Scientist Awed by Size, Density of Undersea Oil Plume in Gulf
Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in "human history" and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life, a team of scientists said today, a finding confirmed for the first time by federal officials.
http://tinyurl.com/2cslbm4
Subsea oil plumes found 142 miles from rig:
Clouds of oil have been found drifting underwater in the Gulf of Mexico as far as 142 miles from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, government officials said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37572167/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/
Video: Oil as thick as pancake batter reaches shore
Kerry Sanders reports from the coast of Louisiana, where thick oil is washing up near East Grand Terre Island.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37572694#37572694
US Adm Thad Allen says oil clean-up 'will take years'
Adm Thad Allen said oil giant BP needed to do better at getting money to people and businesses affected by the spill.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10258612.stm
The oil firms' profits ignore the real costs
The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/07/bp-oil-profits-future-disaster
Obama to Reopen Oil Drilling
New Rules on Shallow-Water Exploration Expected as Economic Woes Mount.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703303904575292210472764880.html
BP: 500,000 pounds of emissions released
At BP's Texas City refinery, more than 400 pounds a day of benzene - 40 times the state reportable levels - was released during a 40-day period.
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=98cf5a2c858437b5
From Information Clearing House
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Activists Call for 'Public Outcry' over Oil Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08-4
Years of Internal BP Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08
Oil Plumes, Gulf's Unseen Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/08-0
Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-5
One Hundred Years of Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-10
The Price of the Pelican
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-0
Center for Biological Diversity: Salazar Declares Shallow Water Drilling “Safe,” Lifts Drilling Injunction, Conceals Shallow Water Oil Spill Currently Fouling Gulf
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-13
Food & Water Watch: US Should Follow UK’s Lead to Increase Oversight of Offshore Oil Operations
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-8
Earthjustice: Murkowski and Allies Clamor to Protect Big Oil in Face of Gulf Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-6
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Prediction: Spill’s damage could persist for decades
Washington Post
06/08/10
Snorkeling along a coral reef near Veracruz, Mexico, in 2002, Texas biologist Wes Tunnell spotted what looked like a ledge of rock covered in sand, shells, algae, and hermit crabs. He knew, from years of research at the reef, that it probably wasn’t a rock at all. He stabbed it with his diving knife. His blade pulled up gunk. ‘Sure enough, it was tar from the Ixtoc spill,’ Tunnell said. Twenty-three years earlier, in 1979, an oil well named Ixtoc I had a blowout in 150 feet of water in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The Mexican national oil company Pemex tried to kill the well with drilling mud, and then with steel and lead balls dropped into the well bore. It tried to contain the oil with a cap nicknamed the Sombrero. Finally, after 290 days, a relief well plugged the hole with cement and the spill came to an end — but only after polluting the Gulf with 138 million gallons of crude...
http://tinyurl.com/2b3jk49
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Attorney: Deepwater Horizon Managers Knew About Oil Rig Problem Before Explosion
"The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen"
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Top Houston attorney Tony Buzbee says he has new evidence which indicates that Deepwater Horizon’s managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20, citing the eyewitness account of a crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you f... happy? Are you f... happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/attorney-deepwater-horizon-managers-knew-about-oil-rig-problem-before-explosion.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Salazar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murkowski
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wallace+J+Nichols
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http://tinyurl.com/2cslbm4
Subsea oil plumes found 142 miles from rig:
Clouds of oil have been found drifting underwater in the Gulf of Mexico as far as 142 miles from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, government officials said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37572167/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/
Video: Oil as thick as pancake batter reaches shore
Kerry Sanders reports from the coast of Louisiana, where thick oil is washing up near East Grand Terre Island.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37572694#37572694
US Adm Thad Allen says oil clean-up 'will take years'
Adm Thad Allen said oil giant BP needed to do better at getting money to people and businesses affected by the spill.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10258612.stm
The oil firms' profits ignore the real costs
The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/07/bp-oil-profits-future-disaster
Obama to Reopen Oil Drilling
New Rules on Shallow-Water Exploration Expected as Economic Woes Mount.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703303904575292210472764880.html
BP: 500,000 pounds of emissions released
At BP's Texas City refinery, more than 400 pounds a day of benzene - 40 times the state reportable levels - was released during a 40-day period.
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=98cf5a2c858437b5
From Information Clearing House
--------
Activists Call for 'Public Outcry' over Oil Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08-4
Years of Internal BP Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/08
Oil Plumes, Gulf's Unseen Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/08-0
Apocalypse in the Gulf Now (Oil) & Next (Nukes)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-5
One Hundred Years of Oil
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-10
The Price of the Pelican
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/08-0
Center for Biological Diversity: Salazar Declares Shallow Water Drilling “Safe,” Lifts Drilling Injunction, Conceals Shallow Water Oil Spill Currently Fouling Gulf
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-13
Food & Water Watch: US Should Follow UK’s Lead to Increase Oversight of Offshore Oil Operations
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-8
Earthjustice: Murkowski and Allies Clamor to Protect Big Oil in Face of Gulf Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/08-6
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Prediction: Spill’s damage could persist for decades
Washington Post
06/08/10
Snorkeling along a coral reef near Veracruz, Mexico, in 2002, Texas biologist Wes Tunnell spotted what looked like a ledge of rock covered in sand, shells, algae, and hermit crabs. He knew, from years of research at the reef, that it probably wasn’t a rock at all. He stabbed it with his diving knife. His blade pulled up gunk. ‘Sure enough, it was tar from the Ixtoc spill,’ Tunnell said. Twenty-three years earlier, in 1979, an oil well named Ixtoc I had a blowout in 150 feet of water in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The Mexican national oil company Pemex tried to kill the well with drilling mud, and then with steel and lead balls dropped into the well bore. It tried to contain the oil with a cap nicknamed the Sombrero. Finally, after 290 days, a relief well plugged the hole with cement and the spill came to an end — but only after polluting the Gulf with 138 million gallons of crude...
http://tinyurl.com/2b3jk49
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Attorney: Deepwater Horizon Managers Knew About Oil Rig Problem Before Explosion
"The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen"
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Top Houston attorney Tony Buzbee says he has new evidence which indicates that Deepwater Horizon’s managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20, citing the eyewitness account of a crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you f... happy? Are you f... happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/attorney-deepwater-horizon-managers-knew-about-oil-rig-problem-before-explosion.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Salazar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Murkowski
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drilling
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wallace+J+Nichols
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Derrick+Z.+Jackson
rudkla - 9. Jun, 10:24
