By Washington's Blog
The likelihood of a complete collapse is difficult to assess, in part, engineers and legislators say, because BP hasn't shared enough information to evaluate the situation. But a handful of clues suggest that the company is concerned. On Friday, BP spokesperson Toby Odone acknowledged that the 45-ton stack of the blowout preventer was tilting noticeably, but said the company could not attribute it to down-hole leaks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25812.htm
BP Welcomes You to the Apocalypse
By Mark Morford
Toxic rain and supersonic tsunamis, the end of North America as we know it. Done. Finished. Certainly, one of those two scenarios is guaranteed to come to pass, right? Maybe, if we're really lucky, even both?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25816.htm
BP Has Built An Artificial Island To Get Around Offshore Drilling Ban In Alaska
BP plans to begin drilling two miles under the sea just miles away from a delicate wildlife reserve in Alaska. The company will get around the deep-water moratorium by constructing an artificial island -- 31 acres of gravel -- and registering as an onshore rig. Not exactly the safest operation, reports Rolling Stone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-liberty-artificial-island-alaska-2010-6
Vast amounts of methane in Gulf spill pose threat
Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
http://tinyurl.com/28h88sd
Report: Toxins found in whales bode ill for humans
Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood.
http://tinyurl.com/23s3yy6
Gulf Oil Spill
Time-Lapse Video From NASA Satellites Is Haunting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/26/gulf-oil-spill-time-lapse_n_626600.html
Taylor views oil, calls response 'an effort in futility'
U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor said, "It's criminal what's going on out there. This doesn't have to happen."
http://www.sunherald.com/2010/06/25/2290037/taylor-views-oil-calls-response.html
La. Police Doing BP's Dirty Work: Officer
"Let me explain: BP doesn't want any filming. So all I can really do is strongly suggest that you not film anything right now. If that makes any sense."
http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2010/06/BP-louisiana-police-stop-activist
The BP Oil Spill Makes Landfall in Florida
The Sunshine State's luck turned to muck this week when a mat of oil, weathered but still thicker than a sheen, began to blanket popular Pensacola Beach, prompting Florida's first spill-related beach closures.
http://tinyurl.com/23pt746
70 percent of Louisiana businesses applying for oil spill loans, state complains
In an eerie repeat of difficulties after Hurricane Katrina, the Small Business Administration is turning down more than two-thirds of Louisiana companies seeking Gulf oil spill relief loans, according to a top state official's complaint to the federal agency Thursday.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/sba_declines_70_percent_of_lou.html
From Information Clearing House
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Natural gas from well ups spill's damage by 50%
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9760/
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Gulf Oil Spill's Wildlife Toll: Sharks Near Shore, Turtles Incinerated
Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor: "A sunbathing family spots a beached baby dolphin covered in oil from the Gulf oil spill. The family tries to scrape off the oil until a wildlife officer, jaw hard-set, carries it to shore. On its way to a sea mammal rescue center in Panama City, the dolphin dies."
http://www.truth-out.org/gulf-oil-spills-wildlife-toll-sharks-near-shore-turtles-incinerated60780
As Risks for Oil and Gas Grow, USSF Offers Change
Sarah Laskow, The Media Consortium: "BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused there, deepwater oil drilling is just one of many risky methods of energy extraction that industry is pursuing. Gasland, Josh Fox's documentary about the effects of hydrofracking, a new technique for extracting natural gas, was broadcast this week on HBO. In the film, Fox travels across the country visiting families whose water has turned toxic since gas companies began drilling in their area."
http://www.truth-out.org/weekly-mulch-as-risks-oil-and-gas-grow-ussf-offers-change60787
BP Killing Endangered Sea Turtles in "Burn Fields"
Video
Catherine Craig interviews boat Capt. Mike Ellis, who was hired by BP and the Coast Guard to help rescue endangered Kemp's ridley turtles. He describes what he sees on the frontline of the effort to save the turtles and shares his firsthand account of BP corralling the turtles and burning them alive.
http://www.truth-out.org/bp-killing-endangered-sea-turtles-video60887
Living on a Dying Delta
Dahr Jamail, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches: "Our first full day in Louisiana finds us venturing south from New Orleans to Houma, a town about an hours drive to the southwest. It is from here we are to take a flight over the marsh to inspect the damage, thus far, caused by the ongoing BP oil catastrophe."
http://www.truth-out.org/living-a-dying-delta60927
Fending For Themselves
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "Theresa Dardar is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe. They are a small community of self-described Indians that live in southern Louisiana along a small stretch of the Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Now, oil from the BP disaster threatens their very existence."
http://www.truth-out.org/fending-for-themselves61061
Mitigating Annihilation
Dahr Jamail: "From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it around Barataria Bay, looks like scorched earth. This area has been and is heavily afflicted by BP's oil. The so-called cleanup efforts, including laying out booms to supposedly prevent oil from destroying more marsh and killing more wildlife, are a farce.Opaque, multi-color sheen stains much of the bay and is visible in countless inlets that snake their way into the marsh."
http://www.truth-out.org/mitigating-annihilation61145
Hell Has Come to South Louisiana
Dahr Jamail, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches: "Clint Guidry is a shrimper from Lafitte, Louisiana. As we sit together, he shows me a picture of his house with 18 inches of water in it as a result of Hurricane Ike in 2008. In his deep voice, he looks me in the eye and says, 'My fear is repeating this situation, but with this water with oil on top of it.'"
http://www.truth-out.org/dahr-jamail-hell-has-come-south-louisiana61281
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BP Accused of Killing Endangered Sea Turtles in Cleanup Operation
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/25-9
Locals Join 'Hands' Against Oil Drilling
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/27-0
Center for Biological Diversity: More than 150,000 Call on BP and Federal Officials to Stop Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/28-11
Warning of Looming Crisis, Louisiana Calls on BP to Fund Mental Health Programs
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/01-4
Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the Runaround Even as Public Health Concerns Mount
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/01-5
Fish and Oil Sorrow, Survival and Solidarity in Louisiana's Bayou
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/08-9
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Eyewitness testimony of woman invited by BP into operations center
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/detail?entry_id=66639#ixzz0s1PklIu1
Informant: Bob Banner
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