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Post by moabiter on Jun 5, 2010 1:21:14 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jun 5, 2010 13:09:28 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jun 5, 2010 13:14:05 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jun 5, 2010 13:24:44 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jun 7, 2010 20:58:52 GMT -8
Note: These are not the photos I posted. 1. A brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. 2. A brown pelican is mired in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. So much for the brown pelicans (State bird of Mississippi).... I don't know where the sunbathers and umbrella person are situated, as there is no photo attribute, just the originals re pelicans. The pelicans at Grand Terre are probably all dead now anyway. There's more - A brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. enlarge - A Brown Pelican sits on the beach covered in oil at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Looks kinda like a dolphin (not the guy with the pins). Dead birds in Texas >> Oiled birds in Texas raise fears of spread June 8, 2010 www.theage.com.au/world/oiled-birds-in-texas-raise-fears-of-spread-20100607-xqr7.html?autostart=1
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Post by moabiter on Jul 3, 2010 6:27:35 GMT -8
The Big Picture - News Stories in Photographs Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico - June 11, 2010 www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/scenes_from_the_gulf_of_mexico.htmlBased on recently revised estimates, BP's ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. The new figures suggest that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could still be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days. Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge. Collected here are recent photographs of oil-affected wildlife, people and shorelines around the Gulf of Mexico on this, the 51st day after the initial explosion. 37 - A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) 41 - Streaks of oil sheens are seen north of the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Alabama coast as viewed from a Coast Guard HC-144A plane Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer) # Comment 512 of 611When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face. ~John Drinkwater I am witnessing the tragedy unfold first hand in Pensacola, Florida. Birds, sharks, rays, dolphins are massing near the beaches - many will die without witness. They are like terrified animals fleeing a raging fire in the forest...with no where to go.
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Post by wtf on Jul 14, 2010 11:10:26 GMT -8
Gas and Methane Levels At Record - July 3, 2010 As much as one million times the normal level of methane is showing up near the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, enough potentially to create dead zones in the water. "These are higher levels than we have ever seen at any other location in the ocean itself," according to sources cited by Reuters. The "flow team" of the US Geological Survey estimates that 2,900 cubic feet of natural gas, which primarily contains methane, is being released into the Gulf waters with every barrel of oil. www.huffingtonpost.com/dk-matai/gulf-oil-gusher-methane-c_b_634550.html
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Post by moabiter on Jul 27, 2010 18:57:36 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jul 27, 2010 21:23:37 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 4, 2010 19:55:34 GMT -8
The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don't Want You to Know, Part I Posted: August 4, 2010 11:46 AM On two, unrestricted day-long flights, on July 22nd and 23rd, we were fortunate enough to be on with official clearance. We saw a total of four distressed dolphins and three schools of rays on the surface. As the bottom of the ocean is covered with crude and only the oil on the surface broken up by dispersant, the rays are forced up to the surface in a futile attempt to find food and oxygen. Birds are scarce where one would usually find thousands upon thousands. The Gulf of Mexico from the Source into the shore is a giant kill zone. "In May, Mother Nature Network blogger K.Burkart received a tip from an anonymous fisherman-turned-BP contractor, a distressed text message, describing a near-apocalyptic sight near the location of the sunken Deepwater Horizon -- fish, dolphins, rays, squid, whales, and thousands of birds -- "as far as the eye can see," dead and dying. According to his statement, which was later confirmed by another report from an individual working in the Gulf, whale carcasses were being shipped to a highly guarded location where they were processed for disposal. CitizenGlobal Gulf News Desk received photos that matched the report and are being published on Karl's blog today. Local fisherman in Alabama report sighting tremendous numbers of dolphins, sharks, and fish moving in towards shore as the initial waves of oil and dispersant approached in June. Scores of animals were fleeing the leading edge of toxic dispersant mixed with oil. Those not either caught in the toxic mixture and killed out at sea, or fortunate enough to be out in safe water beyond the Source, died as the water closed in, and they were left no safe harbor. The numbers of birds, fish, turtles, and mammals killed by the use of Corexit will never be known as the evidence strongly suggests that BP worked with the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, private security contractors, and local law enforcement, all of which cooperated to conceal the operations disposing of the animals from the media and the public. The majority of the disposal operations were carried out under cover of darkness. The areas along the beaches and coastal Islands where the dead animals were collected were closed off by the U.S. Coast Guard. On shore, private contractors and local law enforcement officials kept off limits the areas where the remains of the dead animals were dumped, mainly at the Magnolia Springs landfill by Waste Management where armed guards controlled access." J.Cope: huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 4, 2010 20:33:48 GMT -8
