Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

Gulf Oil Spill: More than a Sea Change
From Commander Cousteau's blog

In the midst of desperate attempts to stem the flow of oil and the agony of waiting to understand its effects, we are left with simple questions like what exactly is happening to the waters of the Gulf? And how quickly can we move from dependence on oil to a sustainable, renewable energy policy?
Absolutely no one knows the damage being done throughout the mile-deep water column. Crude oil and gas are gushing out at a few thousand pounds per square inch of pressure. These very complex chemicals hit ice-cold water and travel one mile up to the surface and warmer water. This is similar to an oil refinery process where temperature and pressure convert crude oil into all sorts of other compounds. What are those compounds? Which ones are toxic? Which ones dissolve in water, which sink and which come to the surface? I truly doubt anyone knows fully what is happening.

On the subject of unknown chemicals, dispersants are being used in massive quantities. Dispersants are known to be harmful to aquatic life and some scientists believe that these chemicals are likely to be more harmful to organisms than is much of the oil. In addition, dispersants only disperse; they don't break down or detoxify. So, here we are adding more pollutants to an already massive amount of pollution. Why? Only to make the oil less visible!

Read more : http://www.oceanfutures.org/news/blog/gulf-oil-spill-more-sea-change

Love Always
mudra

http://rense.com/general91/pred.htm

Half Past Human March 2010
Predictions Of Oil Disaster
By Clif High
6-24-10

In light of the enormous environmental BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf Of Mexico, I've been going through the 'Shape of Things to Come' ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis) Report, published March 12, 2010 by the amazing Clif High...the wizard behind the Half Past Human research. The following are some remarkable and haunting excerpts from Clif's ALTA Report Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved by Clif High of www.halfpasthuman.com ... "The oceans are described as being not as before." "Disastrous summerproblems with oceanic convection currents." "the supporting aspect/attributes sets for the oceans being unlike their former selves." "oceanic nightmare." "tidal problems to impact the offloading of ships in ports." "Ocean changes linked to volcanos" (lots of volcanic activity and the oil blowout itself has been compared to a 'volcano' of oil) "many areas of costal habitat are forecast to be effectively forbidden for use." "Destruction of life support systems." "Indications are many of the problems are related to the core of the planet." "humans and other life directly impacted by large clouds of drifting complex methane..." "methane gas release events coincide with dysfunction with the propaganda press." "percolating up" "governments merge naval operations into some large and mysterious fleet operations."

Full article

Yesterday interview with Jeff and Cliff part 1:



Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/user/webbotproject#p/c/A6B8C4D5255D6A65

Dr.Nyman from LSU speaking on the Dispersant issue

Crude oil less damaging to marine life than dispersed one



Love Always
mudra

Environmental Engineer: Dispersants Have to Stop Now
June 17, 2010

http://current.com/technology/92497945_must-stop-using-toxic-dispersant-now-says-environmental-engineer-video.htm

DAPHNE, Alabama - Joe Taylor, an environmental engineer in Daphne, says BP's use of the dispersant Corexit is wrong, and they will kill the Gulf of Mexico. And Taylor has the scientific knowledge to back up his claim. He's been cleaning up petroleum contamination for many years.

He says the sulfur and sulfuric acid based dispersant makes the oil spewing into the gulf sink, where its impossible to clean up--and where it depletes oxygen levels under the water, killing plankton and everything above plankton in the food chain. "Corexit is toxic, petroleum is toxic, and its depleting the oxygen levels," he says.

What's worse says Taylor, is that if he knows this information, so does BP. "They have a lot of chemists who are a lot smarter than I am, and they know this," he says.

Taylor says Corexit is a very good dispersant, but its being used by BP the wrong way. He says using it on the bulk of the crude bubbling out of the gulf is not what it was meant to do. Their efforts should be letting the oil rise to the surface, then skimming and collecting as much as possible. He says the dispersant should be used on what's left.

Taylor says there are several other products that are bio-friendly and work well with bacteria that naturally eat oil. But Corexit is killing those bacteria too. He says the dispersant Biosolve is bio-friendly and could even be used on the beaches. He said it would separate the oil from the sand, then a spray of oil-eating bacteria could be laid down to ingest the solid oil that is left.

Unfortunately, like so many others, Taylor has had a hard time getting the ear of any decision makers at BP. He vows to keep trying.

Watch video at the link

Love Always
mudra

Former Oil Worker Says Cleanup Just For Show

GULF SHORES, Alabama - Former oil clean-up worker Candi Warren says she signed up to make a difference, but soon found out the work of cleaning the beaches was all cosmetic. That's what she was told, she says.

Warren says she knew that when crews worked during the day, the tide and surf buried oil overnight. But they were forbidden to dig it up. She quit in disgust three weeks ago despite the $18 per hour pay.

