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On 'Manmade Catastrophe,' Obama Says Be 'Prepared for the Worst' and Hope for Better News From BP
abcnews.com/politicalpunch ^ | June 5, 2010 | Sunlen Miller

Posted on 06/05/2010 6:31:11 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Taped from Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, La., on Friday, President Obama warned people in his weekly address to be “prepared for the worst,” even as everyone hopes that BP’s efforts “bring better news than we’ve received before.”

“Over the last few days, BP has placed a cap over the well, and it appears they’re making progress in trying to pump oil to the surface to keep it from leaking into the water,” Obama said in the address, taped from Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, La., on Friday. "But as has been the case since the beginning of this crisis, we are prepared for the worst, even as we hope that BP’s efforts bring better news than we’ve received before.”

The president said that regardless of the outcome of this latest attempt to stem the oil flow, there still will be some spillage until the relief wells are complete and there will continue to be a massive clean up ahead.

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To: Ann Archy

Summary:

1. Immediate recognition by Congress that this is a “National Emergency” on the scale of a nuclear weapon attack on the US and funding an appropriate “super response” – now! This spill is already totally destroying the Gulf of Mexico as we know it. It requires the formation of a “Super Governmental/Industry Tiger Team” to address and implement both the detonation of a nuclear weapon as well as the mitigation and clean-up of this spill by a fleet of Super Tankers with oily water separators totally outside of any response by BP to date. This problem has totally overwhelmed the limited responses of an oil company such as BP. BP should be totally removed from the scene the responsibility for clean-up belongs with the US Government in making a “WWII-Type Mobilization Response”. This may include mobilizing a fleet of barges being placed as the first “ring of defense” around main well area (perimeter may have to miles in length right now) followed by a fleet of super tankers to start storing/transporting oil and discharge permits granted to discharge the water. Somebody (appointed by Congress) needs to be in charge of the entire response with billions of funding in-place right now to start cutting purchase orders (there is not time for the usual Government Bid System to be effective in a timely manner) for a fleet of tankers and it is not BP.

2. Mobilize a Super Tanker Fleet to start sucking up the large underwater oil plumes located at 3000 to 4000 feet under the sea. These plumes can be easily located by US Navy Sonar. Immediately find the real well head location – compare known GPS locations of where the Drilling Rig should have been drilling to the current GPS location of the BOP.

3. Monitoring what BP is doing is useless at this point as an appropriate Government response and shows a complete lack of understanding from a systems engineering viewpoint of the magnitude of the crisis. The Red Flag in this crisis is going to be that “BP has delayed the heavy mud attempt to seal the well” or at the “Top Kill” will not work and the follow-up “junk shot did not work because this is probably a red herring and not the real location or cause of the massive oil spill.

4. Immediately remove all Mines Mgmt personnel in Louisiana associated with any Gulf Coast platform reviews until and independent audits can be conducted of the all technical decisions and drilling permits issued in the past five years. Revoke all drilling permits issued by this office in past 24 months.

5. BP has totally misrepresented the real nature of this oil spill to Congress. It is possible that the real wellhead outflow is 120,000+ bbls per day and located miles from the BOP location. Congress should immediately send the US Navy to locate the real wellhead location.

6. The use of Corexit 9500 maybe 4X more toxic than oil. It could also be 10X to 20X more poisonous than other dispersants. It could undergo a phase transition to a gaseous state in the warm Gulf waters and result in some type of “toxic rain clouds” over the East Coast. The US Army developed the “best performing” absorbent by the US Corps of Engineers called Oil Sponge (a name trademarked by a company called Phase III and is 100% organic) and is made from renewable resources and there are other much safer dispersants. Oil Sponge is built using a microbial and nutrient package, capable of transforming oil hydrocarbons into a safe bi-product of carbon dioxide and water. There is also AmeriHaz Petroleum Solidifier that encapsulates environmental contaminants making crude oil and other oil like substances easy to retrieve. Both of these products have been ignored by BP and the Government in the clean-up of this fiasco. Why? Has BP trying to hide the magnitude of the spill – absolutely! Contact your Congressman immediately as to why BP has refused to stop the use of this dispersant! It is your grandkids lives that may depend on it.

