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2 Years After the BP Oil Spill, Is the Gulf Ecosystem Collapsing?

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2 Years After the BP Oil Spill, Is the Gulf Ecosystem Collapsing?

The Gulf Ecosystem Is Being Decimated

The BP oil spill started on April 20, 2010. We’ve previously warned that the BP oil spill could severely damage the Gulf ecosystem.

Since then, there are numerous signs that the worst-case scenario may be playing out:

  • A recent report also notes that there are flesh-eating bacteria in tar balls of BP oil washing up on Gulf beaches

If you still don’t have a sense of the devastation to the Gulf, American reporter Dahr Jamail lays it out pretty clearly:

 

 

 

 

 

“The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.”

 

Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.

 

Cowan’s findings replicate those of others living along vast areas of the Gulf Coast that have been impacted by BP’s oil and dispersants.

 

Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP’s 2010 oil disaster.

 

Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp – and interviewees’ fingers point towards BP’s oil pollution disaster as being the cause.

 

Eyeless shrimp

 

Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp.

 

“At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these,” Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp.

 

According to Kuhns, at least 50 per cent of the shrimp caught in that period in Barataria Bay, a popular shrimping area that was heavily impacted by BP’s oil and dispersants, were eyeless. Kuhns added: “Disturbingly, not only do the shrimp lack eyes, they even lack eye sockets.”
Eyeless shrimp, from a catch of 400 pounds of eyeless shrimp, said to be caught September 22, 2011, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera]

 

“Some shrimpers are catching these out in the open Gulf [of Mexico],” she added, “They are also catching them in Alabama and Mississippi. We are also finding eyeless crabs, crabs with their shells soft instead of hard, full grown crabs that are one-fifth their normal size, clawless crabs, and crabs with shells that don’t have their usual spikes … they look like they’ve been burned off by chemicals.”

 

On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded, and began the release of at least 4.9 million barrels of oil. BP then used at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic Corexit dispersants to sink the oil.

 

Keath Ladner, a third generation seafood processor in Hancock County, Mississippi, is also disturbed by what he is seeing.

 

“I’ve seen the brown shrimp catch drop by two-thirds, and so far the white shrimp have been wiped out,” Ladner told Al Jazeera. “The shrimp are immune compromised. We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads, and are seeing this everyday.”

 

While on a shrimp boat in Mobile Bay with Sidney Schwartz, the fourth-generation fisherman said that he had seen shrimp with defects on their gills, and “their shells missing around their gills and head”.

 

“We’ve fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this,” he added.

 

Ladner has also seen crates of blue crabs, all of which were lacking at least one of their claws.

 

Darla Rooks, a lifelong fisherperson from Port Sulfur, Louisiana, told Al Jazeera she is finding crabs “with holes in their shells, shells with all the points burned off so all the spikes on their shells and claws are gone, misshapen shells, and crabs that are dying from within … they are still alive, but you open them up and they smell like they’ve been dead for a week”.

 

Rooks is also finding eyeless shrimp, shrimp with abnormal growths, female shrimp with their babies still attached to them, and shrimp with oiled gills.

 

“We also seeing eyeless fish, and fish lacking even eye-sockets, and fish with lesions, fish without covers over their gills, and others with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills.”

 

Rooks, who grew up fishing with her parents, said she had never seen such things in these waters, and her seafood catch last year was “ten per cent what it normally is”.

 

“I’ve never seen this,” he said, a statement Al Jazeera heard from every scientist, fisherman, and seafood processor we spoke with about the seafood deformities.

 

Given that the Gulf of Mexico provides more than 40 per cent of all the seafood caught in the continental US, this phenomenon does not bode well for the region, or the country.

 

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“The dispersants used in BP’s draconian experiment contain solvents, such as petroleum distillates and 2-butoxyethanol. Solvents dissolve oil, grease, and rubber,” Dr Riki Ott, a toxicologist, marine biologist and Exxon Valdez survivor told Al Jazeera. “It should be no surprise that solvents are also notoriously toxic to people, something the medical community has long known”.

