Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

"Static Kill" Operation Preparations...
http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

Thad Allen is saying that BP's "Static Kill" Operations are about to begin. They are repairing a problem topside, and the mud pumping will soon begin.

Thad Allen is telling us that the Operation could take 36-66 hours. This of course, is a big fib. Folks who have been reading here since the first "Top Kill" know that the operation should only take a few hours of pumping, as long as the casing is sound. Specifically-- a Top Kill, even if it is a mystical "Static Kill," should happen quickly. It is SUPPOSED to happen quickly.

How it works:
They start the mud pumping under heavy pressure (over the ~7,000psi of the damaged casing upflow), it makes a tall, heavy column, which should out-weigh the rising Methane and Oil pressure, and sink it all down to the reservoir. Done. Less than five hours. Any more, it will be a fail, and then we'll have to wait another couple of days for the Relief Well to fail.

UPDATE: Release date: 02 August 2010
During final preparations to commence with the injectivity test, a small hydraulic leak was discovered in the capping stack hydraulic control system. The injectivity test, previously announced to take place today, will be rescheduled until the leak is repaired.

It is anticipated that the injectivity test and possibly the static kill will take place Tuesday. Press Release From BP




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From Monkeyfitsers blog
august 3 2010

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

BP's "Static Kill" Looks Like a Failure...


First Mud pumping attempt resulted in seabed blow-out, and a series of new leaks at the Stacking Cap.

They stopped for about an hour or so, they JUST restarted.

Seabed Blow-out.

Fail.



Epic FAIL.

Dear Media--

Please curb your enthusiasm right now, and get down to reporting what is happening. The truth does not begin, nor end with the words of Thad Allen or Kent Wells.

--mf


This is a big failure. The aftermath of Mud Push attempt

#2:



I guarantee you all that Thad Allen and Kent Wells are going to go in front of the Press tomorrow morning, and tell everyone, with straight faces, that every thing is going exactly as planned... Unless Mud Push #3 results in utter blowout.

There is no hiding the enormity of this failure. Every Mud Push is evident, and obvious to see.

This is not only an epic failure, it is a very dangerous failure.

Nothing to laugh about here.




We'll see. I would LOVE to be wron here, but even as Kent Wells tells me that everything is normal, huge gouts of gack out of the same seabed where we used to only see small spouts is not normal.

Let's hope the Mud seals those rifts.

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Meanwhile on main stream media ..

BP: Blown-Out Gulf Well Is in 'Static Condition'
Published August 04, 2010 | Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/04/bp-says-static-kill-gulf-successful/

DISASTERS

BP: Blown-Out Gulf Well Is in 'Static Condition'
Published August 04, 2010 | Associated Press

AP
Aug 3: An employee sits in the bridge of the Helix Q4000 as it performs the 'static kill' operation at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- In a significant step toward stopping the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, BP said Wednesday mud that was forced down its blown-out well was holding back the flow of crude in the Gulf of Mexico and it was in a "static condition."

Workers stopped pumping mud in after about eight hours of their "static kill" procedure and were monitoring the well to ensure it remained stable, BP said.

"The well pressure is now being controlled by the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud, the desired outcome of the static kill procedure," the company said in a statement.

BP spokeswoman Sheila Williams said, "It's a milestone. It's a step toward the killing of the well."

more at the link :
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/04/bp-says-static-kill-gulf-successful/

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More main stream media news..

BP oil spill: three-quarters of oil 'eliminated'
04 Aug 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7925669/BP-oil-spill-three-quarters-of-oil-eliminated.html

The US government is expected to announce that three quarters of the oil that has leaked out of the Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico has already dispersed or evaporated.

A government report into environmental damage caused by the biggest oil spill in the country's history has found that the remaining oil is so diluted that it poses little risk of harm.

While 26 per pent of the leaked crude was still in the water or on the coast, where it threatens birds and wildlife, it is rapidly breaking down, the report found.

The news, which will be welcomed by conservationists fighting the slick, comes as BP began an attempt to permanently seal off the leaking well with a mixture of mud and cement.
"There's absolutely no evidence that there's any significant concentration of oil that's out there that we haven't accounted for," Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the lead agency in producing the new report told the New York Times.

More at the link :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7925669/BP-oil-spill-three-quarters-of-oil-eliminated.html

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An AUTOPSY of the BP Gulf Oil Well at the Macondo Prospect
Posted on August 3, 2010

http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/an-autopsy-of-the-bp-gulf-oil-well-at-the-macondo-prospect/

Many have been asking about the current state of the previously gushing BP Oil Well at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The following questions have been coming fast and furiously since the well was capped.

