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qmantoo · Teaching the truth

RE: OSD Commentary on BP Oil Spill

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

Put this into google and see how many people have been killed, Jailed or are missing following the BP Gulf Oil Spill

"Dead / Jailed /Missing Scientists & Individuals Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster"

Big companies have hit squads too, not just governments.

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

Excellent website here

Many of the links are to diseased fish stories and oil lumps still being washed up on beaches. Now it seems that the media are reporting the aftermath of the disaster.

Freedom of Information Act release details on BP trying to cover up the whole issue

One single drop · Senior Member

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/oil-from-bp-spill-found-on-dead-dolphins-in-gulf-of-mexico/

"Oil From BP Spill Found on Dead Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico"

Apr 8, 2011 – 7:58 PM

Mara Gay Contributor

"Researchers have traced oil found on dead dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill but say it's not yet clear whether the oil caused their deaths.

Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins have washed up dead in the Gulf in the past year, an unexplained rise in deaths that has scientists concerned. Oil on six of the dolphins has been directly linked to BP's blown-out well, but researchers say it's too soon to conclude whether or not the oil was responsible or if their demise was caused by something entirely unrelated, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

Institute for Marine Mammal Studies veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to Gulfport, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011.

Patrick Semansky, AP

Veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss., on Feb. 22.

"Some of these stranded dolphins have come in with some type of suspected oil, ... but it doesn't mean that it's an acute cause of death," NOAA spokeswoman Karrie Carnes told AOL News today by phone.

According to NOAA data, 293 dolphins have washed up dead in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 spill, a major increase compared with an average of 74 dolphins per year in the previous decade. But researchers note that the spike in deaths actually began in February 2010, two months before the BP explosion. Most of the dead dolphins are babies or even preterm.

"The northern Gulf of Mexico is no stranger to dolphin mortality deaths," said Blair Mase, a regional marine mammal stranding coordinator for NOAA, referring to deaths researchers consider unexplained. "Since 1990 we've had 11 dolphin mortality events in the Gulf, so it does occur with regularity. What's so unusual about this case is that we've seen a sustained increase in dolphin mortalities since February 2010. So we're particularly concerned."

Researchers say finding out what's causing the increase in deaths will take months, and ultimately more than one factor may be to blame. The marine mammals could have been killed by naturally occurring algae blooms, for example, or an infectious disease.

Still, if scientists find conclusive evidence that oil from last year's Deepwater Horizon spill played a role in the mammals' deaths, it could mean more penalties for oil giant BP.

BP did not immediately respond to a request for comment today from AOL News.

An unusually high number of sea turtles have washed up dead in the Gulf of Mexico as well. While the deaths are so far unexplained, no oil was found on their bodies, and scientists believe they may have been accidentally drowned in fishing gear, suffocated by algae blooms, or killed by speedboats or other watercraft. Twenty-five of them are the endangered Kemp's ridley turtle.

Officials say they are still investigating. " "Who ?"

".....is still investigating and investigating and investigating......."

WE do not forget.

One single drop · Senior Member

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

You can see how everyone is moving in to start the damage limitation exercise. Lots of possibilities are thrown out there for people to hook onto and which can be used in the future to explain away the unknown substance.

I wonder if we will get an independent analysis report published or whether we will just get the official response. Trouble is - it involves money to get the independent analysis and often people are unwilling to pay for it out of their own pocket. In that case we just have to accept the official report.

One single drop · Senior Member

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/03/coast_guard_investigating_shee.html#incart_mce

Coast Guard investigating sheen in Gulf of Mexico

Published: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 4:16 PM

The U.S. Coast Guard says there is some sort of substance in the water in the Gulf of Mexico, and officials are collecting samples to determine what it is.

Coast Guard spokeswoman Casey Ranel says the agency sent out a cutter Sunday morning to collect samples of the substance, which was spotted off the coast of Louisiana. She says officials are still awaiting the results of testing. Officials also were working to determine how big of an area the substance covered.

The Coast Guard had gotten reports of an oil sheen, but officials have not confirmed the substance is oil.

Ranel says dredging had been going on not far away at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and it's possible the substance is silt dredged from the bottom.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/03/source_of_30-mile_oil_spill_in.html#incart_mce

Source of 30-mile oil spill in Gulf puzzles officials

Published: Monday, March 21, 2011, 11:00 PM

Emulsified oil, oil mousse and tar balls from an unknown source were washing up on beaches from Grand Isle to West Timbalier Island along the Gulf of Mexico, a stretch of about 30 miles, and it was still heading west Monday afternoon, a Louisiana official said. The state is testing the material to see if it matches oil from last April's BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Oil spill response workers under the direction of the U.S. Coast Guard and state officials were scrambling to block more of the material from coming ashore. ES&H Corp. has been hired to oversee the cleanup.

"We are working with our state and local partners to mitigate any further environmental impact while continuing to facilitate the safe movement of marine traffic to the fullest extent possible," Capt. Jonathan Burton, the federal on-scene coordinator for the response, said in a news release late Monday.

"To avoid delays in resource availability and delivery, we have taken a forward leaning approach and authorized ES&H to procure whatever additional boom and resources they need," Burton said.

The news release said that when all areas where the material has washed ashore are combined, about a half-mile of shoreline was affected.

