Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/05/amount-neurotoxin-pesticide-corexit-sprayed-bp-tops-1-million-gallons/

BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th
says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of
Mexico more than 1,021,000 gallons.
But what most people don’t know is that the active ingredient of the
toxic chemical dispersant, which is up to 60% by volume, being sprayed
by BP to fight the Gulf oil spill is a neurotoxin pesticide that is
acutely toxic to both human and aquatic life, causes cancer, causes
damage to internal organs such as the liver and kidneys simply by
absorbing it through the skin and may cause reproductive side effects.
In fact the neurotoxin pesticide that is lethal to 50% of life in
concentrations as little as 2.6 parts per million has been banned for use in the UK since
1998 because it failed the UK “Rocky shore test” which assures
that the dispersant does not cause a “significant deleterious ecological
change” – or to put that in layman’s terms it can kill off the entire
food chain.

we must keep putting the word out. Thanks for all the links, it is usefull having a team gather these for spreading out and about.
It is beyond frustrating how slow people are to realize the scale of this. Most people do NOT want to know. In deepest willful ignorance the majority do not think it will effect them. Why aren't they boycotting BP ?, Why isn't there useful outrage ? Why do people put up with the obama non response? It's like watching a bad zombie film in a room full of zombies.
People are just not ready to step into their power. Maybe some people are so tired and deluded they think fema camps will be a holiday .
Wow, I want these sub-humanoid people responsible rounded up so I can love them to death.
It's shocking it has to get this bad and we aren't even remotely there yet. However, the worse it gets the more I await and expect the awakening. Sad it had to come to this.Somehow I do stay positive, with a vengeance.

dolphin wrote:
i want to think positive about all this so i'm listening to BASHAR re. parallel realities, and wanting so much to be in a parallel one, NOT this one...

Stay in the ring of Light dolphin for this is where we can serve best .
Getting caught in the lower vibrations are only serving the matrix and
making it stronger .
Stay alert ...eyes wide open for the signs of the awakening masses .
That is " that something big " that is going to happen !
Stay tuned

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anomalous cowherd wrote: However, the worse it gets the more I await and expect the awakening. Sad it had to come to this.

A good initiative would be to start petitions around that say NO to further use of the chemicals dispersants . These are deadly and conceal under surface the actual extent of the spill .

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Oil spill glossary of terms


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I hear You Sister but I must admit that sometimes this is My Mood as regards Them and Their Reindeer Games...



Then It passes...

Mercuriel wrote:I hear You Sister but I must admit that sometimes this is My Mood as regards Them and Their Reindeer Games...

Then It passes...

We are having a human experience here dear brother
We must allow for some lightning going through our ring of Light at times

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Big Oil’s Chernobyl
June 7th, 2010

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion continues to spread across the fragile marshlands and coastal waters along Louisiana, coating thousands of birds and fish in crude and upsetting the Gulf’s delicate ecosystem. Now, even as BP officials say they are siphoning as much as 10,000 barrels of oil a day from the blown-out well, there is evidence that the slick may reach Florida and Texas. And the Coast Guard has said the clean-up could continue into the fall.

To get a sense of the long-term environmental impact, as well as the political fallout of the disaster, Need to Know’s Jon Meacham sat down with Carl Safina, president and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute. Safina says the Deepwater Horizon disaster may be the end of Big Oil as we know it.

Listen to the video here : http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/environment/big-oils-chernobyl/1298/

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Renowned Marine Biologist Carl Safina on the BP Ecological disaster





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Oil spill in the gulf : map of daily growth

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/oil-spill-map.htm

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Feds knew of Gulf spill risks in 2000, document shows

By SHASHANK BENGALI
McClatchy Newspapers


http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/08/v-fullstory/1670063/feds-knew-of-gulf-spill-risks.html

WASHINGTON -- A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater.

