http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/reporter-massive-fishkill-so-thick-looks-like-a-gravel-road-no-testing-to-see-if-from-oil-spill-video/comment-page-1#comment-12813
Thousands of fish and a dead whale on Monday were found…
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser… said there is no testing going on to determine if it’s from the oil spill, although the northern Gulf of Mexico has suffered from a persistent dead zone of low oxygen, blamed on nutrient rich runoff from the Mississippi River.
Nungesser said this is different because usually the kills happen to only one or two species of fish.
Showing posts with label gulf disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gulf disaster. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources Meetings, Project Gulf Impact, August 17, 2010:
The commercial fisherman of the Gulf need your support in lending an ear to their cause, and let me assure you their cause IS your safety.
The Fisherman have a very valid concern over the toxicity of the various products that the FDA is now telling them that it's safe for you to consume.
This is their livelihood, for most, it has been their whole life. They know what's in the water, and what it's done and is still doing, to the sea life that they catch and sell.
All it will take to ruin them for a decade, is for illness to eventually prevail from selling a product that has been all to hastily reintroduced for public consumption.
The oil didn't disappear, it was made to sink to the bottom of the ocean with the aid of highly toxic dispersant.
The perfect example of "Out of sight out of mind", but the commercial fisherman can't put it out of their mind because they still see it out their everyday, and they know what you will be eating no matter what the FDA says.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/head-of-navy-on-tour-of-oil-repeatedly-asks-wow-what-are-we-in-sir-fisherman-responds-kind-of-looks-like-a-ufo-underwater-dont-it-pgi-video
YouTube Description: Mississippi Fishermen speak out on injustices of the government’s position on oil disappearing
Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources Meetings, Project Gulf Impact, August 17, 2010:
Part II at 11:50 in
Mississippi Fisherman: All [Secretary of Navy Ray Mabus] could say on my boat was, “Wow, what are we in sir?” [Fisherman responds] “Kind of looks like an UFO underwater, don’t it?” [Mabus says] “Wow.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9HEOAVG0
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, sought to ease consumers' minds and palates by saying this week he would eat Gulf seafood himself and "serve it to my family."
Such assurances appear to be doing little to quell the distaste for Gulf seafood, though.
Some processors are having difficulty selling the seafood they can get, even to long-established customers.
"I've talked to suppliers who have sold 20 years to companies and are now being told no," Smith said. "A lot of people are substituting imported product for Gulf product."
Keath Ladner, owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products in Bay St. Louis, Miss., won't send his 70 boats out, even though shrimp season is open in some Mississippi waters.
"They'd lose money," Ladner said. "Nobody wants it. I can't sell it."
Ladner's main national buyer sent him a letter recently telling him it wouldn't be buying seafood from the Gulf "until further notice," he said.
"They can't convince brokers around the nation that it's a safe product," he said, adding that he came across a 2-square-mile patch of dead, floating fish on Friday about 12 miles off Gulfport, Miss.
The Fisherman have a very valid concern over the toxicity of the various products that the FDA is now telling them that it's safe for you to consume.
This is their livelihood, for most, it has been their whole life. They know what's in the water, and what it's done and is still doing, to the sea life that they catch and sell.
All it will take to ruin them for a decade, is for illness to eventually prevail from selling a product that has been all to hastily reintroduced for public consumption.
The oil didn't disappear, it was made to sink to the bottom of the ocean with the aid of highly toxic dispersant.
The perfect example of "Out of sight out of mind", but the commercial fisherman can't put it out of their mind because they still see it out their everyday, and they know what you will be eating no matter what the FDA says.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/head-of-navy-on-tour-of-oil-repeatedly-asks-wow-what-are-we-in-sir-fisherman-responds-kind-of-looks-like-a-ufo-underwater-dont-it-pgi-video
YouTube Description: Mississippi Fishermen speak out on injustices of the government’s position on oil disappearing
Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources Meetings, Project Gulf Impact, August 17, 2010:
Part II at 11:50 in
Mississippi Fisherman: All [Secretary of Navy Ray Mabus] could say on my boat was, “Wow, what are we in sir?” [Fisherman responds] “Kind of looks like an UFO underwater, don’t it?” [Mabus says] “Wow.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9HEOAVG0
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, sought to ease consumers' minds and palates by saying this week he would eat Gulf seafood himself and "serve it to my family."
