Offshore Oil Drilling

Video at: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6836255n Print version below and at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/04/eveningnews/main6835996.shtml It’s come to close the Halliburton loophole and allow federal regulators to stem the watershed pollution that is now occurring as a result of increased gas exploration in America. I support the legislation sponsored by Sen. Robert ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Institute-for-Energy-Research-statement-on-latest-Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-platform-accident-102183849.html By: MARK TAPSCOTT Editorial Page Editor 09/04/10 11:25 AM EDT A second Gulf of Mexico oil platform accident has produced some interesting reactions. Compare, for example, the respective statements issued by the Institute for ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/subhankar-banerjee/senator-barbara-boxer-her_b_703079.html Subhankar Banerjee Photographer, writer, activist, founder ClimateStoryTellers.org Posted: September 3, 2010 02:31 PM Wednesday evening was the first (and perhaps the only) debate between Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina. I’m not a guru of politics. ...Click Here to Read More.

Boats spray water to extinguise the fire aboard the Mariner/NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/us/04brfs-BLOWOUTPREVE_BRF.html New York Times September 4, 2010 Blowout Preventer Is Removed By HENRY FOUNTAIN BP on Friday removed the damaged blowout preventer from atop the company’s stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in preparation for the final plugging of the well, the government ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-09-03-Gulf-oil-well-explosion-off-shore-drilling/ BY Randy Rieland 3 SEP 2010 10:25 AM If we hadn’t spent the summer watching crude gush into the Gulf, no one outside the industry would have noticed or cared much about Thursday’s explosion on a Mariner Energy oil platform. No serious injuries, no spreading slick. But everyone did notice, and it ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/no-safe-harbor-on-gulf-co_b_698338.html I find this shocking and can’t believe it’s happening in the United States; this sounds like some kind of horror movie. Sick people can’t find doctors to treat them? DV Jerry Cope Designer, Filmmaker, Environmental Writer, Eco Activist Posted: September 2, 2010 03:04 PM Even as BP and US ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2010/2010-09-02-01.html BAFFIN BAY, Greenland, September 2, 2010 (ENS) – Four Greenpeace activists who climbed a Cairn Energy oil rig in Greenland waters were arrested this morning and are now being held in police custody in Greenland. The activists first scaled the oil rig Stena Don on Tuesday. They attached hanging platforms to the underside of the rig ...Click Here to Read More.

Visit www.fsu.com/Blogs/Gulf-Oil-Crisis-FSU-Takes-Action for more news on Florida State University experts who are helping with the Gulf oil spill. From: Florida State University News ReplyTo: news-office@unicomm.fsu.edu CONTACT: Amy M. McKenna (850) 644-4809; mckenna@magnet.fsu.edu or Alan G. Marshall (850) 644-0529; amarshall@fsu.edu By Barry Ray September 2010 Database Could Help in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.emii.com/Articles/2660589/Energy/Top-Stories/Bahamas-Suspends-Offshore-Drilling.aspx 09-02-2010 | Source: World Oil Following the United States’ six-month ban on deepwater drilling, the Ministry of the Environment in the Bahamas has suspended consideration of all applications for oil exploration and drilling in the waters of the Bahamas. Though a well has not been drilled in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=13089511 Posted: Sep 02, 2010 11:38 AM EDT Updated: Sep 02, 2010 1:48 PM EDT GRAND ISLE, La.: The Coast Guard says no one was killed when an offshore petroleum platform exploded and began burning in the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. The explosion is about 200 miles west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after ...Click Here to Read More.

What bothers me the most about all this is that our government continues to lie saying no dispersants are being sprayed in nearshore waters even as I have posted three stories from Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi each documenting the continued application of dispersants under cover of darkness. One story reports that the planes are hired directly by the White House and that Unified Command ...Click Here to Read More.

August 23 / 24, 2010 http://counterpunch.org/mcclintock08232010.html A CounterPunch Special Report By ANNE McCLINTOCK Three vanishing acts are being played out in the Gulf: the disappearing of the oil from the ocean surface by Corexit, the disappearing of the story by the media blockade, and the disappearing from view of the shadowy private contractors who are making a mint helping BP ...Click Here to Read More.