The disaster scenario - contained in a May 2000 offshore drilling plan for the Shell oil company that McClatchy Newspapers has obtained - is now a grim reality in the Gulf of Mexico. Less predictably, perhaps, the author of the document was the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, the regulatory agency that's come under withering criticism in the wake of the BP spill for being too cozy with industries it was supposed to be regulating.

The 2000 warning, however, indicates that some federal regulators were well aware of the potential hazards of deepwater oil production in its early years, experts and former MMS officials told McClatchy.

Yet over the past decade, the risks faded into the background as America thirsted for new oil sources, the energy industry mastered new drilling technologies, and the number of deepwater wells in the Gulf swelled into the thousands. Then-President George W. Bush ushered in the new era with an executive order on May 18, 2001, that pushed his administration to speed up the search for oil.

"I think it was certainly overwhelmed by the excitement of all the oil and gas that was starting to show up in the seismic studies and the technical excitement of how to drill these reservoirs," said Rick Steiner, a veteran environmental scientist who reviewed the document for McClatchy. "I think that had a way of subduing the real concern about the risk of these things."

The Shell plan, which Greenwire, an environmental news service, first reported last week, described a worst-case scenario for a deepwater blowout that in several instances reads like a preview of what's happened since the Deepwater Horizon rig began spewing crude into the Gulf seven weeks ago.

While noting that a major blowout was very unlikely, the Shell plan said: "Regaining well control in deep water may be a problem since it could require the operator to cap and control well flow at the seabed in greater water depths ... and could require simultaneous firefighting efforts at the surface."

The BP disaster started when the drilling platform exploded, sending a towering wall of flames into the sky and killing 11 workers before it sank.

The 2000 Shell plan also cautioned that an oil gusher wouldn't behave the same way in deepwater as one would in shallow water, where most drilling to that point had been done. "Spills in deep water may be larger due to the high production rates associated with deepwater wells and the length of time it could take to stop the source of pollution," it said.

Among its other warnings for a drill site less than 140 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon:

-The chemical dispersants required to clean up a major spill would expose adult birds to a combination of oil and dispersant that could "reduce chick survival."

-"Fish eggs and larvae within a potentially large area of the northern Gulf would be killed."

-In certain weather and oceanographic conditions, a large blowout could have "severe adverse impacts" for wetland areas.

-Not all the spilled oil would rise to the surface, and "there are few practical spill response options for dealing with submerged oil." It predicted that gas surging from a blowout could form hydrates and remain deep underwater, a likely cause of some toxic subsea oil "plumes" that scientists have identified in the BP spill.

"That's pretty prophetic," Steiner said.

Dennis Chew, a marine biologist who helped prepare the plan but has since retired after 21 years with the MMS, studied it again this week and said: "Bottom line, this (BP) blowout was preventable." However, he blamed the accident on human error and BP "cutting corners."

The Department of the Interior didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Chew and two other members of the team that prepared the Shell plan told McClatchy that MMS scientists had analyzed the potential impact of deepwater blowouts as far back as the late 1990s.

"Ten or 15 years ago, there used to be 200-page (environmental impact statements) on nothing but spills," Chew said. "It got to where people got tired of wading through them."

The 2000s, however, ushered in an era of aggressive, government-backed offshore oil production. In May 2001, Bush, acting on recommendations from the oil industry, signed an executive order that required federal agencies to expedite permits for energy projects and paved the way for greater domestic oil exploration.

The rush to drill in deep water swept aside warnings from MMS scientists and others, experts said.

"It's the fault of both the industry and the government," Steiner said. "If they had taken it seriously, they would have been ramping up production of safer blowout preventers and emergency procedures on board. They would have said, 'There's a 0.01 percent chance of this but that's enough for us, because this would be catastrophic.' "

As the agency that manages offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf and collects revenue from drilling leases, the MMS' regulatory failures and cozy relationship with the oil industry have been well documented. Its director, Elizabeth Birnbaum, resigned last month, and Obama administration officials have said the agency will be split into three branches to avoid conflicts of interest.

