'Not for public': the oil spill may be getting much worse

[Jeff]

Whistleblower: BP deducts from relief payments if fishermen refuse to aid cleanup

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 -- 11:25 pm

Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong.

According to documents obtained by Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income if the claimant refuses to work in assisting the spill response.

Reading from a letter she'd received from BP, Arnesen quoted the company's line:

"BP will continue its efforts to pay legitimate claims for losses incurred due to the Deepwater Horizon incident. However, federal law clearly provides for adjustments for all income resulting from the incident, all income from alternative employment or businesses undertaken [...] and potential income from alternative employment or businesses not undertaken but reasonably available."

In other words, if you are a fisherman who was put out of work by BP and you do not elect to work in their employ, but you still file a claim for losses over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, that claim could be significantly less than actual damages incurred.

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0706/whistl ... f-cleanup/

[ninakat]

Long-Term Fate of Gulf Oil Spill: Computer Simulations Show Oil Reaching Up the Atlantic Coastline and Toward Europe



ScienceDaily (July 6, 2010) — The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The simulations suggest that the coastlines near the Carolinas, Georgia, and Northern Florida could see the effects of the oil spill as early as October 2010, while the main branch of the subtropical gyre is likely to transport the oil film towards Europe, although strongly diluted.

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[ninakat]

Gulf Awash In 27,000 Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
JEFF DONN and MITCH WEISS | 07/ 7/10 12:49 AM

More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one – not industry, not government – is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.

The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells – those characterized in federal government records as "temporarily abandoned."

(...)

[Jeff]

Spill's extent and the effects surprising those studying it

By Lee Shearer - lee.shearer@onlineathens.com
Published Wednesday, July 07, 2010

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Seawater samples the team took during a June research voyage had to be diluted before analytical machines could accurately measure the oil levels in them, she said Tuesday.

Other scientists analyzing the samples still haven't told Joye the precise concentrations of oil they've found in the water. But they've seen enough to know the levels are much higher than what was found in an earlier research cruise in May, when they measured oil contamination in parts per million or parts per billion in areas close to the spill.

The more recent water samples, many taken hundreds of feet deep in the Gulf, contain much more oil, she said.

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"It looks like most of the gas is being trapped in the deep subsurface (water)," she said.

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http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/070 ... 7227.shtml

[nathan28]

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Seawater samples the team took during a June research voyage had to be diluted before analytical machines could accurately measure the oil levels in them, she said Tuesday.

[2012 Countdown]

Okay, NOW BP is in trouble...

BP's Gulf oil spill is a sin, visiting clergy say after touring the coast
Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy leaders from around the country cruised through the oil-fouled upper reaches of one of the nation's richest seafood nurseries Wednesday, and some came away saying the BP Gulf oil spill looks to them not only like an accident, but also a sin.
"From my perspective, it's an insult to God and a sin against creation," said the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, an Episcopalian priest and environmentalist from San Francisco who heads Interfaith Power and Light, a nonprofit agency that helps congregations and communities adopt energy-saving techniques.

Bingham and almost a dozen others motored through the upper reaches of Barataria Bay on Wednesday, a day after assembling at First Grace United Methodist Church for a prayer service calling for restoration and renewal of the Gulf Coast.
"This is not a spill; it's a spoilage" of God's creation, the Rev. Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, told the congregation.
Oil spill a wake-up call
Bingham, Wallis and others framed the oil spill as a wake-up call with not only economic, but also moral dimensions to people of many faiths.
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, head of the Rabbinical Assembly and its 1,600 Conservative rabbis nationwide, said the larger lesson of the spill is a call to reduce energy dependence on petroleum. "We all need to turn from short-term gratification ... rather than indulge ourselves with this unlimited consumption," she said.

Oil spill a wake-up call
Bingham, Wallis and others framed the oil spill as a wake-up call with not only economic, but also moral dimensions to people of many faiths.
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, head of the Rabbinical Assembly and its 1,600 Conservative rabbis nationwide, said the larger lesson of the spill is a call to reduce energy dependence on petroleum. "We all need to turn from short-term gratification ... rather than indulge ourselves with this unlimited consumption," she said.