Is it still leaking at the wellhead? Has the wellhead been pierced? Are there other wells leaking in the region?

Are there methane seeps in the area around the well? Are there other leaks in the area coming from this well?

Has the well been breached? Is it beyond repair? How deep are the leaks and breaches?

Has the well-casing been compromised? Has the well-bore lost its integrity? Did the methane explosion undermine the foundation of the wellhead?

Why was the cementing plan not executed according to industry SOP’s? Has the pressure (high psi) forced effluent through cracks and fissures in the cement?

Is BP considering a nuclear option?! Are the relief wells about this? If so, what are the potential consequences should BP execute such a plan?

What is the purpose of the upcoming top kill operation by BP, and will it work? What is the likelihood of success of the relief wells?

What are the prospects of this well ever being permanently sealed? Should BP have ever drilled this well in the first place? Why has so much gone wrong with the entire process of drilling, and then capping this seemingly untamable oil gusher?

For the first time we have received a pictorial rendition of what may have occurred over the several stages of developing the Macondo Prospect oil well. Full credit goes to BK Lim for publishing these revealing diagrams on alternative news websites. It is quite consistent with reports and assessments that we have received over the past three and a half months since the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon.

Again, we express our deepest gratitude to BK Lim for these diagrammatic portrayals of the well gone bad at the Macondo Prospect.

Dr. Tom Termotto, BCIM
National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (International Citizens’ Initiative)
Tallahassee, FL
OilSpillSolution@comcast.net
http://oilspillsolutionsnow.org/
SKYPE: Gulf_Advocate

Diagrammatic Illustration of BP’s Deepwater Horizon Blowout

By BK Lim

See detailed article on next post


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Why is BP's Macondo blowout so disastrous & Beyond Patch-up.
Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:10 AM EDT

http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/30/4781973-why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up-

(25 July 2010, hydrocomgeo@gmail.com).

There has been so much information (or mis-information) on the disaster it is difficult to separate the facts from the myths, let alone decide who is or are to be held responsible for the oil spill disaster. There is a need for a working geological model to integrate all the scattered pieces of information and evidence together, so that law makers can zoom into areas where data had been lacking (or withheld) and the wrongs be corrected in order for the industry to move forward. The fact that so many wells (even in deeper waters) had been drilled successfully in the past in the same Gulf region suggests that there may be more “hidden” factors that caused this blowout to be so disastrous.

The geological model presented here is based on facts derived from past blowout investigations that had been equally puzzling. It provides a fresh perspective into the blowout investigation which until now had been overly focused on the drilling itself. If the well blowout was already a disaster in waiting, there is absolutely nothing the drilling crew could do to prevent the blowout, short of abandoning the well prior to reaching the reservoir. The fact that this geological model had been independently generalized from data and information available on the public domain means that there is room for more detailed infill and ample opportunities for BP’s technical experts to prove the model wrong. On the other hand, if subsequent revelations (from yet to be published data or information) substantiate or improve on the accuracy of the model, then this geological modeling effort, is heading the right direction in providing a more sound basis for corrective measures towards making the oil industry safer from such future disasters.

Continue reading detailed article here:

http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/30/4781973-why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up-

Check all diagrams on the link :

http://phoenixrisingfromthegulf.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/an-autopsy-of-the-bp-gulf-oil-well-at-the-macondo-prospect/


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BP representative Jason French meets with residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana, July 29, 2010:

At 5:45 in: “They’re still spraying the oil at night… I agree with Dean… It’s happening everywhere in the Gulf right now.”

Original 3 part series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOz2KXdmo8
Eyewitness Report: http://solveclimate.com/node/5054


Town Hall reveals BP is STILL using dispersant on oil spill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3pfF97uWQ&feature=player_embedded



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BP : Grand Isle Town Hall Meeting
29th july 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOz2KXdmo8



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SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
BP Oil Spill: URGENT UPDATE! Corexit Operations Still In Progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhbCu8ybVno&feature=player_embedded



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so we still have no idea whats going on in the gulf.. my overall take on this is, the oil spill happened on purpose so they could justify trhe use of millions of gallons of the eco system destroying corexit. its kills all sea life or heavily poiusons what it comes in cointact with. then people eat it and die slowly, also the air water evaporation treansfer of the corexit into the atmosphere which will affect the crops and fauna on the land in the south.

mudra wrote:BP representative Jason French meets with residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana, July 29, 2010:

At 5:45 in: “They’re still spraying the oil at night… I agree with Dean… It’s happening everywhere in the Gulf right now.”