Such assurances appear to be doing little to quell the distaste for Gulf seafood, though.
Some processors are having difficulty selling the seafood they can get, even to long-established customers.
"I've talked to suppliers who have sold 20 years to companies and are now being told no," Smith said. "A lot of people are substituting imported product for Gulf product."
Keath Ladner, owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products in Bay St. Louis, Miss., won't send his 70 boats out, even though shrimp season is open in some Mississippi waters.
"They'd lose money," Ladner said. "Nobody wants it. I can't sell it."
Ladner's main national buyer sent him a letter recently telling him it wouldn't be buying seafood from the Gulf "until further notice," he said.
"They can't convince brokers around the nation that it's a safe product," he said, adding that he came across a 2-square-mile patch of dead, floating fish on Friday about 12 miles off Gulfport, Miss.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
An AUTOPSY of the BP Gulf Oil Well at the Macondo Prospect
http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/an-autopsy-of-the-bp-gulf-oil-well-at-the-macondo-prospect/
And BP is leaving their options open to go back and drill in this same area.
For the first time we have received a pictorial rendition of what may have occurred over the several stages of developing the Macondo Prospect oil well. Full credit goes to BK Lim for publishing these revealing diagrams on alternative news websites. It is quite consistent with reports and assessments that we have received over the past three and a half months since the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon.
Again, we express our deepest gratitude to BK Lim for these diagrammatic portrayals of the well gone bad at the Macondo Prospect.
Dr. Tom Termotto, BCIM
National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (International Citizens’ Initiative)
And BP is leaving their options open to go back and drill in this same area.
For the first time we have received a pictorial rendition of what may have occurred over the several stages of developing the Macondo Prospect oil well. Full credit goes to BK Lim for publishing these revealing diagrams on alternative news websites. It is quite consistent with reports and assessments that we have received over the past three and a half months since the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon.
Again, we express our deepest gratitude to BK Lim for these diagrammatic portrayals of the well gone bad at the Macondo Prospect.
Dr. Tom Termotto, BCIM
National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (International Citizens’ Initiative)
Local Official: “Oil just started BUBBLING OUT” of the ground; “Thick, black oil” that “did not appear to have been dispersed”
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/local-official-oil-just-started-bubbling-out-of-the-ground-thick-black-oil-that-did-not-appear-to-have-been-dispersed-video
Check the video kids, it's bizarre.
I don't buy the crab holes causing it either. It's to thick to have bubbled out that way, unless it was under pressure to do so.
I don't even want to say what I think it is because it's to scary to even think about.
On a Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana barrier island “oil oozes from a foot or two underground,” according a report by Fox 8 New Orleans.
P.J. Hahn, the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director the compared it to “Jed Clampet’s oil — All we need is the theme song to ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’… Oil just started bubbling out.”
When revisiting the island with the news crew, Hahn dug into the ground “turning up thick, black oil that had not been heavily weathered and did not appear to have been dispersed.”
“I would have never thought that this oil would be this deep underground,” Hahn said to Fox 8.
Check the video kids, it's bizarre.
I don't buy the crab holes causing it either. It's to thick to have bubbled out that way, unless it was under pressure to do so.
I don't even want to say what I think it is because it's to scary to even think about.
On a Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana barrier island “oil oozes from a foot or two underground,” according a report by Fox 8 New Orleans.
P.J. Hahn, the Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director the compared it to “Jed Clampet’s oil — All we need is the theme song to ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’… Oil just started bubbling out.”
When revisiting the island with the news crew, Hahn dug into the ground “turning up thick, black oil that had not been heavily weathered and did not appear to have been dispersed.”
“I would have never thought that this oil would be this deep underground,” Hahn said to Fox 8.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
New Orleans TV: “Alarming discovery” of adult crabs “filled with some sort of black substance” (VIDEO)
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/new-orleans-tv-alarming-discovery-of-adult-crabs-filled-with-some-sort-of-black-substance-video
No really you can eat the seafood the EPA said so.