7. The enormous amounts of natural gas being injected underwater in the Gulf of Mexico from this blow-out contain the carcinogen benzene which is water soluble. It is classified by EPA as a carcinogen at levels of 1 ppm. Is anyone now testing the Gulf waters for benzene levels? Any oil clean-up personnel need to be wearing Hazmat suits. If the water or beach sand smells oily then they may be exposed to benzene levels 20X in excess of safe standards. Nobody needs to be sticking there finger into some oily product on the beaches. There are probably more than 52000 bbls per day of natural gas being released into the Gulf of Mexico which will cause a huge oxygen depletion zone and possible massive fish and shrimp kills.

8. Dr Steven Wereley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, has testified before the House Energy and Environmental Committee that 95,000 barrels of oil are currently leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. BP would not have economically spudded this well unless it was flowing in excess of 65,000 barrels per day (and the real answer is closer to 120,000 barrels per day (50X times worse than BP/US Government stated at the outset).

9. The Obama Administration needs to release EPA data on air quality at/near spill sites (both onshore and at the spill site). It is the responsibility of the Obama Administration to require workers to wear respirators. It is dangerous to go near large oil spills which have been sprayed with solvents like Corexit 9500 which the Natural Science Dept of Russia has stated is 4X more toxic than oil itself!? Tell your Congressman you wish to see data on air and water quality on daily basis.

10. According to data from the University of South Florida, the massive oil spill has now entered the Atlantic Loop Current (starting to make its turn around the Southern tip of Florida and towards Miami) and maybe heading up the East Coast. I would expect large plumes of oil may start appearing in spots across the Panhandle and Florida beaches in next 30 to 45 days as these oil plumes gradually rise to the surface (one said to be over 22 miles long and 800+ feet deep!?!).

Bottom Line: We are looking at the worse environmental disaster in human history and it continues to grow and the US Government has failed totally in responding to this epic crisis because of BP and Big Oil political clout and money.

The light end of the oil will be absorbed into the atmospheric system and come down as a toxic chemical bath at some point in the future. Remember that 70% of the oil and natural gas is underwater and chemically destroying the Eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone needs to contact their Congressman about mobilizing the National Guard for clean-up and start monitoring water and air quality. We need to get Congress to budget for a fleet of super tankers to start skimmers and remove BP totally from the scene. The US Navy needs to be mobilized to start identifying underwater oil plumes as well as all marine research organizations along the East Coast. The environmental impacts are almost incalculable at this point and everyone on the East Coast is going to be impacted in some manner in next ten years. Do not go near beaches where oil spills are occurring and do not touch any spilled oil with your bare hands. Wear a respirator if involved in any beach clean-up and make sure the benzene levels have been tested in all drinking and bath water.

The US Government needs to take total control with US Navy and mobilize a massive fleet of barges and super tankers with skimmers to start clean-up. We are going to need hundreds of miles of additional rubber boom and another 50,000 to 100,000 people in clean-up.

Everybody in Congress needs to be asking some very hard questions about what is really going on and find out why they have been massively misled on the real magnitude of this oil spill. We need to make sure we know the real source of the wellhead now.

In the end as much as we hate to – we may have to opt for using a “down-hole” nuclear weapon. If the relief well being drilled (not completed until August) does not stop this oil well blow-out expect a tactical nuclear option to be seriously considered in next 90 days. You may hear it is disguised as an “earthquake” some day in the Gulf of Mexico. This option needs to be structured for an immediate Congressional decision to stop the massive wellhead blow-out. You need to know the sub-sea salt topology in detail before exercising such an option.

By: Dr Stephen A Rinehart


61 posted on 06/05/2010 9:43:05 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: etradervic
quote of the year...

I do suspect that 0bama's lack of concern is to allow a catastrophe in order to acquire political advantage.

62 posted on 06/05/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: etradervic

Also...If this spill reaches the Carolina’s/Miami right at the peak of a heavily predicted (correctly this year?) hurricane season people will be knashing at the teeth and desperate;just as Obama wants so he can force his global communism on all.

Mark my words...


63 posted on 06/05/2010 9:49:06 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I don’t believe anything the liberal mainstream media says.

The liberal/democrat/communits government media complex is using this “oil spill” as an excuse to shut down oil drilling in the Gulf. This will raise the price of oil which will hurt the world and United statees Economy , hurt the Texas economy and destroy the Southern Louisiana Economy.


64 posted on 06/05/2010 10:00:29 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives; All

I don’t believe anything the liberal mainstream media says.