McClatchy reported last week that the MMS under the Obama administration had approved dozens of deepwater exploration plans that downplayed the threat of blowouts to marine life and fisheries. After McClatchy's inquiries, the administration ordered oil companies to resubmit the plans with additional safety information before they'd be allowed to drill new wells.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group, reported last month that BP's spill response plan erroneously listed seals and walruses as "sensitive biological resources" in the Gulf - suggesting that portions of BP's plan were cut and pasted from Arctic exploratory documents - and cited a Japanese home shopping website as one of its primary equipment providers.

Steiner found flaws in the 2000 Shell plan, too. It offered optimistic projections of the possibility of a deepwater blowout being bridged, or naturally sealed by sliding rock on the seafloor. It also said that a blowout from exploratory drilling would last only two days, supposedly due to bridging.

"This plan, like all of them, underestimates risk and overestimates the effectiveness of the response," Steiner said.
The Miami Herald

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/08/v-fullstory/1670063/feds-knew-of-gulf-spill-risks.html#ixzz0qS2DvKX8


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I seriously doubt that they used the toxic dispersant to"hide the body". it is not possible to hide anything like that for long. So,my conclusion it is part of a deliberate action against the living beings of this panet with the focus on people.

Norway bans deepwater oil drilling
June 8 2010



Norway will not allow any deepwater oil and gas drilling in new areas until the investigation into the explosion and spill in the US Gulf of Mexico is complete, Terje Riis-Johansen, the Nordic country’s energy minister, has said.

“We are now working on the 21st licensing round. It will be conducted in light of what we have experienced in the Gulf of Mexico,” Mr Riis-Johansen said in a statement.

“It is not appropriate for me to allow drilling in any new licences in deepwater areas until we have good knowledge of what has happened with the Deepwater Horizon [the Gulf rig that exploded on April 20] and what this means for our regulations,” he added.

It is the first such decision outside the US, which put in place a seven-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 people and has caused the biggest ever oil spill in US coastal waters.

Norway’s oil industry is eager for access to the estimated 1.3bn barrels of oil beneath the Lofoten islands of northern Norway to offset declining output from mature North Sea fields. Norwegian oil production has fallen by 50 per cent from its peak a decade ago.

But the government of Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister, is deeply divided over whether to open Lofoten, with pro-oil elements of his Labour party pitted against environmental opposition from others in the centre-left coalition. The Gulf of Mexico spill has bolstered the argument of those who want to protect Lofoten and its important cod spawning grounds from drilling.

The UK’s department of energy on Tuesday announced it would increase inspections and consider tightening other regulation in light of the US spill.

The moratorium in the US will cut production in the country’s most important region for new oil by 100,000-300,000 barrels a day, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

In a report to be published this week, the rich countries’ energy watchdog will reveal that were the moratorium to last one year, oil output in 2015 would be cut by 100,000 barrels a day. If the moratorium continued for two years, that loss would rise to 300,000 barrels a day, slashing 2015 production from the Gulf of Mexico by about 20-25 per cent.

Source: FT.com

Related article:

• BP oil spill fears hit North Sea as Norway bans
  drilling
  
• Mediastilte rond aanzienlijke olielekkage Noordzee
  

There is no 100% safety in that business .
They messed up Earth's oceans and ecosystem well enough with their obvious and less obvious spills .
The debate should 'nt be about safe oil rigs or not but rather no oil rigs at all and the focus turned
towards clean energy.
Stop adding figures along your bank accounts oil business people .
Pay heed to the well being of this Earth.
Realize we are only hosts on this planet .
The state of desolation you are leaving on the beautifull Blue this you'll hand to your own children and the next generations to come.
How safe is that ?



Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.