Oiled Crabs’
Fox 8 (New Orleans) reports on an “alarming discovery” made by Mississippi fishermen — around a half dozen “full-sized crabs filled with some sort of black substance.”
The find “has many wondering what’s happening below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“You could tell it was real slick and dark,” said one of the men who discovered the crab, a longtime seafood supplier and owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products. After opening the shell, he said “The lungs of the crabs — you could see the black.” According to Fox 8, “He said he’s never seen anything like it… crab’s lungs are normally a white.”
Fox 8 reports that this seafood supplier said “some of the largest processing facilities in the country say they just can’t buy from him right now because
No really you can eat the seafood the EPA said so.
Oiled Crabs’
Fox 8 (New Orleans) reports on an “alarming discovery” made by Mississippi fishermen — around a half dozen “full-sized crabs filled with some sort of black substance.”
The find “has many wondering what’s happening below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“You could tell it was real slick and dark,” said one of the men who discovered the crab, a longtime seafood supplier and owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products. After opening the shell, he said “The lungs of the crabs — you could see the black.” According to Fox 8, “He said he’s never seen anything like it… crab’s lungs are normally a white.”
Fox 8 reports that this seafood supplier said “some of the largest processing facilities in the country say they just can’t buy from him right now because
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Where's the oil
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-bp-disaster-continues_b_670937.html
Don't get caught up in the false bravado that everything is A-Ok now, because it's really not.
exit
Last week, Time magazine published the headline: "The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?" This coincided, practically to the day, with the emergence of a whistleblower from the EPA, Hugh Kaufman, who explained to Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC that humans and aquatic life forms alike were "bleeding from their orifices" due to the volume of chemical dispersant dumped in the water and onto dry land by crop-dusters and by various other methods. That's right, according to Kaufman, people and animals are evidently suffering from some kind of anal hemorrhaging because the dispersants are liquefying their internal organs.
And we still don't know exactly how much Corexit was used. BP reports that it was 1.8 million gallons -- which is still a lot. But that's based upon a standard of using no more than 3,365 gallons in a single day. Congressman Ed Markey, this past weekend, learned that on at least two occasions, BP used as much as 36,000 gallons of Corexit in a single day.
Meanwhile, as for the rest of the oil, it didn't take long for muckraking reporters like Mac McClelland to find it. As she read the AP report quoting Thad Allen's "where's the oil at?" statement, McClelland texted a reporter friend who instantly wrote back from an off-limits beach -- a beach covered in oil.
And yesterday, we learned that oil is pooling just below the top layers of earth and sand. This shouldn't come as any surprise, since the exact same phenomenon occurred at the beaches surrounding Prince William Sound. To this day, you can visit the site of the Exxon Valdez disaster and, with a cup of water and a scoop of sand, find the oil.
But the press, government officials and BP pitchmen are insulting our intelligence by suggesting that the oil has vanished and there's nothing to worry about
Don't get caught up in the false bravado that everything is A-Ok now, because it's really not.
exit
Last week, Time magazine published the headline: "The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?" This coincided, practically to the day, with the emergence of a whistleblower from the EPA, Hugh Kaufman, who explained to Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC that humans and aquatic life forms alike were "bleeding from their orifices" due to the volume of chemical dispersant dumped in the water and onto dry land by crop-dusters and by various other methods. That's right, according to Kaufman, people and animals are evidently suffering from some kind of anal hemorrhaging because the dispersants are liquefying their internal organs.
And we still don't know exactly how much Corexit was used. BP reports that it was 1.8 million gallons -- which is still a lot. But that's based upon a standard of using no more than 3,365 gallons in a single day. Congressman Ed Markey, this past weekend, learned that on at least two occasions, BP used as much as 36,000 gallons of Corexit in a single day.
Meanwhile, as for the rest of the oil, it didn't take long for muckraking reporters like Mac McClelland to find it. As she read the AP report quoting Thad Allen's "where's the oil at?" statement, McClelland texted a reporter friend who instantly wrote back from an off-limits beach -- a beach covered in oil.