FYI, this peaceful protest to halt dangerous offshore exploratory drilling in the Arctic went off in the wee hours of the morning Greenland time. For more info and updates please go to http://www.gobeyondoil.org/ Richard Charter 31st August 2010, Baffin Bay, Greenland – Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/us/31brfs-WAVESDELAYWO_BRF.html August 30, 2010 By HENRY FOUNTAIN High seas have forced further delays in BP’s efforts to permanently plug the well that leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who is leading the government’s response effort, said in a conference call on Monday that waves six ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20100829/NEWS01/8290333/BP-reverses-admits-there-s-oil-in-local-waters KIMBERLY BLAIR * KBLAIR@PNJ.COM * AUGUST 29, 2010 Despite persistent denials from BP last week, thousands of pounds of weathered oil is being pulled from under the surface of Pensacola Bay every day. During more than a dozen interviews last week, BP officials and spokespeople for a number of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://healthygulf.org/201008251483/blog/bps-oil-drilling-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/bp-once-again-wants-to-push-the-oil-back-into-the-gulf Blog – BPs Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:27 On the 23rd, BP once again asked the Corps of Engineers for an Emergency Permit to “surf wash” the beaches of Louisiana–this time on Grand ...Click Here to Read More.

Sam Coleman August 27, 2010 U.S. EPA, Region 6 1445 Ross Ave. Dallas, TX 75202-2733 Via email: coleman.sam@epa.govFrom Riki Ott, PhD Ultimate Civics Project Earth Island Institute Re: Documentation of continued dispersant spraying in near shore and inland waters from Florida to Louisiana (despite contrary claims by USCG and BP) and documentation that dispersants made oil sink Dear Mr. ...Click Here to Read More.

This is Waldo in better days, before a shark munched it. http://www.keysnet.com/2010/08/28/252562/shark-bites-oil-seeking-robot.html By KEVIN WADLOW kwadlow@keynoter.com Posted – Sunday, August 29, 2010 07:17 AM EDT By SEAN KINNEY Now a shark-scarred sub-sea seeker, Waldo the scientific robot survived its latest mission to bring positive news to the Florida Keys. The 6-foot ...Click Here to Read More.

(Photo © Erika Blumenfeld 2010) Miller and Dahr Jamail holding oil-soaked sorbent pad. (Photo © Erika Blumenfeld 2010) (Photo © Erika Blumenfeld 2010) Laboratory confirmed oil-soaked sorbent pad. (Photo © Erika Blumenfeld 2010) James “Catfish” Miller, third-generation fisherman. (Photo © Erika Blumenfeld 2010) Miller and Mark Stewart attaching the sorbent pad to the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://spillintowashington.org/ Stand up – Speak out – Be heard! Spill into Washington DC –a national rally– “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility.” — Albert Schweitzer Why Rally? Join for us two days of rallying against BP and the regulatory failures that ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/stories/congress-did-anyone-think-about-the-environment Oil spill commission probes the Obama administration’s fickle stance on offshore oil drilling. By Andrew Schenkel, Guest Columnist Thu, Aug 26 2010 at 11:42 AM EST Comments NOT BUYING IT: Bob Graham had a tough time getting his head around the testimony during day one of the oil spill ...Click Here to Read More.

http://dirtyenergymoney.org/index.php Check this out……so sad, but true. DV Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Samantha Joye, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia, has emerged as a spokeswoman for the deep ocean. By John D. Sutter, August 24, 2010 — Updated 1356 GMT (2156 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Samantha Joye is an oceanographer who speaks out in defense of the deep ocean * She says we know little about what the Gulf oil spill is doing to the deep parts * has been largely ignored as ...Click Here to Read More.

August 25, 2010 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7170050.html He tells hearing he did good work but his ideas to cut risk were ignored By BRETT CLANTON Aug. 24, 2010, 9:31PM The Halliburton Co. engineer who designed the cement job used in BP’s blown-out Macondo well defended his work Tuesday, saying if he had it to do over he would do it much the same way. But in testimony at ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406754_pf.html IF we’re going to continue to allow offshore oil drilling while we fiddle around with becoming energy smart, then yes, more real regulatory oversight is a pressing need. I’d rather put the money into alternative fuels and be done with fossil fuels. DV By Juliet Eilperin and Scott ...Click Here to Read More.