Bingham, Wallis, Schonfeld and other visiting clergy from Washington, Chicago, California and elsewhere assembled in New Orleans on Tuesday for a three-day visit to see first-hand the effects of the spill.
On Wednesday they met Mayor Mitch Landrieu and toured part of the coastal zone to talk to cleanup workers and fishing families, and to see what, if anything, their ministries back home could do to help.
Beyond scouting for relief opportunities, some also work for policy-making bodies within their denominations. They said they wanted to see whether their denominations should press Congress and the White House to alter domestic energy policy.

Caring for environmental is a theological command
The pastors and representatives were assembled by the Sierra Club, which regards them as partners in pursuit of its energy agenda. By definition, their faith communities already accept environmental care as a theological command, rather than a matter of mere self-interest.
Still, some were not easily pigeon-holed as conventionally liberal.

The Rev. Chris Seay, pastor of the 1,400-member Ecclesia Church in downtown Houston, described his evangelical community as Bible-centered, anti-abortion, anti-death penalty and environmentally aware. He said his congregation includes oil industry workers, among them a woman now drilling the relief well that is the best hope for killing the runaway BP well 50 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River.
"We have a remarkable number of people in the oil industry keenly aware of their responsibility to care for the environment," he said.
As for himself, "Many of the times I think God has spoken to me most clearly, I've been on Galveston Island looking out at the Gulf."

Oil spill an offense against creation, clergy say
In various ways Jews, Christian and Muslim leaders on Tuesday invoked their sacred texts to frame the spill as more than an isolated industrial accident, but as offense against creation, and a consequence of industrial society's addictive reliance on oil, with the hazards that brings.
Mahmoud Sarmini, a New Orleans-area doctor and a Muslim, cited a passage in the Qur'an referring to man as God's viceroy on earth, with its implications for humans' responsibility for creation.
Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, a public-policy group, referred to Jewish tradition holding that creation is only on loan from God to man, and only for wise use.
And in an interview before the service, Seay said "all things that exist were birthed by God ... and if God birthed them and loved them that much, that we do have a responsibility to care well for them."
After the tour, several in the group said they saw the spill as a "wake-up" call for a change in energy policy.
"That doesn't mean we don't need to use fossil fuel, or drill for oil until we get ourselves off," Saperstein said. "But we have to move more quickly to get off, and while we relying on these fossil fuels we have to be much more insistent that there be safety precautions."
The visiting clergy's response -- that the spill is symptomatic of overconsumption and disregard for the environment -- has not often been heard in local pulpits, where many parishioners have made livings in the petroleum industry for two generations.
Faith communities' responses locally have been much more focused on providing on-the-ground relief to families devastated by the spill's economic effects.

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I only wished these folks were the popular representatives of their respective religions, or their views were the prevailing thought within them.

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BP and the government are working hand in hand to suppress the media
and others from telling the truth about the nature and extent of the
catastrophic damage caused by BP's criminal negligence.

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the national incident commander for
the oil spill, announced that reporters and journalists may be fined
$40,000 and face potential felony charges if they come within a
20-meter 'safety zone' around any response vessels or
booms on the water or on beaches. This outrageous effort to shut down
independent reporting comes on the heels of weeks of false statements
issued by BP and dutifully repeated by government officials.

THE HUMAN TOLL

The extent of suffering in the Gulf Coast continues to expand, with
many unemployed now without the means to put food on the table. Demand
for food is outpacing the ability of parish and church food banks.

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, at the First Baptist Church of
Chalmette, in Louisiana's St. Bernard parish, Pastor Marvin
Robinson reports that demand for the church's food pantry had
doubled in the last month largely because of families thrown out of
work by the oil spill. Last week, area churches handed out 38,000
pounds of food to help fishers and other unemployed locals.
("Eyes on storm as it nears the gulf," Los Angeles Times,
June 28)

While the President's gentleman's agreement with BP has
served the interest of the administration and BP in diverting media
attention from the claims process, the suffering continues unabated.

Obama could have demanded seizure of BP's assets, but he
didn't. He could have dispatched Department of Justice lawyers
to charge into court to collect the tens of billions of dollars of
fines and penalties already accrued to date under the Clean Water Act
and other legislation, but he opted not. The U.S. Congress could have,
by now, enacted legislation lifting BP's immunity for economic
damages under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, but they have merely
fiddled about.