And yesterday, we learned that oil is pooling just below the top layers of earth and sand. This shouldn't come as any surprise, since the exact same phenomenon occurred at the beaches surrounding Prince William Sound. To this day, you can visit the site of the Exxon Valdez disaster and, with a cup of water and a scoop of sand, find the oil.
But the press, government officials and BP pitchmen are insulting our intelligence by suggesting that the oil has vanished and there's nothing to worry about
An interesting rise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5alY3-ydJ8&feature=player_embedded
What exactly has ROV caught here?
What ever it was I didn't care for the look of it.
What exactly has ROV caught here?
What ever it was I didn't care for the look of it.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
BP caps DIFFERENT WELL--MORE LIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByanrzJ1gf4&feature=player_embedded
Those little pesky details they forget to tell you, like this was the second drill attempt that failed. Check the 60 minutes interview at 4:57 in, the interviewer says "And that well was abandoned" (after drilling too fast had fractured rock and it collapsed in on the equipment)
Remember those faked pics BP put out just to fill in a hole caused by a blank screen?
What if it wasn't blank, but rather something the didn't want you to see?
WELL A
Latitude 28.738132500000003
Longitude -88.36592777777777
WELL B
Latitude 28.73778527777778
Longitude -88.36682805555554
Look up these coordinates on the Marine Traffic Link posted earlier:
[link to www.marinetraffic.com]
Cracks Show BP Battled Well Two Months Before Blast
http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alpoVYfzh.5M
On Feb. 13, BP told the minerals service it was trying to seal cracks in the well about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast, drilling documents obtained by Bloomberg show.
In early March, BP told the minerals agency the company was having trouble maintaining control of surging natural gas, according to e-mails released May 30 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating the spill.
On March 10, BP executive Scherie Douglas e-mailed Frank Patton, the mineral service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, telling him: “We’re in the midst of a well control situation.”
The incident was a “showstopper,” said Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has consulted with the Interior Department on offshore drilling safety. “They damn near blew up the rig.”
60 minutes:BP Gulf disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJHTTOSkpg
Those little pesky details they forget to tell you, like this was the second drill attempt that failed. Check the 60 minutes interview at 4:57 in, the interviewer says "And that well was abandoned" (after drilling too fast had fractured rock and it collapsed in on the equipment)
Remember those faked pics BP put out just to fill in a hole caused by a blank screen?
What if it wasn't blank, but rather something the didn't want you to see?
WELL A
Latitude 28.738132500000003
Longitude -88.36592777777777
WELL B
Latitude 28.73778527777778
Longitude -88.36682805555554
Look up these coordinates on the Marine Traffic Link posted earlier:
[link to www.marinetraffic.com]
Cracks Show BP Battled Well Two Months Before Blast
http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alpoVYfzh.5M
On Feb. 13, BP told the minerals service it was trying to seal cracks in the well about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast, drilling documents obtained by Bloomberg show.
In early March, BP told the minerals agency the company was having trouble maintaining control of surging natural gas, according to e-mails released May 30 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating the spill.
On March 10, BP executive Scherie Douglas e-mailed Frank Patton, the mineral service’s drilling engineer for the New Orleans district, telling him: “We’re in the midst of a well control situation.”
The incident was a “showstopper,” said Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has consulted with the Interior Department on offshore drilling safety. “They damn near blew up the rig.”
60 minutes:BP Gulf disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJHTTOSkpg
Monday, July 19, 2010
Finger-pointing over Deepwater Horizon explosion grows heated
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/finger-pointing_over_deepwater.html
The criminal negligence of this disaster is almost beyond comprehension from the shear magnitude of it. I don't see how accidental death can be placed as the cause for the loss of life that occurred.
It was at the very least second degree murder.
Testimony before a panel investigating the cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion grew heated Monday as lawyers for various companies connected to the rig attempted to place blame on one another and angled to expose maintenance problems they say existed before the April 20 accident.
BP lawyers sought to highlight unfinished work by the rig owner, Transocean, and a rash of equipment problems.
Bertone acknowledged that an audit he reviewed before the accident found 390 jobs undone, accounting for thousands of man-hours of work. Bertone also testified that he'd requested more employees from his bosses at Transocean and hadn't received the help.