August 25, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/the-sage-of-spills-rick-s_n_693812.html?view=print First Posted: 08-25-10 11:56 AM | Updated: 08-25-10 12:04 PM Dan Froomkin, reporting I first spoke to Rick Steiner more than three months ago — about two weeks into the Deepwater Horizon disaster — after a source recommended I talk to him for a story I was writing about ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/07/scientist-studies-dispersant-use-methane-in-the-gulf.html OIL SPILL — July 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM EDT BY: LEA WINERMAN On Thursday’s NewsHour, Spencer Michels reported on the ongoing controversy over the use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has sprayed nearly 2 million gallons of dispersant — mostly a brand called ...Click Here to Read More.

Aug 24 http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/riki-ott-seafood-safety-and-politics-dont-mixopening-of-gulf-fisheries-at-odds-with-evidence-of-harm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChelseaGreen+%28Chelsea+Green%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Chelsea Green Riki Ott: Seafood Safety and Politics Don’t Mix-Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence ...Click Here to Read More.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/08/gulf-oil-spill-dead-fish-kill-mississippi.html Photo: A dead fish lays along and oil boom deployed along the Louisiana shore in May. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times Greenspace August 23, 2010 Louisiana state biologists Monday were investigating whether a large fish kill at the mouth of the Mississippi River was caused by oil or ...Click Here to Read More.

The oil disaster in the Gulf may be capped, but the drilling continues. We need to protect our oceans from this happening again. Join us in our effort to put an end to offshore drilling. On Thursday, Thursday, August 26th, from 6pm to 7pm, we’ll be hosting a meet-up. Come meet other people interested in protecting the world’s oceans and learn about Oceana’s campaign to End ...Click Here to Read More.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/16/next-major-toxic-hazard-that-can-ruin-you-and-your-childrens-health.aspx The above link takes you to a video of Susan Shaw, internationally recognized marine toxicologist, author and explorer, who shows evidence that the toxic Gulf of Mexico oil slick is being kept off of beaches at devastating cost to the health of the deep ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7166809.html Aug. 22, 2010, 8:41PM For the past two decades, the deep waters of the world’s oceans have been the so-called “final frontier” for the oil and gas industry as they raced to drill deeper, faster and farther out for resources and profits. Now, with 11 men killed and an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38800962 What happened to government by the people? This is a perfect example of inordinate corporate influence–actually, control– of important government regulatory roles that should –of course–be independent of those regulated. DV With crisis shifting from response to recovery, focus will be on who’s to blame BP employees and ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100817023 Oh great, just what we need; Rubio leading the charge for drilling in Florida waters; watch out for this guy–he’s dangerous. DV KRIS WERNOWSKY * KWERNOWSKY@PNJ.COM * AUGUST 17, 2010 Senate hopeful Marco Rubio believes the option of offshore drilling isn’t a dead issue for Florida. He said the issue has to be framed as ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0817/Obama-s-new-offshore-oil-drilling-rules-too-many-loopholes Richard is right; requiring an EA instead of an EIS is a major concession to quick permitting for more offshore oil, potentially without much needed environmental controls in place. DV The White House’s new guidelines for offshore oil drilling in deep water were intended to make it ...Click Here to Read More.

http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2010/08/gulf-oil-spill-giant-underwater-plume.html 19 Aug 10; WASHINGTON (AFP) – Experts said Thursday they have mapped a 35-kilometer (22 mile) long underwater plume of oil that spewed from BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, seeming to challenge US government assertions that most of the oil has disappeared. The oily underwater cloud measured ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/science/earth/20plume.html?_r=1&hp By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years. The study, the most ambitious scientific ...Click Here to Read More.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/08/noaa-official-concedes-majority-of-gulf-oil-still-there.html – Kim Murphy in New Orleans August 19, 2010 | 4:52 pm The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/05/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100805 a controversial “oil spill ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/noaa-claims-scientists-re_n_689428.html The last sentence says it all: “The consistent theme,” MacDonald said, “seems to be to minimize the impact of the oil — and to act as a bottleneck for information.” This has been another in a series of government cover-ups and complicity with Big Oil. We expected better of Lubchenko ...Click Here to Read More.

August 21, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100820,0,1300452.story Well’s blowout preventer to be replaced before ‘bottom kill’ BP and U.S. officials decide to move ahead with caution to prepare for complications. By Richard Fausset and Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times August 20, 2010 Reporting from Atlanta and New Orleans BP and government ...Click Here to Read More.

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) conducted a review of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) policies, practices, and procedures for the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) decisions for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas exploration and development. This review of MMS NEPA policies, practices and procedures was conducted as a result of the ...Click Here to Read More.