BP got exactly what they wanted. An announcement to relieve public
pressure and to make a "voluntary" agreement in which they
promise to pay a fraction of what is due. Structured over time to
minimize even the slightest financial inconvenience to BP. The New
York Times ran an article on June 21 titled, "Is the $20 Billion
Fund Actually a Victory for BP?"

And for those in the Gulf, what measure of relief did they get?

Down in the Gulf, surrounded by the rich treasures of the sea, the
people are going to food banks.

A week ago, many in Alabama's coastal fishing community attended
services for William Allen Kruse, 55, a well-known and popular charter
boat captain who, despondent over the spill's impact on his
family's life, killed himself with a gunshot to the head.

"Psychological Toll of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Quietly
Mounts," reports the Times-Picayune on June 27.

Meanwhile, Tony Hayward is off to the yacht races. He's got his
"life back."

THE DISAPPEARING ESCROW ACCOUNT AND FEINBERG'S CONFLICTED INTERESTS

Fund Administrator Kenneth Feinberg has announced that $20 billion is
likely insufficient to cover the actual damages. ("Feinberg Says
$20 Billion May Fall Short on BP Claims," Bloomberg, June 21)

His announcement is not a demand for more money, but a message to
dampen expectations: Don't expect full payment.

In a shocking revelation, Feinberg's firm has announced that
fund payments will not be limited to compensation for lost wages and
other economic harms. He plans to dip into the fund to absorb
BP's clean up and oil removal costs and any other payment they
feel is "legitimate." ("Lawyers say shocked over
uses of $20 bln Gulf fund," Reuters, June 24)

In a dramatic reversal, Feinberg has announced that he will demand
legal waivers from at least some claimants who receive funds from the
escrow account. He wants to limit BP's exposure to lawsuits.
("With $20 Billion Fund, BP Limiting Liability: Feinberg,"
CNBC.com, June 20)

You may remember, the White House originally announced that claimants
would not give up their right to sue in court by recovering some
amount from the fund. ("FACT SHEET: Claims and Escrow,"
WhiteHouse.gov, June 16)

How can Feinberg negotiate a waiver of a right to sue? Is he
BP's lawyer? Apparently, he represents their interests.

BP AS VICTIM

Feinberg, who is paid by BP, implores the public to recognize the need
to be "fair" to BP, and has explained that a real purpose of the
escrow account is to limit the firm's liability. He touted the value
of the escrow account to BP's investors. For those who accept anything
more substantial than small emergency fund payments, he explained:
"You'll waive your right to sue. That's only fair."

People and businesses who seek compensation from the BP claims process
for their major losses now or next year so that they can survive
shouldn't have to waive claims for ongoing damage, the extent of
which may not be known for many years down the road. The damage may
last generations. Families and communities may get wiped out-yet
Feinberg and BP are primarily concerned with limits on liabilities for
BP. ("With $20 Billion Fund, BP Limiting Liability:
Feinberg," CNBC.com, June 20)

THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

It was only the pressure of the people that forced the Obama
Administration to pretend that it was taking strong measures against
BP for the creation of the escrow fund. It is this pressure that can
make the difference for the people of the Gulf coast. Seize BP
volunteers and organizers are organizing around the country in a new
round of demonstrations, meetings, strategizing sessions, rallies, and
petition collections so that the people of the Gulf coast win real
justice which can only come about through the seizure of BP's
assets.

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Obama could have demanded seizure of BP's assets, but he
didn't. He could have dispatched Department of Justice lawyers
to charge into court to collect the tens of billions of dollars of
fines and penalties already accrued to date under the Clean Water Act
and other legislation, but he opted not. The U.S. Congress could have,
by now, enacted legislation lifting BP's immunity for economic
damages under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, but they have merely
fiddled about.

Inexplicable. All too explicable. As vast as this disaster is and maybe it's just my semi-paranoid instincts which keep me within the RI fold, but I do believe there has to be an "end game" to all this. It's as if this is some kind of meta meta meta psy-op that coincides with this double dip recession if not downright depression they're calling for all of a sudden -- shit we knew was inevitable 2, 4, 6, 8 years ago. Couple with "peak oil". Couple with "global warming". Couple with "drill baby drill". Couple with "disaster capitalism". Couple with "the Power of Nightmares". Couple with "The Century of the Self". Couple with the breeziness of most people and how they don't want to even talk about it, let alone think about it. It's not even a topic basically, outside of boards like this and locally person to person along the gulf coast. I send links that I get basically off this thread alone to a buddy of mine from Mississippi and tells me "he's sick of reading about it". Everyone just wants it to go away. Well, of course we do -- We'd love for it to "just go away". The dude on the rig who said, "are you happy now? I told you this was going to fucking happen!" is perhaps a bellwether to the true nature of this destruction. A war, if you will, waged by other means, more advanced means of societal and natural control.