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Our oil addiction has always been messy
June 8, 2010

By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/

The explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent uncontrolled release of millions of litres of oil a day is a monumental disaster. But why are we surprised? Oil drilling and transportation are not like brain surgery; they involve brute technology to obtain and move crude oil, and oil is slopped around in this process every day. Over the years, numerous major spills have occurred on land, from drilling platforms at sea, and after collisions and breakups of ships.

Back in 1967, the Torrey Canyon spilled 117 million litres of crude oil off Cornwall, England. In 1976, the Argo Merchant dumped 29 million litres of fuel oil off Massachusetts. A blow-out at the offshore Ekofisk Bravo platform in 1977 released about 30 million litres into the North Sea in 1977, and the Amoco Cadiz dumped 260 million litres off France in 1978. We've seen oil spilled in dozens of other collisions, blowouts, deliberate releases (in 1991, Iraq released up to 1.9 billion litres of crude oil into the Persian Gulf), and storms (in 2005, hurricane Katrina caused the release of more than 25 million litres). Closer to home, in 1970, the Arrow spilled almost 10 million litres into Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia, and in 1988, the Odyssey dumped 159 million litres off St. John's, Newfoundland. And in 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled over 40 million litres into the pristine waters of Prince William Sound off the Alaska coast.

Today, tens of thousands of wells operate on land and at sea, massive supertankers move huge quantities across oceans, and pipelines and trucks transport oil over land. Stuff happens: earthquakes, accidents, storms, tides, icebergs, and of course, human error.

What can we learn from the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? First, there's no such thing as a "foolproof" technology because, as the computer Hal in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey knew, the biggest threat to a mission is a fallible, imperfect human being. We should also learn that relying so heavily on non-renewable fossil fuels for most of our energy needs carries numerous risks, from devastating spills to catastrophic climate change.

In 1979, I hosted a program called Tankerbomb that warned of the hazards of supertanker traffic from Alaska past the treacherous B.C. coast. A decade later, the Exxon Valdez spill confirmed that warning. More recently, a ferry, the Queen of the North, ran into Gil Island on B.C.'s North Coast. Human beings are fallible, and in B.C., our coast is marked by numerous rocks and reefs. That's why coastal First Nations are unanimous in their opposition to the proposed Enbridge pipeline to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands to the West Coast where it would be loaded onto ships. The possibility of a tanker accident is too great a risk to their communities and fishing grounds.

Supertankers are huge, up to 300 metres in length, and can haul enough energy to fuel a small city. It takes three kilometres and 14 minutes for such a vessel going at full speed to stop and reverse direction. Although most newer supertankers are equipped with double hulls to reduce the threat of a spill in the event of a collision, many ships still sport single hulls.

Corporations don't focus enough on prevention nor do they consider victims of their accidents a high priority. The Exxon Valdez spill led to litigation by several citizens' groups, including fishers, tour guides, and First Nations. The courts awarded them money, but the oil company appealed numerous decisions. During almost two decades of stalling, Exxon continued to earn record profits.

Supertanker accidents and the Gulf spill reveal how little attention is paid to prevention. As oil continues to gush from the deep-sea well in the Gulf, BP's response has been pathetic. We have to plan in exquisite detail for any exigency, not play fast and loose with our claims of having everything under control. And we really must start shifting from fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy sources. We can all do our part as well by conserving energy and by reducing our reliance on cars. And here in Canada, we can let our leaders know that we're counting on them to make sure our oceans and coastlines are protected from catastrophes like the one in the Gulf of Mexico.

Large oil spills:
http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/largestoilspills.htm

Exxon Valdez litigation timeline:
http://bit.ly/dibCPh

Gulf Spil Continues

After BP successfully placed a cap to divert some of the spewing oil into tankers, thousands of gallons continue to flow daily into the gulf. August is slated as the earliest date that any permanent solution may emerge. BP remains totally in charge of potentially the largest environmental disaster in the earth’s recorded history, a fact that proves - in 'check mate' fashion - that corporations dominate the inner workings of the U.S. government, a truth previously revealed by the bank bailouts.

