as 10000 feet, not the 20000 of this well. These high pressure wells have always been a problem.
Of the millions of wells drilled, there are thousands of these ticking time bomb, high-pressure wells in existence and new ones are being drilled every day. New risks are being taken daily.
The world has to make a concerted effort to get off oil. It is killing us.
I hope I have not been too technical, but the matter is grave.
This is the video showing Senator Nelson reporting the oil is coming up through the sea floor.
ChrisLandau (geologist) Follow the link to more articles
Chris Landau: B.P., Halliburton and Transocean Have Unleashed Armageddon and Now There is No Stopping It
By Chris Landauopednews.com
June 11, 2010
http://www.opednews.com/articles/B-P-Halliburton-and-Trans-by-Chris-Landau-100611-452.html
B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon and now there is no stopping it. Senator Bill Nelson has told us how bad it is.
This is our worst nightmare. The oil industry has killed the Gulf of Mexico.
My worst fears have been realized. If this link is true and the oil is coming through the sea floor, they have either blown out the formation or blown out the cement (which we know they did anyway to get the blowout to occur).
I’m beginning to realize why they have not wanted to close the valves on the cap. The more they close it, the more oil is going to come up through the sea floor, next to the well casing.
I listed 12 points in my attached article. The really big concern here is that their directional wells are now pointless. They are GUARANTEED to fail because you cannot pump mud or cement into a blown-out well. It just does not set with oil and gas roaring past.
The next biggest concern is that they have to get 8 new wells in immediately to relieve the background oil and gas pressure. The oil is going to start coming up at an ever increasing rate along the casing and theblowout preventer.The oil and gas is going to act as a high pressurepressure washer and erode away all the sandstone and mudstone.There is nothing they can do about it.
This is also the end of B.P. The claims will go on forever.
What these guys do not understand is that it is much worse than they think. Here is the reason why.
They need to date the oil to find out how old the oil is. The rock formation might be 30 to 200 million years old here. I do not know and have not looked at under sea maps.
The oil is either old oil, say, almost as old as the formation, or they have drilled into a massive active fault zone that is reducing carbon dioxide to methane. If it is high in hydrogen sulfide, it is reducing calcareous sediments to oil and more natural gas in the presence of salt solutions.
Now they are providing more saltwater, so via the Wurtz Synthesis more oil is going to be created than natural gas. The methane is going to be converted to ethane, propane, butane, pentane and other long-chain organic compounds.
You see, if oil is being made now, at a very rapid rate in this area, the pressure is never, ever going to drop off along the casing and the oil is going to flow into the gulf forever. The only hope to reduce the pressure will be by sinking more new wells into this area and try and drain off the oil and gas as quickly as it is being made.
You see oil is basically inorganic. It is not made from dead squashed plankton. It is not a fossil fuel. It is an inorganic chemical compound reduced from calcareous sediments and carbon dioxide and methane gas.
My peer-reviewed published papers using chemical and thermodynamic equations show how this occurs. The link to the papers is available below.
Of course although I was published by The American Institute of Professional Geologists in 2009 and the Association of Environmentaland Engineering Geologists in 2008, it does not mean that my theories are accepted by the majority of geologists.
It will probably take 50 years, as with the theory of Continental Drift, to get accepted by geologists in general. Maybe this disaster will shave off 20 years. Things evolve slowly in geology!
We can only hope it is old oil. We can only date oil back 100 000 years by carbon dating, but that is fine. We need to know if this oil is 10 to 100 years old and if its age is changing as it escapes. Is the escaping oil getting older or younger? So we need to start dating the oil on a weekly basis to see what is happening.
I volunteer for the job.
One last point that the public does not understand. It is not about deep water drilling where the problems have arisen. It is about high pressure oil and gas drilling that creates the problems.
These zones can be found on land as well as at sea and can start from as little as 10000 feet, not the 20000 of this well. These high pressure wells have always been a problem.
Of the millions of wells drilled, there are thousands of these ticking time bomb, high-pressure wells in existence and new ones are being drilled every day. New risks are being taken daily.
The world has to make a concerted effort to get off oil. It is killing us.
I hope I have not been too technical, but the matter is grave.
This is the video showing Senator Nelson reporting the oil is coming up through the sea floor.