The Death Gyre in the Gulf: What BP Didn't Want People to See by Ellinorianne Wed Aug 04, 2010 at 01:51:23 PM PDT I know many noted, where are the animals? There were so few photos of dead animals, so few photos of what was happening, although there were reports of many fish, dolphins and sharks swimming much closer to shore than usual in mid June. GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) - Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange phenomena... Day by day, scientists in boats tally up dead birds, sea turtles and other animals, but the toll is surprisingly small given the size of the disaster. The latest figures show that 783 birds, 353 turtles and 41 mammals have died - numbers that pale in comparison to what happened after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, when 250,000 birds and 2,800 otters are believed to have died. www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Dolphins-Sharks-Fish-Spotted-Closer-to-Shore/bxdd4M4ShkeYM1_o7JLsww.cspx
There is an extensive interview with Rikki Ott as well as video (which is posted below), who has been on the scene and who I believe to be a very credible source about this spill from her experience with the Exxon Valdez. Because of fair use, I can't most of it, I encourage you to go read it. Dauphin Island was one of the sites where carcasses of sperm whales were destroyed. The operational end of the island was closed to unauthorized personnel and the airspace closed. The U.S. Coast Guard closed off all access from the Gulf. This picture shows the area as it was prepped to receive the whale carcasses for disposal. JC: There has been a great deal of discussion about the disappearance of the animals and the life in the ocean which seem to have vanished since this incident has occurred. What do you know about this?
RO: Well I have been down in the Gulf since May 3rd. It's pretty consistent what I have heard. First I heard from the offshore workers and the boat captains that were coming in and they would see windrows of dead things piled up on the barrier islands; turtles and birds and dolphins... whales...
JC: Whales?
RO: And whales. There would be stories from boat captains of offshore, we started calling death gyres, where the rips all the different currents sweep the oceans surface, that would be the collection points for hundreds of dolphins and sea turtles and birds and even whales floating. So we got four different times latitudes/longitude coordinates where (this was happening) but by the time we got to these lat/longs which is always a couple of days later there was nothing there.
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So people offshore were reporting this first and then carcasses started making it onshore. Then I started hearing from people in Alabama a lot and the western half of Florida - a little bit in Mississippi - but mostly what was going on then there was an attempt to keep people off the beaches, cameras off the beaches. I was literally flying in a plane and the FAA boundary changed. It was offshore first with the barrier islands and all of a sudden it just hopped right to shore to Alabama that's where we were flying over and the pilot was just like - he couldn't believe it - he was like look at that and I didn't know what he was looking but then he points at the little red line which had all of sudden grown and he just looked at me and said the only reason that they have done this is so people can't see what is going on. And what that little red line meant was no cameras on shore and three days later the oil came onshore and the carcasses came onshore into Alabama.
JC: That immediately preceded the first wave coming onshore?
RO: Pretty much. That preceded the first wave. It was June 2nd when the line changed and the FAA boundaries increased. Then people would -- I mean you walk beaches here at night it's hot so people walk beaches -- and they would see carcasses like sea turtles, a bird, a little baby dolphin, and immediately they would go over to it and immediately people would approach them, don't touch that if you touch it you will be arrested and within fifteen minutes there would be a white unmarked van that would just come out of nowhere and in would go the carcass and off it would go. They were white unmarked vans at first. We've since heard many other stories from truckers who are trucking carcasses in refrigerated vans to Mexico. Carcasses are just not showing up where they need to which is as body counts for essentially this war on the gulf.
www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html
The Huffington Post mentions a post entitled 'Death Gyre' in the Gulf where there are photos of processing facility supposedly for dead animals. But there is not one dead animal in sight. There is an interview and a debunked text that was removed from this diary because it was suspect, I took it out until there is evidence it is authentic. What's most alarming about this is not just the cover up, the fact that the media was kept out from a no fly zone. When something this horrific happens, we expect to see such awful things. This has kept people from getting as upset as they should be, maybe it's kept people from getting more angry, from crying as much as they should have. Maybe it's made them think, "it could have been much worse." Well it was much worse than we could have imagined. But what this has done is it's hurt the ecologists and biologists who want to actually protect these animals from knowing the population numbers harmed in this catastrophe. How can we know how the sperm whale's viability if we have no idea how many perished in this nightmare? How can we know the impact on the endangered sea turtles if we can't get a grasp on how many died. It's not just about liability, it's about our responsibility as conservationists to understand the absolutely vastness of the situation. It just makes everyone's job harder in the long run and as this gets out, it deepens the general mistrust people have for corporate behemoths like BP and their agenda. Protect their image rather than protect the environment, the people and the species that live there as well. And about the corexit, that's coming next from the Huffington Post and the effects on human beings. But the fact that it's gone and not to be found, Tests suggest oil dispersant washing up on Alabama beaches. (Aug. 3 2010) The stained, brown water seen washing up in pockets along Alabama beaches for the last two weeks appears to contain the dispersant widely used on oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to a preliminary analysis...