 

The dispersants are known to be mutagenic, a disturbing fact that could be evidenced in the seafood deformities. Shrimp, for example, have a life-cycle short enough that two to three generations have existed since BP’s disaster began, giving the chemicals time to enter the genome.

 

Pathways of exposure to the dispersants are inhalation, ingestion, skin, and eye contact. Health impacts can include headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, chest pains, respiratory system damage, skin sensitisation, hypertension, central nervous system depression, neurotoxic effects, cardiac arrhythmia and cardiovascular damage. They are also teratogenic – able to disturb the growth and development of an embryo or fetus – and carcinogenic.

 

Cowan believes chemicals named polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), released from BP’s submerged oil, are likely to blame for what he is finding, due to the fact that the fish with lesions he is finding are from “a wide spatial distribution that is spatially coordinated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon, both surface oil and subsurface oil. A lot of the oil that impacted Louisiana was also in subsurface plumes, and we think there is a lot of it remaining on the seafloor”.

 

Marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia published results of her submarine dives around the source area of BP’s oil disaster in the Nature Geoscience journal.

 

Her evidence showed massive swathes of oil covering the seafloor, including photos of oil-covered bottom dwelling sea creatures.

 

While showing slides at an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington, Joye said: “This is Macondo oil on the bottom. These are dead organisms because of oil being deposited on their heads.”

 

Dr Wilma Subra, a chemist and Macarthur Fellow, has conducted tests on seafood and sediment samples along the Gulf for chemicals present in BP’s crude oil and toxic dispersants.

 

“Tests have shown significant levels of oil pollution in oysters and crabs along the Louisiana coastline,” Subra told Al Jazeera. “We have also found high levels of hydrocarbons in the soil and vegetation.”

 

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, PAHs “are a group of semi-volatile organic compounds that are present in crude oil that has spent time in the ocean and eventually reaches shore, and can be formed when oil is burned”.

 

“The fish are being exposed to PAHs, and I was able to find several references that list the same symptoms in fish after the Exxon Valdez spill, as well as other lab experiments,” explained Cowan. “There was also a paper published by some LSU scientists that PAH exposure has effects on the genome.”

 

The University of South Florida released the results of a survey whose findings corresponded with Cowan’s: a two to five per cent infection rate in the same oil impact areas, and not just with red snapper, but with more than 20 species of fish with lesions. In many locations, 20 per cent of the fish had lesions, and later sampling expeditions found areas where, alarmingly, 50 per cent of the fish had them.

 

“I asked a NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] sampler what percentage of fish they find with sores prior to 2010, and it’s one tenth of one percent,” Cowan said. “Which is what we found prior to 2010 as well. But nothing like we’ve seen with these secondary infections and at this high of rate since the spill.”

 

“What we think is that it’s attributable to chronic exposure to PAHs released in the process of weathering of oil on the seafloor,” Cowan said. “There’s no other thing we can use to explain this phenomenon. We’ve never seen anything like this before.”

 

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Crustacean biologist Darryl Felder, in the Department of Biology with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is in a unique position.

 

Felder has been monitoring the vicinity of BP’s blowout Macondo well both before and after the oil disaster began, because, as he told Al Jazeera, “the National Science Foundation was interested in these areas that are vulnerable due to all the drilling”.

 

“So we have before and after samples to compare to,” he added. “We have found seafood with lesions, missing appendages, and other abnormalities.”

 

Felder also has samples of inshore crabs with lesions. “Right here in Grand Isle we see lesions that are eroding down through their shell. We just got these samples last Thursday and are studying them now, because we have no idea what else to link this to as far as a natural event.”

 

According to Felder, there is an even higher incidence of shell disease with crabs in deeper waters.