August 16, 2010 http://www.truth-out.org/uncovering-lies-that-are-sinking-oil62345 Monday 16 August 2010 by: Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld, t r u t h o u t | Report The rampant use of toxic dispersants, out-of-state private contractors being brought in to spray them and US Coast Guard complicity are common stories now in the four states most affected by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil ...Click Here to Read More.

See paper entitled: “Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon” Woods Hole Tracking Hydrocarbon plumes paper(19-Aug-2010 18:00 GMT) Contact: WHOI Media Relations media@whoi.edu 508-289-3340 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf Scientists at the Woods Hole ...Click Here to Read More.

GeorgiaSeaGrant_OilSpillReport8-16[1]GeorgiaSeaGrant_OilChart[1] By Chuck Hopkinson, Director, Georgia Sea Grant August 17, 2010 On August 2, 2010, the National Incident Command (NIC) released a report on the status of oil from the BP oil spill. The findings of the report are being widely reported in the news media as suggesting that 75% of the oil is “gone” and only 25% remains. However, ...Click Here to Read More.

By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, August 18, 2010 http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/usf-scientists-find-oil-spill-damage-to-critical-marine-life/1115706 OR http://tinyurl.com/264bdhh Far from being gone, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster appears to still be causing ecological damage in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from University of South ...Click Here to Read More.

August 18, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/18/18greenwire-murky-relationships-mark-scientific-efforts-to-31002.html By LAURA PETERSEN of Greenwire Lawmakers have criticized BP PLC for attempting to “muzzle” scientists researching the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with confidentiality agreements and blocking the “open exchange of scientific data and analysis.” But ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.truth-out.org/regulatory-agencies-attempts-sweep-oil-under-rug-raise-questions62436 Photo: Cody Simms / Flickr) Wednesday 18 August 2010 by: Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch (Washington, DC – A recent report by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (a collaboration between the federal government and BP) claiming that only 25 percent of spilled oil ...Click Here to Read More.

August 18, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100818-711960.html By Siobhan Hughes Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–An oceanographer will tell Congress on Thursday that the Obama administration was “misleading” when it claimed that about three-quarters of the oil that gushed from a broken BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) well in the Gulf of Mexico had been broken down ...Click Here to Read More.

NOLA.Com August 18, 2010 http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/scientists_wary_of_us_report_t.html Published: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 9:15 PM Updated: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 9:25 PM The Times-Picayune By Aimee Miles, staff writer Some scientists are voicing doubts about the accuracy of an Aug. 4 intergovernmental agency ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20100819/OPINION/8190302/Editorial-How-do-they-know-the-oil-is-gone-They-guessed Editorial: How do they know the oil is gone? They guessed Pensacola News Journal August 19, 2010 Certainly, initial results from studies by university scientists in Georgia and Florida can’t be used to jump to conclusions about how big the oil problem is in the Gulf of Mexico. We ...Click Here to Read More.

http://insiderinterviews.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/deepwater-horizons-enduring-le.php Deepwater Horizon’s Enduring Lessons By James Kitfield At some point in the next week, BP will likely initiate the “bottom kill” procedure that permanently plugs the Macondo well, bringing to an end the worst maritime oil spill in American history. No more 24/7 video of oil gushing into the ...Click Here to Read More.

Twenty years later: Ixtoc damage remains video at: Future of the Gulf: Learning From the Past History may teach a valuable lesson about what will happen next in the Gulf. 02:14 | 08/18/2010 Special thanks to Richard Charter Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

August 16, 2010 http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/oil-spill-recovery-grant-includes-3-million-for-862689.html By Christine Stapleton Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 7:49 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 Posted: 7:14 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 Florida mental health care providers will get $3 million of the $52 million that BP pledged to state and federal agencies Monday, to provide ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Opinion/Big-Oil-faces-new-rules-after-disaster Environmentalists were aghast when, just this spring, President Barack Obama announced an energy initiative encouraging offshore oil drilling. Only a few weeks later, the president and the rest of the nation got a lesson in the risks of running roughshod over Mother Nature: We’re still holding our breath over ...Click Here to Read More.

