Scientists say BP Gulf oil spill will hit Europe and the Artic
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WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) — Environmental devastation from the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil spill will spread as far as Europe and the arctic, scientists said.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is gradually finding its way toward Europe and eventually the Gulf oil spill damage will end up in the Arctic to damage, endangering wider ecological basins.
Briefing a congressional panel on Friday, senior US scientists warned that the bad consequences of the massive oil leak are not confined to the US coasts, and the wildlife are endangered in a far broader scope.
Other scientists and researchers — invited to brief members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee — warned that the thousands of barrels of oil still gushing into the Gulf are contributing to a potential ecological disaster of unknown proportions.
“This is not just a regional issue for the wildlife,” Carl Safina, president of the Blue Ocean Institute, told members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee as the panel scrutinized the much-criticized response to the spill.
Safina said multiple forms of marine life across the Atlantic Ocean come to the Gulf of Mexico to breed.
Like other scientists who testified before the committee, Safina criticized BP’s response to the spill.
“I think asking BP for answers is the wrong place to look,” he said. “They seem to have cut corners on some critical junctures. We keep asking their permission to go down and measure the oil that’s coming out.”
Sylvia Earle of The National Geographic Society said BP’s playing a leading role in containment efforts would amount to “relying on the foxes to look after the chicken coop.”
She and other scientists also questioned the decision to try to break up the spill by injecting chemicals into crude oil flowing from the seabed floor.
“We don’t know effects of dispersants applied a mile underwater. There’s been no laboratory testing at all,” Earle said.
Carys Mitchelmore, a University of Maryland researcher, said the chemicals could cause harm.
“I’m very concerned because I don’t know,” she said. “There are so many unknowns. We can’t see these organisms dying and dropping to the sea bed.”
Safina suggested BP used dispersants so cameras would be unable to show the extent of the oil slick.
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I have been looking for daily reports of this calamity since it first hit the news on the 22 of April, fully two days after the blowout, yet so much is just repetitive. I have felt since word go, that BP, Transocean, and surprise, surprise, surprise, Haliburton have quashed any media involvement for true reportage. In fact, it has only been in the last week that any real wide spread coverage has hit the mainstream media. Add to this, the preposterous notion, that BP will be charging a per liter, at market value recompense from people who are trying to clean up their own private properties, and we can all see just how BIG, big oil has become. Sometimes the Devil you know is far worse than the devil you just met…
I have been looking for daily reports of this calamity since it first hit the news on the 22 of April, fully two days after the blowout, yet so much is just repetitive. I have felt since word go, that BP, Transocean, and surprise, surprise, surprise, Haliburton have quashed any media involvement for true reportage. In fact, it has only been in the last week that any real wide spread coverage has hit the mainstream media. Add to this, the preposterous notion, that BP will be charging a per liter, at market value recompense from people who are trying to clean up their own private properties, and we can all see just how BIG, big oil has become. Sometimes the Devil you know is far worse than the devil you just met…
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Perhaps it is time that people start to take a closer look at Big Oil and it’s practices.The logic we have adopted in our views about Oil and it’s uses is starting to backfire. Apathy , for the most part seems to be the root cause of our problem here. We just don’t care. It takes great motivational force to convince us to change our ways. Ask yourself, why is it that someone in the field of health care, for ex, can be barred from practicing medicine for a simple mistake,while companies like BP,Exxon, Chevron, statoil, etc,etc, can continue to operate wantonly in any way they see fit.BP especially.They have one of the highest accident rates of them all. As well as having many criminal cases being brought up. that companies like this are playing the shell game with us. When Exxon was starting to receive flak for using Corexit after the Valdez spill ,they simply partnered with Nalco 3 years later to avoid responsibility . Of, course, if you volunteered to clean up in Alaska, you first had to sign a waiver promising not to sue for any possible detrimental health effects that might arise in the future , from exposure to Corexit.As a bonus, Exxon paid each and every volunteer
$600 for signing up. Not for working. Just for signing the waiver.They got paid to work as well. So they were bribed to promise not to sue. Like I said, it’s time we all take a closer look at how these companies that are the core driving force keeping economies alive today, operate. Because if we don’t do it, they definitely won’t.
Keep in mind that the MMMS operates under the umbrella of the Dept.of the Interior.You can see for yourself that they have passed laws giving themselves the power to suppress information in the media relating to big disasters like this.
They are (as listed in Title 5 of the United States Code, section 552)
# (A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and (B) are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order;[5]
# related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency;[5]
# specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld;[5] FOIA Exemption 3 Statutes
# trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;[5]
# inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency;[5]
# personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;[5]
# records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual;[5]
# contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of an agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions;[5] or
# geological and geophysical information and data, including maps, concerning wells
William K. Reilly
—————–
Just one example of William K. Reilly’s history:
Reilly was instrumental in the E.P.A. giving permission
to the FL. D.E.P. to spray 500 million gallons of
leaking fertilizer from the Abandoned Piney Point
fertilizer company into the Gulf in 2001.
Reilly is on the board of directors for companies like
Dupont, ConocoPhillips, royal carribean, and the
Packard foundation, among others.
Do we really know his history ? Let’s take a look..
Dupont:
——–
Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute
of the University of Massachusetts Amherst ranked
DuPont as the largest corporate producer of air
pollution in the United States
ConocoPhillips:
—————
In 2003, ConocoPhillips was named as a defendant in a
lawsuit brought by Green Alternative, an environmental
group based in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The suit claimed that a number of foreign oil companies
colluded with the Georgia government to induce
authorities to approve a $3 billion pipeline without
properly evaluating environmental impact.
Royal carribean:
—————-
In 1998 and 1999, the company was fined $9 million US
dollars because one of its ships, the Sovereign of the
Seas, had repeatedly dumped oily waste into the ocean
and tried to hide this using false records, including
fake piping diagrams given to the US Coast Guard.
Because the company was and is incorporated in Liberia,
Royal Caribbean argued that this case was not in the
jurisdiction of US courts. Despite their argument, they
were unsuccessful
The Packard Foundation:
———————-
The Conservation and Science program area is focused on
environmental sustainability in ecological systems. It
promotes effective management of fisheries and an end
to both overfishing and destructive fishing methods.
(****If you want to see how our governmetns manipulate
us in cooperation with these companies, then look into
this organization in the paragraph below. It is all
about damage control for big Oil and the pharmecuticals
& banking industries, and how they do damage
control.***)
Corporate Social Responsibility » Voluntary Principles
The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
In 2000, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human
Rights (VPs) were developed by the U.S. Department of
State; the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth
Office; oil, mining, and energy companies; and human
rights, labor, and corporate responsibility NGOs. The
VPs were created in response to the concerns of
governments, extractive companies, and civil society
over difficult operating environments that created
challenges to both security and human rights. The VPs
are designed to provide practical guidance that will
strengthen human rights safeguards in company security
arrangements in the extractive sector. More information
is available at: http://www.voluntaryprinciples.org
——know the truth——-
alex my link keep getting taken down as does my blog.when i make a new one 5 minutes later it is gone.wth is going on.whats your email again?
ok wait it takes you there through the hyperlink…but says page does not exist…
http://spreadthetruthcom.blogspot.com/2010/05
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