More than one gigantic eco-system may be destroyed by BP, and the President of the U.S. is sadly reduced to lecturing in 'serious tones', with daily adjustments of tone based on the results of polling agencies.

When the polls reported that Obama wasn’t taking the oil spill seriously enough, his next TV appearance depicted him as 'outraged'. Yet his continuing lack of action doesn’t match his new, stronger emotions; nor does his inaction match the dire seriousness of the situation.

Indeed, Obama continues to allow BP to lie about the seriousness of the spill, even when numerous independent scientists disputed BP’s estimates of the spillage. Of course Obama knew that BP had a profit incentive to lie, while Obama has his own incentive to allow the lie - and continued lies - of BP.

One reason Obama doesn’t challenge BP is because he’s on their payroll. The news agency Reuters explains: “During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.” (May 5, 2010).

In July, BP is set to give its shareholders multi-billion dollar dividends - prompting more toothless anger from Obama - while BP continues to maintain a healthy distance from taking complete accountability for the oil spill.

The results are sadly predictable: many of the effects of the spill will be permanent, while the cleanup and recovery will go on for years and decades, possibly costing the extinction of some species and the United States billions and maybe trillions of dollars in the long term.

BP will throw itself at the mercy of the courts, an elite entity much friendlier to the mega-corporations than to the millions of U.S.workers demanding justice. Add to the equation BP’s elite attorneys and you have an eventual settlement — after years — that will equal the tiniest fraction of the caused devastation. This prediction was all but confirmed by the mainstream media, when Curt Anderson of the Associated Press reported: “More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases...” (June 6, 2010).

Aside from the above financial blocks to holding BP accountable, there lays a deeper code of ethics that prohibit government interference into the matters of private corporations, no matter how great the damage done to the general public.

At the top of this corporate code of ethics is the sacredness of property rights, meaning that large corporations have complete control — outside the grasp of any government — to do what they want with their giant wealth and facilities, wherever and whenever they want.

To the U.S. government, this right pre-empts human rights, environmental rights, etc. Property rights are enshrined in every free-trade agreement the U.S. government signs, so that overseas corporate investments are strictly protected, prohibiting foreign nations from using U.S. corporate facilities for the social needs of their native populations. Although BP is a British corporation, the rules of this code are mutual and global.

Nowadays, the tiniest crack in the foundation of corporate property rights constitutes “communism” — a right wing accusation hurled at Obama after he partially nationalized General Motors and other institutions in response to the economic crisis. And although Obama intruded into the sanctity of property rights when the financial crisis exploded, it was with the general consent of the corporate establishment— who viewed those actions as necessary, short-term evils — meant to save the investments of the rich, while using taxpayer money to rehabilitate the companies before they were eventually handed back to shareholders.

The emergency in the Gulf of Mexico, on the other hand, is viewed by the corporate elite as a lesser crisis, demanding the government not set another precedent that would point to the necessity of public ownership.

Obama’s unwillingness to push aside BP and take government charge of the operation makes him an accomplice to the environmental disaster. For example, in order that BP be allowed to remain at the helm, Obama has given them professional credibility where none should exist — “they have the expertise and technology,” etc. BP’s actions prior to the spill constitute criminal negligence. The comments of BP’s CEO since the spill undoubtedly prove that the company views the disaster as more of an inconvenience, to be handled at their leisure.

Furthermore, every public appearance of a BP executive or spokesperson serves to minimize the crisis, implying that a less immediate reaction is required. Indeed, as a for-profit company, BP’s
actions remain motivated by concern for their shareholders, whose only motivation is profit. In practice, this means fewer resources are dedicated to the spill than would be otherwise, since higher cleanup costs equal lower profits. One glaring example of this was cited in The New York Times, which quoted a scientist working for the Flow Rate Technical Group, a team of scientists trying to accurately gauge the flow of oil into the Gulf:

“It’s apparent that BP is playing games with us, presumably under the advice of their legal team,” Dr. Leifer said. “It’s six weeks that it’s been dumping into the gulf, and still no measurements.”
(June 7, 2010).

