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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 4, 2010 9:47:22 GMT -5
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-02/bp-coast-guard-will-save-turtles-from-oil-burns.htmlBP, Coast Guard Will Save Turtles From Oil BurnsJuly 02, 2010, 2:46 PM EDT By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Allen Johnson Jr. July 2 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc and the U.S. Coast Guard have reached an agreement to end the inadvertent killing of endangered sea turtles trapped inside containment booms during controlled burns of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lawyers said. “We’ve agreed to meet to work out the terms to make sure the turtles are protected,” Jason Burge, a lawyer for several environmental groups suing to protect the sea turtles, told U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier at an emergency hearing today in New Orleans federal court. Details will be fleshed out over the weekend so that protections may be in place by the time controlled burns are set to resume on July 6, the lawyers told Barbier. The wildlife groups withdrew their request for a temporary restraining order blocking the burns, on the condition they may renew the request later if the turtle-rescue settlement falls apart. Burge told Barbier oil-spill clean-up crews have suspended controlled burns because of bad weather caused by Hurricane Alex, the first tropical storm to enter the Gulf of Mexico this year, which slammed into northern Mexico on June 30. William Eubanks, who also represents the wildlife groups, said in an interview outside the New Orleans courtroom that the activists want to include “qualified observers, like a biologist or a sea turtle researcher” to accompany crews conducting the burns. These trained personnel can spot and safely remove any sea turtles trapped within containment booms. Mutual Goal Don Haycraft, BP’s lead lawyer in New Orleans spill-related litigation, said the company will work with the Coast Guard and environmentalists to achieve a mutual goal. “This effort is an example of BP and the government and the outside parties reaching a common agreement on an issue -- protecting sea turtles -- that is important to everyone,” Haycraft said. Environmental groups sued BP and the Coast Guard on June 30, seeking to block the use of controlled burns or require all boats involved in the process to rescue turtles from inside floating burn boxes before the oil is ignited. “BP has already killed or otherwise harmed” hundreds of rare Kemp’s Ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead and other species of endangered sea turtles through its use of controlled burns or as a result of contamination from the oil spill itself, the lawsuit claims. The animals become trapped when shrimp boats encircle patches of floating oil with fire-resistant booms to create “burn boxes” 60 to 100 feet in diameter, they said. Swim to Safety In affidavits filed with the lawsuit, boat captains and turtle rescue workers said they’ve saved numerous sea turtles that were trapped in heavy oil accumulations. Many of these rescued turtles were scooped from sludge floating in the same areas where trawlers were corralling crude for controlled burns. The turtles are too heavily oiled to free themselves from the sludge and swim to safety, although out of the oil they respond well to rehabilitation, the witnesses said. BP and the Coast Guard estimate that 9.9 million gallons of crude oil recovered from the Deepwater Horizon well have been burned as of July 1, according to a statement on the joint command’s web site. The wildlife activists added the Coast Guard to the lawsuit after BP said all company clean up and containment activities, including the controlled burns, are being carried out under Coast Guard orders. BP has yet to contain a damaged underwater well that has been spewing as much as 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily off the Louisiana coast since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned and sank in April. The case is Animal Welfare Institute v. BP America Inc. et al, 2:10-cv-01866, U.S. District Courts, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans). --Editors: John Pickering To contact the reporters responsible for this story: Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston at laurel@calkins.us.com; Allen Johnson in New Orleans at allenmct@gmail.com.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 4, 2010 9:47:50 GMT -5
