Oil spill in the Gulf

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'Tar mousse' and oil balls hit Florida coast

Some oil flows up pipe from capped well, BP says; Obama cancels Asia trip

GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE, Fla. - Oil sheen and tar balls washed ashore on a northwest Florida beach crowded with swimmers in what appeared to be the first impact on the state from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, authorities and witnesses said on Friday. The oil debris came ashore on Pensacola Beach, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore which advertises "the world's whitest beaches."

At the same time, small gobs of reddish brown oil washed up in the surf for the first time in nearby Gulf Shores, Ala., and a petroleum smell tinged the air.

Emergency officials in Florida reported that spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number early Friday along the national park shore and nearby beaches.

NBC News reported that an official described one of the balls as resembling "tar mousse." The park is a long string of connected barrier islands near Pensacola.

Florida, the so-called Sunshine State with a $60 billion-a-year tourism industry, has been bracing this week for the forecasted arrival of the spilled oil, which has already hit the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to the west.

Beachgoers on Pensacola Beach, many of them children, were picking up tar blobs, some the size of ping pong balls, some smaller, scattered along the strand, a Reuters TV producer reported. No cleanup crews were in sight, she said.

Keith Wilkins from Escambia County emergency management said tar patties were pretty thick on parts of the beach, as much as one every foot.

Meanwhile, a BP executive said that a cap that's been placed atop a blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been collecting some oil.

BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told NBC's TODAY that oil has started flowing up the pipe from the cap.

But Suttles said it will be later in the day before they know how much is being captured from the nation's worst oil spill.

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Busted booms fail Louisiana coast

June 3: Dr. Mike Blum of Tulane University explains to Rachel Maddow how the booms being employed at containing the oil in the Gulf work - or rather, don't work, and the ecological consequences of the sheen of oil on the Gulf water.

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Anticipating an island's death by oil

June 3: Dr. Mike Blum of Tulane University shows Rachel Maddow how oil contamination leads to the erosion of the protective barrier islands that not only host a vital ecosystem but weaken oncoming storms.

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But sometimes, they don't "just happen". Sometimes, a series of

deliberate and very wrong decisions leads to huge, tragic

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Press Release: Gulf Conservationists Challenge Phony BP Oil Disaster Cleanup Plan

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: David Guest, Earthjustice, (850) 681-0031, ext. 103

Cynthia Sarthou, Gulf Restoration Network, (504) 525-1528 ext. 202

Kristina Johnson, Sierra Club, (415) 977-5619

BP said it could clean up 20 million gallons of spilled oil a day

New Orleans, LA -- Earthjustice filed suit today in federal court against the U.S. Minerals Management Service challenging the agency’s arbitrary approval of BP’s oil spill clean-up plan. The clean up plan was approved in July 2009 prior to the approval of the exploratory drilling plan. If successful, this legal challenge will result in a court ruling that Minerals Management Service’s approval of BP’s spill cleanup plan was illegal and a new plan needs to be crafted and approved before BP can do any more exploratory oil drilling.

In its spill plan, BP claimed it could contain any possible spill by vacuuming up over 20 million gallons of oil per day. BP’s actual recovery rate since the Deepwater Horizon explosion has turned out to be about two percent of that.

“Other BP rigs in the Gulf are relying on the same deceptive response plan,” said Earthjustice attorney David Guest. “BP’s clean-up story was as phony as a three dollar bill.”

Earthjustice is representing the Gulf Restoration Network and Sierra Club in the lawsuit.

"BP promised they could drill safely. Their plan for cleaning up a spill turned out to be complete make-believe," said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. "We're now looking at the largest environmental disaster in American history, with no end in sight. BP cheated on safety plans, and the Minerals Management Service stood by and let them. We need to make sure the oil industry doesn't get away with this again."

BP’s uncontrolled spill in the Gulf of Mexico now covers over 10,000 square miles, stretching from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. The spill is approaching twice the size of the Exxon Valdez spill and could continue spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico until August.