This new report provides evidence that we need an independent, peer reviewed examination of all the scientific data on the whereabouts and impacts of the remaining oil from the BP disaster. The discrepancy in the ways federal agencies and academic research scientists are interpreting the data is as wide as the Gulf itself. - Frank Jackalone, Sierra ...Click Here to Read More.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/jama.2010.1254v1?etoc by Gina M. Solomon, MD, MPH; Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH JAMA. Published online August 16, 2010. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1254 The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico poses direct threats to human health from inhalation or dermal contact with the oil and dispersant chemicals, and indirect threats to seafood safety and mental health. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bradenton.com/2010/08/13/2504309/decision-expected-on-plug-for.html BP’s broken oil well is not dead yet By TOM BREEN (AP) – 2 days ago NEW ORLEANS - The government’s point man on the crisis said Friday that the blown-out well is not securely plugged to his satisfaction and that the drilling of the relief well – long regarded as the only way to ensure that the ...Click Here to Read More.

Sign the petition to stop the use of dispersants here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/25/stop-the-use-of-dispersants-in-the-gulf/ http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/16/next-major-toxic-hazard-that-can-ruin-you-and-your-childrens-health.aspx The above link takes you to a video of Susan Shaw, internationally recognized marine toxicologist, author and explorer, who shows ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/feds-confiscate-independent-lsu-scientists-samples-because-project-not-approved-by-bp-others AUGUST 11TH, 2010 AT 10:17 PM Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State University Department of Entomology Associate Professor, writes in The Scientist, “My PhD student’s ant samples were taken away by a US Fish and Wildlife officer at a publicly accessible state ...Click Here to Read More.

GULF SPILL: (08/13/2010) Elana Schor, E&E reporter BARATARIA, La. — The inlets that envelop this bayou community extend like fingers on a hand, reaching into the backyards of lifelong fishermen. But the boat behind one fishing family’s house sits idle for now, as Tracy Kuhns turns from living off the water to worrying about it. “The elected officials and the petrochemical ...Click Here to Read More.

[Please see also http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com for r.o.v. video and contextual analysis of continued anomalies in the official story versus what may actually be occurring in the Gulf. Official "vessels of opportunity" operators also told the _Destin Log_ they've witnessed aircraft spraying dispersants. Surreal. ] =============== Summary from Florida Oil Spill Law: Coast Guard admits ...Click Here to Read More.

Gerald Herbert, The Associated PressNew marsh grass was photographed Tuesday in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island. Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gulf of Mexico spill Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 5:38 PM Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 5:53 PM Times-Picayune Staff Here is a list, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/08/bp-may-have-already-sealed-well-for-good-decision-on-plug-expected.html OIL SPILL — August 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM EST BY: TOM LEGRO AND LEA WINERMAN Updated 3:34 p.m. National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen said Friday that the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet dead, and that BP will proceed with a relief well to permanently ...Click Here to Read More.

This is tantamount to giving BP credit to deliver the funds later; why isn’t it due and payable immediately? Surely they can pledge the oil receivables to someone else–say, in the financial market if they are short of cash, which I doubt given the bonus structures discussed earlier this summer. ...Click Here to Read More.

There’s a nice little video clip highlighting the increase in oiled turtles recovered in the Gulf on the CNN website: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/11/sylvester.oil.and.turtles.cnn?hpt=T2 Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Houston Chronicle August 11, 2010 http://blogs.chron.com/newswatchenergy/archives/2010/08/did_the_feds_tr_1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fnewswatchenergy+%28NewsWatch%3A+Energy%29 Did the feds try to squelch “oil plume” data? Early on during the Gulf oil spill, the New York Times interviewed a group of scientists aboard ...Click Here to Read More.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/bp-ocean-cover-up ENVIRONMENT BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing-but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come. Tue Aug. 10, 2010 3:00 AM PDT WE’RE SWINGING ON ANCHOR this afternoon as powerful bursts of wind blow down through the Makua Valley and out to sea. The gales stop and start every 15 ...Click Here to Read More.

truthout.org Tuesday 10 August 2010 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report Commercial fishing communities in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida have united to demand that local, state and federal agencies force BP to discontinue the use of toxic dispersants and conduct better testing before reopening fishing waters. “We need to get our government to get a handle on this ...Click Here to Read More.

(1) HOW IS THE MACONDO OIL SPILL DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SPILLS? The BP Deepwater Horizon oil (Macondo) spill is now the largest in history, exceeding the 1979 Ixtoc leak in Mexico. It is the deepest leak, a mile down into the Gulf of Mexico (the Ixtoc was 160 feet). Unlike an isolated event like a tanker spill, it is a continuous leak without a defined end point. It is an eruption of ...Click Here to Read More.