Workers have deployed about 10,000 feet of containment and sorbent boom to prevent damage to environmentally sensitive areas; two MARKO skimmers are being moved to the area and another two are available; and two barge boats and two drum skimmers are at the scene.

The state has requested more boom, sorbents, skimmers and other equipment from the Coast Guard, said Garret Graves, coastal adviser to Gov. Bobby Jindal.

"Currently, boom is deployed in the Elmers/Caminada area and we're looking at one gap closure" in that area, Graves said. "We have multiple independent tests under way to determine the source."

On Sunday, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts reported that a Coast Guard official had said the oil might be from a project to plug and abandon a well just offshore of Grand Isle. But Coast Guard officials said they're still waiting for tests of material collected in that area to determine where it came from.

A Coast Guard news release said a second, much larger area of sheen south of Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico contained small amounts of oil constituents mixed with sediment that seemed to be coming from the Mississippi River. The Coast Guard Cutter Pompano was deployed and gathered samples, which contained only trace amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons, oil and grease.

The samples were tested against state Department of Enviromental Quality standards, which call for no more than 65 parts per million of hydrocarbons and just under 10,000 ppm of oil and grease. One sample contained 8 ppm of total petroleum hydrocarbons and 86 ppm of oil and grease. A second contained 5 ppm of total hydrocarboms and 15 ppm of oil and grease.

"At this point, the dark substance is believed to be caused by a tremendous amount of sediment being carried down the Mississippi River due to high water, possibly further agitated by dredging operations," the Coast Guard release said.

A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, however, said none of the three dredges operating near the mouth of the Mississippi River has reported any oil in the material they're removing from the river bottom to keep the channel deep enough for ocean-going ships.

The Mississippi River had risen to 12.5 feet in New Orleans on Monday, up from only 3 feet above sea level three weeks ago, an indicator that the river contains a heavy load of sediment from upstream.

Betty Doud, a Grand Isle resident who volunteers with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, said she monitored the oil moving along Grand Isle on Sunday.

"I was out there from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday and the stuff came in in waves onto the island and through Caminada Pass," she said. "There were these orange, nasty waves and black oil mixed with it. The oil was in the rocks along the pass."

Doud collected a sample of the material for Jefferson Parish President John Young, who was inspecting the area, and Young told her it would be tested at a laboratory in Lafayette. Doud has sent other samples to the Bucket Brigade, which will have them tested independently to determine if the oil matches that released last year from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The tests also will determine whether the oil contains cancer-causing oil constituents, or Corexit, the dispersant used last year to break up oil from the BP well.

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers

Oil spill lingers on at the bottom of the sea and has killed off all the ocean life.

a good blog about it all
http://oilspillsolutionsnow.org/?page_id=111

More interesting stuff from Feb 2011
http://theintelhub.com/category/gulfoilspill/

-- Edited by qmantoo on Monday 14th of March 2011 12:24:54 PM

One single drop · Senior Member

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/554102/910th-Airlift-Wing-receives-Air-Force-award.html?nav=5021

910th Airlift Wing receives Air Force award

March 6, 2011 - By JOE GORMAN and BOB COUPLAND Tribune Chronicle

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VIENNA - The 910th Airlift Wing in Vienna is being honored among the Air Force's elite for its help with cleanup ( ? ) after last year's Gulf oil spill, the Air Force Reserve Command announced Friday.

The 910th is being honored with the ''Air Force Outstanding Unit Award'' recognizing the airlift wing for outstanding achievement from April 28 to June 4, 2010, when it sent two specially equipped C-130H aircraft and the associated personnel and support crew to Stennis International Airport in Mississippi to aid in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup efforts.

While they were deployed to the Gulf Coast, the aircrews flew 92 sorties and sprayed 30,000 acres with nearly 149,000 gallons of dispersant ( COREXITE ).

Maj. Brent Davis, head of public relations at the base, said the last time the unit received the award was 13 years ago. Davis said the award typically is given for service over a period of time. He said it is an honor to win it for a specific mission.

''It's something that just doesn't happen,'' Davis said.

Davis said more than 80 reservists ( ! ) made the trip during the mission, but lots more helped out, from the people who loaded the planes at the airbase in Vienna to those in the base's financial section who handled the paperwork concerning pay, and even private contractors who lent their expertise, as well.

''There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff,'' Davis said. ( That`s an underestatement. )

Col. Fritz Linsenmeyer, commander of the 910th Airlift Wing, said the Deepwater Horizon mission was the first time the Department of Defense used the oil dispersing capability of the 910th. He said the 910th Airlift Wing is the Department of Defense's only fixed-wing aerial spray capable unit.

''Our airmen have been training for this type of response and we are pleased to have been able to utilize their skills and capabilities to help make a difference,'' Linsenmeyer said.

He said he was proud of the Wing receiving the award as this was a team effort. ''All our reserve, civilian, and contractor personnel actively contributed to this exceptional achievement,'' Linsenmeyer said.

Davis said the award shows just how much dedication the reservists ( ! ) put into their jobs.

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One single drop · Senior Member

Oil Spill Update starring Samantha Joye, Gulf Oil Blog - UGA Department of Marine Sciences . Interesting facts and fascinating images at http://gulfblog.uga.edu/

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/live-aaas---samantha-joye-on-bp-.html

Monday February 21, 2011