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Post by moabiter on Aug 8, 2010 22:32:08 GMT -8
Much Gulf Oil Remains, Deeply Hidden and Under Beaches New U.S. Gulf oil spill report called "ludicrous." National Geographic News Published August 5, 2010 Oil Spill Report "Almost Comical"? For all their specificity, such figures are "notorious" for being uncertain, said Robert Carney, a biological oceanographer at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100805-gulf-oil-spill-cement-static-kill-bp-science-environment/Comment: The only "mystery" about the latest utterly deceptive, misleading, and inaccurate "news" stories proclaiming, "The Oil is GONE!! It's a MIRACLE!!! A MYSTERY!!! WHERE DID IT GO? SO MAGICAL!!!!" is the following: When was the last time people from all walks of science lost every bit of their ethics and regard for the truth? How do you get chumps like this guy "Physicist" to put their names on such utterly specious reports which omit so much information that they imply that 200 Million gallons of raw crude Oil just "disappeared"? Seriously. The oil is in and under the sand, and it is in the water. There is no mystery. Every core sample taken, and every site inspection (that hasn't been blocked by BP employed Police departments and BP paid ex-military goons) has found oil on and under the coastal surface. In places it is so thick it bubbles up when you step on the surface. www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=12921374 There were strong allegations that BP simply dumped sand on much of the oil using heavy equipment at night. Those allegations are detailed here: www.jonlowder.com/2010/07/is-bp-burying-oil.html How did BP get these former scientists and mathematicians to put there names on a report which did zero field work, employed zero people to walk the beaches and take core samples, and included zero visits to the areas closest to the spill emission point? Have we reached the point where it is not only possible, but easy to pay off entire branches of our government (EPA, Coast Guard, NOAA) to get them to endorse any lie that a company wants to tell? If the answer to that question is "Yes", then how can we rely on anything told to us by the government agencies we pay 30% of our earnings to support, and whose employees' generous pensions we pay to sustain? When it so easily publishes big lies like this, is it worth even keeping those departments, and those people funded,salaried and pensioned in our government? I think not.
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Post by moabiter on Aug 8, 2010 22:35:35 GMT -8
Oil Found in Gulf Beach Sand, Even After Cleanups Long-lasting, hidden oil from the Gulf spill poses risk, experts say. Published July 2, 2010 Geologist Ping Wang (right) points to a buried oil patty on Pensacola Beach, Florida, Thursday.Digging under the patchily oil-splattered white sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida (map), on Thursday, it didn't take long for scientists to strike black gold. Oil patties and tarballs were discovered as deep as 2 feet (0.6 meter) beneath beaches dirtied by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill—the deepest oil yet found by a team of University of South Florida coastal geologists that's been studying the effects of the oil spill on Gulf beaches since early May. The previous record had been 6 inches (about 15 centimeters) deep, said geologist Ping Wang, the team's leader. news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100702-gulf-oil-spill-beaches-florida-nation/
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Post by moabiter on Aug 8, 2010 22:39:42 GMT -8
Oil bubbles up to surface on barrier island Updated: Aug 03, 2010 9:38 PM MDT PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LA (WAFB) - A team of divers found oil bubbling up to the surface on a barrier island in Plaquemines Parish. They say the oil is bubbling to the surface from underground. Officials say they first noticed it oozing up through a hole dug by a hermit crab. Officials are now pushing for a soil sampling program to see how much of a problem there is below the surface. www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=12921374
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Post by moabiter on Aug 8, 2010 22:47:45 GMT -8
Is BP Burying Oil? July 02, 2010 According to this post at FastCompany.com www.fastcompany.com/1665971/is-bp-literally-trying-to-cover-up-oil-damage-on-louisiana-beaches BP is being accused of dumping sand on top of oil from the Gulf Spill at a beach in Louisiana. Below is the video they posted showing oil sandwiched between different layers of sand. The oil was exposed by erosion caused by the hurricane/tropical storm that blew through the gulf earlier this week. Obviously there needs to be confirmation by an independent scientific expert, but if the story is proved true it will be next to impossible to believe anything that BP says about the spill. Video - piles of tar/asphalt under a layer of dumped sand www.jonlowder.com/2010/07/is-bp-burying-oil.html_____________________________ Video Suggests BP Literally Covering Up Oil Damage on Louisiana Beaches There's no question that BP has lied extensively over the past few months about the growing Gulf oil disaster. The company has bullied journalists, fudged numbers, and even deployed fake journalists to the Gulf to write about how everything is fine. Now BP may be literally trying to cover up oiled beaches by dumping sand on top of them. The video below, filmed by Judson Parker of Save Our Shores Florida, purportedly shows oil sandwiched between two layers of different types of sand. According to Parker, local deputies confirmed that BP dumped sand onto the Grand Isle, Louisiana beach and attempted to smooth it over. But Wayne Keller, the Executive Director of the Grand Isle Port Commission, doesn't know anything about it. "I'm not aware of that being done anywhere on Grand Isle," he tells FastCompany.com. I know we're trucking in sand to build berms to keep oil out of the estuary, but that's it." www.fastcompany.com/1665971/is-bp-literally-trying-to-cover-up-oil-damage-on-louisiana-beaches
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Post by moabiter on Aug 8, 2010 22:51:09 GMT -8