Original 3 part series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOz2KXdmo8
Eyewitness Report: http://solveclimate.com/node/5054


Town Hall reveals BP is STILL using dispersant on oil spill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3pfF97uWQ&feature=player_embedded



Good thing Pres Obama already got the $20 billion from BP. That's probably all the Gulf residents will get. Sometimes a Chicago style shakedown is the only alternative.

Sea floor rising: video 2nd August

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5alY3-ydJ8

pineal-pilot-in merkabah wrote:so we still have no idea whats going on in the gulf.. my overall take on this is, the oil spill happened on purpose so they could justify trhe use of millions of gallons of the eco system destroying corexit. its kills all sea life or heavily poiusons what it comes in cointact with. then people eat it and die slowly, also the air water evaporation treansfer of the corexit into the atmosphere which will affect the crops and fauna on the land in the south.

I must say I am holding same views as you Pineal .
There is hardly a single day BP did'nt massively use dispersants even up to now .
With or without oil this is a disaster of it's own .
A chemical weapon that we even can't get rid of !

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Censored Gulf news: State-sponsored terrorism targets Deep South for Agenda 21 (Pt1)
August 3, 2010 by Alex

http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m8d2-Statesponsored-terrorism-in-the-Deep-South-act-of-war

Human Rights Examiner
Deborah Dupre’

“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” ~ David Rockefeller Sept. 23, 1994

Obama, his administration and military continue aerial spraying the Gulf of Mexico’s people and their air, water, land and food with the neurotoxic pesticide banned in other countries, Corexit. Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s stop the spray bill, scientists’ demand to stop it, and BP protesters will unlikely end this crime against humanity, planned and conducted with sophisticated albeit evil petro-chemical-military industrial complex expertise.
The CIA, Defense Department, EPA, and petro-chemical giants have been bed-fellows for decades, under the covers in the dark, secretly manufacturing and testing aerial spray chemical weapons on Americans and other nationals to control and depopulate, (1) terrorist acts part of Agenda 21. Trusting this cabal and its collaborating local, state and federal agencies claiming their research proves anything beneficial for humanity is tragically naive – and dangerous. It’s operation is saturating the Deep South with some 2 million gallons of deadly chemicals brewing with crude oil poisons.

read in full at the link : http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m8d2-Statesponsored-terrorism-in-the-Deep-South-act-of-war

AC Griffith on the Freedomlink radio speaks about agenda 21 and the Gulf of Mexico




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Censored Gulf dispersant news: Act of war (Pt II) The art of chemical warfare
July 11, 11:09 PMHuman Rights ExaminerDeborah Dupre'

http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d11-Censored-Gulf-news-Act-of-war-Pt-II

]b]Gassed in the Gulf (Part II) Toward Full Spectrum Dominance
EPA, DoD, PetroChem corporations: bed fellows to rid “pests”[/b]

Chemical warfare on Americans in the Gulf Coast region and beyond has been planned and researched by the EPA, DoD and petro-chemical companies for decades according to government documents, some cited within this report below.
It is tragically naive to think that the Gulf region aerial pesticide spraying will stop before the mission is complete. The major agency holding the key to halt the genocide, the agency portrayed as the government body protecting the public and environment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been collaborating with chemical companies and the Department of Defense (DoD) for decades rather than protecting the public from their kill-off agenda. This collaboration increased during the Bush administration, its fruits finally overtly witnessed in Obama' Gulf operation.

Read in full : http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d11-Censored-Gulf-news-Act-of-war-Pt-II


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Proof Well ‘A’ Capped Well ‘B’ Exploded – Still Flowing? Sea Floor Eruptions

July 31, 2010
http://theintelhub.com/2010/07/31/proof-well-a-capped-well-b-exploded/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZx6ZCZCGg&feature=player_embedded


You will find this very interesting. This is new but backed with the public documents BP filed when it planned to drill 2 wells a few hundred feet from each other in MC252. Testimony says they abandoned the 1st well. Guess where the rovers and cameras are? On the exact coordinates of the 1st well. No rovers or cameras are on the 2nd well a few hundred feet away. That would make Matt Simmon’s analysis, where he was saying that could not have put all the oil in the gulf. Something is very fishy will all this. The spill covered almost the size of Maryland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gG4Fz9B3d4&feature=player_embedded


A video of Boa ROV being hit is a large violent eruptions from the sea floor. Proof that the oil and methane are still flowing into the gulf at huge rate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelK4Ic5_QM&feature=player_embedded


Day 103: This is another live feed, from Boa Deep C ROV on July 31, showing turbulent eruption from sea floor.

