BP Ecocide v15.0: Encyclopedia of the Gulf

by vets74

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:

1. Collect images of the Gulf Coast now. Identify date, time, and shooting location.

2. 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 :::

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BP Ecocide v14.0: Fake Command Center Pics Admitted

by vets74

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 :::

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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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