She said she was told to only clean the surface of the sand, that this is all cosmetic. She was on a crew at Gulf State Park where tourists go. She says it has priority so as to make it look like the beaches are clean.

Warren says she believes money is being wasted on the crews and says "At some point the real clean-up will have to begin, but I'm afraid the money will be gone."

She used a shovel and dug down six, eight, maybe twelve inches into the sand to show us the layers of oil close to the shoreline.

Watch video at the link : http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/former-oil-worker-says-cleanup-just-for-show/899852/Jun-24-2010_8-46-pm/

Love Always
mudra

U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits

WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf.

As the oil spill reaches land, we would like your updates and photographs of what you’re seeing.
Those approvals, federal records show, include one for the well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers and resulting in thousands of barrels of oil spilling into the gulf each day.

The Minerals Management Service, or M.M.S., also routinely overruled its staff biologists and engineers who raised concerns about the safety and the environmental impact of certain drilling proposals in the gulf and in Alaska, according to a half-dozen current and former agency scientists.

Those scientists said they were also regularly pressured by agency officials to change the findings of their internal studies if they predicted that an accident was likely to occur or if wildlife might be harmed.

Read full article here : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14agency.html?hp

Love Always
mudra

After seeing that mother getting sun on the beach while her kids walk in oil, I can't help but think that this situation in the Gulf is pretty much like the Titanic. People react the same way (it can't sink), and the analogy that there is not enough life boats would even apply. The Oil Spill in 5 seconds:

http://projectavalon.net/lang/en/whats_new.html

'SHR' speaking for two hours answering technical questions on The BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well Blowout and what we are facing in the Gulf.

The BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well Blowout and what we are facing in the Gulf
http://projectavalon.net/The_BP_Deepwater_Horizon_Macondo_Well_Blowout_and_what_we_are_facing_in_the_Gulf.mp3

In my opinion this is the best audio orientation about the problem currently available. When he really gets going, pin your ears back and Enjoy. He pulls no punches, is very well-informed, and knows exactly what he's talking about.

Oiled dolphin's rescue ends in death


Travis said the dolphin was crying as people rushed to save it. She said people scraped oil off the dolphin with their hands.
“It was so sad. It just broke our hearts,” Travis said. (...)
The dolphin did not survive. It died while enroute to Gulf World Marine Park, a rescue facility in Panama City.


The rest of the article, photo's and a video here ---------> http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/saw-30310-dolphin-fort.html

and here: http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/dead-oil-coated-baby-dolphin-carried-to-shore-by-tourist-photos-dolphin-was-crying-as-people-oil-off-coast-guard-unclear-on-cause-of-death

metaw3 wrote:http://projectavalon.net/lang/en/whats_new.html

'SHR' speaking for two hours answering technical questions on The BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well Blowout and what we are facing in the Gulf.

The BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well Blowout and what we are facing in the Gulf
http://projectavalon.net/The_BP_Deepwater_Horizon_Macondo_Well_Blowout_and_what_we_are_facing_in_the_Gulf.mp3

In my opinion this is the best audio orientation about the problem currently available. When he really gets going, pin your ears back and Enjoy. He pulls no punches, is very well-informed, and knows exactly what he's talking about.

Metaw your link does'nt work .
I am reposting it for you :

http://projectavalon.net/The_BP_Deepwater_Horizon_Macondo_Well_Blowout_and_what_we_are_facing_in_the_Gulf_SHR_12_June_2010.mp3

Love Always
mudra

EPA data show dispersants plus oil are more toxic than either alone
June 14, 2010 | Posted by Richard Denison in EPA, Environment, Hazard, Industry, Oil dispersants

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.


In an earlier post, I noted in haste some apparent discrepancies between EPA and BP acute toxicity data on the Corexit® dispersants. Little did I realize that the data mixup was actually telling me something much more significant: that the dispersant maker’s own test data demonstrate that the combination of oil plus dispersant is quite a bit more toxic than the dispersant alone and – even more significant – the combination is more acutely toxic than the oil by itself.

Let me repeat that: The data indicate that dispersed oil is more toxic than undispersed oil. EPA has posted the dispersant manufacturer Nalco’s “Technical Product Bulletins” for each of the dispersants that have been used in the Gulf: Corexit® EC9527A and Corexit® EC9500A.

Section VII of each of the bulletins shows the toxicity data for a) dispersant alone, b) the reference oil used in the test, No. 2 fuel oil, and c) a mixture of dispersant and test oil at a 1:10 ratio. Here are the data (remember, the lower the value, the more toxic the substance):

read all here :http://blogs.edf.org/nanotechnology/2010/06/14/epa-data-show-dispersants-plus-oil-are-more-toxic-than-either-alone/

Love Always
mudra

mudra wrote:
Metaw your link does'nt work .
I am reposting it for you :

http://projectavalon.net/The_BP_Deepwater_Horizon_Macondo_Well_Blowout_and_what_we_are_facing_in_the_Gulf_SHR_12_June_2010.mp3

Thanks mudra. I'm almost done listening. At 01:59:28:

A caller: "What about air quality? There's no mask or anything that can mitigate this. They can't protect themselves. What are they gonna do?"

