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Saturday Oil Spill Summary – 81 Days In
While BP says they are making another attempt that could “permanently cap the well, and capture all of the oil”, let’s look back on the past few days and see what’s really going on.
Obama Rejected Again
On Thursday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals told the Obama Administration to take a flying leap where deepwater drilling bans are concerned.
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Obama administration’s request to stay a lower court decision to lift a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the wake of the BP Plc oil spill.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, ruled about an hour after hearing arguments.
Its decision will likely prompt the Interior Department to quickly issue a revised moratorium order on deepwater drilling below 500 feet to address concerns raised by the federal courts.
If there is one thing the Obama Administration does well, is scramble. It seems they’re always trying to cover their asses or find an alternative solution with every single thing they put their grubby little hands on.
Once Again, Late To Their Own Party
How many stories have we heard about BP involving them dragging their feet?
Helix, the Houston-based owner of floating oil platforms and subsea wells, offered its Helix Producer I vessel in late April to help BP collect oil that has been gushing from the Macondo well since an April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers, Chief Executive Officer Owen Kratz said today in an interview. BP initially declined the offer, he said.
BP notified Helix June 10 that it wanted to lease the Helix Producer I platform to augment two other vessels that are receiving oil from the Macondo well, Kratz said. The delay meant Helix had to construct a collection tube from spare parts that will be plugged into a pipe just one-sixth the diameter of the main opening atop the well, he said.
The oil leak itself is the only thing quick and efficient that BP has done since April 20th.
Covering Up The Safety Excellence of BP
If it wasn’t for the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, BP would have been on-track to receive a 2010 safety commendation from the Minerals and Management Service! You go BP!
Shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, we reported that the Minerals Management Service canceled its annual “Safety Award for Excellence” luncheon, which—rather embarrassingly—included BP as one of the finalists for a 2010 safety commendation. The SAFE event was never held, and MMS never did get around to announcing a winner.
Now Energy & Environment reports that the Department of Interior has scrubbed the evidence of BP’s finalist-status from its website.
I bet the staff over at the Department of the Interior are wishing they could whitewash BP’s entire existence from the minds of people everywhere.
Gulf Oil Spill Panel To Look At Root Causes
Don’t you just love that headline? Idiots I tell ya. It’s pretty obvious why the oil is spilling. Instead of looking at the cause, maybe they should focus on the solution?
The new presidential oil spill commission will focus on how safety, government oversight and the ability to clean up spills haven’t kept up with advances in drilling technology, the panel’s leaders say.
Oil Spill Workers Are Being Exposed To Some Nasty Stuff
Workers in the Gulf are being exposed to 2-butoxyethanol, and their lives are being put at risk.
In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is reporting potentially hazardous exposures to a now-discontinued dispersant chemical — a substance blamed for contributing to chronic health problems after the Exxon Valdez cleanup — among more than 20 percent of offshore responders.
They’re testing for more and more chemicals, but for some workers, it may be a little too late.
It just goes to prove, what you don’t know might kill you.
The Flyover by John L. Wathen
Here’s a longer version of a video I featured the other day. Pay attention people, this problem is NOT going away anytime soon.
No Freedom Of The Press On Federal Wildlife Refuge Property
Check out this video from Citizen Tube.
Apparently this same suspension of the First Amendment is being enforced near BP properties as well.
More Links You Should Read
As if I haven’t posted enough for you to read and digest tonight, you may want to look at these links as well.
More oil coming ashore near Mobile Bay
78 Days Later: The DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill
Oil Is Not Hazardous
Oil in the water is making workers sick. Oil in your water, would make you sick. Yet, oil in a landfill is “not considered hazardous”.
Tons of oil-contaminated sand and debris arrived in a convoy of Waste Management trucks at Magnolia Landfill on Friday, a scene repeated at other landfills in the region.
Scott Hughes, spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, said Friday that three landfills in the state — Magnolia, Chastang in Mount Vernon, and Allied Waste Services Timberlands in Brewton — had been approved by the agency to take oil waste scraped and cleared from beaches.
Various forms of oil — tarballs, mousse, patties and globs — continue to be removed from shorelines by heavy equipment and by crews armed with shovels and plastic bags.
Late this week, oil struck all 32 miles of Gulf-front beaches in Baldwin County.
Hughes said the waste is not considered hazardous, by landfill standards.
How long do you think it will be until someone announces the bags containing the oil have been breached and the ground water has been contaminated with… get this… oil?
There Is No Clean Water
The farther out you travel, the more oil you find. Is there any clean water remaining in the Gulf of Mexico?
Corexit May Be Damaging Our Food Supply
Check out these two videos, then check your own backyard.
Oil Is Seeping Into Lake Pontchartrain
Because of the ineffective leadership in the White House, this beautiful body of water is at risk.
For the first time since the accident, oil from the ruptured well is seeping into Lake Pontchartrain, threatening another environmental disaster for the huge body of water that was rescued from pollution in 1990s to become, once more, a bountiful fishing ground and a popular spot for boating and swimming.
Five Million Buoyant Particles
Check out this research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Fire In Your Throat
What happens if you don’t use a respirator down near the Gulf?
Mr. Sandman, Bring Me The Truth
Is BP trucking in sand to cover up the truth? Sounds like a sand job to me.
I wonder what would be happening right now if the Obama Administration had actually started working in the Gulf rather than the golf course two months ago.