 

“My fear is that these prior incidents of lesions might be traceable to microbes, and my questions are, did we alter microbial populations in the vicinity of the well by introducing this massive amount of petroleum and in so doing cause microbes to attack things other than oil?”

 

One hypothesis he has is that the waxy coatings around crab shells are being impaired by anthropogenic chemicals or microbes resulting from such chemicals.

 

“You create a site where a lesion can occur, and microbes attack. We see them with big black lesions, around where their appendages fall off, and all that is left is a big black ring.”

 

Felder added that his team is continuing to document the incidents: “And from what we can tell, there is a far higher incidence we’re finding after the spill.”

 

“We are also seeing much lower diversity of crustaceans,” he said. “We don’t have the same number of species as we did before [the spill].”

 

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Felder is also finding “odd staining” of animals that burrow into the mud that cause stain rings, and said: “It is consistently mineral deposits, possibly from microbial populations in [overly] high concentrations.”

 

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Dr Andrew Whitehead, an associate professor of biology at Louisiana State University, co-authored the report Genomic and physiological footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on resident marsh fishes that was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2011.

 

Whitehead’s work is of critical importance, as it shows a direct link between BP’s oil and the negative impacts on the Gulf’s food web evidenced by studies on killifish before, during and after the oil disaster.

 

“What we found is a very clear, genome-wide signal, a very clear signal of exposure to the toxic components of oil that coincided with the timing and the locations of the oil,” Whitehead told Al Jazeera during an interview in his lab.

 

According to Whitehead, the killifish is an important indicator species because they are the most abundant fish in the marshes, and are known to be the most important forage animal in their communities.

 

“That means that most of the large fish that we like to eat and that these are important fisheries for, actually feed on the killifish,” he explained. “So if there were to be a big impact on those animals, then there would probably be a cascading effect throughout the food web. I can’t think of a worse animal to knock out of the food chain than the killifish.”

 

But we may well be witnessing the beginnings of this worst-case scenario.

Whitehead is predicting that there could be reproductive impacts on the fish, and since the killifish is a “keystone” species in the food web of the marsh, “Impacts on those species are more than likely going to propagate out and effect other species. What this shows is a very direct link from exposure to DWH oil and a clear biological effect. And a clear biological effect that could translate to population level long-term consequences.”

 

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Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer, as well as a marine and oyster biologist, has “great concern” about the hundreds of dolphin deaths he has seen in the region since BP’s disaster began, which he feels are likely directly related to the BP oil disaster.

 

“Adult dolphins’ systems are picking up whatever is in the system out there, and we know the oil is out there and working its way up the food chain through the food web – and dolphins are at the top of that food chain.”

 

Cake explained: “The chemicals then move into their lipids, fat, and then when they are pregnant, their young rely on this fat, and so it’s no wonder dolphins are having developmental issues and still births.”

 

Cake, who lives in Mississippi, added: “It has been more than 33 years since the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil disaster in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, and the oysters, clams, and mangrove forests have still not recovered in their oiled habitats in seaside estuaries of the Yucatan Peninsula. It has been 23 years since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska, and the herring fishery that failed in the wake of that disaster has still not returned.”

 

Cake believes we are still in the short-term impact stage of BP’s oil disaster.

 

“I will not be alive to see the Gulf of Mexico recover,” said Cake, who is 72 years old. “Without funding and serious commitment, these things will not come back to pre-April 2010 levels for decades.”

 

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“We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets,” Rooks said. “Think about losing everything that makes you happy, because that is exactly what happens when someone spills oil and sprays dispersants on it. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.”

 

Khuns and her husband told Al Jazeera that fishermen continue to regularly find tar balls in their crab traps, and hundreds of pounds of tar balls continue to be found on beaches across the region on a daily basis.

 

Meanwhile Cowan continues his work, and remains concerned about what he is finding.