Local government officials in Florida are also disgusted with BP’s lack of action in preventing the oil from landing on their beaches, while doing next to nothing in cleaning up the beached oil. The attorney general of Florida complained: “I’m outraged…why are we waiting so long to do this? Why isthe Coast Guard, Obama, BP waiting? They’ve seen it coming, so why are we waiting?” (Bloomberg, June 7, 2010).

Obama’s religious faith in BP to properly handle the spill — after it had no emergency plan to deal with such a spill in the first place — borders on lunacy. But the logic is sensible from the corporate prospective, which preaches that all is rational which protects profits.

In a sane world, BP’s executives would be facing severe criminal charges, and the billions of profits they’ve earned in the last year would be confiscated to pay for the cleanup. BP’s infrastructure would be taken under the control of the U.S. government, which could ensure that the job was done correctly, timely, and publicly, as opposed to the shield of corporate secrecy currently protecting BP.

The ultimate lesson of this environmental/economic catastrophe is that Obama is not at all serious about confronting corporate interests. Rather, he allows them to stampede over the public interests, ensuring that such disasters will happen again.

Shamus Cooke is a social
service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org). He can be reached at shamuscooke@gmail.com

Global Research Articles by Shamus Cooke

first i want to say a real big Thank you Mudra, Transcorso and all the othe rs for posting all this reports. As we know there is not much in the news about this oil disaster.
Iam much concerned about this all. already in the beginning I was crying out" if they will not cover it, the oil will reach even europe"because of the gulf stream.
It is a big difference an oiltanker have a limit ; but with this oilwell nobody know when and if this will be stopping.
We all have to change the behavior about using oil first of all we can`t continue to drive our cars with petrol..(we don`t have a car )
we can`t using Plastic as we did and so on.
People will wake up but if they waking up slowly maybe it will be too late.
I hope they are waking up now!!Everyday I rise my voice and everyday I give a lot of light and love to Gaia.

Beautifully said, Sabina. And you are right, it is time to say big thank you again to Mudra and Trancosco and Carol and bergundia and spiritwarrior and Mercuriel...... and everyone else who brings us our news here. They do it from the heart, and I'm sure all of us want them to know how grateful we are.

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Thank you friends ,

As anomalous said it's important we keep sharing information .
We are all well aware of what is taking place in the gulf of Mexico.
The infos we post will be usefull to others who may come across them
and help them to wake up too .
It takes great strengh everyday to go and research these data but at the same
time a relief to know that by doing so we take action and contribute to bring what is
in the open .
I am gratefull to know you .
Thank you to Mercuriel for keeping this platform alive and to all of you here in the Mists to keep the spirits high.

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bushycat wrote:Beautifully said, Sabina. And you are right, it is time to say big thank you again to Mudra and Trancosco and Carol and bergundia and spiritwarrior and Mercuriel...... and everyone else who brings us our news here. They do it from the heart, and I'm sure all of us want them to know how grateful we are.



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Ditto!

An Excellent Summary of Events Leading to BP's Gulf Of Mexico Oil
Catastrophe...


Here is a report on the events that led up to the disaster. Very
enlightening as to what happened.
Corroborated by details via CBS News.

BP Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico - April 2010

Deepwater Horizon's Blowout , part 1 video

Scott Pelley speaks to Mike Williams , one of the survivors of the deadly Deepwater
Horizon oil rig blast who was in a position to know what caused the
disaster.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=related;photovideo

Deepwater Horizon's Blowout , part 2

Scott Pelley investigates the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that
killed 11, causing the ongoing oil leak in the waters off of Louisiana.
One survivor talks about his harrowing escape and what happened after he
got off the burning rig.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/main6490197.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

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