Future? What Future?

by Edger

These are three of the cheerful passages in the article. If you've never read the whole thing I'd recommend it...

The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial
By Robert Jensen

Imagine that you are riding comfortably on a sleek train. You look out the window and see that not too far ahead the tracks end abruptly and that the train will derail if it continues moving ahead. You suggest that the train stop immediately and that the passengers go forward on foot. This will require a major shift in everyone's way of traveling, of course, but it appears to you to be the only realistic option; to continue barreling forward is to court catastrophic consequences. But when you propose this course of action, others who have grown comfortable riding on the train say, "Well, we like the train, and arguing that we should get off is not realistic."

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BP's Well May Leak For 55 Years Or More Into The Gulf Of Mexico?

by Edger

On June 15, 2010 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) Dr. Marcia McNutt (Director of the U.S. Geological Survey) had developed a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico that indicated the leak could be spewing up to 2.52 million gallons of crude oil per day into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico from British Petroleum's Macondo Well.

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Gulf Oil Leak May Be Over 4 Million Gallons Per Day

by Edger

Last week on June 15 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) Dr. Marcia McNutt (Director of the U.S. Geological Survey) had developed a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico that indicated the leak could be spewing up to 2.52 million gallons of crude oil per day into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico from British Petroleum's Macondo Well.

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BP Burning Sea Turtles Alive In Attempt To Limit Liability?

by Edger

Daniel Tencer reports this morning at RawStory  that it appears that  "a rare and endangered species of sea turtle is being burned alive in BP's controlled burns of the oil swirling around the Gulf of Mexico, and a boat captain tasked with saving them says the company has blocked rescue efforts."

"Mike Ellis, a boat captain involved in a three-week effort to rescue as many sea turtles from unfolding disaster as possible, says BP effectively shut down the operation by preventing boats from coming out to rescue the turtles."

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America is Dying

by Edger

AP reports:

GULF SHORES, Ala. - Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.

Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange - and troubling - phenomena.

Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.

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Beyond Pathetic: BP Hiding Oiled Animal Carcasses Washing Up On Gulf Beaches?

by Edger

RawStory reports today that on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night, Marine toxicologist Riki Ott alleged that British Petroleum (BP) is trying to discourage or disallow public and media from seeing some of the horrific results of their oil leak by removing oiled animal carcasses from Gulf beaches.

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Oil Leaks From Gulf Seabed Cracks Around BP's Well Site?

by Edger

BP has a collection of 'bots' or ROV's, remotely operated vehicles, tethered underwater robots operating in the Gulf of Mexico near the blown out Macondo Well site, while they attempt to either plug the leak or at least find ways to recover and siphon off the leaking oil.

Sitting on top of the well pipe projecting from the seabed is the BOP, or Blow Out Preventer, the large steel 450 ton apparatus that you may have seen in various photographs and videos from BP's Live Feed as they recently cut off the top of the riser pipe that ran from the BOP to the Deepwater Horizon platform before it burned and sank.

There has been much speculation lately that the well bore is damaged below the seabed and that oil is leaking out of the well into the seabed underneath and around the BOP.

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Second Oil Well Now Leaking Into Gulf, While Oil Leaks Through Seabed Around BP's Well?

by Edger

The Alabama Press-Register reported Monday evening June 07, 2010 that there has been a second oil well leaking into the Gulf of Mexico about 12 miles offshore from Louisiana since April 30, only a week or so after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank April 20 causing a so far unending gusher of oil into the waters from the gulf seabed. The second leak "visible from space in multiple images gathered by Skytruth.org, which monitors environmental problems using satellites" is from a well drilled by Ocean Saratoga, a drilling rig owned and operated under contract by Diamond Offshore for well owner Taylor Energy Co.

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The Sword's Edge: Obama And Big Oil

by Edger

Crossposted from Antemedius Antonia Juhasz is the author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time and most recently, The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It. Almost 2 years ago Juhasz talked with The Real News Network about the oil industry in America and around the world, and after the recent and ongoing poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico caused a least I think in part by the regulatory corruption of MMS and the US government by BP and the other oil companies, maybe it's time to revisit the predictions made in the interview so long ago.

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