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Possible New Oil Spill 100 By 10 Miles Reported in Gulf Of Mexico (Update: Spill Photos)
Black Swan Clusterflock +1. As if earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and war was not enough, the Examiner now discloses that a replay of the BP oil spill could be in the making, sending WTI to the (super)moon, the economy collapsing, and Ben Bernanke starting the printer in advance of QE 666. To wit: "The U.S. Coast Guard is currently investigating reports of a potentially
massive oil sheen about 20 miles away from the site of the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig explosion last April." There are no definitive reports yet, but we should now for sure within hours, if the Keppel FELS built TLP is indeed the culprit: "According to Paul Barnard, operations controller for the USCG in
Louisiana, a helicopter crew has been dispatched to the site of the
Matterhorn SeaStar oil rig, owned by W&T Offshore, Inc." And if preliminary reports are correct, BP will have been the appetizer: "Multiple reports have come in of a sheen nearly 100 miles long and 10 miles wide originating near the site." If confirmed, Obama can kiss tomorrow's Rio golf outing goodbye.
Independent pilots, including John Wathen of the Waterkeeper Alliance, and Bonnie Schumaker with Wings of Care, are currently flying out to investigate the spill. Schumaker reports having seen the sheen on Friday, March 18, and confirms that it is rapidly expanding.
A Louisiana fisherman, who has chosen to remain anonymous at this time, also reports fresh oil coming ashore near South Pass, LA, and that cleanup crews are laying new boom near the beach.
The site of the sheen, near Mississippi Canyon 243, lies 30 miles from the Louisiana coastline. The Matterhorn field, at a depth of 2,789 feet (850 meters) of water, was discovered in 1999, leased and permitted in July 2001, and came into production in November 2003. It is located 30 miles SE of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
According to W&T, the field has produced an average rate of 5,200 barrels of oil per day, and has production capacities of 35,000 barrels of oil per day.
Of course, whether this is due to the Matterhorn SeaStar or a second leak that many predicted last year due to the Deepwater Horizon will also be closely evaluated this time around.
An in depth look at the SeaStar (after the jump):
And the technical specs:
| Field Facts | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mississippi Canyon, Block 243 |
| Water Depth: | 2,820 ft |
| Oil throughput: | 33,000 bpod |
| Gas throughput: | 55 MMcfd |
| Water Injection: | 20,000 bwpd |
| # of production wells: | 5 spare (sub-sea), 7 + 2 spare (surface) |
| Production Risers: | 10 ¾-in, 9 5/8-in, 9 7/8-in |
| Export Risers: | 18-in SCR (oil), 10-in SCR (gas) |
| SeaStar® TLP Specifications | |
| Payload (deck/facilities/risers): | 8,425 tons |
| Tendons: | 6 32-in |
| Main column dimensions: | 584 ft (dia) x 125 ft (ht) |
| Pontoon dimensions: | 179 ft (r) x 42 ft (ht) |
| Draft: | 104 ft |
| Deck Dimensions: | 140 x 140 ft (3 levels) |
| Schedule Milestones | |
| Project Sanction: | September 2001 |
| Platform Installation: | July 2003 |
| First Oil: | November 2003 |
And from GulfOilSpillAction, photos of the latest supposed spill:
Update 2: Dow Jones is on it:
The U.S. Coast Guard said late Saturday that it is investigating reports of a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard said in a news release that it received a report of a three-mile-long rainbow sheen off the Louisiana coast at around 9:30 a.m. local time on Saturday. Two subsequent sightings were relayed to the Coast Guard, the last of which reported a sheen that extended from about 6 miles south of Grand Isle, La. to 100 miles offshore.Though the Coast Guard was able to confirm that there is a substance on the water's surface, it has not yet been able to determine if it is oil. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said that officers who observed the substance from a helicopter said they saw no sheen associated with it. That flight was diverted from the scene on a separate search and rescue mission, however, and could not continue their investigation, the Coast Guard said in the news release.
The Coast Guard has since launched additional aircraft and boats to the scene from New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., to collect samples of the substance. Ranel said the area where the substance has been reported is about 20 miles west of where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last April, killing 11 and unleashing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Ranel said the Coast Guard has not linked the substance to any particular rig or well.