A computer system used by the driller to track activity thousands of feet down in the well was malfunctioning in the days before the accident and technicians hadn't arrived to fix it, Bertone said
The criminal negligence of this disaster is almost beyond comprehension from the shear magnitude of it. I don't see how accidental death can be placed as the cause for the loss of life that occurred.
It was at the very least second degree murder.
Testimony before a panel investigating the cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion grew heated Monday as lawyers for various companies connected to the rig attempted to place blame on one another and angled to expose maintenance problems they say existed before the April 20 accident.
BP lawyers sought to highlight unfinished work by the rig owner, Transocean, and a rash of equipment problems.
Bertone acknowledged that an audit he reviewed before the accident found 390 jobs undone, accounting for thousands of man-hours of work. Bertone also testified that he'd requested more employees from his bosses at Transocean and hadn't received the help.
A computer system used by the driller to track activity thousands of feet down in the well was malfunctioning in the days before the accident and technicians hadn't arrived to fix it, Bertone said
Friday, July 16, 2010
Pilot flies over BP oil slick against US orders, a Godawful, Horrible MESS - vid
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=178443
This is gut wrenching.
The first 6.5 minutes are hard enough to take but the last 4 contain the truth of what's really been done to the Gulf.
There's a reason they don't want you to see this.
Pass it on
This is gut wrenching.
The first 6.5 minutes are hard enough to take but the last 4 contain the truth of what's really been done to the Gulf.
There's a reason they don't want you to see this.
Pass it on
Thursday, July 15, 2010
BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AihedCr1bCoiZviZRpUAx8Cs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoY3JtbTFxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE1L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYnBub29pbGxlYWtp
Keep your fingers crossed kids, I am.
The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.
Though a temporary fix, the accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. From one Gulf Coast resident came this: "Hallelujah." And from another: "I got to see it to believe it."
If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs, and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.
The oil stopped flowing at 3:25 p.m. EDT when the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap was slowly throttled shut. That set off a 48-hour watch period in which — much like the hours immediately after a surgery — the patient was in stable, guarded condition and being watched closely for complications.
Keep your fingers crossed kids, I am.
The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring.
Though a temporary fix, the accomplishment was greeted with hope, high expectations — and, in many cases along the beleaguered coastline, disbelief. From one Gulf Coast resident came this: "Hallelujah." And from another: "I got to see it to believe it."
If the cap holds, if the sea floor doesn't crack and if the relief wells being prepared are completed successfully, this could be the beginning of the end for the spill. But that's a lot of ifs, and no one was declaring any sort of victory beyond the moment.
The oil stopped flowing at 3:25 p.m. EDT when the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap was slowly throttled shut. That set off a 48-hour watch period in which — much like the hours immediately after a surgery — the patient was in stable, guarded condition and being watched closely for complications.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Robert L Cavner: Well integrity test? Where did that come from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-cavnar/well-integrity-test---whe_b_645800.html
Yeah I agree something is up. Like the methane level, it would have to be. The oil has been free flowing and so has methane gas adding that much more to an already to much level.
Sunday, BP surprised everyone by announcing that now that they had a "capping stack" set, they were not going to actually hook up all the ships they have on station to collect the oil; rather, they were going to run a well integrity test to see if they could shut-in this badly damaged well that has been flowing into the Gulf now for 86 days uncontrolled. My first reaction was What? Well integrity test? I've looked back through all of my notes, blog entries, and reviewed BP's and the Unified Command's communications. I've even done multiple internet searches, and found the first mention of a "well integrity test" related to BP on this past Sunday, July 11
This morning, we learned that, even thought the stack has now been set for 3 days, they actually haven't hooked up the two new valves. He also announced that yesterday, they pulled all of the ships off site to run a seismic survey, and, alarmingly, have stopped drilling the relief well, which is now only 4 feet away laterally from the blowout well. Since Dudley's letter to Adm. Allen last Friday laying out the relief well timeline, they have made little progress and have only 34 more feet to drill before they get to casing point for the last string of pipe. 34 feet, and they stopped. They're just sitting there circulating on bottom at 17,840. Just sitting there. Wells claims that they are doing that for "safety reasons" during the well integrity test. The one they're not going to run for at least another 24 hours. What?
