How do you drill a well in waters where the US Government has told you that you can't because it's dangerous off shore drilling ... and you're the very Oil Corp that has proven it can't be trusted?
Easy! Move Off Shore ... to On Shore!
We all have choices to make in life, some easier than others.
Perhaps to basic MBA penny-pinching, earning dollars off others' lungs through ignoring coal pollution's externalities, or a Corporate culture that remains ignorant of social costs, one of the most popular websites in the globe made the choice to poison all 500,000,000 of its "friends" by being a Friend to unfriendly and polluting Coal-fired electricity.
Facebook recently chose to operate its first data center, located in Prineville, Oregon, US, with energy from Pacific Power, a utility 60% fueled by coal.
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Bit o' brilliance.
Katja Schulz, Species Pages Coordinator at National Museum of Natural History's 
struck gold with an idea she suggested to SkyTruth.
Katja has altogether too much education and experience. She did Tree of Life work before coming to Smithsonian. (She's way too smart for web blither.) Her strategy is K.I.S.S. simple:
Build a Before/After image warehouse:
- Collect images of the Gulf Coast now. Identify date, time, and shooting location.
- Recreate the same images after ecological changes occur.
Can we call this:
Schulz's EOL system could support an EOGulf project. Add spacial/mapping data and adopt USCGS standards. Google/site has an EOGulf stub.
The better to prepare for corporatist denials as with Exxon Valdez and Chernobyl. Tag these crimes like it was Abu Ghraib.
Greenpeace, SkyTruth and more BTF :::
This came out Monday. The follow up astonishes.
Yessirreeee....... BP went and repeated a plot twist out of Sean Connery's "Rising Sun" movie. All that's missing is a dead gal sprawled on a conference table and snips from XXX porn footage.
Still... faking a pic for BP's "Command Center" kinda takes the cake for screw-the-facts, no respect dishonesty.
BP admits they reworked a 2001 photo. Put it on their web site. (John Aravosis bagged them at AmericaBlog.) Plutocrats to the core.
Corporate Culture On Display
D'oh... &MBTF :::
The focus here is ecological damage from this Deepwater Horizon blow out. Louisiana officials list these counties for oil pollution:
St. Bernard Parish - Oil in the marsh in Drum Bay southwest of Turtle Pen Isle; Chandeleur Island; North Island
Plaquemines Parish - south of Sandy Point; Shell Rock Beach; Petit Bay Chene Fleur; Bay Batiste northeast of Big Island; west side of Saint Marys Point; Bay Ronquille; Isle Grand Terre; South Pass.
Jefferson Parish - southeast of Elmers Island; Grand Isle; Caminada Bay; north of the Grand Isle Bridge.
Terrebonne Parish - south of Timbalier Island; Bayou Petit Caillou; northwest of Bodwin Point; Bay Round; Locust Bayou; Cooke Point.
St Mary Parish - southwest of East Bay; Salt Point.
St. Tammany Parish - north of Treasure Island.
Cameron Parish - southwest of Lower Mud Lake; Lower Mud Lake; on the shore east of Calcasieu Pass; Rutherford Beach.
Iberia Parish - Marsh Island; south of the Marsh Island shore; Southwest Pass.
This gets worse and worse.
BREAKING: BP and CG admit to subsurface leaks. MTBF :::
"Where there's smoke, there's fire" comes to mind.
Except for scale. Residual leaks work to drain the Macondo Prospect reservoir. That's 100,000,000 barrels or 4,000,000,000 gallons of crude oil.
Senator Nelson (D-FL) references the seabed geysers imaged by Viking Poseidon ROV #1.
UPDATE: BP off-loading finding seabed leaks to NOAA. So-called "undetermined anomalies" rising from the seabed are noted by Coast Guard.
Oil Biz apologists belong on SNL:
-- "I don't see oil."
-- "There are plenty of misleading videos...."
-- "I am calling... you a conspiracy theory nutjob...."
-- "It's pitch black down there."
The ROVs have very good lights and cameras. MTBF:::
Your pics and vids are welcome. There's nothing like a direct image.
Edger posted at yesterday's diary:
Seabed blow out ejecta, videoed by Viking Poseidon ROV 1.
The blow out continues with approximately 2,250 PSI of oil going lost. UPDATE: YouTube of another secondary outflow below. Senator Nelson confirms info.
Back on April 20th a strong shock wave holed DWH's BOP/manifold structure. Other pipes and joints were also blasted. Now an estimated 2,250 PSI of oil is escaping.
BP claims "puzzling pressure readings."
For every truth, there is an attractive Chernobyl-modeled lie. This blow out could leak for years.
