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BP Oil Spill Update, 5/25/2010 6:06 PM ["Now that they’ve caused the worst environmental disaster in US history, [BP's] primary concern seems to be to stop anyone from finding out about it." And the Feds are STILL deferring to BP in the failing effort to keep oil out of the marshes and wetlands!? BP owns us...?] “It’s BP’s Oil” Running the corporate blockade at Louisiana's crude-covered beaches. http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/05/oil-spill-bp-grand-isle-beach BP’s Police Protection Units http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/05/25/bps-police-protection-units/ As Bob Herbert notes today in an excellent piece, BP, despite a history of workplace accidents, was basically handed a blank slip to drill for oil, without environmental review, without regulatory oversight. Now that they’ve caused the worst environmental disaster in US history, their primary concern seems to be to stop anyone from finding out about it. ============= Governor Jindal Meets With Federal Officials, Calls Response Efforts Disjointed http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/governor-jindal-meets-with-federal-officials-calls-response-efforts-disjointed-31719.html ============= BP's Contempt for US EPA: BP’s Dispersant Filing Is Intellectually Dishonest http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/50465 ============= Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion after rig explosion, coerced into signing legal waivers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/sc_ynews/ynews_sc2191 ============= <<< Despite the thick oil, we’ve seen only two clean-up boats out of the 1,150 that the response claims to have on site: one was broken down, the other was towing it. >>> Oil spill brings ‘death in the ocean from top to bottom’ May 24, 2010 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7134581.ece Frank Pope It has been an hour since our sport-fishing boat started streaking through the freshly oil-soaked marshes of Pass a Loutre, but we’re still only halfway through the slick. Eighteen miles out and the stink of oil is everywhere. Rashes of red-brown sludge are smeared across vast swaths, between them a swell rendered faintly psychedelic with rainbow-coloured swirls. Cutting the engines, we slide to a stop near Rig 313. We’re not supposed to be in the restricted zone, but other than the dispersant-spraying aircraft passing overhead there’s no one to see us. Despite the thick oil, we’ve seen only two clean-up boats out of the 1,150 that the response claims to have on site: one was broken down, the other was towing it. Skimming and burning are the most visible elements of the clean-up operation, and that’s no accident. Over the past few days it’s become clear that far more oil is gushing from the seabed than BP had admitted. Oil has been prevented from reaching the surface by dispersants injected into the flow some 5,000ft below, but is spreading through the midwater in vast, dilute plumes. Along with the marine toxicologist Susan Shaw, of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, I’ve come to peer into the hidden side of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Wreathed in neoprene and with Vaseline coating the exposed skin around our faces, we slip into the clear water in the lee of the boat. Beneath the mats of radioactive-looking, excrement-coloured sludge are smaller gobs of congealed oil. Taking a cautious, shallow breath through my snorkel I head downwards. Twelve metres under, the specks of sludge are smaller, but they are still everywhere. Among the specks are those of a different hue. These are wisps of drifting plankton, the eggs and larvae of fish and the microscopic plants and animals that form the base of almost all marine food webs. Any plankton-eating fish would now have trouble distinguishing food from poison, let alone the larger filter-feeders. Onshore, small landfalls of the same sludge have started to cause panic among locals as they coat the marshes. Here, just a few feet beneath the surface, a much bigger disaster is unfolding in slow motion. “This is terrible, just terrible,” says Dr Shaw, back on the boat. “The situation in the water column is horrible all the way down. Combined with the dispersants, the toxic effects of the oil will be far worse for sea life. It’s death in the ocean from the top to the bottom.” Dispersants can contain particular evils. Corexit 9527 — used extensively by BP despite it being toxic enough to be banned in British waters — contains 2-butoxyethanol, a compound that ruptures red blood cells in whatever eats it. Its replacement, COREXIT 9500, contains petroleum solvents and other components that can damage membranes, and cause chemical pneumonia if aspirated into the lungs following ingestion. But what worries Dr Shaw most is the long-term potential for toxic chemicals to build up in the food chain. “There are hundreds of organic compounds in oil, including toxic solvents and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), that can cause cancer in animals and people. In this respect light, sweet crude is more toxic than the heavy stuff. It’s not only the acute effects, the loss of whole niches in the food web, it’s also the problems we will see with future generations, especially in top predators.” When a gap in the slick opens, I dive on one of the huge steel legs of the rig. Swirling around it are dozens of some of the biggest fish I’ve seen in nearly 20 years of diving. Huge cobia, amberjack, mangrove snapper and barracuda thrive on the shelter provided by the rig structures, creating some of the most sought-after game fishing in the United States: our skipper claimed that he’d hosted three world record-breaking catches last year. “They’ll be healthy enough now, but it’s just a matter of time,” Dr Henry Bart, a fish biologist at Louisiana’s Tulane University, told me later. “Cobia feed on upper water-column species. The oil is going to magnify up through the food chain.” What happens to marine species in the dark, unseen waters below us is less certain. In the Gulf the depths are better known than almost anywhere in the world, for the oil industry has to show what exists on the seabed before any drilling can begin. This, along with an on-going Census of Marine Life, has helped to reveal that life within seabed sediments is astoundingly varied. A pod of sperm whales