Barack Obama, The Coincidental Muslim
For a short time, when I was a young child, I wanted to be an astronaut. I was inspired by men like John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and others. There was something awe inspiring about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
When I was a child, NASA was responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Times sure have changed…
When I became the NASA administrator, [Obama] charged me with three things,” NASA head Charles Bolden said in a recent interview with the Middle Eastern news network al-Jazeera. “One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”
When I first read this, I thought maybe it was an article from The Onion, but seeing Byron York’s name on the byline convinced me otherwise.
Do you remember 2008? Do you remember when people made the assertion that Barack Obama was not a Christian, and was indeed Muslim?
Isn’t it a little bit more than coincidental that President Barack Obama, who was born to a Muslim man, who attended a Muslim school for a short time in Indonesia, and whose own middle name is Hussein would insist on reaching “out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering”?
NASA’s original purpose was to get us into space, and to keep us there. Under the direction of non awe inspiring space cadet President Obama, it’s evident he is changing NASA’s mission which is apparently the New Arabic Sensitivity Administration.
There are a couple of famous sayings. “Actions speak louder than words”, and “Judge people by their actions, not their words”. President Obama, you have been duly judged.
Saturday Oil Spill Summary – 74 Days & Counting
Here are a few videos to watch and some links to follow to keep yourself updated about the DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico.
If you watched the video last night, you’ll understand the importance of passing on every piece of information, especially when some of it seems a bit ‘different’ than anything else you’ve heard from anyone in the government.
How far inland will Toxic Rain spread?
Have you looked at the 3-D Models of the Oil Spill?
How widespread (and deep) has the oil spread?
Did you know that authorities are cracking down on people taking photos from public roads? And Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are rejecting Republican visits to the areas affected by the oil spill.
What happens when the oil reaches the Atlantic? What happens when the entire Atlantic and Gulf food chains are completely destroyed? No wonder the Obama Administration doesn’t want anyone showing us what’s really going on down there.
A Nation In Suspense
Are you wondering why you haven’t seen more photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
Why hasn’t the media been showing you the latest videos of the clean up effort?
Take a look at this video from Anderson Cooper and CNN.
It doesn’t get much bigger or more disastrous than the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but the fact that the press is no longer allowed to report this story means there is a bigger and much more disastrous story brewing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since when is it permissible to suspend the First Amendment?
Barack Obama has been manipulating the media since he took office. There is no excuse for this, and we, the American people, should be ashamed of ourselves for letting him get away with this kind of bullshit.
How many of our freedoms will we willingly part with until we take a stand? How far will we allow the government to go in stripping us of our rights before we say enough is enough? How many gallons of crude oil must leak before the most dangerous administration in our nation’s history is called out for their actions?
Enough is enough.
Day # 70: The Flow Of Oil Continues
Take one busy day, add several errands to the mix, and stir it all with a small dose of spotty DSL service and you get one very quick post this evening.
The never ending flow of oil coming from the DeepWater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico coupled with the never ending flow of incompetence coming from the Obama administration in Washington, D.C. is producing the single worst catastrophe the United States has ever seen.
While I take the night off, read the following links. You may find them quite interesting.
The Well From Hell – An interesting read which touches on each of the scenarios that people have been speculating about.
Panic Brews – Sometimes silence is not golden. In fact, right now silence is fueling speculation that there is much, much, more to the story.
Saturday Summary
I have several thoughts I want to write about that cannot wait until my next Thursday Thoughts post. Maybe I’ll start doing a “Saturday Summary” each week to summarize some more thoughts since they don’t always come to me by Thursday each week.
Thought #1
Are people really surprised when allegations of wrongdoing are brought against John Oxendine? Really?
11Alive News has learned the University of Georgia Office of Legal Affairs is weighing its options on the Oxendine campaign’s use of school trademarks.
Republican candidate for Governor John Oxendine has been featuring the Georgia “G” and use of the word, “Dawgs” on stickers, banners and campaign signs.
The article states that many campaigns are using the logo, but 11alive chose only to post an example of Oxendine’s use. Interesting. Are they trying to make it sound like it’s excusable because “everyone is doing it” or were they trying to make an example of Ox?
Either way, it’s wrong, and he should stop using the logo.
Thought #2
The last person we need in any elected position is a lobbyist, no matter whether they are ethical or not.
Conservative Republican candidate Darwin Carter of Alma, Georgia on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 has filed an ethics complaint against CEO/Lobbyist Gary Black for failure to disclose the use of his office as CEO/Lobbyist for the Georgia Agribusiness Council (not-for-profit) to run for Commissioner of Agriculture. Additionally, Carter charges that Black’s lobbying firm, Georgia Agribusiness Council (GAC) is a nonprofit 501c6 corporation and according to the IRS, should pay taxes on their extensive partisan political work.
These are some serious allegations. It doesn’t matter to me if he is guilty or not, I don’t trust lobbyists anyway.
Thought #3
Jan Brewer is an awesome governor. She never hesitates to tell it like it is.
Thought #4
There are 2000 oil skimmers in the United States. 20 of them are in use right now in the Gulf of Mexico. The fact that we are not utilizing every resource to contain this spill shows just how negligent the Obama administration has been since this disaster began.
17 countries have offered help 21 times since the DeepWater Horizon rig exploded in April. Every offer of assistance has been turned down. In addition to being the most negligent administration in the history of the United States, it is also the most destructive. Had these offers of help been accepted from day one, we wouldn’t have oil seeping 6-inches into the beaches along the Gulf shore, hundreds if not thousands of birds wouldn’t be dying, and the economy of the southern gulf states wouldn’t be in shambles.
The Obama administration truly is an abomination.
Tuesday Truth
How’s that change working for those of you who voted for Obama?
Too bad we already used the nickname “slick” with President Clinton.