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Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society At the request of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, the Ocean Futures team spent the weekend diving in the Gulf of Mexico, searching for remnants of the oil spill.

Videos from the Field: August 4, 2010 | Ocean Futures Society www.oceanfutures.org


http://www.oceanfutures.org/action/offshore-oil-drilling/videos-field/august-4

This is new, from Kindra Arneson's Facebook page. Kindra ArnesenThis is our web page please repost

www.chslouisiana.org

Links to local videos...haven't seen most of them yet.

Photos to Kindra from a Facebook friend in Chicago, I believe: Plant damage from toxic rain, possibly.



https://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=46041&id=1403624880

Photographer of Gulf


The Nature Conservancy Photographer Bridget Besaw reports from Louisiana - see her incredible photos and hear interviews with people on the front lines.
Photo Slideshow:: The Gulf - Out on the Water
www.nature.org

As an environmental photojournalist, Bridget tells the story of the human connection to the natural world. The primary inspiration for her work is environmental protection. To see more of Bridget's work please visit: http://www.bridgetbesaw.com/

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/100038259.html

Gulf Oil Spill Gone? Not So Fast, Says Texas A&M Oceanographer

COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 5, 2010 - Reports saying that 75 percent of the gulf oil spill has either been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces are likely incorrect, and there are still big problems lurking beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, says a Texas A&M scientist who conducted one of the first on-site studies of the spill.

John Kessler, assistant professor of oceanography in the College of Geosciences, says reports that most of the gulf oil has disappeared and appears no longer to be a problem are misleading, if not totally inaccurate. Bottom line, he explains: there are still large amounts of oil and gas in the gulf and they still pose big problems.


"Recent reports seem to say that about 75 percent of the spill has been taken care of, and that is just not true," Kessler says.

"These reports seem to indicate that about 25 percent of the spill has been recovered or removed, another 25 percent has been dispersed, and another 25 percent has been evaporated or dissolved. But the reality is that only 25 percent has been removed from the ocean - the rest is still out there. Just because the form of the material is now dissolved or dispersed doesn't mean it isn't in the ocean and doesn't pose significant problems."

Kessler, who headed a National Science Foundation research expedition to the site in mid-June and reported finding methane levels about 100,000 times above normal near and at the gulf spill site, says the public perception now appears to be that "the gulf oil spill problem is just about over and we don't have to worry about it.

"It's true the well has been capped and the oil is not flowing, and that's good," he notes. "And it also appears the problem of oil pushing into the wetlands and marshes may be decreasing thanks to efforts to remove oil from the ocean surface, which is also encouraging.

"But the fact is that 50 to 75 percent of the material that came out of the well is still in the water - it's just in a dissolved or dispersed form," he says.

He notes that even oil and gas that has been broken down naturally, or bio-degraded, still can present problems because it tends to remove oxygen from the water. If enough oxygen is removed, the waters can become hypoxic and these oxygen-depleted waters can create "dead zones" that can be harmful to marine life.

"Even if it is dissolved or dispersed, the oil can still be toxic to marine life even in very small amounts," he adds.

"Also, the reports coming out mention nothing of the huge amounts of natural gas we know that came out alongside the oil, and this methane is almost one-half of the material that was emitted from the well. We know a very large plume or cloud of methane still exists about 3,000 feet below the ocean surface, and that's a huge concern itself.

"The bottom line is, this problem has not gone away as some recent reports seem to indicate," Kessler continues. "There are still large amounts of oil and gas in the gulf - just because we see less at the surface doesn't mean it isn't there."

According to BP's website :
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7064173

MC252 Well Reaches Static Condition; Well Monitoring Underway
Release date: 04 August 2010
BP announced today that the MC252 well appears to have reached a static condition -- a significant milestone. The well pressure is now being controlled by the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud, which is the desired outcome of the static kill procedure carried out yesterday (US Central time).

Pumping of heavy drilling mud into the well from vessels on the surface began at 1500 CDT (2100 BST) on August 3, 2010 and was stopped after about eight hours of pumping. The well is now being monitored, per the agreed procedure, to ensure it remains static. Further pumping of mud may or may not be required depending on results observed during monitoring.

The start of the static kill was based on the results of an injectivity test, which immediately preceded the static kill and lasted about two hours.
BP will continue to work with the National Incident Commander and other government officials to determine the next course of action, which involves assessing whether to inject cement in the well via the same route.