(pause)

SHR: "You're gonna die."

Host moves on to next question.

Ah ah ah! That's what Obama should have said in his speech.

metaw3 wrote:

mudra wrote:
Metaw your link does'nt work .
I am reposting it for you :

http://projectavalon.net/The_BP_Deepwater_Horizon_Macondo_Well_Blowout_and_what_we_are_facing_in_the_Gulf_SHR_12_June_2010.mp3

Thanks mudra. I'm almost done listening. At 01:59:28:

A caller: "What about air quality? There's no mask or anything that can mitigate this. They can't protect themselves. What are they gonna do?"

(pause)

SHR: "You're gonna die."

Host moves on to next question.

Ah ah ah! That's what Obama should have said in his speech.

Yes it's a great interview Metaw.
I believe the best explanation on what 's taking place in the gulf of Mexico.
After reading him it was very good to hear him talking.
It reinforced my trust in this guy. He is very clear and to the point and not conveying
fear .. only facts .
Thank you for posting it .

Love from me
mudra

Ah ah ah! That's what Obama should have said in his speech.

It's not the same Obama as before, it seems...

This is (one of) the reason(s).
http://www.themistsofavalon.net/news-views-f9/is-the-military-threatening-to-kill-obama-yes-t232.htm

Americans could send this information below to President Obama if he and his government are intent on doing something about the oil spill...hopefully it won't be thrown in the junk folder by his Zionist operatives...
________________________________________________
Time is Eternity looking backwards at Itself...........Jen's Muse

mudra wrote:Environmental Engineer: Dispersants Have to Stop Now
June 17, 2010

http://current.com/technology/92497945_must-stop-using-toxic-dispersant-now-says-environmental-engineer-video.htm

DAPHNE, Alabama - Joe Taylor, an environmental engineer in Daphne, says BP's use of the dispersant Corexit is wrong, and they will kill the Gulf of Mexico. And Taylor has the scientific knowledge to back up his claim. He's been cleaning up petroleum contamination for many years.

He says the sulfur and sulfuric acid based dispersant makes the oil spewing into the gulf sink, where its impossible to clean up--and where it depletes oxygen levels under the water, killing plankton and everything above plankton in the food chain. "Corexit is toxic, petroleum is toxic, and its depleting the oxygen levels," he says.

What's worse says Taylor, is that if he knows this information, so does BP. "They have a lot of chemists who are a lot smarter than I am, and they know this," he says.

Taylor says Corexit is a very good dispersant, but its being used by BP the wrong way. He says using it on the bulk of the crude bubbling out of the gulf is not what it was meant to do. Their efforts should be letting the oil rise to the surface, then skimming and collecting as much as possible. He says the dispersant should be used on what's left.

Taylor says there are several other products that are bio-friendly and work well with bacteria that naturally eat oil. But Corexit is killing those bacteria too. He says the dispersant Biosolve is bio-friendly and could even be used on the beaches. He said it would separate the oil from the sand, then a spray of oil-eating bacteria could be laid down to ingest the solid oil that is left.

Unfortunately, like so many others, Taylor has had a hard time getting the ear of any decision makers at BP. He vows to keep trying.

Watch video at the link

Love Always
mudra

A Little Experiment...

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

I have this old bucket that I fill with water for hand watering small fruits and other things in my yard. Tuesday, I still had a gallon or two of water in it when I was done. I just left it in there. Thursday, I came home, and was getting ready to re-fill it, when I noticed the rainbow sheen of oil.

I dumped out the water, cleaned it out with dish detergent, rinsed it thoroughly, re-filled it, did my watering, and purposefully re-filled it with a couple of gallons of fresh water. Last night, I made sure there was no oily sheen there.

Sad to report that there is a very light sheen of oil on the surface of the water, today. I am going to continue this experiment every day, now. Hopefully, when the light gets a little better, I can start taking pictures, and getting them posted here on a day-to-day basis.

I'd like to ask you all to start conducting this same, simple experiment, if you live within the "Gulf Moisture Bubble" from the Gulf to the Mid-South, to Georgia.

Take a clean bucket or wash basin, fill it with fresh water daily. Check it every 24-hours, and repeat. Report observations in comments, right here. Perhaps some Math-type with mad graphing skillz will help map our observations over the coming weeks.



Pointing at a blue blob of concentrated Oil sheen



A bunch of little concentrations just to the right of my fingers



I ran my finger through the sheen twice. You can see the clean streaks starting North East of my finger... running NE. The rest is sheen. It almost looks a uniform lavender in the upper right portion "light circle" in the pic.