Look at those maps of the gulf from the standpoint of the most powerful companies in the world. It's all parceled and sectored out. This is how they view the planet and really, all of this planet's inhabitants -- flora and fauna. Think of the game of Risk, now multiply this game board by hundreds if not thousands of times. It is clear that as they have the gulf all mapped out into quadrants of the surface of Earth that should be made exploitable by them. Powerful entities like this don't use money, they use power. Just off the top of my head -- here in Seattle you can barely find Mt. Dew. By my thinking, this is due to say another map, much like the gulf map, but this map deals with the product of Mt. Dew. You can find that shit back east, down south etc -- and yes you can get it here, but it is not predominant as a beverage in this "sector" which has been mapped out. Thus giving a company like Starbucks the caffeine monopoly. This is a vast concept I am trying to relay and I hope what I am saying is making some semblance of sense, as it is all off the top of my head.

So, in this little thought experiment I am having with myself, it occurs to me that money is not what makes the world go round, but it is the idea of money, but the most powerful have no need to believe in it. For instance, I have worked for many a place where the richest, the most well to do, the most celebrated, the most recognizable etc, go to places where Joe Blows pay, but they do not. Just by being there, at say, an establishment that serves steaks and it is pocket change to them to merely buy the entire establishment, the establishment doesn't charge the richest and most celebrated a dime. For instance, that same friend I have from MS used to work at a Chili's down there. Brett Favre would regularly come in. Never paid for anything and never tipped either. Favre's a total dick. An idiot like Tony Hayward or say a Bill Gates wouldn't be caught dead in a Chili's. So there are some tiers to it all. These fuckers are so powerful, that if they wanted some salty food from Chili's they would merely hire someone to make it for them if they wanted it at all.

I knew a guy who worked at a ski shop here in Seattle. He got a call one evening by a handler of Bill Gates who said "Bill Gates and his family are going to come in, so can you close down for an hour or so as he arrives?" Who would ever want to be that "rich"? Probably people who don't ever have to use money. Tony Hayward is far more prominent, thus more powerful, than he was in March, all due to the disaster. And the media, his ilk are doubtlessly coming to his aid. His yachting junket was probably a planned thumb in the eye, in order to maintain hierarchy among the masses. It comes on the heels of very visible, but token topplings of very rich and powerful men who were quite clearly meant to take a public fall for the good of the real bastards -- though them being bastards themselves obviously. I'm thinking Bernie Madoff (good name -- unfortunate for him name) and Joe Nacchio of Qwest. They get thrown under the bus, so the rest of the elite are made to survive. They're cut throat. They all know they're criminals. Bill Gates last year releasing a bunch of fucking mosquitoes in an ampitheater to show how easy it is for mosquitoes to propagate? C'mon. I'd be in jail if I did such a thing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29022220/

"Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED and said, 'Not only poor people should experience this.'"

That was the post by Facebook's Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin on social networking site Twitter.

The event took place at the TED2009 (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference on Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif., where the Microsoft chairman was delivering a presentation about malaria education and eradication. Malaria is transmitted from person to person via mosquito bites.

So noble are these elite.

[tazmic]

I thought BP were enforcing a media black out of the clean up operation?

"Seawater samples the team took during a June research voyage had to be diluted before analytical machines could accurately measure the oil levels in them, she said Tuesday."

Is she a sanctioned scientist, independent, do they have a film crew?

On the same page:

"Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements"

"Computer Simulations Show Oil Reaching Up the Atlantic Coastline and Toward Europe"

[82_28]

Presumably they are exercising full media control. A double bind. Simultaneously allowing and disallowing in a logic game transmitted by the media and heretofore unknown to us other meta resources to destroy the democratic and "free" human spirit which this disaster is doubtlessly taking its toll on.

A double bind. They do both. They anger and they also assuage. Very cunning.