Yeah I agree something is up. Like the methane level, it would have to be. The oil has been free flowing and so has methane gas adding that much more to an already to much level.
Sunday, BP surprised everyone by announcing that now that they had a "capping stack" set, they were not going to actually hook up all the ships they have on station to collect the oil; rather, they were going to run a well integrity test to see if they could shut-in this badly damaged well that has been flowing into the Gulf now for 86 days uncontrolled. My first reaction was What? Well integrity test? I've looked back through all of my notes, blog entries, and reviewed BP's and the Unified Command's communications. I've even done multiple internet searches, and found the first mention of a "well integrity test" related to BP on this past Sunday, July 11
This morning, we learned that, even thought the stack has now been set for 3 days, they actually haven't hooked up the two new valves. He also announced that yesterday, they pulled all of the ships off site to run a seismic survey, and, alarmingly, have stopped drilling the relief well, which is now only 4 feet away laterally from the blowout well. Since Dudley's letter to Adm. Allen last Friday laying out the relief well timeline, they have made little progress and have only 34 more feet to drill before they get to casing point for the last string of pipe. 34 feet, and they stopped. They're just sitting there circulating on bottom at 17,840. Just sitting there. Wells claims that they are doing that for "safety reasons" during the well integrity test. The one they're not going to run for at least another 24 hours. What?
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Gulf Oil Disaster: Aerial View from June 30th, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYCtUVd_lSw&feature=related
Oh My God
No wonder they don't want us to see the Gulf
Oh My God
No wonder they don't want us to see the Gulf
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP
http://www.wdsu.com/news/24178322/detail.html
BP has stripped thousands of people from their livelihood. They said they'd make it right but they've lied. If this is how they're treating the fisherman, nothing better can be expected for the rest. These people's lives are caught in between a rock and a hard place though no fault of their own.
An executor needs to be placed over BP's escrow account to make sure the people whose lives who have been displaced over BP's excessive need for greed rather than safety are compensated for it on a regular and timely basis.
GRAND ISLE, La. --
Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't.
Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers.
Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said.
"Not only did they spring it on us that the process has changed, but the people I've been dealing with for six weeks who've done a good job said, 'We don't know what the process is going to be. We're not authorized to talk to you about it. Someone from BP will contact you,'" he said.
But Briet said he hasn't heard from BP or its lawyers. He said the claims people have been given so much conflicting information about the process that they can't provide answers.
BP has stripped thousands of people from their livelihood. They said they'd make it right but they've lied. If this is how they're treating the fisherman, nothing better can be expected for the rest. These people's lives are caught in between a rock and a hard place though no fault of their own.
An executor needs to be placed over BP's escrow account to make sure the people whose lives who have been displaced over BP's excessive need for greed rather than safety are compensated for it on a regular and timely basis.
GRAND ISLE, La. --
Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't.
Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers.
Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said.
"Not only did they spring it on us that the process has changed, but the people I've been dealing with for six weeks who've done a good job said, 'We don't know what the process is going to be. We're not authorized to talk to you about it. Someone from BP will contact you,'" he said.
But Briet said he hasn't heard from BP or its lawyers. He said the claims people have been given so much conflicting information about the process that they can't provide answers.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Arsenic levels rise around the Gulf of Mexico
http://www.news.com.au/world/more-bad-news-for-bp-as-arsenic-levels-rise-in-seawater-around-the-gulf-of-mexico/story-e6frfkyi-1225888272667#ixzz0spHERla5
BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.
British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/more-bad-news-for-bp-as-arsenic-levels-rise-in-seawater-around-the-gulf-of-mexico/story-e6frfkyi-1225888272667#ixzz0svURxVpC
BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.
British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/more-bad-news-for-bp-as-arsenic-levels-rise-in-seawater-around-the-gulf-of-mexico/story-e6frfkyi-1225888272667#ixzz0svURxVpC
Blimp arrives for Gulf spill cleanup as oil reaches Texas
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/blimp-arrives-for-gulf-spill-cleanup-as-oil-reaches-texas/1
A massive blimp is expected to arrive in the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to help clean up the disastrous oil spill that's deposited tar balls on Texas shores.