Whale disposal White truck hauling away dead marinelife. Photo by Robyn Hill Magnolia landfill during initial cleanup, courtesy of Press-Register, Connie Baggett The ocean covered in Corexit is green, and a line of crude being dispersed Corexit and a thin line of orangish crude dispersing on the surface Wake of vessel near the Source through the toxic dispersant ...Click Here to Read More.

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http://www.keysnet.com/2010/08/07/245964/scientists-caution-against-over.html By Kevin Wadlow kwadlow@keynoter.com posted Sat. Aug 7th, 2010 “A lot of people in Key West and the Keys seem to believe the problems are over,” said Paul Johnson, a former Reef Relief president working with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “We know that’s not the case,” Johnson ...Click Here to Read More.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/08/feds-giving-spill-data-to-bp-not-public - Flickr/IBRRC Why is the government telling BP how much damage oil has caused in the Gulf, but keeping it secret from the rest of us? - By Kate Sheppard 26 Comments | Post Comment Thu Aug. 5, 2010 3:00 AM PDT The federal government is now painting a rosy picture of the Gulf spill, reporting Wednesday that much ...Click Here to Read More.

As Willie Nelson taught us, you just can’t play a sad song on a banjo. Folk legend Pete Seeger unveils his newest protest song. Document Actions * posted Aug 04, 2010 Pete Seeger, activist and one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the last century, has spoken out through song against the BP oil spill. He performed his new protest song, “God’s Countin’ On ...Click Here to Read More.

Why Gulf Spill and Dispersants Confuse Administration Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

video at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38587494/ns/us_news-environment Kerry Maloney / AP Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is visible in Barataria Bay, Thursday Aug. 5, 2010. BP finished pumping fresh cement into its blown-out oil well as aimed to seal for good the ruptured pipe that for months spewed crude into Gulf of Mexico in one of the world’s worst spills. (AP Photo/Kerry ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/27/bp.landfill.dispute/index.html?hpt=T2 By the CNN Wire Staff July 28, 2010 5:16 a.m. EDT (CNN) — What happens to all the tar balls, oily sand and vegetation, and soiled gloves and suits from the thousands of temporary BP workers who’ve been working to clean up beaches along the Gulf of Mexico? It’s being dumped in nine landfills along the Gulf ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/2590-questions-to-epa-on-gulf-and-dispersants-from-expert-at-epa August 4, 2010 HUGH KAUFMAN A noted expert at the Environmental Protection Agency, Kaufman today produced a list of questions for EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development Paul Anastas, whose testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.aolnews.com/gulf-oil-spill/article/bp-may-go-back-to-ruptured-gulf-well-for-more-oil/19584376 This is the height of arrogance; BP should just walk away from this one. Their greed is showing when they should be showing their green. DV Updated: 11 minutes ago (Aug. 6) — BP may eventually try to tap the oil in its Macondo well, which spewed 4.1 million barrels of crude into the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.oceanleadership.org/2010/much-gulf-oil-remains-deeply-hidden-and-under-beaches/ Oil in a core sample taken from Pensacola Beach, Florida, in early July. (Photograph by Chris Combs, National Geographic) Posted by Will Ramos on Friday, August 6th, 2010 at 11:34 am Filed under: Discovery,Gulf Oil Spill,News & Resources (Click to enlarge) Oil in a core sample taken from Pensacola ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40680.html By: Darren Samuelsohn August 5, 2010 04:30 AM EDT Environmentalists went with an all-or-nothing strategy for the 111th Congress. Nothing won. Now, green groups licking their wounds after spending tens of millions of dollars to pass a cap-and-trade bill must answer serious questions about whether they are capable of playing another round of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.keysnet.com/2010/08/04/244520/resource-managers-give-oil-spill.html By KEVIN WADLOW kwadlow@keynoter.com Posted – Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Surface oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster may never reach the Florida Keys, but effects of the estimated remaining 172 million gallons of crude oil that flowed into the northern Gulf of Mexico remain unknown. “No ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fathoming-Oil-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-Not-as-far-away-as-you-think/13980/ The final line in this report is the bomb. DV by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt Filaments of warm Gulf Stream water are visible approaching the continental shelf south of Georges Bank and Cape Cod. Source: Dr. Andy Thomas, Satellite Oceanography Data Laboratory, University ...Click Here to Read More.

http://washingtonindependent.com/93666/administration-defends-use-of-dispersants-after-oil-spill By ANDREW RESTUCCIA 8/4/10 11:19 AM At a Senate hearing today, Obama administration officials defended BP’s use of dispersants to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Paul Anastas, assistant administrator at the Environmental ...Click Here to Read More.

http://chronicle.com/article/Government-Estimates-of-Oil/123766/ August 4, 2010 In the early days of the oil spill that followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, university researchers helped disprove corporate and governmental assurances about the size and spread of the oil slick. Could that be happening again? The rig, which was owned by Transocean ...Click Here to Read More.