[tazmic]

Presumably they are exercising full media control. A double bind. Simultaneously allowing and disallowing in a logic game transmitted by the media and heretofore unknown to us other meta resources to destroy the democratic and "free" human spirit which this disaster is doubtlessly taking its toll on.

An environmental 911?

[justdrew]

looks like BP is now justy doing whatever they feel like and the government has to go begging for info. typical.

US demands BP detail next steps to cap oil slick
AFP Published: Thursday July 8, 2010

The US government Thursday gave BP 24 hours to outline its next steps to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying efforts to cap a fractured well were entering a "critical stage."

The US pointman in the crisis, Thad Allen, wrote to BP managing director Bob Dudley saying that after talks planned for Friday the British energy giant must hand over "detailed plans and timelines."

BP is preparing to replace the containment cap on the ruptured wellhead with a more secure seal and to hook up a third containment ship to the system to capture more of the leaking oil.

"To approve these potential actions, I must have knowledge of the steps and decision points involved," Allen wrote, highlighting that while the actions are being carried out the amount of oil pouring into the Gulf could increase.

He said he wanted to know the "mitigation efforts to be implemented and contingency plans if these efforts are not successful."

[slomo]

Short video on Corexit toxicology:



Link in case it doesn't embed properly

tl;dr: we don't know shit about what Corexit does to single organisms, let alone a whole ecosystem.

[slomo]

... and then couple that last one with this:

Whistleblower: Relief payments get slashed if fishermen refuse to work for BP

Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong.

According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income if the claimant refuses to work in assisting the spill response.

more...

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SEIZEBP.ORG FILES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST DEMANDING
RECORDS ON COAST GUARD'S NEW RESTRICTIONS ON MEDIA ACCESS

The SeizeBP.org Campaign sent the following press release to the
media. Please share this with your friends, family members, neighbors,
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The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, on behalf of SeizeBP.org, has
filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the underlying
documents that purport to substantiate the Coast Guard's new ban
on media access to areas affected by BP's Deepwater Horizon oil
catastrophe.

"This attempt to muzzle the press on behalf of BP is just the
latest in a series of actions that indicate collusion between the
federal government and a giant corporate entity that has created an
environmental disaster due to criminal negligence," stated Carl
Messineo, a spokesperson for Seize BP and public interest attorney who
filed the records demand.

In a July 1, 2010 news conference, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the
national incident commander for the oil spill, explained that the new
restrictions were initiated on the basis of his receipt of complaints
from county commissioners that, absent access restrictions, damage
could theoretically occur. Allen did not identify the sources of such
complaints or the unnamed commissioners.

The penalty for reporters or journalists who may enter the new
exclusion zones without permission is up to a $40,000 fine and
potentially a class D felony conviction.

This Freedom of Information Act request demands: "disclosure of
copies of all complaints or requests that formed the basis for, or
which prompted, the new exclusion zones. To the extent that such
complaints were made verbally, the request seeks disclosure of any
documents memorializing or summarizing or logging or otherwise
recording such complaints."

This request also demands "disclosure of all communications with
BP and its agents regarding restrictions or limitations upon media
access."

"Seize BP, as does the public at large, relies on the freedom of
the media for information on the conduct of the BP oil spill
catastrophe clean up and related efforts," stated Carl Messineo.
"Indeed, throughout this crises statements of BP as to the
nature and extent of the spill, and as echoed by the Coast Guard, have
been found to be inaccurate and false. It is a matter of great urgency
that the U.S. public has the ability to receive first-hand independent
accounts regarding what is considered the greatest environmental
disaster in U.S. history."

By press release dated June 30, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon Incident
Joint Information Center announced a new Coast Guard initiative to
establish 20 meter exclusion zones around boats and boom that would
generally restrict media access. See June 30, 2010 news release,
"Coast Guard establishes 20-meter safety zone around all
Deepwater Horizon protective boom operations" ; See also July 3,
2010 Media Advisory, "Procedures Established For Media to Access
Safety Zones On a Case-by-Case Basis"; July 4, 2010 news
release, "Statement on concerns about recently enacted safety
zones."

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relief to the working people throughout the Gulf coast whose lives and
communities are being harmed or destroyed, through the seizure of
BP's assets and placement of those funds in a trust for
immediate relief. Seize BP has organized demonstrations in more than
50 cities. Volunteers are organizing demonstrations, rallies, banner
drops, press conferences and collecting petitions throughout the
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