The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which holds oil royalties to pay for spill clean-up costs, has been opened, the Coast Guard said.
h/t @djoalpha11, @BMCapital
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Maybe those cities are for us when the U.S. is declared an evacuation zone.
There is one common aspect to all of these events. Energy.
Oil peaked in 2005, so the monetary inflation and political instabililty were both predictable, and predicted. Read over The Oil Drum archives for info. The end of cheap and easy oil mean also the end of safe oil. Things get a lot more difficult at 5000 feet under water than sticking a straw in the ground and sucking, it means that there will be more energy related disasters in the future as it gets more expensive and more difficult to produce oil. This is also predictable...
Toss a die once and you have a 1 in 6 chance of getting a 1. Toss the die a hundred times and the chance of getting a 1 is a near certainty; 1 - (5/6)^n
or 99.999...%
Well, we use a fuck load of energy and have a large amount of energy generation whether it is nuclear, oil, coal, gas or whatever. It means, the probabilty of "a black swan" is a near certainty. That is... Get used to it people, "black swans" are the new normal. There is always going to be "a black swan" somewhere for some reason. Or put another way, there is no black swan.
For the above reasons, I am long all sorts of energy production technologies & aggressively BTFD on every opportunity the muppets give me.
There are alternatives of course, but I'll let you work them out for yourselves.
Good. We black swans are tired of being a minority.
here comes more cheap real estate on the market
These are all man made disasters, I have a hard time labeling them "Black Swans"..these are events which occur of some risk related activity. Would the Insurance industry allow the use of the term? Of course not Risk must be known and accounted for..So be careful using terms one has no understanding of. The risks were known and someone screwed up anyway event is more accurate or bad things happen when humans are involved.
Isn't that kind of like "an act of god" or war? Seems that that's what they'd like things pegged as...
"If confirmed, Obama can kiss tomorrow's Rio golf outing goodbye."
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!! Good one TD.
We need honest money, deflation and Ron Paul. We will not get them unless enough sheep are scared enough. Whoever owns us wants real change real soon. Wouldn't it be weird if, when all is said and done, we are greatful for all this clusterflock?
Those who live.
....If confirmed, Obama can kiss tomorrow's Rio golf outing goodbye.
No he won't. Our "Hamster-In-Chief" will play golf until the oil is covered-up with corexit like before. In other words, not his problem. It's his "Handlers" problem.
Dictator in Chief.
It is the truth.
It's Sunday, shouldn't you be out killing small animals or something?
NOTE: lots of hot air about how much you hate everything, just figuring that maybe you should actually yak less and DO more?
Nah. I'm having fish tonight. I'm bailing. Enjoy your slavery.
"Enjoy your slavery."
To what? Feel free to review my posts for any indication that I support enslavement.
Ever sign up for anger mangement? Have you quit beating your wife yet?
My wife has too many weapons of her own to ever mistreat.
I hate political correctness and socialism. That will never change. Why waste the time of a shrink? My last one suggested I move to a third world country and become king.
It's clear what you HATE, as a matter of fact, and consider this friendly advice, all your posts indicate dislike/hate. You're ozzing with disturbance (spewing forth even in your avatar- whether this is an insecurity with your manhood?). I don't know what happened in your childhood, but I've seen this condition before, with all those wishing to control everyone else by proclaiming that "the commies" were going to take over the world... We got the likes of Donald Rumsfeld out of that mindset.
You're getting blindsided and you're missing it. It's fascism that's knocking on your door, that's what you should be concerned about.
I have no comment on "political correctness," I'm an anarchist (and yes, Virginia, there ARE libertarian anarchists), so politics is, by default, incorrect :-)
BTW - It's OK to be anti-social, but don't confuse anyone who IS social to be a socialist...
Bye bye $100 oil. Hello $150 oil.
SA will make up for any shortfall in supply...
nothing to see here sheeple. keep yours glued to what is important... march madness!
Fuck March madness. Whats important to me now is the Book of Revelation.
Praise God, and pass the ammunition.
More Cowbell.... More midnight corexit flights.
lets see the destruction list:
Food (check)
Water (check)
Air (check)
Land (check)
Family (check)
Religion (check)
Spirit (check)
Life (check)
--ok..we're DONE!!
How bout we get Japan to send helicopters to the Gulf to pick up the oily water, then they can go back and throw that at their reactors?