 

“We’ve also seen a decrease in biodiversity in fisheries in certain areas. We believe we are now seeing another outbreak of incidence increasing, and this makes sense, since waters are starting to warm again, so bacterial infections are really starting to take off again. We think this is a problem that will persist for as long as the oil is stored on the seafloor.”

Did the BP Spill Ever Really Stop?

We’ve repeatedly documented that BP’s gulf Mocando well is still leaking.

Stuart Smith – a successful trial lawyer who won a billion dollar verdict against Exxon Mobil – noted recently:

New sampling data from the nonprofit Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) provide confirmation that not only is BP’s oil still very much present in the water in Bayou La Batre, but that it still exists in a highly toxic state nearly two years after the spill.

 

Here are photos of brown oily foam washing ashore in Bayou La Batre (just west of Mobile Bay) on February 27, 2012:

 

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Photo credit to the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)

 

Water samples were taken by Dennis and Lori Bosarge, LEAN members from Coden, Alabama. The lab-certified test results are in (see full lab report at bottom), and they are startling in that they suggest that oil is still leaking from the Macondo reservoir – most likely from cracks and fissures in the seafloor around the plugged wellhead. Scientists believe the cracks were caused by BP’s heavy-handed “kill” efforts.

 

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Despite numerous opportunities to do so, the U.S. Coast Guard has never publicly denied that the Macondo field is still leaking. And these latest sampling results out of Bayou La Batre provide damning new evidence that the BP oil spill never really ended.

Government Sits On Its Hands …

The New York Times notes today:

Congress’s response to the spill has been truly pathetic. It has not passed a single bill to prevent another catastrophe, according to a report issued Tuesday by former members of a presidential commission that investigated the spill. Congress has failed even to codify the Interior Department’s sound regulatory reforms, which could be undone by a future administration.

 

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The administration has developed new standards for each stage of the drilling process — from rig design to spill response — insisting that operators fully prepare for worst-case scenarios. But the commissioners’ report notes that the new equipment systems have not yet been tested in deep-water conditions.

Indeed, Mother Jones points out that the White House pressured scientists to underestimate BP spill size. And see this Forbes write up, and our previous reporting on the topic.

This is exactly like Fukushima and the financial mess, because   government's approach to crises is consistent, no matter what area we are talking about: let the giant companies which fund political campaigns do whatever they want ... and then help them cover up the extent of the crisis once it inevitably hits.

 

 

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Wed, 04/18/2012 - 21:18 | 2356897 Reese Bobby
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I'd stick to hot dogs Einstein.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:48 | 2356434 nasa
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But those commercials says all is well in the gulf coast.   GW should join the ranks of Joe Barton and apologize immediately,

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFx-hvoGN90

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 19:55 | 2356678 lakecity55
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And, gee, Barry got all that cash from BP. I thought it was to fix stuff.

Oh, wait, the cash came during the election.....

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 04:55 | 2357502 TheFourthStooge-ing
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And, gee, Barry got all that cash from BP. I thought it was to fix stuff.

Oh, wait, the cash came during the election.....

...and there's the fix, alright.

 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:55 | 2356456 Goldilocks
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"Texas GOPer apologizes to BP" <= WTF!

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:43 | 2356417 steve from virginia
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Congress’s response to the spill has been truly pathetic. It has not passed a single bill to prevent another catastrophe, according to a report issued Tuesday by former members of a presidential commission that investigated the spill. Congress has failed even to codify the Interior Department’s sound regulatory reforms, which could be undone by a future administration.

Passing a bill might discomfort the precious auto industrialists who give generously to the Congressional re-election campaigns.

Everyone knows what happens with gas prices rise. Whatever anyone does, make sure 'it' doesn't effect the gas prices (oil executives' bonuses).

Cars first, everything else second.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 21:44 | 2356943 booboo
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yes, pass a bill any bill just pass a bill so we can feeeel gooood, just remember every bill, law, edict is but another brick in the prison walls you will soon occupy. 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 22:38 | 2357043 geekgrrl
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You've obviously never read The Tragedy of the Commons.

