BP Oil Spill Approaching Gulf Coast

[fran]

BP: Oil cap will be attached today, then tested

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP expected to attach a tight new cap Monday on its busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, putting the oil giant a few tantalizing steps closer to knowing whether the fix will be enough to finally stop crude from gushing into the Gulf.

The new cap, a 150,000-pound metal stack known as "Top Hat 10," was about 300 feet from the point where it's supposed to connect with the leaking well, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said in a Monday morning news briefing.

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http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12788768

 

[LadyLuck]

I think it is great that he did this. I do not care what his political views are. He made a difference, he did not just talk the walk. Think of all the money the concert made for the area that is hurting. Cokes, food, rooms, gas to drive there etc. I wish more would do something like this. Remember it was FREE, unheard of in this day and times.

 

[essies]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/bp-was-drilling-mine-field-gulf-mexic
BP Was Drilling In A Mine Field! Gulf of Mexico Is Major Dumping Ground For Unexploded Bombs.
By Susie Madrak Friday May 07, 2010 1:00pm
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You learn the darnedest things on the internets. For example, I just found out that the Gulf of Mexico is the primary disposal site for unexploded military munitions - over 30 million pounds of bombs, projectiles and chemical ordnance.

And because records are spotty and incomplete, we don't know exactly where these dumps are.
Many of these bombs are unstable. Just about anything could detonate them - say, an oil rig that's digging deeper than what owners noted on their permit application. So we're leasing offshore drilling rights to oil companies IN A FRICKIN' MINE FIELD. (You'll notice this NY Times piece on the problems of offshore drilling doesn't even mention it.)
*more at link including map

Unbelievable what goes on the average person doesn't realize till the people we "trust" go and muck it all up-and in this case there may be no fixing it!!:snooty:

 

[legalmania]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/bp-was-drilling-mine-field-gulf-mexic
BP Was Drilling In A Mine Field! Gulf of Mexico Is Major Dumping Ground For Unexploded Bombs.
By Susie Madrak Friday May 07, 2010 1:00pm
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You learn the darnedest things on the internets. For example, I just found out that the Gulf of Mexico is the primary disposal site for unexploded military munitions - over 30 million pounds of bombs, projectiles and chemical ordnance.

And because records are spotty and incomplete, we don't know exactly where these dumps are.
Many of these bombs are unstable. Just about anything could detonate them - say, an oil rig that's digging deeper than what owners noted on their permit application. So we're leasing offshore drilling rights to oil companies IN A FRICKIN' MINE FIELD. (You'll notice this NY Times piece on the problems of offshore drilling doesn't even mention it.)
*more at link including map

Unbelievable what goes on the average person doesn't realize till the people we "trust" go and muck it all up-and in this case there may be no fixing it!!:snooty:

I saw them bring one up, they had it on the beach but the story was quickly dropped. Wonder if maybe they hit one and that is what caused the original explosion?

 

[essies]

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/11/cutthroat-bp-wrong/
BP Contractor: &#8216;What This Company Is Doing To This Country Right Now Is Just Wrong&#8217;
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A former contractor has come forward to denounce foreign oil giant BP and the &#8220;cutthroat individuals&#8221; running the oil disaster response. On Friday, contractor-turned-whistleblower Adam Dillon told New Orleans television station WDSU he was fired &#8220;after taking photos that he believes were related to the use of dispersants and to the cleanup of the oil.&#8221;
[video=youtube;48pbsotMLbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pbsotMLbE[/video]

 

[essies]

Long Term Health Risks Concern for Spill Workers
Exxon Valdez Worker Has Lingering Health Problems; Gov't Has Promised to Track Health of Gulf Workers
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010...9592.shtml?tag=currentVideoInfo;videoMetaInfo
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Stubblefield battled Exxon for years before reaching a settlement, says his lawyer Dennis Mestas. "It was just a sort of a black hole where medical records were withheld, industry hygiene records were withheld," says Mestas. "No federal or state health authorities were looking at either one of those things and the workers were essentially abandoned to their fate."

See video at link-
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6659689n&tag=related;photovideo

 

[essies]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/the-big-lie-bp-government_b_638369.html#s111369


BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants (PHOTOS)
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Three days later on Pensacola Beach, I watched BP's HazMat-trained workers shovel surface oiled sand and oily debris into bags early in the morning. The workers followed the waterline like shorebirds, scurrying up the beach in front of breaking waves and moving back down with receding waters.

The late morning sun retired the workers to the shade of their tents and the job of "observing," while it brought out throngs of beach-goers -- children, parents, grandparents -- who happily plunged into the "contaminated" ocean without a second thought.

I was astounded. Why did people think the ocean was safe for swimming?

 

[essies]

It’s Official: Huge Area of the Gulf Has Been Turned Into A Massive Dead Zone By The BP Gulf Oil Spill
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/20...f-turned-massive-dead-zone-bp-gulf-oil-spill/
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Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Oil
Oxygen-starved waters that have persisted for more than a month in the Gulf of Mexico are likely due to the BP oil spill, researchers say.