While heavy oil sheen was visible in the areas where the material was collected, little if any oil was found to be present in the samples, said Overton, who is analyzing oil samples for the federal government.
"We didn't see oil in the analysis we do, but I passed some of these water samples to a colleague who does fluorescence analysis," Overton said. "We saw some preliminary indications that there was a dispersant signal in the sample." blog.al.com/live/2010/08/tests_suggests_oil_dispersant.html
It has yet to be confirmed 100%, they will be doing further testing. www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/4/162320/1815
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Post by moabiter on Aug 4, 2010 20:41:20 GMT -8
Alabama State Troopers Moonlighting as BP Security Guards Written by Wayne Madsen Friday, 25 June 2010 16:53 WMR's sources on the Gulf coast report that BP Security personnel are being augmented by off-duty Alabama state troopers and G4S Wackenhut private security guards. The BP Security personnel ensure that no observers are present on Gulf coast beaches during night time hours when BP contractors scour the beaches and pick up and covertly dispose of dead dolphins, turtles, birds, and other sea animals that wash ashore covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. BP is secretly disposing of the dead animals in order to avoid paying fines and compensation for killing endangered and protected species like turtles, dolphins, and brown pelicans. The sharp drop off in oxygen levels in the Gulf is forcing many sea animals into shallower waters in order to breathe, however, sharks are also following the easier prey into coastal rivers and inlets. oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/Alabama-State-Troopers-Moonlighting-as-BP-Security-Guards.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 4, 2010 20:49:53 GMT -8
'Death Gyre' in the Gulf Firsthand accounts and leaked photos of a secret BP processing facility -- possibly for dead animals -- point to a massive cover-up in the Gulf. An exclusive report. Tue, Aug 03 2010 at 11:28 PM EST I have to write this mail on a new cellphone because they have taken our phones off us. people dont know how bad this oil is.. im working in the cleanup operation and we've all has to sign a legal paper that stops us from talking to anyone. im onshore now and cant tell you where but ive just finished a very long shift in the gulf and textin this....fast as i can. the military are watching us dolphins whales, seabirds fish are all floating dead on the surface of the water.. see more.. see moreā¦boats helicopters are scooping them away dead and dying... Whales are being exploded by the military cause they cant be carried. dead bodys as far as the eye can see air smeling of benzene ..weve seen birds fall from the sky. workers falling sick we think some workers have died. my friends are hard oilmen it was ok to at the start but now we cry. dead sea life is as big as genocide you wont imagine The following three photographs (taken in the first week of June and published here for the first time) document the processing area just prior to commencing operations. A large-scale construction project, which included creating a visual barricade on a 200' long pier, several large cranes adjacent to lined pools at least 50' in length, and a series of large tents alongside a fleet of trucks, gives further credence to the theory that BP, with the help of the U.S. government, was processing some form of waste that they did not want the public to know about: You might be wondering about motive. Sure BP probably wanted to keep the full, gruesome reality of their toxic nightmare out of the press as much as possible. But was that enough of a motive to warrant such a massive and expensive operation? Probably not. A greater incentive may have been the fines the company would have incurred if the correct number of dead carcasses had been verifiable. At $50,000 a pop www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0625/Gulf-oil-spill-s-wildlife-toll-sharks-near-shore-turtles-incinerated hundreds of thousands of dead animals could spell B-A-N-K-R-U-P-T-C-Y for BP, and that's something that no one, including the U.S. government, would have wanted to happen. www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/death-gyre-in-the-gulf
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Post by clone on Aug 5, 2010 14:48:43 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Aug 5, 2010 14:55:26 GMT -8
not sure who's fishing DEQ: Dead fish in Biloxi came from broken pogey net BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - If you saw tens of thousands of dead fish floating in Biloxi waters Tuesday, the deaths are not related to the oil spill. www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12920344
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