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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Way down (below the ocean): Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico

by matching mole

There has been a lot of news about the devastation that the oil gusher is having and will have on the marine life of the Gulf of Mexico.  The face of that devastation takes the form of oil soaked birds and the bodies of dolphins and turtles.  There is also a commonly repeated statement that the real damage will be invisible, billions upon billions of larval fishes and other micro-organisms that will perish in the water column when oil passes through it.  This carnage has no face.  Below I will talk a bit about the diversity of life in the Gulf and show some photos of local denizens that I took yesterday.

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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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Oil spill - Related: Ocean Currents/Wind Currents/Hurricane Links

by dov12348

To help us project this thing.

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