The liberal/democrat/marxist government media complex is using this “oil spill” as an excuse to shut down oil drilling in the Gulf. This will raise the price of oil which will hurt the world and United states Economy , hurt the Texas economy and destroy the Southern Louisiana Economy.


65 posted on 06/05/2010 10:02:01 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

This EPA imposed deepwater drilling has resulted in a tragedy that is a good analogy of the Obama presidential legacy: both are devastating american tragedies that will take years to clean up and recover from, if ever


66 posted on 06/05/2010 10:02:20 AM PDT by KTM rider ( ..........tell me this really isn't happening ! !)
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To: etradervic
If so, we are witnessing at worst an administration that is profoundly evil...

When you couple the response of the Obamalamadingdong Administration to the oil spill, plus all the other things that have occurred in the past 16 months, from the GM takeover and what happened to the bond holders and dealership owners to the health control boondoggle up to and including bowing to the Saudi King, it would be very difficult to argue that Obama has motivations other than evil. He certainly does not have the best interests of America or the majority of American citizens in mind. The question I keep asking is how much longer before EVERYONE sees through the charade?

67 posted on 06/05/2010 10:02:21 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

"All of our hopes are with BP now, which is why we're sending 5,000 lawyers from the White House to sue them out of existence. Hopefully, they'll have the well capped soon."

68 posted on 06/05/2010 10:15:08 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Paine)
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To: ClearBlueSky

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

The author is unknown but the above statement makes a great deal of sense


69 posted on 06/05/2010 10:20:16 AM PDT by digger48
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I miss my friends. I spent many hours at the harbor in Ocean Springs
watching and photographing brown pelicans. They were nearly extinct
30 years ago, but have made a remarkable come back. To see them
coated with crude breaks my heart.

70 posted on 06/05/2010 11:18:38 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Then why all the inaction from the government in helping control this spill?

Why all the foot dragging and stymieing the states from what they wanted to do to help control the spill and save their beaches?

What a fraud.


71 posted on 06/05/2010 11:42:32 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Islander7

Those pictures are real sad and we are only seeing 0.0001% of it.


72 posted on 06/05/2010 12:18:43 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: Ann Archy

LIVE web CAM

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/view_live_video_feed_of_bp_gul.html


73 posted on 06/05/2010 12:19:09 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: ignoramus2010
BECAUSE he wants a disaster and he wants LOTS of oil. That's his crisis to pass cap and trade tax.
74 posted on 06/05/2010 1:41:42 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Ann Archy

Here is why they didn’t burn it:

Follow the money:

Keep in mind this is the spawning season for most fish and crustaceans in the GOM. What is also odd is that when you search for this, each day more and more of the searches lead to pages that are no longer available or have warnings that the site will attack your computer. As we all know the same thing has been happening since the Kenyan was elected. Hot potato?..... start scrubbing and hiding. At the bottom of this post is the FOLLOW THE MONEY part and to say it is interesting is a HUGE understatement.
The EPA just approved mixing dispersant with the leak at the source — this wild experiment could have unintended consequences such as maintaining a horizontal plume of semi-dispersed oil at mid-Gulf levels.
Good article here:
Despite EPA order, BP continues to use toxic chemical dispersant on oil spill
By The Associated Press
No one but the Texas-based manufacturer, Nalco Energy Services, knows exactly what’s in Corexit 9500, the dispersant BP has been spraying on the slick. The company says it may pose a risk for eye and skin irritations and can cause respiratory problems, but “no toxicity studies have been conducted on this product.””A dispersant doesn’t get rid of oil,” said George Henderson, a senior scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg who is the state’s top science adviser on the oil spill. “It just transforms its movement.”
Ferguson could not say how many gallons of dispersant BP has sprayed underwater.
One 2006 study found that oil droplets treated with a chemical dispersant didn’t degrade nearly as fast when they were in very cold water — and the water a mile deep is just above freezing.
The shrimpers are worried that using dispersants at such a depth would guarantee that it would spread the oil droplets and dispersant on the sea floor, where shrimp larvae and other organisms could be affected.
What is more, the main dispersants applied so far, from a product line called Corexit, had their approval rescinded in Britain a decade ago because laboratory tests found them harmful to sea life that inhabits rocky shores, like limpets, said Mark Kirby, a scientific adviser to the British government on the testing, use and approval of oil spill treatment options.
So, no one knows what untold long-term damage BP is causing in the food chain, and, ultimately to the public health, in addition to the massive oil hemorrhage itself in the Gulf. And BP sure doesn’t want us to find out.
http://wakeup2010.blogspot.com/2010/05/corexit-9500.html
http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/Corexit.pdf
http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf
The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons
BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,021,000 gallons.
But what most people don’t know is that the active ingredient of the toxic chemical dispersant, which is up to 60% by volume, being sprayed by BP to fight the Gulf oil spill is a is a neurotoxin pesticide that is acutely toxic to both human and aquatic life, causes cancer, causes damage to internal organs such as the liver and kidneys simply by absorbing it through the skin and may cause reproductive side effects.
In fact the neurotoxin pesticide that is lethal to 50% of life in concentrations as little as 2.6 parts per million has been banned for use in the UK since 1998 because it failed the UK “Rocky shore test” which assures that the dispersant does not cause a “significant deleterious ecological change”.
Corexit has also earned the highest EPA warning label for toxicity which means the effects of the toxic chemicals to the eye are corrosive resulting in irreversible destruction of ocular tissue and other tissue with corneal involvement along with an burning that can persist for more than 21 days and effects to human skin are corrosive resulting in tissue destruction into the dermis and/or scarring.
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/589583/
BP’s preferred dispersants, thus far, have been Corexit 9500 and 9527, which are manufactured by Nalco, Inc. BP executives and board members have direct financial ties to Nalco, so that the m0re Corexit they use in their “clean-up” efforts the more they stand to profit from the disaster on the back-end.
Corexit 9500 and 9527 were also determined to be the least effective dispersants of all 18 tested, further confirming that BP’s decision to use these products is based on an attempt to profit handsomely from their use, and not their expressed goal of “cleaning up the mess.”
Ultimately the conflict between the EPA and BP being waged right now on using “more effective” and “less toxic” dispersants, skirts the real issues. Although using “less toxic” dispersants is a good idea, the more “effective” they are, the more harm they do to the life in the Gulf. The focus should not be only on the inherently toxic nature of all dispersants, but on the inherently toxic consequences of dispersing the oil through any means.
Dispersing the oil into the water column accelerates the poisoning of all marine life, deep throughout the water column and seabed. Ultimately it results in “covering-up” the extent of the disaster on the surface, while amplifying the damage within our oceans. Also, when the dispersants admix with the crude oil, a third far more toxic product is produced called “dispersed oil.” Dispersed oil has been shown to be more toxic than the sum of its parts.
http://oilspilltruth.wordpress.com/dispersants/
“It’s not at all clear to me why we are dispersing the oil at all,” Safina said. “It’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind strategy. It’s just to get it away from the cameras on the shoreline.
“It takes something that we can see that we could at least partly deal with and dissolves it so we can’t see it and can’t deal with it.”
The scientists said that we have quite literally a surface understanding of what a spill of this magnitude may have on ocean life, with most attention and understanding devoted to what is visible atop the ocean, when it soils birds or marine life that we can see, or when it fouls a wetland or beach.
carl_safina.JPGManuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated PressCarl Safina is president and co-founder of Blue Ocean Institute.
But its most profound and long-lasting effects, they said, may be on ocean life in the deep waters of the Gulf, which, Earle said, at its lower depths remain, to a remarkable degree, a “mystery.”
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_is_sticking_with_its_disper.html
E.P.A. Violates Clean Water Act!