The 178-foot-long U.S. Navy airship will be used to detect oil, direct skimming ships and look for threatened wildlife, reports CNN, adding it can stay aloft longer than helicopters and can survey a wider area.
A massive blimp is expected to arrive in the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to help clean up the disastrous oil spill that's deposited tar balls on Texas shores.
The 178-foot-long U.S. Navy airship will be used to detect oil, direct skimming ships and look for threatened wildlife, reports CNN, adding it can stay aloft longer than helicopters and can survey a wider area.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Oil found in Gulf crabs
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html
University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species.
Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans have found droplets of oil in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola, Fla. The news comes as blobs of oil and tar continue to wash ashore in Mississippi in patches, with crews in chartreuse vests out cleaning beaches all along the coast on Thursday, and as state and federal fisheries from Louisiana to Florida are closed by the BP oil disaster.
"I think we will see this enter the food chain in a lot of ways — for plankton feeders, like menhaden, they are going to just actively take it in," said Harriet Perry, director of the Center for Fisheries Research and Development at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. "Fish are going to feed on (crab larvae). We have also just started seeing it on the fins of small, larval fish —
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html#ixzz0sXosy0av
University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species.
Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans have found droplets of oil in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola, Fla. The news comes as blobs of oil and tar continue to wash ashore in Mississippi in patches, with crews in chartreuse vests out cleaning beaches all along the coast on Thursday, and as state and federal fisheries from Louisiana to Florida are closed by the BP oil disaster.
"I think we will see this enter the food chain in a lot of ways — for plankton feeders, like menhaden, they are going to just actively take it in," said Harriet Perry, director of the Center for Fisheries Research and Development at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. "Fish are going to feed on (crab larvae). We have also just started seeing it on the fins of small, larval fish —
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html#ixzz0sXosy0av
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Oil spill visits get partisan
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39225.html
So now not even government is allowed to see the Gulf damage?
This is gettin a little freaky kids.
I don't accept the excuse that it's denied over travel funding, that's about as bogus as they come.
How many people went to Copernhagen last year? How many people does Obama travel with?
Nancy still has access to her private plane as far as I know, but now they can't find money so Congress can go and view the damage from the offshore oil well blowout themselves.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand.
House Democrats said no.
Scalise’s trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisan squabbling over who should be allowed to arrange a trip to view the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Scalise wants to organize a trip so lawmakers can fully grasp the impact before they vote on oil drilling regulations. And he doesn't want to do it through a committee, because the members don't fit neatly into specific panels — they stretch across committee, and even partisan, lines.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39225.html#ixzz0sMEwld2W
So now not even government is allowed to see the Gulf damage?
This is gettin a little freaky kids.
I don't accept the excuse that it's denied over travel funding, that's about as bogus as they come.
How many people went to Copernhagen last year? How many people does Obama travel with?
Nancy still has access to her private plane as far as I know, but now they can't find money so Congress can go and view the damage from the offshore oil well blowout themselves.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand.
House Democrats said no.
Scalise’s trip was rejected for a variety of bureaucratic and logistical reasons, but it has also opened a new vein of partisan squabbling over who should be allowed to arrange a trip to view the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Scalise wants to organize a trip so lawmakers can fully grasp the impact before they vote on oil drilling regulations. And he doesn't want to do it through a committee, because the members don't fit neatly into specific panels — they stretch across committee, and even partisan, lines.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39225.html#ixzz0sMEwld2W
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
US accepts Gulf oil spill aid from 12 countries
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_accepts_Gulf_oil_spill_aid_from__06292010.html
The United States will accept offers from 12 foreign countries to help clean up and contain the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said on Tuesday.
"The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries and international bodies, including two high speed skimmers and fire containment boom from Japan," a US State Department statement said.
"We are currently working out the particular modalities of delivering the offered assistance," it said, adding that details would be "forthcoming once these arrangements are complete."