That's known as Japanese efficiency -- kill 2 birds with one stone.
I understand that the new U.S. paper currency is oil absorbent. Ben can fly his helicopters over the slick and drop more billions to sop up the mess.
Could be much worse...after all, oil is NOT man made like nuclear shit. I know it's bad but it's "organic".
12-21-12 is really looking good as far as the end of something.
Yeah, oil's good for you -
Ann Coulter
When is Earth Day? I want to do my part to cure the planet from the consequences of our insatiable thirst for energy by turning off the lights for one night. I'll even get my children to pick up the litter in the park. I could use a feel good campaign right about now.
There is a silver lining. Once the Gulf is declared dead, their will be no barriers to drill every drop of oil out of it.
Then it will be Soylent Green.
IN TYLER WE TRUST
Great scoop TD!
The sparrows are chirping. They want my aprocot tree. The fruit is green!
Japan's 9.0 magnitude earthquake was so poweful that it sent ripples through the ground water in South Florida in the US, the Sun Sentinel newspaper reports. Gauges used by the South Florida Water Management District picked up unusual activity about 30 minutes after the quake, the paper reported. (BBC News)
Maybe Japan's quake was a worldwide shaker.
Those of us who questioned the stability of the sub-seafloor sands beneath Deepwater Horizon were 'junked' off of the Oildrum, whose braniacs will remain 100% confident in any new, leisurely handling of another rupture (they'll call it a 'leak' in need of a 'seal') by the petroleum 'experts', along with a "situation commander" and a compliant media.
Does anyone have the site to get the food stockpile pallet delivered to your driveway? I guess I'm going all in...
http://www.survivalblog.com/
MuBama & his little buddy HAARPer (and their immediate families) will not dare set foot into North American airspace, or land on US or Canadian homeland soil, until well after the nuclear gamma clouds and acid rain moves well past the White House's non-released thermoscan danger zone readings.
Only then can they move back after the south polar jet stream serves its purpose and the trade mission trip ends so well in Rio & France, and upon their return, just watch for all the real-time thermo readings being publicly released.
Now waiting for the next "weak-no-leak" cables of the present radioactive isotope readings in N.A. food and water...
p.s. March Madness is likely just as fixed as most other college and professional sports "entertainment" (ie: NFL<MLB<NHL<NBA>World Cup<Olympics, and likely even the PBA Professional Bowling Association)
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Vertically Rampant Co-Incidences:
WASHINGTON -- With plenty of help from Pittsburgh, Butler found another way to pull off a stunning upset in the NCAA tournament.
Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and Butler shocked the top-seeded Panthers 71-70 Saturday night to advance to the round of 16.
Each team had a chance to win it from the foul line in the last 2 seconds. After Butler's Shelvin Mack inexplicably fouled Gilbert Brown near midcourt with 1.4 seconds left, Brown made the first try to tie it.
He missed the second, and Howard was fouled by Nasir Robinson while grabbing the rebound – a foul even more unnecessary than the one that preceded it.
The beaches are packed and I will be out there today and report from Pensacola Beach
You post a link to a real pic of some babes on Pensacola beach today holding something saying ZH, I donate $20 to ZH today. If they're slicked down with gulf crude oil and wrestling on the beach, I'll do $50.
with pictures
Keep an eye on the oildrum blog news. If this latest spill turns out to be the real thing oildrum will be the blog to read.
http://www.theoildrum.com/
They have to get dispersants out there QUICK and sink this stuff to the bottom so nobody can see it!
I don't find any mention of this in major news outlets, what is the deal? Is it confirmed yet? Is it real?
I can't find it anywhere except in the FL newspaper Tylor sources. Keep checking the oildrum blog. If this holds water (no pun) they'll be on top of it.
http://www.theoildrum.com/
And if you mention possible weak seafloor strata (as in: they shouldn't have drilled there in the first place) the oildrum braniacs will be all over you.
All of these events, man's rupture of the earth beneath the sea, tsunamis, massive shifting of the plates, are connected.
Certainly you can draw a connection to big oil having angered the Mayan Sun God.
All that corexit was a waste
So lets see - Nuke energy is out, now oil is out for gas and other processing, GREEN energy anyone ? Thats the push by the elitists and this plays right into their hands - either that or now they can justify $250 barralels of oil aside from their Lbya, Suadi, Oman, Yemen, Iraq war culprits to blame.
