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BP Has Built An Artificial Island To Get Around Offshore Drilling Ban In Alaska

Rachel Maddow Blasts Obama For Lying About Oil Drilling Safety

BP has built an artificial island in the arctic, from which it plans to drill 2 miles deep, to get around a drilling ban in Alaska — and the Obama administration is doing nothing to stop it.

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9 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 22, 2011 at 11:31 pm

Feds: Drilling moratorium depends on industry

BILOXI, Miss. — A key U.S. government official said Friday the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling likely won’t be extended past Nov. 30, but whether it is cut short will be entirely up to the industry.(...)Read the rest of Feds: Drilling moratorium depends on industry (573 words) © admin for oilspillaction.com, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add…

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Stuart Smith - September 11, 2010 at 6:54 am

U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of Mexico Last Year; Has $1 Billion More Planned For This Year

CNSNews.com By Matt Cover The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company’s oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects. On [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Alex Thomas - September 9, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Is BP’s Gulf Oil Radioactive?

Washington' blog has uncovered evidence that BP's Gulf Oil may in fact be radioactive.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Roland Sheppard - September 3, 2010 at 6:31 pm

BP Provides Lessons Learned From Gulf Spill

LONDON — BP PLC Friday disclosed various lessons and capabilities built from trouble-shooting the big oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico which, it said, would allow the industry to more quickly cope with any future offshore oil drilling accidents.(...

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Stuart Smith - at 1:42 pm

22 Mile Plume Of Oil From BP Gulf Oil Spill Originates Near Biloxi Dome Sea Floor Leaks 7 Miles Away

underwater 3D model of 22 mile long gulf oil spill plume with sea floor leaks

The 3D Model of a massive 22 mile river of oil confirmed to be from the BP Gulf Oil Spill and not natural seeps originates from the Biloxi Dome over 7 miles from the BP Well.

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20 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 27, 2010 at 6:13 am

New Report Shows BP Gulf Oil Spill Fishing Waters Opened To Soon

Tell President Obama Do Something Now

Wenonah Hauter, an advocate fighting the clean up the corrupt Government Oil Industry regulators and shut down the BP oil rig Atlantis, says a new report backs claims that BP Gulf Oil Spill fishing waters have been opened to soon.

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10 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 23, 2010 at 1:30 am

BP and the Government Are Underplaying the Difficulty of Stopping the Oil Leak

Feds Say Well Formation May Have Collapsed

While BP and the government say that permanently capping the oil well is no problem, they act like they have little idea of what they're doing and the problem of permanently sealing the well is much harder than they are admitting.

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by George Washington - August 19, 2010 at 1:25 pm

Collet Connector Lowered To Flush BP Gulf Oil Spill Well (Update 9)

Collet connector being lowered to flush well

BP is lowering a new device to the BP Gulf Oil Spill will. With the lack of official information from BP, the government and the media we can only speculate that this is a collet connector being lowered to flush the BP Gulf Oil Spill Well of hydrocarbons.

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8 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 18, 2010 at 5:23 pm

BP Under Investigation For Trying To Silence Gulf Oil Spill Scientists

Congress Investigating BP For Trying To Muzzle Gulf Oil Spill Scientific Data

US Congress investigating BP for trying to silence scientists researching the BP Gulf Oil Spill by imposing contractual confidentially agreements and refusing to retain academics who would not to agree to the confidentiality agreements.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 5, 2010 at 9:25 am

BP Killing Off Horses On Public Land To Get Oil Leases

Wild Horses Being Driven Off Public Lands For Oil Companies

An investigative report done by Above Top Secret being featured on CNN tonight reveals that wild horses on Federal Lands are being killed off to allow BP and other oil companies to take over public lands for drilling leases and oil oil pipelines.

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55 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 13, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Scientists Sound Alarm As Arsenic Levels Rise In Seawater Around The BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

US Flag In BP Gulf Oil Spill

Scientists are now warning that rising arsenic levels in the seawater around the BP Gulf Oil Spill are on the rise and levels of arsenic only get magnified as they spread up the food chain posing catastrophic threats to sea life and eventually even humans

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4 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 8, 2010 at 1:40 am

NOAA Finds Several Leaks In Cracks On Gulf Seafloor; Leaks Where Also Caused By IXTOC Blowout

Thomas Jefferson 3D Gulf Seafloor Leaks Mapping

During the IXTOC blowout a second underground blowout caused oil to leak from cracks in the seafloor. The leaking BP Gulf Oil Spill well has suffered 6 such blowouts leading to concerns that a series of the leaks on the seafloor found by the Thomas Jefferson have been caused by the BP well or have been made worse by the blowouts.

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25 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 28, 2010 at 1:57 am

BP and Administration Lies, Deceit, and Coverup in the Gulf – by Stephen Lendman

Excellent Independent Journalist account of BP and the Obama Administration Lies, Deceit, and Coverup in the Gulf.

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2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 24, 2010 at 12:40 pm

Video: Oil Spill seems to have spread over entire Gulf

NOAA Satellite Image of Gulf Oil Spill

A video fly over of the Gulf Oil Spill by reports the Oil seems to have spread over entire Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, NOAA supplied maps of the size of the spill do not match the satellite imagery coming in from NASA and BP upped its estimate to 60,000 barrels per day for a worse case scenario.

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17 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 6, 2010 at 4:11 am

Sarah Palin calls for more drilling as second rig overturns

Sarah Palin calls for more oil drilling on FaceBook as Huge spill hits land

Sarah Palin calls for more drilling as second rig overturns

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 30, 2010 at 8:07 pm

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