Offers of boom to contain oil and collect it off the surface of the water have been accepted from Canada, Mexico, Norway and Japan, said a spokeswoman from the Unified Area Command, an entity headed by the US Coast Guard that is coordinating with BP on the oil spill response.
Skimmers have been accepted from Mexico, Norway, France and Japan and a sweeping arm system has been accepted from the Netherlands, spokeswoman Gina Ruoti told AFP.
Non-material offers of assistance are coming from the European Union and International Maritime Organization, she added, but was unable to say how much the assistance would be.
A total of 27 countries have offered assistance to the US
The United States will accept offers from 12 foreign countries to help clean up and contain the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said on Tuesday.
"The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries and international bodies, including two high speed skimmers and fire containment boom from Japan," a US State Department statement said.
"We are currently working out the particular modalities of delivering the offered assistance," it said, adding that details would be "forthcoming once these arrangements are complete."
Offers of boom to contain oil and collect it off the surface of the water have been accepted from Canada, Mexico, Norway and Japan, said a spokeswoman from the Unified Area Command, an entity headed by the US Coast Guard that is coordinating with BP on the oil spill response.
Skimmers have been accepted from Mexico, Norway, France and Japan and a sweeping arm system has been accepted from the Netherlands, spokeswoman Gina Ruoti told AFP.
Non-material offers of assistance are coming from the European Union and International Maritime Organization, she added, but was unable to say how much the assistance would be.
A total of 27 countries have offered assistance to the US
Friday, June 25, 2010
USF scientists find long line of oil 6 inches under the sand at Pensacola Beach
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/usf-scientists-find-long-line-of-oil-6-inches-under-the-sand-at-pensacola/1104804
It just keeps getting better and better with no end in sight
The sugar-sand beach here appeared cleaner Thursday, after workers picked up tar balls overnight with shovels and nets. By noon they had collected 44,955 pounds of tar balls and oil material, according to the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center.
But a University of South Florida geologist made a grim discovery Thursday morning, 24 hours after the worst oil onslaught in Florida so far.
Ping Wang, 43, who has studied beaches for 20 years, dug a narrow trench perpendicular to the shoreline, about a foot deep and 5 feet long. A dark, contiguous vein of oil ran horizontally along the walls of the trench, about 6 inches beneath the surface of the sand.
The sheet of oil which was deposited on the beach at high tide Wednesday and stretched some 8 miles was covered by as much as a foot of sand at high tide Thursday, Wang explained.
"Beaches change very often," he said. Depending on tides and wave action, they constantly lose or accumulate sand.
While picking up tar balls and oil patties from the surface is helpful, Wang's discovery suggests that type of cleaning will be inadequate.
"This is going to be hard to clean up," he said. "It's going to need to be a much larger scale effort than what we're seeing."
Wang, working with a team of geologists from USF, dug trenches at various spots along the beach on the Gulf Islands National Seashore and found the buried, unbroken vein each time.
It just keeps getting better and better with no end in sight
The sugar-sand beach here appeared cleaner Thursday, after workers picked up tar balls overnight with shovels and nets. By noon they had collected 44,955 pounds of tar balls and oil material, according to the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center.
But a University of South Florida geologist made a grim discovery Thursday morning, 24 hours after the worst oil onslaught in Florida so far.
Ping Wang, 43, who has studied beaches for 20 years, dug a narrow trench perpendicular to the shoreline, about a foot deep and 5 feet long. A dark, contiguous vein of oil ran horizontally along the walls of the trench, about 6 inches beneath the surface of the sand.
The sheet of oil which was deposited on the beach at high tide Wednesday and stretched some 8 miles was covered by as much as a foot of sand at high tide Thursday, Wang explained.
"Beaches change very often," he said. Depending on tides and wave action, they constantly lose or accumulate sand.
While picking up tar balls and oil patties from the surface is helpful, Wang's discovery suggests that type of cleaning will be inadequate.
"This is going to be hard to clean up," he said. "It's going to need to be a much larger scale effort than what we're seeing."
Wang, working with a team of geologists from USF, dug trenches at various spots along the beach on the Gulf Islands National Seashore and found the buried, unbroken vein each time.
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