THE GIST

•A zone of low oxygen has persisted for more than a month off the coast of Alabama.
•Wildlife that can move has left. Plankton in the low-oxygen zones has died.
•The long-term effects are uncertain. [In deep waters it could last for decades]
An unusual low oxygen zone in Gulf of Mexico waters off the Alabama shore has persisted for more than a month, and evidence points to the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the cause.

Oil spills can deplete oxygen in water by providing a source of food to microbes that grow on oil and consume oxygen in the process.

Researchers can’t say how low oxygen levels will affect the region’s ecosystem in the long term, but for now, most animals that can swim away have left the area. Plankton in the zone have died.

The researchers measured low oxygen levels along the entire 40-mile stretch they sampled around Dauphin Island, Ala., from about 40 miles offshore to within a mile or two of the shoreline. The bottom layer of water was oxygen-depleted at depths of about 30 feet close to shore to 100 feet further out, along the continental shelf — a rim of shallow water tracing the coast from Mississippi to Florida.

“It’s not little local pockets,” said Monty Graham of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, who is tracking the zone. “It’s over a regional scale. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were a band of low oxygen over that entire area between the Mississippi River and Apalachicola, Florida.”

 

[legalmania]

The nightmare continues: Part II

The explosion that took the lives of 11 people on April 20th now has caused an oil spill that has devastated the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for years to come. Oil balls have now been spotted on Texas shores and continue down Florida's West Coast. The spill is expected to get caught up in the loop current and continue around the Florida Straits, taking it out to the Atlantic. Not to mention that the Mississippi remains in jeopardy.

[video=youtube;iw4-HQeduu8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4-HQeduu8&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[legalmania]

E.P.A. responds to chemicals.

EPA has observed odor-causing pollutants associated with oil on the shore in the gulf region at low levels. Some of these chemicals may cause short-lived effects like headache, eye, nose and throat irritation, or nausea. Some people may be able to smell several of these chemicals at levels well below those that would cause short-term health problems.


http://www.epa.gov/BPSpill/

 

[legalmania]

Is it going to work or just another BP exaggeration?

A high pressure reading would indicate that the oil and gas were staying inside the casing of the well and not leaking into the sea bed, he said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...k-to-begin-tests/story-e6frf7jx-1225891394352

 

[hockeymom]

Is it going to work or just another BP exaggeration?

A high pressure reading would indicate that the oil and gas were staying inside the casing of the well and not leaking into the sea bed, he said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...k-to-begin-tests/story-e6frf7jx-1225891394352

At this point I just don't believe a word they say. If they would allow independent people in to check,I'd feel better,but thats not going to happen.

 

[legalmania]

Some people find the moratorium of oil drilling a worse disaster than the present one.

Mississippi's Republican governor -- a former chairman of the Republican National Committee -- said in an interview Sunday that President Barack Obama's moratorium on deepwater drilling is worse than BP's massive oil spill for his state.

Governor, what's worse, the moratorium or the effects of this spill on the region?" "

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0621/mississippi-governor-drilling-moratorium-worse-oil-spill/

 

[legalmania]

Pay up BP the tab is running, tip not included:

This is the fourth bill the administration has sent to date. BP and other responsible parties have paid the first three bills, totaling $122.3 million, according to the statement.
RELATED TOPICS

* Gulf Coast Oil Spill
* BP

The money received from BP will help to replenish the $1.5 billion Oil Liability Trust Fund that covers damage costs associated with oil spills, according to the statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/13/oil.spill.bill/index.html?hpt=T1

 

[essies]

BP delays work on stopgap and permanent well fix

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-07-13-22-38-18
http://video.ap.org/?f=AP&pid=BQpQ_SSp99q_P9evcJykjvanx98PqjIF
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With oil still gushing freely into the Gulf, Wells said BP and federal officials will re-evaluate the best path forward after the 24 hours.

But he did not commit with certainty to returning to the plan, in place before the late Tuesday delay, to shut the leak off by closing the valves on the new cap. Wells suggested other oil collection options might be redeployed.

 

[essies]

New Satellite Images of Gulf: Oil reaches Mexico’s Yucutan, near Cancun (PHOTOS)
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/latest-satellite-analysis-oil-miles-mexico-cancun
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The water south of the Deepwater Horizon site now appears to be moving more southward toward 88°00-90°30’W between 28°30’N and 27°30’N, but then it continues to be pulled southeastward toward 87°00-88°00’W & 27°00’N…

 

[mysticrose]

OilSpillometer

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/spillmeter/index.html?SITE=AP

 

[mysticrose]

Environmental impact

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/oil_impact_environment/index.html?SITE=AP

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;erbm58gcVrA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbm58gcVrA[/video]

 

[legalmania]

OilSpillometer

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/spillmeter/index.html?SITE=AP

When you see it in numbers like this, to me it really makes an impact.