“To watch this disaster move along the Gulf coast, devastating marshes and beaches and fishing grounds, is truly horrifying,” said Cynthia Sarthou of the Gulf Restoration Network. “Our federal regulators failed to watch out for all of us who depend on the Gulf of Mexico. If Minerals Management Service had done its job, and rejected BP’s unrealistic oil spill response projections, it would have compelled BP to prepare for the nightmare that is plaguing the Gulf today.”

Earthjustice filed six other federal suits against Minerals Management Service last month. The first challenges the federal agency’s illegal exemption of oil drilling companies from critical safety and environmental requirements. The others challenge five deepwater exploratory drilling plans that were approved using the illegal exemption. Additionally, Earthjustice has filed a Freedom of Information Act petition aimed at uncovering what chemicals are in the dispersants being used to break up the oil spill.

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New oil plume evidence uncovered

St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) -- As if the pictures of birds, fish and animals killed by floating oil in the Gulf of Mexico are not disturbing enough, scientists now say they have found evidence of another danger lurking underwater.

The University of South Florida recently discovered a second oil plume in the northeastern Gulf. The first plume was found by Mississippi universities in early May.

USF has concluded microscopic oil droplets are forming deep water oil plumes. After a weeklong analysis of water samples, USF scientists found more oil in deeper water.

"These hydrocarbons are from depth and not associated with sinking degraded oil but associated with the source of the Deep Horizon well head," said USF Chemical Oceanographer David Hollander.

Through isotopic or microscopic fingerprinting, Hollander and his USF crew were able to show the oil in the plume came from BP's blown-out oil well. The surface oil's so-called fingerprint matched the tiny underwater droplet's fingerprint.

"We've taken molecular isotopic approaches which is like a fingerprint on a smoking gun," Hollander said.

Full coverage of oil spill

BP has not commented on the latest development but in the past denied underwater oil plumes exist.

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Did you hear Obama talking about the oil spill I believe it was last week? He was saying that this is on his mind when he wakes up and this is on his mind when he goes to bed. Im waiting to hear what his plan is for this disaster

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man got 2 lil girls askin him wtf you doin to our future daddy?

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Disgraceful response to the oil itself

June 7: Rachel Maddow emphasizes the utter failure to contain BP's leaked oil while so much attention is focused on stopping the leak.

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Obama: I'd have fired BP chief by now

During an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's TODAY broadcast Tuesday, the president added his voice to calls for Hayward's resignation amid claims from a former EPA lawyer that BP is a "recurring environmental criminal." Some 25 million to 39 million gallons of oil are estimated to have gone into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.

Oil plumes, Gulf's unseen disaster

June 7: Dr. Samantha Joye, professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia, talks with Rachel Maddow about the nature and dangers of the massive underwater plumes of oil in Gulf of Mexico.

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so I know whose ass to kick.....

yeah we'll see

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Thousands of people who really cared about this issue who had no money cut off their long hair for their clean up effort but BP said they didn't really plan on it so it's in a storage CNN reports last week. Hope they don't go to waste.

They had some list of celebs who were raising awareness or donating money to oil disaster area. Can't find the article now but I think Ashton Kutcher donated a couple millions, James Cameron was on it too, and Kevin Costner has spent $20 million+ of his own money to build and research on an oil spill cleanup device.

Kudos to all of them that try

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Disgraceful response to the oil itself

June 7: Rachel Maddow emphasizes the utter failure to contain BP's leaked oil while so much attention is focused on stopping the leak.

Rachel Maddow Show

I haven't heard Boom that much since...

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the booms are an unmanned mess and not enough of them. Shit gets worse every fuckin day.

Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News

Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.

To some critics of the response effort by BP and the government, instances of news media being kept at bay are just another example of a broader problem of officials’ filtering what images of the spill the public sees.

Scientists, too, have complained about the trickle of information that has emerged from BP and government sources. Three weeks passed, for instance, from the time the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20 and the first images of oil gushing from an underwater pipe were released by BP.