The BP Creative Writing Contest: The Best of the Worst BY Alissa WalkerThu Jun 24, 2010 We asked you to top the outrageous reporting being churned out by a "writer" hired on behalf of BP. Here are some of our favorites. Last week we alerted you to the literary genius of one Paula Kolmar, www.fastcompany.com/1660006/like-the-onion-except-disgusting-bp-prs-reports-from-the-gulf a "writer" deployed to the Gulf on behalf of BP to pen emotional passages about just how well the cleanup efforts are going. We asked you, our talented readers, to try and top turns of phrases like: "From the relative comfort of a large square deck with a cold bottle of water always in hand, and an air-conditioned TV room with comfy sofas a level below, I witnessed beauty preparing to face the beast...A ballet at sea as mesmerizing as any performance in a concert hall, and worthy of an audience in its own right." www.fastcompany.com/1660006/like-the-onion-except-disgusting-bp-prs-reports-from-the-gulf
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Post by moabiter on Aug 10, 2010 22:37:52 GMT -8
Crabs provide evidence oil tainting Gulf food web Mon Aug 9, 5:36 pm ET Tiny creatures might take in such low amounts of oil that they could survive, Thomas said. But those at the top of the chain, such as dolphins and tuna, could get fatal "megadoses." Marine biologists routinely gather shellfish for study. Since the spill began, many of the crab larvae collected have had the distinctive orange oil droplets, said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. "In my 42 years of studying crabs I've never seen this," Perry said. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100809/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_blue_crabs
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Post by wtf on Aug 11, 2010 3:01:45 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 14, 2010 23:05:58 GMT -8
Oil washes up on Baldwin County beaches Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:00 PM "We've been saying there's submerged oil coming into (Perdido Pass) for some time and (BP PLC) completely dismissed our concerns and our accounts," said Orange Beach Mayor Kennon. "Hopefully this proves we're not a bunch of dummies." Since early last week BP has rejected claims from Orange Beach that city contractors are regularly encountering and collecting oil from inshore waters, including Cotton Bayou, Terry Cove and Bayou St. John, city officials said. blog.al.com/live/2010/08/oil_washes_up_on_baldwin_count.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 14, 2010 23:09:04 GMT -8
Tar balls, dead fish & no clean up crews worry Hancock Co. residents Aug 13, 2010 6:41 PM MDT While on the beach surveying the tar balls, Adam received a call about an unusual occurrence just down the road at Bordage's Marina. "If you walk along the pier, you'll see small dead fish. You've got some speckled trout that's dead through here. All the crabs are crawling up on the bank and I just kind of wonder why," Adam said. A fisherman who didn't want to be identified said he knows why. "Something is killing them. It wasn't killing them before this oil got here. And now they're dying everywhere." www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12978563
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Post by moabiter on Aug 17, 2010 1:47:03 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 17, 2010 2:23:04 GMT -8
BP Oil Spill Cleanup Worker Exposes the Realities of Beach Cleanup In Gulf of Mexico www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlMDBAGLFIAugust 11, 2010 Now that cleanup crews are being let go, more and more former cleanup workers, angered and confused by the way they were treated by temp agencies sub-contracted by BP, are coming forward with stories of improper training, threats to their health, unsafe working conditions, violations of labor laws, health problems, and other harmful practices they were subject to. As traditional media continues to celebrate the unlikely disappearance of the oil spilled by the Macondo 252 well, Gulf residents are becoming increasingly disconcerted by the severe neglect of corporations and government agencies involved with the spill.
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Post by moabiter on Aug 18, 2010 20:19:12 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 18, 2010 20:36:32 GMT -8
Exclusive: BP Oil Spill Coverup August 17, 2010 | 2:02am While officials claim most of the oil from America's worst-ever spill has disappeared, fishermen hired by BP are still finding tar balls—and being instructed to hide their discoveries. 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. Reporting his findings to his supervisor, a private consulting company hired by BP, the reply, according to his logbook came back: "Told—no reporting of oil or tar balls anymore. Don't put on report. We're here for boom removal only," referring to the miles of yellow and orange containment barriers placed throughout the Gulf. Williams' logbook account, which I inspected, and a similar account told to me by a boat captain in Mississippi, raises serious concerns about whether the toll from the spill is being accurately measured. Many institutions have an interest in minimizing accounts of the damage inflicted. The federal and local governments, under withering criticism all summer, certainly want to move on to other subjects. BP, of course, has a financial incentive. www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-17/bp-oil-spill-cover-up/?cid=hp:mainpromo2
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Post by moabiter on Aug 20, 2010 21:52:44 GMT -8
Giant oil cloud floating in Gulf August 20, 2010 A plume of hydrocarbons from BP's oil spill is lurking deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The oily plume was over 35 kilometres long, up to 200 metres thick and up to two kilometres wide, and a kilometre below the surface, at the end of June, says a U.S. team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which sent a submersible vehicle down for a close look. The scientists report that the submerged hydrocarbons were not being quickly biodegraded by microbes. www.calgaryherald.com/sports/Giant+cloud+floating+Gulf/3421458/story.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 26, 2010 21:37:56 GMT -8
Seafloor covered in oil 40 miles south of Panama City, FL - HEADING EAST www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-xV9Gh5SWgNotes: CNN, August 17, 2010 at 6:05 a.m. EDT: The "news is not good"... Chemical mix of oil and dispersant said to be highly toxic... First time scientists have found such high levels of toxicity... On seafloor, oil will not break down for a much longer time and will contaminate the area for a much longer time.
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