More BTF :::
Your pics and videos are welcome here. Between the Deadly Sins and incompetence, BP and Halliburton have loosed a massive petrochemical killing zone.
Mitigation efforts use booms, sand bars, humans walking around with pick-up bags, burnings and skimmers. So far... the "make work mindlessness" of these efforts come down to this:
Gulf Coast "cleanup" and "recovery" are addressing less than 1% of the petrochemical spew. Putting these guys out there for "cleanup" without protective breathers is similar to these:
-- Putting an employee inside an auto body paint box without a breather
-- Putting the World Trade Center workers in the burning ruins without breathers.
These are are not getting the simple $29.99 N99 Standard safety masks for particulates.
BP is as bad at protecting workers as Rudy Giuliani. Next they will be selling a corporate symbol "Mr. Cleanup," parallel to Giuliani stumping as "Mr. 9/11."
Holes.
More on the ecocide BTF :::
Pics, videos of this ecocide are welcome here. Same for examples of media coverage as corrupt propaganda.
BP and Halliburton have committed ecocide:
-- 200,000,000+ gallons of crude oil
-- New pollution events for 5 years.
Mitigation efforts use booms, sand bars, walking around with pick-up bags, burnings and skimmers. So far... minimal environmental effect.
The slaughter gets worse and worse:
Typically -- ashore -- humans pretend they can sop up hundreds of gallons of petro poisons:
The coastal ecology is being destroyed. MSM-AP yesterday declared the opposite.
More of BP and Hallie damnation BTF:
Death in the Gulf.
Pics, videos are welcome. Same for examples of media coverage as propaganda.
BP and Halliburton committed ecocide. Dumping 200,000,000+ gallons of crude oil into the Gulf will be causing pollution events for 5 years.
Mitigation efforts onshore have hired the unemployed, but otherwise have produced minimal environmental effect.
"There was no oil on the beach on Grand Isle Louisiana when this video was shot, which means this disturbance occurred for no good reason."
The previous diary in this WineRev model series is HERE.
More BTF :::
Death in the Gulf.
Pics, videos and examples of bad media work are welcome. BP and Halliburton committed ecocide.
Mitigation efforts have had minimal effect. Use of "dispersant" chemicals have made things rather worse overall. This WineRev Model series focuses on biological impacts, the science underlying oil and its transport away from the Deepwater Horizon blow out site, and the human factors.
Echos of a Rightie propaganda distortion appeared all over the media landscape yesterday. Offshore drilling... halted -- the Lie of the Day:
The meme started HERE at Fox News
Only the deep water, mile-down, most dangerous handful of exploratory wells are affected by the clamp down.
Meanwhile, BP has not responded to NAACP allegations and documentation of discrimination related to the mitigation efforts (called "cleanup" and "recovery" in corporate media.)
Greenpeace. If DHW happened off Jacksonville. Please post pics below the fold :::
"Death in the Gulf."
BP and Halliburton committed ecocide. Mitigation efforts so far have had minimal effect. This WineRev Model series focuses on biological impacts, the science underlying oil and its transport away from the DWH blow out site, and associated human responses.
Today's diary reviews the July 10th NAACP letter to BP. No surprise, Blacks and Vietnamese fishermen are depicted as being assigned the most dangerous jobs and denied access to compensation programs.
Meanwhile, updated 2010 deep water maps of the upper GoM for cyclone and anticyclone currents remains unavailable.
The yellow-green offshore areas circulate counterclockwise. The blue anticyclones circulate clockwise. Both of these flow patterns hold DWH's deep water oil, keeping it from reaching the Loop Current and exiting the Gulf.
MBTF :::
"Death in the Gulf." BP and Halliburton committing ecocide.
This WineRev Model series focuses on the effects.
BP, the Coast Guard and corporate media are selling propaganda that the GoM Loop Current will clean things out:
No-no-no.
That first lavender offshore geostrophic cyclone can hold slowly rising oil for years. Then the pale yellow anticyclone circles north of the Loop Current.
Oil is going to be surfacing in the northern GoM and be at risk to hurricane for years. More below :::
"Death in the Gulf." BP and Halliburton committing ecocide.
This WineRev Model series provides a home for pics and vids. WineRev covered the 2009 Senate recount with a delightful 157 diary series. "Recounting Minnesota" at Amazon
Meanwhile, following its "1,000 gallons a day" lie, Coast Guard and BP referenced this map showing quick, clean flushing for the Gulf of Mexico:
No-no-no-no-no-no-no..... In deep water circular currents makes flow patterns quite complicated.
Greenpeace is brilliant:
More below :::