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Jun 28 2010

Wathen: BP Slick Covers Dolphins & Whales, Video + text

By AmericanRiverCanyon

Warning. Heartbreaking.

BP Oil Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales, by hccreekkeeper, John L Wathen. June 21, 2010.

BP slick Covers Dolphins and Whales.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

video by hccreekkeeper aka John L Wathen , with Tom Hutchins of SouthWings, flight pilot, and author Roger David Helbar (author of Saved By the Sea, A love story with fish) who on June 21 2010 flew over the Gulf to find the source of the BP slick

My imperfect transcript. (not exact, few words skipped. minute numbers added for reference)

“It didn’t take long after leaving the shore, to find our first oil.

In the mouth of Mobile Bay, there were patches of light sheen seen behind the islands. oil you couldn’t see it from the beach but

there was a solid mass of oil

on previous flights all, behind safeway ? island, we’d seen was light sheen

now it was turning into the darker pink mass,…. the farther out into the Gulf we got, the more consistent it became

at 17 mile out it was obvious the entire Gulf was covered at this point. there was no more clean water. heavy layers of oil covered the entire horizon

as far as you could see

the bands were getting thicker

at 23 miles out we encountered the heaviest sheen yet, the dark pink and purple

it was obvious this was coming to our beaches there was nothing we could do about it

at 23 mi out, we encountered the heaviest sheen yet, the water there was a deep purple maroon blue, it looked almost like a rainbow, boats on the surface looked tiny on the compared to the horizon

the scope of this is beyond belief.

Jun 27 2010

Hurricanes to Shut Down Oil Gather 10 days each, and Baby Dolphins Cry

By AmericanRiverCanyon in Environment

It is hurricane season in the Northern Atlantic Ocean.

When the storm winds hit a mere 40 mph, the “floating city” of BP’s oil collection and flare off ships in the Gulf of Mexico has to shut down. They need 4 days in advance to do this, and find safe harbor. This is according to Admiral Thad Allen. They will need 4 days to set back up. The total number of days that the oil from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon can spill freely into the Gulf during a short, 2 day tropical storm, is therefore 10 days.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node…

Guess what.

This is Alex.

Alex is a tropical storm.

By Tuesday, Alex could be a hurricane.

Alex is heading west right now.

Alex could then swing north.

birds, BP Oil Spill, climate, dolphins, fishermen, Gulf of Mexico, nature, shrimp, Tragedy, wildlife, wildlife refuges
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Jun 17 2010

BP Tony Hayward Admits 80,000 barrels/day Oil is Leaking to Be Captured. That’s 3Mil Day !

By AmericanRiverCanyon

Thurs June 17th- Congressional Mop and Sponge Show with BP Tony Hayward

Anyone notice this admission early on, after the beginning with the protestor standing up, her face smeared with black ink, and yelling at him ?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business…

Later identified as Diane Wilson, the co-founder of the activist group Code Pink , she shouted “I think you need to be charged with a crime, you need to go to jail.”

Hayward, who restarted his statement after Wilson was carted away by police, apologized to those hurt by the spill but added that it was “simply too early to say what caused the incident.”

“There is still extensive work to do. A full answer must await the outcome of multiple investigations” by both BP and the government, he said.

Hayward said that, in the meantime, BP is concentrating on cleanup efforts and on stopping the flow of oil by drilling two relief wells. The company, he said, also has deployed equipment that has allowed BP to collect 20,000 barrels of oil per day. BP expects to increase its collection to between 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day by mid-July, he said.

80,000 barrels a day

That is 3,360,000 or 3.36 million gallons a day leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon’s blown out well.

Jun 04 2010

Birds Are Not Supposed To Look Like This

By AmericanRiverCanyon in Environment

See this link:

birds are not supposed to look like this

this was May 24th. An oiled Pelican is left behind as her friends fly off in the Louisiana marshes nesting grounds.

birds, BP Oil Spill, climate, Gulf of Mexico, nature, Tragedy, wildlife, wildlife refuges
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May 04 2010

The Short-Term Fix or the Long-Term Solution

By cabaretic in Environment

I feel a bit late to the party writing about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Had I chosen to focus on this subject a few days ago, I might have been inclined to draft a personal narrative about the summers I spent on Alabama’s Gulf Coast as a boy and young teenager. My post would have certainly have been in good company; it heartens me to recognize just how many people have an emotional and personal connection to the region. I myself didn’t realize how much the warm salt water and white sand meant to me until I began to contemplate what both might look like covered in oil. It is very unfortunate that tragedies like these have to happen before we ever seriously consider the long term consequences. Off-shore drilling was, until very recently, touted as some kind of snake-oil panacea or fix-all curative. One hopes that we now understand the complexities and potentially catastrophic drawbacks in tapping the reserves present in our coastline.

May 25 2009

The Legacy of War — and Lessons Unlearned

By jamess in Meta, War

In his farewell address to the nation after spending 8 years as president, in 1961 Eisenhower warns of a growing danger.

Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Why would a respected President, set the sights so high, for his successors, and for America, as the dawn of the Television Age, blazed its path, towards an unknown Future?