In any event, the distinction I would make is that there is a difference between laws that apply to individuals and laws that apply to corporations. Since corporations, by virtue of the money and power they wield, cannot be constrained by any mechanism other than the state, environmental regulations that protect the public from the depradations of corporations are completely appropriate. They are not equivalent to laws like NDAA that violate long standing concepts of the legal rights of individuals, rights that have been enumerated since the time of the Magna Carta.

Additionally, since individuals are not created by the state, whereas corporations are legal fictions created by the state, then the state absolutely has a responsibility to check the power of corporations to despoil our environment, and IMO, if they do so, they should be stripped of their corporate charter. I think you're making a disingenuous (or maybe it's an ideological) argument that ignores the distinction between people and corporations. (And no, corporations are by-definition not people. A class cannot be a member of itself.)

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:24 | 2357111 DaveyJones
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as my favorite law professor (who just passed) used to say, there are good laws and there are bad laws.    who would have thought

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 20:31 | 2356499 geekgrrl
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+100

The irony is how little was paid to bribe CONgress by the oil industry. This has got to be >10,000x ROI. I don't even think the true cost can even be calculated or estimated. From the data that's now coming out, it's looking more and more like a complete ecosystem collapse, as the keystone species is in rapid decline.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 00:40 | 2357285 AgShaman
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Not a surprise

99% of CongressCritters are low IQ Dolts that are "coached" and "coddled" by both their pathetic Stockholm Syndrome idiot sycophants....and the greasy lobbyists that graduated from the used car lot sales

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 04:53 | 2357499 TheFourthStooge-ing
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99% of CongressCritters are low IQ Dolts

...and whores. Cheap whores. Cheap whores that only services the wealthy, which goes back to them being low IQ dolts.

 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:35 | 2356407 Fix It Again Timmy
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It is better to spend billions of dollars per week so that are soldiers in the middle of nowhere in Afghanistan can have an opportunity to blow themselves up by means of IEDs while on useless patrols.  Remember, we are there because they hate us for our freedoms. 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:19 | 2357105 DaveyJones
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is freedom another word for bank? 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 19:58 | 2356685 Benjamin Glutton
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more of this please.

 

SAR HOWZA, Afghanistan -- A wanted mid-level Taliban commander left US and Afghanistan officials scratching their heads when he handed himself in and demanded the $100 reward offered for his capture, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Mohammad Ashan, a Taliban commander in Paktika province suspected of plotting attacks on security forces, was arrested after surrendering last week at a police checkpoint in Sar Howza district, in eastern Afghanistan.

US troops were called in to confirm that Ashan was in fact the man officials were looking for.

"We asked him, 'Is this you?'" said Specialist Matthew Baker, adding that the suspect answered, "Yes, yes, that's me! Can I get my award now?"


Mohammad Ashan

A biometric scan confirmed that Ashan was who he said he was -- and he was promptly detained, presumably without his money.

"This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the 'Home Alone' burglars," a US official told the Post, referring to the bungling crooks in the 1990 comedy movie.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/taliban_commander_turns_himself_lKvflxWNvQfTiMXEXnKLDO#ixzz1sRJ2DNIR
Wed, 04/18/2012 - 17:48 | 2356256 slewie the pi rat
Wed, 04/18/2012 - 17:59 | 2356306 George Washington
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Your lean, minimalist argument is hard to refute ...

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:27 | 2356394 nmewn
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FYI...thats the fake slewie...no hyphen.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 20:32 | 2356763 Arkadaba
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Oh no not a fake slewie - I've been away too long ...

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 21:49 | 2356954 nmewn
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lol...he's a trip...some leftover from a defunct boiler room operation someplace. For whatever reason slewie pissed "it" off and this is his "release".

Pretty weird.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 17:42 | 2356253 cramers_tears
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STFU George... Dancin' w/ the Stars is comin' on!