Corexit was approved for a very specific purpose — coastal oil spill cleanup. It was approved to be utilized in a very specific manner: sprayed (droplets, not mist) from airplanes or boats, over the oil slick. The approval goes into very exact language as to how the product should be utilized, and even talks about mitigating possible consequence to the humans spraying the product. It was NEVER cleared for deployment UNDER the water, nor offshore, nor at such depths. Temperature, pressure and environment all come into play, and those factors cannot be ignored.
http://www.protecttheocean.com/e-p-a-violates-clean-water-act/
Less Toxic Dispersants Lose Out in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
Nalco’s connections
Critics say Nalco, which formed a joint venture company with Exxon Chemical in 1994, boasts oil-industry insiders on its board of directors and among its executives, including an 11-year board member at BP and a top Exxon executive who spent 43 years with the oil giant.
“It’s a chemical that the oil industry makes to sell to itself, basically,” said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.
The older of the two Corexit products that BP has used in the Gulf spill, Corexit 9527, was also sprayed in 1989 on the 11-million-gallon slick created by the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
Cleanup workers suffered health problems afterward, including blood in their urine and assorted kidney and liver disorders. Some health problems were blamed on the chemical 2-butoxyethanol, an ingredient discontinued in the latest version of Corexit, Corexit 9500, whose production Nalco officials say has been ramped up in response to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Among Corexit’s competitors, a product called Dispersit far outpaced Corexit 9500, EPA test results show, rating nearly twice as effective and between half and a third as toxic, based on two tests performed on fish and shrimp. The material safety data sheet for Corexit 9500 warns: “Do not contaminate surface water.” Also, the document says, “Component substances have a potential to bioconcentrate.
Bruce Gebhardt, president of the company that manufactures Dispersit, U.S. Polychemical Corp., said BP asked for samples of his company’s product two weeks ago. Later, he said, BP officials told him that EPA had wanted to ensure they had “crossed all their T’s and dotted all their I’s” before moving forward.
Gebhardt says he could make 60,000 gallons a day of Dispersit to meet the needs of spill-containment efforts. Dispersit was formulated to outperform Corexit and got EPA approval 10 years ago, he said, but the dispersant has failed to grab market share from its larger rival.
“When we came out with a safer product, we thought people would jump on board,” he said. “That’s not the case. We were never able to move anyone of any size off the Corexit product.”
He added, “We’re just up against a giant.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/business/energy-environment/13greenwire-less-toxic-dispersants-lose-out-in-bp-oil-spil-81183.html
But even as these arguments continue, with 230,000 gallons of Corexit on tap and more commissioned by BP, a superior alternative could be left on the shelf.
Called Dispersit, it’s manufactured by the U.S. Polychemical Corporation and has been approved for use by the Environmental Protection Agency. Both Corexit and Dispersit were tested by the EPA, and according to those results, Corexit was 54.7 percent effective at breaking down crude oil from the Gulf, and Dispersit was 100 percent effective.
Not only did Corexit do a worse job of dispersing oil, but it was three times as lethal to silverfish – used as a benchmark organism in toxicity testing — and more than twice as lethal to shrimp, another benchmark organism and an important part of Gulf fisheries.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gulf-dispersants/
EPA tells BP to use less-toxic chemicals
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-05-20-oil-spill-chemicals_N.htm
BP defies EPA orders to use less toxic chemicals on Gulf oil spill
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d22-BP-defies-EPA-orders-to-use-less-toxic-chemicals-on-Gulf-oil-spill-Live-oil-spill-video
EPA: BP makes Gulf oil spill worse by using more toxic, less effective chemical dispersants
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d13-EPA-BP-makes-Gulf-oil-spill-worse-by-using-more-toxic-less-effective-chemical-dispersants
http://www.iosc.org/papers/00020.pdf
http://www.politicolnews.com/bp-using-toxic-corexit-9500/
Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.
The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/toxic-oil-spill-rains-warned-could-destroy-north-america/
http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100523/bp-persist-corexit-9500-dispersant-id-10114389.html
Secret Formulas, Data Shortages Fuel Arguments Over Dispersants Used for Gulf Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/24/24greenwire-secret-formulas-data-shortages-fuel-arguments-o-9112.html
Swimming Through the Spill ...
Only a few meters down, the nutrient-rich water became murky, but it was possible to make out tiny wisps of phytoplankton, zooplankton and shrimp enveloped in dark oily droplets. These are essential food sources for fish like the herring I could see feeding with gaping mouths on the oil and dispersant. Dispersants break up the oil into smaller pieces that then sink in the water, forming poisonous droplets — which fish can easily mistake for food.
Though all dispersants are potentially dangerous when applied in such volumes, Corexit is particularly toxic. It contains petroleum solvents and a chemical that, when ingested, ruptures red blood cells and causes internal bleeding. It is also bioaccumulative, meaning its concentration intensifies as it moves up the food chain.
The timing for exposure to these chemicals could not be worse. Herring and other small fish hatch in the spring, and the larvae are especially vulnerable. As they die, disaster looms for the larger predator fish, as well as dolphins and whales.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/opinion/30shaw.html
NOW FOLLOW THE MONEY!
GULF OIL PROFITEERS EXPOSED HERE !!! THE REAL TRUTH !!! 06/05/2010
There is a company called NALCO. They make water purification systems and chemical dispersements.
NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. UChicago Argonne received $164 million dollars in stimulus funds this past year. UChicago Argonne just added two new executives to their roster. One from NALCO. The other from the Ill. Dept of Educaution.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything).
The dispersement chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water’s surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools. It is toxic and banned in Europe.