The aim of these procedures is to assist with the strategy to kill and isolate the well, and will complement the upcoming relief well operation, which will continue as per plan.

A relief well remains the ultimate solution to kill and permanently cement the well. The first relief well, which started May 2, has set its final 9 7/8-inch casing. Operations on the relief wells are suspended during static kill operations. Depending upon weather conditions, mid-August is the current estimate of the most likely date by which the first relief well will intercept the Macondo well annulus, and kill and cement operations commence.


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Environmental & Health
Impacts Of The Gulf Disaster
By Tom Termotto, DCAE
8-5-10
http://www.rense.com/general91/evv.htm

Dr. Tom Termotto, BCIM
National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (International Citizens' Initiative)

THE COMING OF THE BLACK WAVE

Nothing in our shared cultural experience will prepare us better for the oncoming Black Wave throughout the Gulf of Mexico than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. And yet even this environmental catastrophe falls far short of what is coming around the corner in the Gulf. Alaska is not Florida, or Louisiana, or Texas. The Deep South summer here in Tallahassee, FL has been as hot and humid, as any we've seen. This weather pattern is what will distinguish the BP Gulf Oil Spill from the Exxon Valdez just as the total volume of the spill and use of dispersants have.

The relentless cycle of low pressure systems throughout the Gulf of Mexico during the summer season is instrumental in keeping the many toxic vapors close to the surface of the Gulf, as well as the many coastal communities that rim her. We are not only talking about petroleum VOC's (volatile organic compounds) and the dispersant chemicals found in COREXIT and the hovering methane gas concentrations. We are also talking about the inevitable interactions and synergies among these chemical contaminants that produce much more powerful combinations, especially when they co-exist in such a conducive environment as the Gulf of Mexico hot and humid stewpot.

These realities in the water, and in the air, ought to be known by anyone participating in cleanup and recovery operations anywhere in the Gulf. To ignore them is to do so at great peril. The water has been polluted to a degree never seen on such a grand scale in US Territorial Waters. There simply is no precedent here. The Caspian Sea in Asia is a known petrochemical cesspool, which is so dead that all the bordering nations have given up on her and mercilessly plunder her depths for oil. How far behind is the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of this spill. If you value your health, you ought not to eat seafood from the Gulf. If you value your health, you ought not to swim in the Gulf. If you value the health of your children, sensitive and delicate as they are during their formative stages, the affected Gulf Coast beaches are no longer a safe and healthy place on which to walk. Nor is wading in the water a safe practice until we know the true status.

The Black Wave of which we speak has many more aspects than the ones we have been hearing about in the mainstream media. There are dimensions that none have ever dared to whisper because it would mean the end of the Oil & Gas Industry for good. There are also phases of progression and retrogression of any oil spill, which will occur over the unique lifetime of this BP Gulf Oil Spill. As Mother Nature employs the tincture of time, Her ever so loyal elements will inexorably serve to heal all that requires healing on land, in the waters, and within the littoral regions to include the marshes, wetlands and estuaries. However, the process of healing the Gulf will take time perhaps a long time.

Read more at the link :
http://www.rense.com/general91/evv.htm

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First analysis of BP oil spill effects on residents health and income

(August 3 2010)

http://www.examiner.com/x-6180-Birmingham-Science-News-Examiner~y2010m8d4-First-analysis-of-BP-oil-spill-effects-on-residents-health-and-income

Researchers at Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness interviewed over 1,200 adults living within 10 miles of the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Mississippi, in collaboration with the Childrens Health Fund Poughkeepsie, NY and The Marist Poll of Poughkeepsie, NY. The survey, conducted by telephone in July, after the Deepwater Horizon well was capped, found evidence of significant and potentially lasting impact of the disaster on the health, mental health, and economic fortunes of residents and their children and on the way they live their everyday lives.

Among the key survey findings:
Over 40% of adults living within ten miles of the coast said they have experienced direct exposure to the oil spill or clean-up effort. Within this group, nearly 40% reported physical symptoms of skin irritations and respiratory problems, which they attributed to the oil spill.

Over one-third of parents report that their children have experienced either physical symptoms or mental health distress as a consequence of the oil spill.

One in five households report a drop in income since the oil spill, and 8% report job loss. These losses were most likely to hit those who were already economically vulnerable: households with incomes under $25,000 a year.

More than one-quarter (26.6%) of coastal residents said they thought they might have to move away from the Gulf Coast. Among those earning less then $25,000, the figure was 36.3%.

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