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 17:42 | 2356250 shuckster
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The reality is, an expanding population will destroy its surroundings until resources run out and starvation cuts the population down to size. But the least BP could do is come out and say "sorry, we screwed up". Oil is dirty, but it's still the cheapest and by far the best source of energy available. More needs to be done to make clean nuclear available to the world...

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 21:20 | 2356907 Reese Bobby
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I demand an apology from volcanoes!  Who do they think they are?

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:07 | 2357092 LetThemEatRand
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Brilliant analysis.  Volcanoes also kill people from time to time.  Shall we eliminate laws against murder and flush the right to seek civil recovery for wrongful death?  

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 18:55 | 2356451 geekgrrl
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Decimating the ecosystem of the Gulf is worth how much money, do you think? Are you counting that cost in your claim that oil is "the cheapest and by far the best source of energy available"? Because as far as I can tell, all that damage has been completely externalized onto the organisms living in the region, including the people.

Your post bears a striking resemblance to the thought processes of a crack addict.

 

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 19:11 | 2356519 Citxmech
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Isn't that what the commons is for: Externalising the true cost of industrialism?  <sarc>

On a similar topic, I saw this bumper sticker the other day:

"I'll accept that corporations are 'people' as soon as Texas exicutes one"

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:16 | 2357101 DaveyJones
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very nice

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 20:12 | 2356715 geekgrrl
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Yes, the GOM is a rock-solid proof of Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons.

If this massive spill had been done by a terrorist or group of terrorists, I can say with complete confidence they would all end up in Gitmo or just killed. Yet the same exact outcome, when done by a corporation, is evidently completely acceptable - to the point where the government actually defends the terrorist(s). Same with Tepco. 

What we are seeing with these ecological disasters is a direct outcome of Western civilization's flawed epistemology, and the penalty for having a wrong epistemology is generally extinction. So be it. We've earned it.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 23:57 | 2357214 benb
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No, it’s much worse than that. The Gulf ‘Spill’ is clearly just part of the massive eugenics operation being staged by the Scientific Dictatorship. The continuous spraying of Corexit even over land and populated areas by ‘contactors’ and the CIA shows this was a criminal attack on the American people. There were also some accounts by witnesses saying the rig was blown intentionally. What is happening on multiple fronts is so monstrous that it is beyond the capability of the general public to contemplate. Globalist “Step and Fetch it” Obama’s Science advisor John P. Holdren is most certainly in on the creation of this Planetary Nightmare.

 

…This is the Seventh Sign: “You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it."- Hopi end of the world prediction

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 05:07 | 2357487 New World Chaos
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Yup, smells like yet another false-flag human sacrifice on the Feast of Moloch.  Here are details on suspicious BP / Illuminati / Rothschild / Goldman / Halluburton connections, plus share sales and puts, plus Corexit ownership.  While we're on the subject, consider that the Feast of Moloch starts now.  Perfect time to false-flag the liberty movement and scare former Santorum supporters away from Ron Paul?

Carly at EcoWatch.org worked at BP and says:

- The media is grossly censoring the extent of the devastation in the Gulf. The poisons–oil and chemical dispersant (Corexit)–are destined to spread globally, but honest reporting is restricted, and independent investigators are being arrested. This censorship is a sure sign of fascism–not freedom or democracy. In this way, the media, financially directed by leading investment bankers, accomplices this global poisoning, or omnicide.

- The news and network “programming” is propaganda issued by the “partners” in the Rothschild League of Banks including Goldman-Sachs, JPMorgan-Chase and UBS that direct BP, Transocean, Halliburton, the clean-up capitalists, Corexit suppliers, even the trailers used by clean-up crews, through co-investors heavily represented in the Partnership for New York City (PFNYC), founded by David Rockefeller and chartered by the Royal Family of England. All together, these partners wield the most formidable economic power in world history.