The 64 million dollar question is can we trust this expert report? Who contributed the evidence to support the findings in this report? Same goes for the expected “earlier lifting” of ban on offshore oil exploration. This is 2010, but it makes me think of “1984″, where “doublespeak” and “doublethink’ ruled supreme. Are there any reports ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=nl_natlalert The Washington Post 4:26 PM (7 minutes ago) ——————– News Alert 04:18 PM EDT Tuesday, August 3, 2010 ——————– BP says its engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in hopes of choking it for good. BP spokesman John ...Click Here to Read More.

Ed Cake, quoted here, is a veteran of fighting offshore oil; I met him at an OCS coalition meeting in DC in the late 80′s; good to see he is still working to protect his coast. DV IPS News August 3, 2010 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52352 By Dahr Jamail GULFPORT, Louisiana, Aug 2, 2010 (IPS) – Contrary to recent media reports of a quick recovery in the Gulf of Mexico, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_81_1533.aspx Bill Davis Editor, StateHouse Report (SC) August 1, 2010 - State Sen. Jake Knotts may believe that he “ain’t no tree-hugger,” but he’s beginning to sound more and more like one. “We got to do what we can to protect our state’s beaches. They’re the most valuable things we got in South ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/02/98512/government-revises-gulf-oil-flow.html Posted on Mon, Aug. 02, 2010 Erika Bolstad and Lesley Clark | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: August 02, 2010 09:19:01 PM WASHINGTON – As BP neared a fix that’s expected to kill for good the runaway well that’s wreaked economic and environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Over-60-Percent-of-BP-Wast-by-Robert-Bullard-100730-66.html For OpEdNews: Robert Bullard – Writer As of July 15, more than 39,448 tons of BP oil spill waste was disposed in nine approved landfills in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Five of the nine the landfills receiving BP oil-spill solid waste are located in communities where people of ...Click Here to Read More.

August 2, 2010, By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and CLIFFORD KRAUSS NEW ORLEANS — The BP spill is by far the world’s largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the well’s flow rate, announced by federal scientists on Monday. Nearly five million barrels of oil have gushed from BP’s well since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on ...Click Here to Read More.

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I just sent emails to my Florida senators urging them to pass this bill now, before the recess, and before the November elections, when it may become even harder to move energy legislation forward. This is a good first step, not comprehensive by any means, but at least SOMETHING. DV Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 | 2:05 a.m. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/03/preventing-more-spills/ It is ...Click Here to Read More.

http://keysnews.com/node/25304 Experts to air views on threats past and future BY TIMOTHY O’HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com The Deepwater Horizon oil rig may be capped, but the possibility the massive spill will have some type of impact on the Florida Keys is still very real, and the pollution threat is not just from the northern Gulf of Mexico, some experts are saying. Marine ...Click Here to Read More.

The Huffington Post, July 29, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/29/scientists-find-evidence_n_664298.htm l The Huffington Post, July 29, 2010-07-29 Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hV64upZTXqPz9oNOH0ftwIl3RdgwD9HA26GO1 By MATTHEW DALY (AP) – 5 hours ago July 31, 2010 ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico – with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface – when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The ...Click Here to Read More.

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http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/TODAY/Sections/aNEWS/2010/07-July%2010/ScientistsConsensusStatement.pdf July 16, 2010 We oppose the use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf, and demand an immediate halt to their application. We believe that Corexit dispersants, particularly in combination with crude oil, pose grave health risks to marine life and human health, and threaten to deplete critical niches ...Click Here to Read More.

Let’s hope it makes it intact through the Senate. DV July 30, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-bill-20100731,0,1548806.story The bill, passed 209 to 193, would impose new safeguards for offshore drilling, remove a liability cap for spill damages, and hit energy producers with a new tax to fund conservation measures. By Richard Simon, Reporting from ...Click Here to Read More.