Time to fill up the spare tanks
None of this matters, now that Kevin Costner's oil sweeping machines have been built and are ready for use. KC to save the day.
11 AM EST and no mention of this yet on MSM that I can see. Wonder how long it will take? Is someone thinking the American people can only take but so much black swan news at once?
no mention of the new spill yet, but they're all over Justin Beeber's new haircut !
Priorities.
"A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness."
Hunter S. thompson
Any friend of Gonzo's is a friend of mine! :-)
Well as a resident of Tampa Florida I have to say that I am neither surprised nor shocked by the idiocy of the oil companies let alone the media in reporting this. This sheen that they think is oil has been there since the BP disaster and no one has said anything about it or done anything about it. Its really upsetting because my husband is a saltwater fly fisher and he gets really upset when I refuse to cook let alone eat anything he brings home from his fishing trips. My advice is to watch where you are buying your seafood. Even if this wasnt just oil the corexit 9500 alone should make you rethink eating seafood from the gulf. As a long time lover of seafood I have recently become very distant from any seafood. Thanks mom for that. Great article and thank you for bringing it to the light of day!
Get a grip.
get a grip on what? the FDA doesn't assay for Corexit, nor does it assay for any heavy metals, all present in the gulf, from the disaster and subesequent response.''
If these images don't disturb you, they should:
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Dozens-of-dead-dolphins-washing-up-on-shores-of-Gulf-Coast-117108088.html
You all should try to control your elation.
Yes, well, the problem with being a doomster is that you actually have to hope for doom while pretending that you have everybody's best interests at heart.
This is the lastest developpement on the subjet
US Coast Guard: Reported Gulf Slick Likely Silt From Dredging
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--What was reported as a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is likely a plume of silt emanating from a dredging operation on the Mississippi River, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Sunday.
Still, the Coast Guard is testing the substance, which has an associated rainbow sheen similar to that resulting from oil spills, to determine exactly what it is, said spokesman Henry Cambre.
It's possible, Cambre said, that whatever is causing the sheen was trapped in river bed sediment and was released by the dredging work. The Coast Guard said it expects results from those tests to be available later Sunday.
The Coast Guard station in New Orleans received a report Saturday morning of a three-mile-long patch of rainbow sheen south of Grand Isle, La. Two subsequent sightings that were relayed to the Coast Guard had the slick growing; the last caller said it stretched from six miles south of the coast to 100 miles offshore.
Officers confirmed the existence of a substance near the water's surface, but that initial investigation was cut short when their helicopter was diverted to a separate search and rescue mission. The Coast Guard has since dispatched additional aircraft and boats from Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans to the scene.
-By Ryan Dezember, Dow Jones Newswires, 713-560-6670 , ryan.dezember@dowjones.com
Copyright (c) 2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Thanks for the info... that's one helluva dredging effect.
Oily silt. No problem.
Ah! "Weather balloons," I knew it!
US Coast Guard: Reported Gulf Slick Likely Silt From Dredging
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=20110320...
Maybe so. Meanwhile, recent chatter: "old BP oil is the most likely" perhaps disturbed by dredging. I'll let you know if there's any science done to confirm what it is. Photos and visual reports are inconclusive.
I'm wondering if the Next Shoe to Drop might be Huge Glaciers breaking off due to this Supermoon, thus a quickened sea level rise, and some more of our Fresh water being rendered undrinkable. AKA - The sinking of New York (city).
So much water but not a drop to drink.
Sheen likely from dredging?
HOUSTON -Dow Jones- What was reported as a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is likely a plume of silt emanating from a dredging operation on the Mississippi River, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Sunday.Still, the Coast Guard is testing the substance, which has an associated rainbow sheen similar to that resulting from oil spills, to determine exactly what it is, said spokesman Henry Cambre.
via US Coast Guard: Reported Gulf Slick Likely Silt From Dredging.
Dredging????????????? right.....
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you can't make this shit up
Some fucktard from the gubamint did make this shit up!
Another sign of the times......
Think anout it......
Wow...the mouth of the mississippi is about 40 miles away...that is one heck of a dredging project.
Hey! Quit introducing doubt into this thing! :-)
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Sheen....Charley?