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-02/bp-coast-guard-will-save-turtles-from-oil-burns.htmlBP, Coast Guard Will Save Turtles From Oil BurnsJuly 02, 2010, 2:46 PM EDT By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Allen Johnson Jr. July 2 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc and the U.S. Coast Guard have reached an agreement to end the inadvertent killing of endangered sea turtles trapped inside containment booms during controlled burns of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lawyers said. “We’ve agreed to meet to work out the terms to make sure the turtles are protected,” Jason Burge, a lawyer for several environmental groups suing to protect the sea turtles, told U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier at an emergency hearing today in New Orleans federal court. Details will be fleshed out over the weekend so that protections may be in place by the time controlled burns are set to resume on July 6, the lawyers told Barbier. The wildlife groups withdrew their request for a temporary restraining order blocking the burns, on the condition they may renew the request later if the turtle-rescue settlement falls apart. Burge told Barbier oil-spill clean-up crews have suspended controlled burns because of bad weather caused by Hurricane Alex, the first tropical storm to enter the Gulf of Mexico this year, which slammed into northern Mexico on June 30. William Eubanks, who also represents the wildlife groups, said in an interview outside the New Orleans courtroom that the activists want to include “qualified observers, like a biologist or a sea turtle researcher” to accompany crews conducting the burns. These trained personnel can spot and safely remove any sea turtles trapped within containment booms. Mutual Goal Don Haycraft, BP’s lead lawyer in New Orleans spill-related litigation, said the company will work with the Coast Guard and environmentalists to achieve a mutual goal. “This effort is an example of BP and the government and the outside parties reaching a common agreement on an issue -- protecting sea turtles -- that is important to everyone,” Haycraft said. Environmental groups sued BP and the Coast Guard on June 30, seeking to block the use of controlled burns or require all boats involved in the process to rescue turtles from inside floating burn boxes before the oil is ignited. “BP has already killed or otherwise harmed” hundreds of rare Kemp’s Ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead and other species of endangered sea turtles through its use of controlled burns or as a result of contamination from the oil spill itself, the lawsuit claims. The animals become trapped when shrimp boats encircle patches of floating oil with fire-resistant booms to create “burn boxes” 60 to 100 feet in diameter, they said. Swim to Safety In affidavits filed with the lawsuit, boat captains and turtle rescue workers said they’ve saved numerous sea turtles that were trapped in heavy oil accumulations. Many of these rescued turtles were scooped from sludge floating in the same areas where trawlers were corralling crude for controlled burns. The turtles are too heavily oiled to free themselves from the sludge and swim to safety, although out of the oil they respond well to rehabilitation, the witnesses said. BP and the Coast Guard estimate that 9.9 million gallons of crude oil recovered from the Deepwater Horizon well have been burned as of July 1, according to a statement on the joint command’s web site. The wildlife activists added the Coast Guard to the lawsuit after BP said all company clean up and containment activities, including the controlled burns, are being carried out under Coast Guard orders. BP has yet to contain a damaged underwater well that has been spewing as much as 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily off the Louisiana coast since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned and sank in April. The case is Animal Welfare Institute v. BP America Inc. et al, 2:10-cv-01866, U.S. District Courts, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans). --Editors: John Pickering To contact the reporters responsible for this story: Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston at laurel@calkins.us.com; Allen Johnson in New Orleans at allenmct@gmail.com.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 4, 2010 9:48:25 GMT -5
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-02/bp-coast-guard-will-save-turtles-from-oil-burns.htmlBP, Coast Guard Will Save Turtles From Oil BurnsJuly 02, 2010, 2:46 PM EDT By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Allen Johnson Jr. July 2 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc and the U.S. Coast Guard have reached an agreement to end the inadvertent killing of endangered sea turtles trapped inside containment booms during controlled burns of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lawyers said. “We’ve agreed to meet to work out the terms to make sure the turtles are protected,” Jason Burge, a lawyer for several environmental groups suing to protect the sea turtles, told U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier at an emergency hearing today in New Orleans federal court. Details will be fleshed out over the weekend so that protections may be in place by the time controlled burns are set to resume on July 6, the lawyers told Barbier. The wildlife groups withdrew their request for a temporary restraining order blocking the burns, on the condition they may renew the request later if the turtle-rescue settlement falls apart. Burge told Barbier oil-spill clean-up crews have suspended controlled burns because of bad weather caused by Hurricane Alex, the first tropical storm to enter the Gulf of Mexico this year, which slammed into northern Mexico on June 30. William Eubanks, who also represents the wildlife groups, said in an interview outside the New Orleans courtroom that the activists want to include “qualified observers, like a biologist or a sea turtle researcher” to accompany