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Apparently, the coordinates given in this video are from a "rig [that] was toppled by Hurricane Ivan some 6 years ago. It still leaks today enough to create a plume 10 miles long." Along with several reports of leaks on the ocean floor from the same basin into which BP was tapping in the blown out rig in April, we need to ask "How many drill holes leak?"
We need to question whether or not the application of these dispersants was more commonplace than is generally acknowledged before the late April BP rig blowout. With thousands of capped off wells out there, some reported to be leaking unknown quantities of oil, should we have a right to know whether or not the amount applied, mixed with the oil it is meant to hide, is far more than we might have assumed?
NOAA and the USCG need to be more active in protecting our interests, less involved in protecting those of a foreign-owned oil company with a criminal record as long as the slimy trail of this slick.
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Criminal Enterprises that line the accounts of politicians and regulators to look the other way from environmental rule breaking. This action overlays decades of lawlessness starting with the Standard Oil Combine a vertical monopoly. They are running the MIC.
Gee Suz you are up early G)
AH, maybe this is why the underwater plume research has been hidden. We would find out just how bad the sources of the underwater plumes happen to be and the moratorium would be justified.
Dr Jane at NOAA, since the very beginning: “Plumes?”
(paraphrase)
I am SO relieved:
The rest of her bright, overly upbeat message is backed by a scientist who helped paint an inaccurate assessment of the Exxon Valdez spill for Exxon 20 years ago:
You seem to be proposing that the government inquire into information that is proprietary to BP. What part of BP’s right to absolute control of all information in its possession do you not understand?
I also wonder about the likelihood that capped wells will degrade over time from corrosion and other factors. The current nightmare(s) might end up seeming tame compared to what we will face in the future.
Wash, Rinse, Dry, Lie…Repeat!
History with these cretins dictates that they buy the time they necessitate with deception, lies, and support from their ‘purchased’ partnerships with our governing and info management agencies, and after the stories become old news and have sunk way back in our short memory populace, they ‘get off the hook’… all the while, the planet, the people and creatures affected continue to be sick, defeated, and dead!
It is precisely these collective debts of greed and immorality that will eventually be paid for with our demise!
Go fornicate elsewhere. Are you being paid by BP? What part of government of the people, by the people and for the people do you not understand? Where in the constitution does it say the companies have any rights at all?
People with your cocked up ideas think that a company is the same as a person. What a joke. Why is the entire body of BP not in jail?
say, agent. i think michael was snark-ing up a storm.
I suggest watching this video by internationally recognized marine toxicologist Susan Shaw:
Susan Shaw: The Oil Spill’s Toxic Trade-Off
Thanks. I think I’ll keep my warped humor to myself from now on.
How many are aware of another oil spill, this time into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River on Monday:
Leak spews oil into Kalamazoo River
The link between BP, geoengineering and GM
Jim Thomas
28th June, 2010
BP won’t stop at dangerous deep water drilling: the company is bent on still more dangerous projects, including genetic modification and hacking the planet’s atmosphere…Sometimes you have to notice the silences. Where has Dr. Steve Koonin, Under Secretary for Science at the US Department of Energy, been since the Gulf disaster happened?
Koonin was intimately acquainted with the very technologies that have failed so spectacularly on the Deepwater Horizon rig in his former job as BP’s chief scientist.
While his current employer, Barack Obama is trying to figure out ‘whose ass to kick’ over the spill, he might find it instructive to zip back to a presentation by Koonin at MIT in 2005, in which we see Koonin-as-oilman boasting of his company’s technological prowess in taking oil exploration and production into the ultra deep waters of the gulf.
And then there is geo-engineering –the biggest technological gamble of all –which Koonin and BP see as a viable backup plan. Geoengineering refers to seemingly outlandish large-scale schemes to re-engineer atmospheric and ocean systems in order to counteract global warming.
Blogs and Comments – Comments – Other Comments – The link between …Jun 28, 2010 … BP won’t stop at dangerous deep water drilling: the company is bent on still more … The link between BP, geoengineering and GM. Jim Thomas …
http://www.theecologist.org/…/the_link_between_bp_geoengineering_and_gm.html – Cached
A Plan B for the world
Steve Koonin convened a fraternity of a dozen scientists for a week last year in order to look in detail at the technical research agenda of short-wave climate engineering, through the use of stratospheric aerosols. The study was the first to be sponsored by NOVIM, an outfit that claims to ‘provide clear scientific options to the most urgent problems… without advocacy or agenda’.
The link between BP, geoengineering and GM. Jim Thomas … http://www.theecologist.org/…/the_link_between_bp_geoengineering_and_gm.html – Cached
Obama needs to fire NOAA Jane if any of this is to happen.
“PLUMES?” she said.