- Ongoing worsening environmental pollution has been a primary objective of these Rothschild League financiers since at least the 1960s, according to their leaked economic agenda. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_ironmountain08.htm

- The Deepwater Horizon (Mississippi Canyon 252) oil rig that exploded is the property of Transocean, not British Petroleum (BP); and both companies are financially directed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS investment bankers, all operating in the Rothschild League of banks.

- Coincidentally, or demonically, the oil rig’s failed cementation job exploded on Hitler’s birthday, just in time to poison Earth Day 2010, thanks to Transocean’s contractor–the infamous Dick Cheney/George Bush officiated Halliburton Company allied with Homeland Security.

- Halliburton officials admit knowing their cementation job was likely to explode just when it did, according to Congressional testimony.

- Goldman Sachs (GS) officials, likewise, knew the rig was likely to explode when it did. They bet millions of dollars on this event only days before it happened! (Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of GS, directed 44% (4.6 million shares) of BP stock to be dumped three weeks before the explosion.

- Not surprisingly, Transocean was merged into its current corporate state by Goldman-Sachs (a.k.a., “Government Sachs”) in 2007.

- David Sidwell, Risk Committee Chairman of UBS, the wealthiest Swiss bank (in the Rothschild League or alliance of so-called “competing” banks) and the world’s largest wealth manager, also dumped BP stocks massively (i.e., 99% of the banks holdings, or 2.1 million shares,) as did Wachovia/Wells Fargo.

- BP Oil CEO Tony Hayward sold 1/3 of his BP stock (223,288 shares) on March 17–a month before the explosion.

- Just prior to 9/11, you may recall, Goldman Sachs did the same with airline stocks; and before the Gulf catastrophe, GS shorted mortgage company stocks, fueling the real estate collapse in America.

- The Management Boards of the Eurex Stock Exchanges and the Executive Board of Germany’s Eurex Clearing AG decided, on April 14, 2010, to introduce an equity option on shares of Transocean Ltd, effective on the day of the explosion, April 20, 2010. This gave inside traders a full day to dump their “uninsured” stock in Transocean at the highest price possible (before the rest of Wall Street responded to the explosion). Then the crisis capitalists were able to reinvest their funds securing the higher price value.
These officials published zero reason for Transocean’s new equity option program that encouraged banking criminals to use “protective puts” to make millions.

- In other words, by paying a relatively small premium (compared to the soon-to-be plunging market value of Transocean stock), the Rothschild Leaguers knew no matter how far the stock dropped, it could be sold at the original “strike price” (also called the “put option”) anytime before April 20, 2012.

- This additionally evidences premeditated murder, and the financial motives of the Swiss/German banking chiefs influencing Europe’s most active stock exchanges. These inside traitors and industrial sabateurs, financially controlling Transocean, Halliburton, and BP, committed the gravest environmental crime of all time, with obvious plans to profit from the mass murdering of people and destruction of the Gulf.

- This was how money was made from the obvious sabotage. After UBS sold its 2.1 million shares of BP, prior to the explosion, the “put option” policy on BP stock was similarly exercised when UBS bought back 8.6 million BP shares by June 7.

- Transocean Vice President of Marketing, Terry Bonno, met UBS officials on May 27, 2010, according to a heavily censored Thompson Reuter’s report and transcript. http://www.alacrastore.com/research/thomson-streetevents-Transocean_LTD_at_UBS_Global_Oil_and_Gas_Conference-T3111942

- So within weeks of the explosion the Rothschild League of investment bankers were yelling “Buy! Buy! Buy! BP stock,” stating the costs for clean-up were miniscule compared to what their investments and company profits would earn.

- This quote detailed the BP-banking-stock-jocks’ plot: “Buying shares today while writing $55 calls and “puts” for the January 2012 expiration allows for an outstanding cash-on-cash return if BP merely bounces back by 14% over the next 21 months. In a best case you’ll net 98% total returns on the actual cash outlay (assuming you write the puts against paid-up marginable equity already held in your margin-type account).”