resides off New Orleans and is believed to be dining on giant squid. These ultimately depend on the tiny specks of life that are slowly being poisoned at the surface. What happens next, no one can say for sure. ===================== PRESS RELEASE Governor Jindal Meets with Coastal Parish Leaders, Announces New Strategies to Protect Coast to Fill Void BATON ROUGE (May 23, 2010) http://emergency.louisiana.gov/Releases/05232010-jindal.html The Governor emphasized the requests – including the state’s dredging plan – made to BP and federal agencies that have yet to be granted while miles of Louisiana’s shoreline continue to be impacted by oil. According to NOAA, more than 65 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline has now been impacted by oil. To put this in perspective – this is more than the total sea coastline of Delaware and Maryland combined. Governor Jindal said, “On May 2nd – 21 days ago – we met with the Coast Guard, the President and federal officials here in Venice. At that time, we leaned forward and requested a large amount of resources that our parishes would need under a worst-case scenario response to this oil spill. In fact, the very next day, May 3rd, we announced all of our coastal parish detailed protection plans – in the absence of any detailed plan from BP – and I said that we had formally requested three million feet of absorbent boom, five million feet of hard boom and 30 ‘jack up’ barges. ================== Governor Jindal Stresses Importance Of Dredging Plan For Louisiana Coastline http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/governor-jindal-stresses-importance-of-dredging-plan-for-louisiana-coastline-31143.html DREDGING PLAN The Governor said the state continues to move forward on a dredge plan to build “sand booms” along the alignment of Louisiana’s historic barrier islands in the Chandeleurs, Barataria Bay and Timbalier Bay. Governor Jindal said, “CPRA filed for an emergency permit last week from the Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with this plan and we just met with the Col. Lee of the Army Corps of Engineers along with parish leaders to stress the importance of approving this plan quickly and granting our emergency permit to get the work started. NOAA’s report that tar balls washed up on Marsh Island – which is over 200 miles from the Horizon well explosion site – further underscores the need for us to implement the dredge plan – or ‘sand booming’ strategy. “We presented this plan almost two weeks ago because we expected to need greater defenses than boom on the top of the water. We are very concerned about reports of oil submerged under the water. This ‘sand booming’ plan we are asking the Corps to approve will strengthen our barrier islands and help protect our coast and critical wildlife areas. “Once we get approval for dredging to begin, we could start to see land or ‘sand booms’ in place in around 10 days. We need to get this plan moving as quickly as possible.” ================== U.S. Considers Gulf Dredging to Protect From Spill (Update1) http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-19/u-s-considers-gulf-dredging-to-protect-from-spill-update1-.html Holder didn’t say how long the process would take. Jindal, speaking at a press conference in the coastal city of Venice, Louisiana, said the state has responded to all inquiries from the Corps. “We don’t want more of this heavy oil in our wetlands,” Jindal said. “We don’t want to have to fight it anywhere, but we would much rather fight it on these coastal barrier islands than inland.” =================== Frustration mounting over BP delays, lack of progress in Gulf of Mexico oil spill http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/frustration_mounting_over_bp_d.html By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune May 23, 2010, 9:50PM View full size MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser points to an oil-covered pelican in Barataria Bay while talking to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal about the oil from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. VENICE -- On a Sunday of expanding coastal destruction from the Gulf oil disaster and little progress in containing it, frustrations bubbled to the surface from local and state leaders in Venice to federal officials in Houston and Washington, D.C. Parish leaders and Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged from an afternoon strategy session at a Venice fishing harbor to complain about a lack of urgency from federal agencies and BP to address the oil washing into coastal marshes day after day. Jindal said he supported a decision by local and Jefferson Parish leaders on Grand Isle on Saturday to commandeer about 30 fishing vessels that BP had commissioned but hadn't deployed to lay down protective boom as the oil came ashore. ... Jindal said 143,000 feet of boom sat in staging areas while oil damaged 65 miles of Louisiana coastline. It has been 20 days since the state asked for 5 million feet of hard boom, but only 786,185 feet of hard boom has been delivered so far, he said. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, along with Jindal and other parish leaders, said the White House's first priority should be granting an emergency permit to skip federal environmental reviews and allow coastal parishes to follow their 3-week-old plan to place dredged sand as berms between barrier islands so oil won't get into delicate marshes, something that wouldn't require any change in BP's role. "The president has the authority to issue an emergency permit, " Jindal said. "This is proof that the parish plans work, " he added, pointing at a picture of sand berm in Fourchon laid by Louisiana National Guard troops in four days that kept oil out of an estuary. ... But an angry Nungesser said the Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and BP have been unwilling to listen. "I am so disappointed in the agencies and BP that this continues to happen, " he said. "We are working a plan and we are going to save our coast, but not with the help of the agencies that are standing in the way." =================== Month after oil spill, why is BP still in charge? http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20105220328 But a month after the April 20 explosion, anger is growing about why BP PLC is still in charge of the response. |
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