Love Always
mudra

Look at this!!!

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/infographic-tallest-mountain-to-deepest-ocean-trench-0249/

Our amazing planet from top to bottom.

Mudra, with your experiment each person participating should give their location as well so we can track where this is happening around the planet.

The upcoming problems for the locals in the Gulf is daunting.

Power and Water Problems Loom for Florida as Oil Threat Lurks Off Shore

Wayne Madsen
June 15, 2010

Informed emergency planning sources in Florida have informed WMR that the state faces severe fresh water shortages and power blackouts if the thick crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster clogs sea water intakes at the largest seawater desalinisation plant in the United States — the Tampa Bay Seawater Desalinisation Plant at Apollo Beach in Tampa, Florida.

The plant, which uses seawater reverse osmosis to turn seawater into 16 to 19 million gallons of drinking water daily for residents of the Tampa Bay area, faces the threat of filtration membranes becoming clogged if oil from the Gulf of Mexico enters its intake pipes. Such an event would render the plant unable to process seawater, resulting in a major fresh water shortage for the Tampa Bay.

Similarly, oil clogging the water cooling intakes at the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant on the Gulf of Mexico coast, some 80 miles north of Tampa, could force the shutdown of the Unit 3 pressurized water nuclear reactor. Such an event would result in power shutdowns in the Florida areas served by the power plant.

The Obama administration has taken a page from the government of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Chernobyl in censoring the bad news from the Gulf oil mega-disaster. The Chernobyl cover-up largely resulted in the hastening of glasnost and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

I know you are already doing something mudra but wasn't sure if this was posted.

Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:46 AM

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/dr.emotos_message_2.html

Focusing our energies in response to the Gulf tragedy and for healing the waters and its inhabitants -

Yesterday at our spiritual center we read a letter from Dr. Masaru Emoto who many of you will recognize as the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water. Among other things, his research reveals that water physically responds to emotions.

Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that emotion, we may be of greater assistance to our planet and its life forms, if we sincerely, powerfully and humbly pray the prayer that Dr Emoto, himself, has proposed.

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.
To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . . I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you. "

We are passing this request to people who we believe might be willing to participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are not powerless. We are powerful. Our united energy, speaking this prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of destruction that is happening.

We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.

Please join us in oft repeating this healing prayer of of Dr. Emoto's.
And feel free to copy and paste this to send it around the planet.
Let's take charge, and do our own clean up!

And so it is! Pass it on.

Carol wrote:Mudra, with your experiment each person participating should give their location as well so we can track where this is happening around the planet.

Indeed Carol . Maybe Mercuriel could track these reports on a map .
That would be usefull.

Love from me
mudra

Location of report above of oil sheen on water :Tipton County Tennessee

Love Always
mudra

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Season+tropical+storm+forms+near+Yucatan/3205895/story.html

Season's 1st tropical storm forms near Yucatan

ATLANTA -- Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Saturday near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with the potential to become a hurricane and disrupt efforts to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Alex had sustained winds of 46 mph (73 km per hour) and was located about 200 miles (320 km) east of Belize City, Belize.

It was moving west-northwest at 10 mph (16 kph) on a path that was expected to take it toward Belize and over the Yucatan Peninsula during the weekend and then into the Gulf of Mexico, where BP officials are battling to contain a massive oil spill.

"Once in the Gulf of Mexico ... in a couple of days the cyclone could gain some strength and Alex is forecast to become a hurricane by the end of the forecast period," the center said.

It was too early to know whether Alex could threaten oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, or whether it could affect clean-up operations from the oil spill and possibly force a temporary shutdown

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Season+tropical+storm+forms+near+Yucatan/3205895/story.html#ixzz0ryhalQNj

Mainstream is now picking up on dougr/SHR:

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metaw3 wrote:

Mainstream is now picking up on dougr/SHR:

Amazing ..
The truth comes out on mainstream .
Excellent

Can someone there in the US send them that life interview we have from dougr ?

Love from me
mudra

A site I found today and now follow:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/

Reports by local residents. A lot of reports about air quality.

Gulf Coast Toxicity Syndrome

June 23, 2010 by Mark Sircus
Filed under Featured Content

IMVA Emergency Alert


AP

Vicki B. Escarra, President and CEO of Feeding America, wrote, “Alongside natural disaster, a very real human disaster looms. The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has wrought havoc on sea and on land. But attention is now turning to the long-term effects the disaster will have on the coastlines, on businesses, and on American men, women and children. The immediate effects of the oil spill are obvious. Others, such as its effects on American families, will be hard to measure and will take years to document.”

Continue this LONG article at: http://intotheashes.imva.info/?p=311/#arrive