Just donated to ZH. Thanks for the great content.
Well, barry's not even pretending to lead anymore. It's like he was the prom queen (remember berlin), then got sodomized by the football team...now he's just their bitch, trying to squeeze in a few forbidden pleasures before they throw him in front of the teleprompter and buttfuck him again... "Okay, whose next.....?"
I like the visual there......
+1. i hadn't smiled all day till i read that.
They can fix this with 50 skeletons, a demolished water pump and an extension cord.
This shit'll be cleaned up lickity split.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGAoU1H2gM
Where are the locations of all those North Korean Kriegsmarine-built submarines.
Karma is a slick.
those silly N Koreans got us AGAIN! Boy do we have egg on our faces! I wonder how Obama's NCAA picks are going??
Another oil spill? I haven't finished my BP-Stuffed Crabs yet.
Maybe its just golf balls, tires, and drilling mud from the junk shots :)
I'm speechless...really! I guess the Admin is intent on keeping fuel $$ high as they were under pressure to start issuing drilling permits - bet that's off the table now along with Nuclear energy!
Just wait, Obama will further restrict drilling on the Gulf. I imagine WTI will be spiking post haste.
http://common-cents-economics.blogspot.com/
Futures already over $105
The gubment still won't say the bad word oil, but they are confirming that they found the spooge:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/coast-guard-collecting-samples-of-substance-in-gulf-of-mexico-after-reports-of-oil-sheen/2011/03/20/ABTYfp0_story.html
we Americans need more guts. Japan is fearless facing the nuclear meltdown, and we freak out over a little oil stain? O-man and his media control will take care of it in a minute.
Fearless? Those people literally bow down to their elite and don't complain about living in rabbit hutches. More like beaten into submission.
I missed this story when it came out. Merrill Lynch telling us to BTFD.
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/03/16/biancos-10-reasons-to-buy-the-dip/
Merrill Lynch is a highly successful advisory and brokerage firm, whose past calls have turned out to be highly accurate.
/sarc
your sarc may turn out to be true.. sadly.
i wonder if the USD free fall will be bullish or bearish eventually??
I'm quite positive that Merrill Lynch will never be considered a highly successful advisory and brokerage firm whose calls turn out to be accurate.
That book has closed, and that ship has sailed.
Does anyone really expect the Coast Guard or the US government to tell the truth about this?
I just read where they were saying it was from dredging the Mississippi River, what a crock of S**T!!!! I lived down there for years, and never heard of such a thing, they would do it for the canals, but not the river.
These governments will do anything to keep the lies going...
WSJ reporting now.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/coast-guard-checking-possible-oil-slick-in-gulf-2011-03-20
This isn't silt.
What a bullshit, pathetic lie.
Don't they realize that their lies only buy them a few days with even the sheeple, and cause the awake to laugh hysterically, by now?
The ongoing lying becomes pathologic, and eventually these corrupt leaders start believing their own lies; Embalma is just one failed bond auction, one U$D drop to 72, one Japanese liquidation of Treasuries, one freeze up in credit markets, one 200 millisievert CA radiation reading, or one more Gulf of Toxico oil rupture away from making world-class denials putting him in the same twilight zone of GaDhaffi.
How many jobs did Obama say he was going to create? I guess he's arraning for millions to shovel tar balls on the beaches. BTFD.
Do me a favor? please stop saying spill, that in definition would be considered a short, one time quick event which requires a quick wipe of the hand or a couple Scottie towles, Like "Ooops! I spilled my beer on the drivers seat" or "Oh shit! sorry, did I get any on your dress" type thing. This has been an open crack or "hole" in the sea floor purging unmitigated for a while now, now load up the C-131 and spray that problem away!
The Bad Guy.
Once the braniac petroleum engineers have gotten approval to drill the deepwater site on thin, weak sandstone/shale strata over the massive high-pressure oil field, they prefer to limit the discussion to expensive, 5 month-prolonged procedures involving the fixing of "leaks", using high-tech "seals".
Ignore the correct terminolgy and you'll be drummed out of the discussion.
Spill reported off Grand Isle confirmed to be oil
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20...rmed-to-be-oil
It is conceivable that it's silt, which is black, and could have been stirred up by dredging. However:
Grand Isle Fire Chief Aubrey Chiasson confirmed this morning that the substance is oil, but officials have not determined where it came from. "We had a report from a crabber that it's black oil," Chiasson said.