Elected Officials Bought Off by the Oil and Gas Lobby:
Power Without Petroleum
Elected Officials Bought Off by the Oil and Gas Lobby:
- Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has taken $363,950
- Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has taken more than $200,000
- Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) has taken $1.8 million
- Rudy Giuliani (R-NY) has taken $609,358
- Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has taken $385,500
- Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has taken $1,448,380
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has taken $426,989
- Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) has taken $16.7 million
- The 2008 McCain/Palin campaign took $2.4 million
Check Out How Much BP has been spending:
- In 2009, BP’s Lobby spent $16 million
- In the first quarter of 2010, BP’s Lobby spent $3.5 million
The entire Oil & Gas Lobby:
- In 2009, the entire Oil & Gas Lobby spent $174 MILLION
Since this "mishap" BP has has 26 events for congress ---- Rep Markey at the end of the hearing told us in his summation that the American people get 'nada' for the mineral rights in the Gulf or anywhere else from any oil company! Surprised! Not more than I am.
A Deadly Bubble + A Tsunami
Coast to Coast -- with Richard Hoagland -- Please listen to
what he has to say -- Ben Nelson has spoken about this problem + it was circuitously talked about
it this morning 06.20. on Meet the Press, there are many small fissures on the sea bed floor
where they have been detected by a ROV. See video down page.
The well is one mile under water then they drilled down four + one half miles to the oil ---
Follow this link: to Brasscheck for both parts of the interview
It is posted further down on the blog under Fantasia,
what he has to say -- Ben Nelson has spoken about this problem + it was circuitously talked about
it this morning 06.20. on Meet the Press, there are many small fissures on the sea bed floor
where they have been detected by a ROV. See video down page.
The well is one mile under water then they drilled down four + one half miles to the oil ---
Follow this link: to Brasscheck for both parts of the interview
It is posted further down on the blog under Fantasia,
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Guardian: Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
The Deepwater Horizon disaster caused headlines around the world, yet the people who live in the Niger delta have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades
Guardian:
BP hives off 'toxic' Gulf spill operation to dilute anti-British feeling in US
Chief executive Tony Hayward hands responsibility for clean-up to American as new containment cap is placed on top of leak
"Tony Hayward will no longer be managing the day-to-day operations of the Gulf cleanup effort." ?
So what's new? Nothing has changed!!!
So what's new? Nothing has changed!!!
BP CEO Hayward still in control of Gulf oil spill response?
(CNN) -- BP is clarifying comments Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg made Friday in a broadcast interview, that BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward will relinquish control over the company's daily operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Energy Non-Crisis by Lindsey Williams
Hear Reverend Lindsey Williams tell the real TRUTH about Alaskan oil and gas on YouTube.
The Energy Non-Crisis is available for sale here
+ here including reviews at Amazon
Hear Reverend Lindsey Williams tell the real TRUTH about Alaskan oil and gas on YouTube.
+ here including reviews at Amazon
Goldman Harvard Recruit Pledges to Do No Harm, Fights for Oath
Goldman Harvard Recruit Pledges to Do No Harm, Fights for Oath
I am re-posting this article now that we have got rid of Haywood +
now have Dudley -- Please read his bio ! Nothing is going to change
this is a culture unto itself + they are immersed in it -- its all they
know.
This has been an on going issue for many years, what is oil?
The debate over oil's origin has been going on since the 19th century.
From the start, there were those who contended that oil is primordial
- that it dates back to Earth's origin - or that it is made through an
inorganic process, while others argued that it was produced from the
decay of living organisms (primarily oceanic plankton) that proliferated
millions of years ago during relatively brief periods of global warming
and were buried under ocean sediment in fortuitous circumstances.
Read this article The Abiotic Oil Controversy
Now try this: its Fantasia with the volume turned up Part one + please listen to
Part two.
I am re-posting this article now that we have got rid of Haywood +
now have Dudley -- Please read his bio ! Nothing is going to change
this is a culture unto itself + they are immersed in it -- its all they
know.
This has been an on going issue for many years, what is oil?
The debate over oil's origin has been going on since the 19th century.
From the start, there were those who contended that oil is primordial
- that it dates back to Earth's origin - or that it is made through an
inorganic process, while others argued that it was produced from the
decay of living organisms (primarily oceanic plankton) that proliferated
millions of years ago during relatively brief periods of global warming
and were buried under ocean sediment in fortuitous circumstances.
Read this article The Abiotic Oil Controversy
Now try this: its Fantasia with the volume turned up Part one + please listen to
Part two.
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