crews conducting the burns. These trained personnel can spot and safely remove any sea turtles trapped within containment booms. Mutual Goal Don Haycraft, BP’s lead lawyer in New Orleans spill-related litigation, said the company will work with the Coast Guard and environmentalists to achieve a mutual goal. “This effort is an example of BP and the government and the outside parties reaching a common agreement on an issue -- protecting sea turtles -- that is important to everyone,” Haycraft said. Environmental groups sued BP and the Coast Guard on June 30, seeking to block the use of controlled burns or require all boats involved in the process to rescue turtles from inside floating burn boxes before the oil is ignited. “BP has already killed or otherwise harmed” hundreds of rare Kemp’s Ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead and other species of endangered sea turtles through its use of controlled burns or as a result of contamination from the oil spill itself, the lawsuit claims. The animals become trapped when shrimp boats encircle patches of floating oil with fire-resistant booms to create “burn boxes” 60 to 100 feet in diameter, they said. Swim to Safety In affidavits filed with the lawsuit, boat captains and turtle rescue workers said they’ve saved numerous sea turtles that were trapped in heavy oil accumulations. Many of these rescued turtles were scooped from sludge floating in the same areas where trawlers were corralling crude for controlled burns. The turtles are too heavily oiled to free themselves from the sludge and swim to safety, although out of the oil they respond well to rehabilitation, the witnesses said. BP and the Coast Guard estimate that 9.9 million gallons of crude oil recovered from the Deepwater Horizon well have been burned as of July 1, according to a statement on the joint command’s web site. The wildlife activists added the Coast Guard to the lawsuit after BP said all company clean up and containment activities, including the controlled burns, are being carried out under Coast Guard orders. BP has yet to contain a damaged underwater well that has been spewing as much as 60,000 barrels of crude oil daily off the Louisiana coast since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned and sank in April. The case is Animal Welfare Institute v. BP America Inc. et al, 2:10-cv-01866, U.S. District Courts, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans). --Editors: John Pickering To contact the reporters responsible for this story: Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston at laurel@calkins.us.com; Allen Johnson in New Orleans at allenmct@gmail.com.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 4, 2010 14:41:23 GMT -5
First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as spill cover-up goes OrwellianSaturday, July 03, 2010 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime. CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, "A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, ... will prevent reporters and photographers from getting anywhere close to booms and oil-soaked wildlife just about any place we need to be. By now you're probably familiar with cleanup crews stiff-arming the media, private security blocking cameras, ordinary workers clamming up, some not even saying who they're working for because they're afraid of losing their jobs." Watch the video clip yourself at NaturalNews.TV: naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=203The rule, of course, is designed to restrict the media's access to cleanup operations in order to keep images of oil-covered seabirds off the nation's televisions. With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what's really happening in the Gulf. The war is on to control your mind If all this sounds familiar, it's because the U.S. government uses this same tactic during every war. The first casualty of war, as they say, is the truth. There are lots of war images the government doesn't want you to see (like military helicopter pilots shooting up Reuters photographers while screaming "Yee-Haw!" over the comm radios), and there are other images they do want you to see ("surgical strike" explosions from "smart" bombs, which makes it seem like the military is doing something useful). So war reporting is carefully monopolized by the government to deliver precisely the images they want you to see while censoring everything else. Now the same Big Brother approach is being used in the Gulf of Mexico: Criminalize journalists, censor the story and try to keep the American people ignorant of what's really happening. It's just the latest tactic from a government that no longer even recognizes the U.S. Constitution or its Bill of Rights. Because the very first right is Freedom of Speech, which absolutely includes the right to walk onto a public beach and take photographs of something happening out in the open, on public waters. It is one of the most basic rights of our citizens and our press. But now the Obama administration has stripped away those rights, transforming journalists into criminals. Now, we might expect something like this from Chavez, or Castro or even the communist leaders of China, but here in the United States, we've all been promised we lived in "the land of the free." Obama