So, at the moment it's USCG 7 Crabber 10 1st Q
How many guesses do I get to from where it came?
MC 252 flowing into the area of 253 would be the smart money.
It's possible. I haven't checked the Gulf currents. Stand by. Current and wave action pushing ESE->WNW today. 243 is vaguely N of 252. I guess it's possible.
MSM is having too much fun with the shock and awe. Love that death, can't get enough of it. CNN doesn't even have a link to it on their website...
www.collapsenet.com - for all you Mike Ruppert fans...
100 or so images from the new oil in the gulf. if these are really from the new oil then this is not good at all.
http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll297/creekkeeper_2008/BP%20Slick%20p...
That is clearly silt, how could it be anything else?
Okay, it looks like oil from the air, and current/wave action is WNW, so it could have been pushed to shore from MC 252 maybe -- or it's bunker fuel dumped by a vessel. I do not believe it has anything to do with W&T Offshore's tension leg platform. They would have reported a spill. It's a Federal crime not to report, and W&T is an excellent operator.
Still nothing from most of the main stream media sites going on three days now...
Apparently this never happened.
Yogi would say: "It hasn't started until the 1st inning is over".
Or, to the reporters: "You're not as dumb as you look".
oily tuna is the new organic. Pretty soon all the yuppies will be ordering their oily tuna subs while downing a cesium milk shake.
Staff Writer Published: Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.
( page of 2 )
GRAND ISLE — The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to investigate patches of oil found Saturday off the Grand Isle coast.
Grand Isle Fire Chief Aubrey Chiasson confirmed this morning that the substance is oil, but officials have not determined where it came from. It is not believed to be oil left over from last year’s spill that may have been trapped in a marsh or other area,” Chiasson said.
After completing an aerial survey of the spill with Jefferson Parish John F. Young Jr. this afternoon, Chiasson said they saw patches of “light- to moderate-weathered oil” starting about three miles from the Caminada Pass in the Gulf, stretching out at least five miles. He said oil has also reached Elmer’s Island, as well as beaches in Grand Isle and Port Fourchon.
The Coast Guard said Saturday night that there is a 5-mile wide spill of some substance in the Gulf. Still, the substance will not be identified by Coast Guard testers until later this afternoon, Coast Guard Lt. Ryan Baxter said.
http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20110320/ARTICLES/110319410/1212?Title...
Clearly, it is a thousand square miles of silt that represents no known health hazard and may even be good for you.
*sigh* Ima have a beer now.
I was on a military base a few weeks ago and someone was mentioning in passing that they had to go overseas on short notice because 'some shit is about to go down'. Surely this was planned out quite a while ago.
post regarding 3rd war
Twilight Zone?
NEW ORLEANS (AP, Houston Chronicle) — The Coast Guard says a miles-long patch of discolored goop floating in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be caused by river sediment.
The Coast Guard tested the patch Sunday and found only trace amounts of petroleum that were well below the state of Louisiana's standard for clean water. A news release says The Coast Guard believes the discoloration is the result of sediments brought down the Mississippi River.
The investigation began after reports came in Saturday of what appeared to be an oily sheen.
The Coast Guard also said it was investigating separate reports of an oily substance washing up in Grand Isle and other areas nearby.
NEW ORLEANS (Times-Picayune) — Oil was released into the Gulf of Mexico south of Grand Isle for four to six hours Saturday, the apparent source of oil that washed ashore on Louisiana beaches Sunday, a Jefferson Parish Council member said.
The source of the leak has been secured, Councilman Chris Roberts said in an email.
There have been reports that Grand Isle and other barrier islans had been polluted by the oil.
Roberts said Coast Guard Capt. John Burton, the commanding officer of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Morgan City, said a drilling site was being plugged when the leak occurred.
This is BS! It does NOT take 24-48 hours to determine if something is crude oil.
It takes 5 minutes! Crude oil is uniquely recognizable especially in the ocean!
OH Yah, we had a drilling leak nearby...but that wasn't what you saw...it was river sediment...RIVER...SEDIMENT ! YOU GOT THAT ?
Capped well appears to be leaking. Oops.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocky-kistner/one-gulf-oil-spill-source_b_...