The Top Kill method was started and suspended several times. It was being attempted only half heartedly. The reason is, there is no money to be made with a solution that simple.
The real money is in the use of dispersants.
There is a company called NALCO. They make water purification systems and chemical dispersants.
NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
NALCO is associated with UChicago Argonne program. UChicago Argonne received $164 million dollars in stimulus funds this past year. UChicago Argonne just added two new executives to their roster. One from NALCO. The other from the Ill. Dept of Educaution.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet /Hathaway Berkshire increased their holdings in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything).
The dispersant chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water’s surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools. It is toxic and banned in Europe.
http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico

This is NALCO:
http://www.nalco.com/index.htm
Goldman Sachs was part of a three-pronged group that purchased NALCO:

http://bit.ly/8Z3Ai6

BP And Goldman Sachs Sued For Oil Fraud
http://blogs.forbes.com/energysource/2010/05/18/bp-goldman-sued-oil-fraud/

Buffett’s Bet On Water, NALCO (NLC is trade code):
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3095068
‘Blackstone, Apollo and Goldman Sachs to acquire Ondeo NALCO’ (COREXIT 9500):
http://bit.ly/bVHQkR
The Betrayed: a True Patriot site did a superb job researching this and has many links to back it up:
http://roach1958.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/gulf-oil-profiteers-exposed-here-the-real-truth/
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BP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative
It has been confirmed that the dispersal agent being used by BP and the government is Corexit 9500 , a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% at its highest point of the day today, after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf. Nalco’s CEO, Erik Frywald, expressed their commitment to “helping the people and environment of the Gulf Coast recover as rapidly as possible.” It may be that the best way to help would be to remove their product from the fray. Take a look at some of the facts about Corexit 9500:
A report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. entitled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview ” states that “Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527, and Corexit 9580 have moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks (LC50 or EC50 – 1.6 to 100 ppm*). It goes on to say that decreasing water temperatures in lab tests showed decreased toxicity, a lowered uptake of the dispersant. Unfortunately, we’re going to be seeing an increase in temperatures, not a decrease. Amongst the other caveats is that the study is species-specific, that other animals may be more severely affected, silver-sided fish amongst them.
http://www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/


75 posted on 06/05/2010 1:55:55 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Islander7

It’s not just our beloved friends with wings, it’s Dolphins, Manatees, turtles, the June spawns of the fish, lobster, the shrimp, crabs, Blue fin Tuna that spawn in only 2 places, the Mediterranean Sea and the GOM, all the way down the food chain, top to bottom.


76 posted on 06/05/2010 1:59:18 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Here is a link for all cams on one page:

http://mxl.fi/bpfeeds2/


77 posted on 06/05/2010 2:00:22 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

i don’t agree that the black panthers have high influence. they have influence of a corrupt and evil administration which actually is very lo-life. that won’t last.... then they will be crawling back into their holes and hiding behind their blackness


78 posted on 06/05/2010 2:07:23 PM PDT by bareford101 (Be loud! We have nothing – NOTHING - to apologize for in fighting for our Country!!)
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To: mojitojoe
OMG!! THAT needs it's OWN THREAD IN THE SIDEBAR!!!

NALCO ALERT to ALL REPORTERS and MEDIA....ESPECIALLY JOE SCARBOROUGH and MIKA!! They ahve been talking all week about the dispersants!!!

Can you ;make this it's OWN Thread??? PLEASE.

NALCO....SOROS....GOLDMAN....BUFFET...Geesh Louise!!......SCANDAL HEAVEN!!!

79 posted on 06/05/2010 2:47:30 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
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To: Ann Archy

Feel free to use it. I have to attend a birthday party and I need to hit the shower, get dressed and leave in 15 minutes. Please do make a thread. :)


80 posted on 06/05/2010 2:54:56 PM PDT by mojitojoe (banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson)
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