- Much like the instantly manufactured equity investment option created for Transocean right before the explosion, BP’s stock insurance plan secured the ongoing devastation in the Gulf with this financial promise: “In a worst case scenario you’ll end up with twice the number of BP ADRs at an average cost of $42.64 or less,” stock gurus promoted. “That’s lower than the annual lows for BP during the entire period 2004 right through 2007.”

- The wizards of oil, pulling the strings behind the media’s propaganda, are best exemplified by Goldman Sachs’s CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. Lloyd merged, and still largely controls, ABC/Disney and Miramax. Blankfein’s partner, co-chairing the PFNYC, is Rupert Murdoch, controlling FOX News, Time-Warner, Associated Press, News Corp and much more. Another partner in this David Rockefeller-founded PFNYC cabal is Thompson Reuters chairman, Thomas Glocer. The PFNYC was responsible for financial reconciliations from 9-11, and “veering” World Trade Center reconstruction money from New York to Las Vegas through Apollo Management’s MGM private equity investments. (Apollo co-owns Nalco/Corexit with Goldman Sachs.) The PFNYC was chartered by Britain’s Royal family, bringing NBC/Comcast into their stead, as well as the General Electric company. Last but not least, CBS owner, Sumner Murray Rothstein (Redstone), joined the clique through his CBS-Viacom stable of companies.

- The Halliburton cementation job’s sabotage, and resulting oil hemorrhage in the Gulf, served perfectly, synchronously and financially, to “veer” media attention away from Lloyd Blankfein’s/ Goldman-Sachs’s shorting of the American housing market, accelerating the planned economic collapse of the USA for the forthcoming New World Order’s “New Deal.”

- And just when we thought the Government Sachs connection to the Gulf oil rigging could not get any deeper, we learn that GS holds controlling interests (with Apollo Management) in the Nalco Company which produces the hideously deadly oil dispersant named Corexit!

- The Rothschild Leaguers “ruled out all [Corexit] competitors even those that have shown to be far less toxic and, in some cases, nearly twice as effective,” reported Paul Quinlan in the New York Times. The reason being . . .

Nalco formed from a joint venture with the David Rockefeller-controlled Exxon Chemical Co. in 1994. Then in 2003, The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management L.P., and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, bought Ondeo Nalco for $4.3 billon dollars. All three companies are partnered in the Rockefeller-founded, Royal Family-chartered PFNYC.

- The George Bush/Dick Cheney 9/11-linked Halliburton Company purchased the world’s largest oil-spill cleanup entity, Boots & Coots, three weeks before the explosion. This was synchrounous with the bankers beginning to unload BP and Transocean stocks, and securing equity options to insure their investments. Other major shareholders in Nalco/Corexit include billionaire Warren Buffett and his conglomerate holding company, Berkshire Hathaway; Maurice Strong, Al Gore, George Soros.

- Homeland Security’s choice of accommodations for Gulf oil clean-up crews are the same toxic trailers banned from use during Hurricane Katrina.

- Corexit was found poisoning clean-up workers, causing kidney and liver disorders, following its debut in the 1989 Exxon-Valdez disaster. Nalco blamed these problems on 2-butoxyethanol, now claimed to have been removed.

- This is also one of the chemicals used in chemtrails.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:31 | 2358174 benb
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Outstanding info. Too bad the vegetable-ized public won't ever see it in their news. They don't seem to grasp why Billy Gates, the sick monster/NSA-Rockefeller front man, financed all those Artic Seed Vaults.

These nuts are bringing down the biosphere. Heaven help us all.

Thu, 04/19/2012 - 02:23 | 2357399 Ratscam
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It would have been so easy to clean up the spill with this safe and environmentally clean product: http://www.oti.ag/
Oh I forgot, in contrary to corexit, oti is not 100% owned by BP.
Oh I forgot, thorium instead of uranium, well that,s another discussion.

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