As spill costs mount, BP faces financial squeeze

BP is finding itself caught in a trans-Atlantic squeeze between an angry U.S. administration and unhappy shareholders, including hundreds of thousands of retirees who own the shares through British pension funds. Prime Minister David Cameron's office said the British leader would discuss the issue with President Barack Obama on a scheduled telephone call over the weekend.

Investors are fretting about the rising costs facing BP after Obama suggested it should also pay unemployment benefits to thousands of oil workers laid off during a moratorium on deep-sea drilling triggered by the spill.

shareholders should be allowed to dump their stock in brutal petroleum. if they discovered they were supporting terrorist bombs aimed at their house I'm sure they'd wanna change up their portfolio

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You've got to be kidding us. Sarah Palin doesn't think BP is to blame for the ongoing oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

No, she's blaming groups like LCV, whom she's calling "radical environmentalists" for fighting to protect our country's wildlife reserves and coastal economies and working to transition away from dirty fossil fuels to a clean energy future. She's serious.

Unsurprisingly, Sarah Palin is absolutely wrong. BP has spent tens of millions in lobbying and cozying up with the politicians who should be protecting us from the kind of corporate greed that caused the widespread damage we've only begun to understand in the Gulf of Mexico. We must tell Congress to lift the current limits on liability damages so that BP cannot escape their responsibilities and push the burden onto taxpayers. We must make polluters pay for every dollar of the disasters they cause.

Click here to demand BP be held responsible for putting their greed first and causing the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico:

http://salsa.lcv.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=15

If we don't act right now, BP may be subject to only $75 million in liability costs. Experts say the oil could continue to leak through the fall, and coastal communities as far north as New Jersey are preparing to be hit with oil. Taxpayers cannot bear the burden of this disaster that BP caused. We must make BP pay, and lift the liability cap.

Sarah Palin and BP's cronies in Congress are going to keep using their influence to try to keep us quiet. We have to speak up right now and make BP pay every dollar of the cost that will result from this tragedy.

Click here to demand Congress lift the liability cap so BP is held responsible for the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico:

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Sincerely,

Stephanie Kushner

Senior VP of Development

League of Conservation Voters

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I Got Arrested for Spilling Oil on Myself Today in Protest of BP

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"Globs of Death Out There": Scuba Diving in the Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Tana Ganeva

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/09/globs-of-death-out-there-scuba-diving-in-the-oil-spill-video/

Jon Stewart on Obama's Tough Guy Remarks: "The President Is On an Ass Quest"

AlterNet Staff

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/09/jon-stewart-on-obamas-tough-guy-remarks-the-president-is-on-an-ass-quest/

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I Got Arrested for Spilling Oil on Myself Today in Protest of BP

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They should arrest the top people at BP for spilling. If its good enough for a citizen, and now Corporations have free speech rights, then Corporations should now be able to be arrested.

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corp personhood is vile disgusting and offensive to me as a living breathing human being subject to all the laws of my region, state and nation.

If they wanna be a person they can all hold hands together in mutherfuckin JAIL.

its ridiculous that you or I could spend 3 years on criminal probation for walking around with small amounts of weed in our pockets but BP can fuckin destroy a piece of our planet and nobody's wearing the silver bracelets.

They wanna be a "person" okay, lets start arresting mutherfuckers and hook em up with some life sentences in southern prisons.

Government Raises Estimate Of Oil Flow To 20,000 To 40,000 Barrels A Day, More Or Less

The Obama administration has once again increased its estimate of the flow of oil from BP's blown-out well.

Three different groups of scientists making educated guesses have come up with upper and lower ranges that go as low as 12,600 barrels a day and as high as 50,000 barrels a day. Marcia McNutt, the federal official charged with determining the flow rate, cited the range of about 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day as the official estimate.

That would be 840,000 to 1.7 million gallons a day.