apparently does not subscribe to that philosophy anymore (if he ever did). So how does criminalizing journalists equate to "land of the free?" It doesn't, obviously. Forget freedom. (Your government already has.) This is about controlling your mind to make sure you don't visually see the truth of what the oil industry has done to your oceans, your shorelines and your beaches. This is all about keeping you ignorant with a total media blackout of the real story of what's happening in the Gulf. The real story, you see, is just too ugly. And the government has fracked up the cleanup effort to such a ridiculous extent that instead of the "transparency" they once promised, they're now resorting to the threat of arrest for all journalists who try to get close enough to cover the story. Yes, this is happening right now in America. This isn't a hoax. I know, it sounds more like something you might hear about in Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela or some other nation run by dictators. But now it's happening right here in the USA. As Anderson Cooper reported on CNN: "Now the government is getting in on the act. Despite what Admiral Thad Allen promised about transparency just nearly a month ago. Thad Allen: "The media will have uninhibited access anywhere we're doing operations..." Anderson Cooper: The Coast Guard today announced new rules keeping photographers, reporters and anyone else from coming with 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches. What this means is that oil-soaked birds on an island surrounded by a boom, you can't get close enough to take that picture. Shot of oil on beaches with booms? Stay 65 feet away. Pictures of oil-soaked booms uselessly laying in the water because they haven't been collected like they should? You can't get close enough to see that. Believe me, that is out there. But you only know that if you get close to it, and now you can't without permission. Violators could face a fine of $40,000 and Class D felony charges." See the video yourself at: naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=203
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 4, 2010 14:47:02 GMT -5
Crap....Did I accidentally delete your post?
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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jul 5, 2010 10:58:34 GMT -5
I don't think my post was deleted. So, do you think that the BP oil gusher was an accident or a staged crisis for the purposes of public management? There's serious talk of nuking the well shut. Seems risky. According to record Russia has done it before. I've also heard that we're being lied to about the amount of pressure being exerted from the broken pipe. One person said that the video we've been shown of the oil slowly bubbling to the surface isn't even a true depiction of the actual events. They tried to drill too deep, too fast. I've also heard that there are deep fissures in the bed of the ocean as well which are leaking too. How do you seal that? This could go on for years. www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/02/russian-scientists-urge-bp-nuke-gulf-oil-leak/Russian Scientists Urge BP to Nuke Gulf Oil Leak
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 5, 2010 11:58:03 GMT -5
Good question....... Goldman Sachs shorted and bet on a disaster one week before the explosion of the rig, BP executives sold at least half of their stock a week before, and Goldman Sachs owns the company dumping the Corexit poison, Nalco. With those facts in mind, it is hard to dismiss no per-knowledge. I work for a major bridge and road construction company. Gary Null has a daily show, and some of the guys listen to it. One day they talked about BP did not use casings in drilling. The supervisors at my job hit the ceiling after they heard this. They said you put casings ALWAYS in multiple locations when drilling into bedrock, especially when making a bridge or drilling in water. The company is involved in windmill construction near Atlantic City, and they have to put casings in. The fissures will crack in multiple places if casings are not put in, and they said that this hole could be miles deep before long. The Nuke could literally blast a 10 mile wide hole, blowing out the thin bedrock, and letting a Mt Everest sized oil reserve to flow FOREVER. 4 quadrillion gallons by estimates. That will be the end of life in the oceans on earth. The only solution is to have a hundred barges, continually siphoning off the oil. We are that close......
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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jul 5, 2010 16:14:09 GMT -5
Good question....... Goldman Sachs shorted and bet on a disaster one week before the explosion of the rig, BP executives sold at least half of their stock a week before,..... 9/11 redux.
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Post by KNOWTHIS on Jul 5, 2010 16:16:57 GMT -5
Also there are toxic gasses being emitted from this leak and no one is being warned. One hurricane in the area could spread these gasses throughout the US. Then you consider the way that the media is being shut out from the area by sheriffs and private security guards. This debacle has cover-up written all over it.
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