Massive weathered oil plumes off Louisiana coast

by DWG

The New Orleans Times-Picayune has been reporting massive plumes of weathered oil off the Louisiana coast.

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

The report was dismissed by the Coast Guard, which suggested the miles long orange plumes were likely to be algae.

It is déjà vu all over again.

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BP Ecocide v13.2: New Pollution & Leaks from "Stack"

by vets74

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 :::

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BP Ecocide v12.1: "Undetermined Anomalies”

by vets74

"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:::

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UPDATE BP Ecocide v11.3: Seabed Geysers

by vets74

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 :::

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BP Ecocide v10.0: One Swab, No Mask

by vets74

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 :::

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BP Oil Disaster v9.0: Ecocide Ignores the Cheering

by vets74

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:

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BP Oil Disaster v8.0: Mindless Mitigation Activity

by vets74

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 :::

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BP Oil Disaster v7.0: "Offshore Drilling Halted"

by vets74

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 :::

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BP Oil Disaster v6.0: Response and Race

by vets74

"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 :::

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BP Oil Disaster v 5.0: Water Retention

by vets74

"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 :::

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BP Oil Disaster v4.1: Pics & Vids & Media Lies

by vets74

"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 :::

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U.S. Government, Stop BP from destroying the evidence

by icebergslim

Stop BP from destroying the marine life evidence.

Why is BP allowed to control the media take on marine life or the DEATH of marine life washing up on the Gulf Coast shores?

The dead marine animals washing up on the Gulf Shores are picked up FASTER than any BOOM or oil by BP!!  And that alone is a DAMN SHAME.

Question:  Why is that?

Don't you get that the evidence of marine life killed is just as important to removing the oil period?  Let alone, HELPS YOUR CASE AGAINST BP for the Gulf Coast.

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Gulf Citizens take matters into their own hands -- Updated

by jamess

Here's a Town, that said "Hell No, to the Crude" -- NOT on their Watch! Magnolia Springs, Alabama,  Weeks Bay. Updated: Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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BP, US Government, Delay, Deny and Defend

by KJG52

The right of the people to know is being flagrantly dismissed by the management of BP.  The list of attempts by BP to restrict the information flow to the public begins with the silencing of workers on the Deepwater Horizon and to assume Transocean did this without BP's complicity is unwarranted. The complete lack of information from BP about the velocity and volume of discharge of gas and raw petroleum followed closely behind the first instance. The delay in publishing data about the drilling permits, procedures, oversight, and planning for response closely followed the first two incidences. To assume that BP's underlying motives are beneficial to the people of the United States or its government, given BP's history of flagrant disregard for both government regulation and worker/public safety, is both naive and inherently unwarranted.

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