Oil figures may spell quadruple trouble for Gulf

New spill estimates four times worse for environment, marine biologist says

HOUSTON - New estimates for the amount of oil spilling out of a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico may quadruple the harmful effects on the environment, a marine biologist said on Friday. Researchers said Thursday that new figures show the amount of oil gushing out may have been up to twice as much as previously thought. That could mean 42 million gallons (160 million liters) to more than 100 million gallons (380 million gallons) of oil have already fouled the Gulf's fragile waters

so... 2 million gallons a day times 53 days and stillllllllllll going......

I think its official

the fuckarow has become a fuckaree:nah:

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A BP outrage: Billions in federal contracts. (Remember what happened to ACORN?)

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Adapted from an epic segment Thursday by Rachel Maddow and TRMS Investigates:

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[nomedia=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM]YouTube- BP Spills Coffee[/nomedia]

what happens when BP spills coffee.

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BP plans to suspend shareholder dividend

msnbc.com staff and news service reports

updated 6 minutes ago

British energy giant BP plans to suspend its second-quarter dividend as it faces growing public anger over its handling of massive oil spill in the U.S. Gulf Coast, according to published reports.

According to the BBC, BP directors will meet Monday to make a formal decision. The announcement is expected to be made after negotiating with President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

According to an earlier report from the Times of London, BP is preparing to defer payment of its next dividend to shareholders by placing the money in an escrow account until the full scale of the company’s liabilities from the Gulf disaster can be determined. Further quarterly payments could be treated in the same way.

There's been a lotta bitchin (by me included) about how PBO has handled this.

Dude, I wouldn't be looking for an ass to kick, I woulda beat the shit outta everybody and then decided which one deserved it later .... much later... after the oil is all gone

fuck raising liability caps just take the mutherfuckin corp over.

international bio and environmental terrorism and warfare. Our citizens wildlife territory and economy are under toxic diarrhea attack

hello..................

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When we started our Boycott BP campaign, we knew we had to get their

attention in a language BP understands - profits. Now, we know it's

working:

A chain of Convenience Stores in Philipsburg, Pa decided to debrand

three of its BP-branded stations:

"We are debranding BP. We will no longer be associated with BP by the

end of the month. We are doing this because of the backlash and bad

publicity from the handling of BP's catastrophe," Sean Lay, vice

president of operations, said in the report. "We don't want to be

associated with them anymore. We've had enough."[Convenience Store

News]

Our campaign has been covered by everyone from the New York Times to

industry trade newspapers. You can be sure that BP is paying

attention. Now, let's turn up the heat.

Join the Boycott today and we'll send you a free bumper sticker to

help spread the campaign

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In spite of these early effects of the boycott, BP corporate

headquarters is still playing games with the numbers and continues to

escape accountability. Just this morning, the government updated

estimates of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf to be much higher

than BP originally stated.

And yet, BP continues to deny the extent of the problem. A report from

NPR asks: "BP officials insisted this week they have found no large

plumes of oil concentrated underwater, although it begs the question:

if the oil isn't concentrated in the water, where is it?"

Instead of launching a multi-million dollar public relations offensive

on T.V. to shrug off the blame and beg for customers, BP must take

full responsibility for the cleanup of this unprecedented disaster.

They need to know we're not buying their spin or their gas until they

get the job done and the disaster is completely cleaned up.

Pledge to buy your gas from Anyone But BP right now

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BP had the resources to drill and create this horrible disaster, now

they have the responsibility to clean it up. But, they won't do it on

their own. They need to know we will make them pay one way or another.

Thanks for everything you do.

-Levana

Levana Layedecker, Communications Director

Democracy for America

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Shot by Robert M. Young and Edward James Olmos on a trip to the heart of the oil spill in the Gulf. Edited by Stephen Cohen.

Global protest planned over BP's handling of oil disaster

www.cnn.comEnvironmentalists plan to stage a worldwide protest against BP on Saturday as the petroleum giant takes hits from politicians and Gulf residents.