LSU confirms oil from BP well; feds collect samples, Press-Register, September 26, 2011:
While the source of the oil bubbling up around the Deepwater Horizon site remains a mystery, a Louisiana State University scientist says further chemical analysis has confirmed that the oil originated in BP’s well, and not from other nearby sources, as federal officials have suggested. [...]
“Yes, the oil that you took was confirmed as MC252, but it does not necessarily mean it is in any way related to the (Deepwater Horizon) spill. Most of the oil throughout the region can be preliminarily identified as MC252 type,” the [Sept. 15 email from Ben Sherman, a NOAA spokesman] read. Sherman went on to say that NOAA’s Scientific Support Coordinator had consulted with the LSU chemists and determined that the oil might not be from the BP well.
Overton said federal officials were wrong. He said he rechecked the newspaper’s oil samples using the more refined analysis recommended by BP’s scientists and federal officials. [...]
Ed Overton, LSU chemist who did most of NOAA’s oil analysis during the spill:
- "They were suggesting I had jumped the gun when I said it matched (BP’s well)."
- "They are incorrect. I have double-checked, and I am even more convinced after using the suggestions that BP made that this was the Macondo oil. I think it is 99.9 percent confirmed that it came from that reservoir."
- “It is a dead-ringer match. I was amazed that the ratios matched as good as they did.”
Sept 30, 2011 *VIDEO*
... The oil that meanders in miles long slicks near the Macondo oil field does not appear to be the thick viscous Louisiana crude that tarred the Gulf coast last year. Instead it seems to be made up mostly of oil sheens that float along in long rivers, moving with the waves like an oily ghost that refuses to leave its haunted home. A month ago, the Mobile Press-Register took video and samples of the oil that appeared to bubble up near the Deepwater Horizon site and later were linked directly to BP’s Macondo well. ...
http://theenergycollective.com/rockykistner/66394/macondo-monkey-bps-back
NEW ORLEANS 9/27/2011 — Contrary to public perception that last summer's BP oil spill did little damage to marine life in Louisiana, a new study says a common fish in the marshes was hurt severely by the spill and now is turning up deformed and may be unable to reproduce properly. ...
Researchers said the fish are showing signs of damage even though the amount of oil in their tissues and in the water where they were sampled was extremely low or not even detectable....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44691943/ns/us_news-environment/
Even if that ROV footage is correct and in no way doctored, it looks as if the salt water has already take a huge told on the wellheads, So, if the oil isn't coming from there, it eventually will be.
We need to know for sure if they are still using corexit. I am still smelling that sickening sweet unique smell coming in with the gulf wind occasionally. Noticed that same odor 2x last week around 4:00 pm. Trees and plants still slowly dying. Never smelled this odor before the oil disaster which killed millions of marine life and many of our trees are dead and dying. Not to mention the emotional toll this has had on many of us. Last summer my neighbor pulled out his dead tomato plants and others had told me they were having a hard time growing anything. I felt sorry for neighbor as he went to such great care to plant and water. The rain brought down the toxic stuff on us. I could smell it the most at night and early morning hrs as thats when the hydrocarbons come out. Thats what a toxicologist said. To bad for me i didn't find that out for a good 11 months as i had opened the doors facing the gulf every night around 1:00 am and cound really notice the smells.It was really upsetting. I started feeding the birds and squirrels more as i felt sorry for them drinking and eating whatever fell out there.
Susan,
In what area of the gulf do you live?
Florida knows,
So of Anna Maria.
Volunteers becoming ill from oil clean-up, New Zealand
*PHOTO*
... The public has been warned by Maritime New Zealand not to touch the oil and to leave the clean-up to experts. ... people volunteering to help clean up the oil are becoming ill, suffering from headaches and nausea. ... seeing people wearing minimal protective clothing, who get contaminated with oil and then become ill. ... Dr de Wet says people who get too close to the oil may suffer skin rashes, allergic skin reactions and eye irritations. He says marine fuel oil can also cause illness if swallowed and droplets can be inhaled. ...
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/rena-grounding/88101/volunteers-becoming-ill-from-oil-clean-up
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/tilting-ship-breaking-apart-in-rough-seas-off-new-zealand-coast/
4 dead dolphins on Gulf beaches in 5 days; deaths of 'unusual mortality event'
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1221/935/
Lot of information here, very sad !!!
beforeitsnews.com/story/1222/612/Waterkeeper_Alliance_Takes_Legal_Action_on_Chronic_Leak_at_23051_Site_in_Gulf.html
And you thought we had problems! Well, just you wait.
Peace out!
Maybe a cosmic alignment or a super galactic wave or a high vibrational energy shift or a new age consciousness awareness will happen soon and this will all be cleared up. Maybe!
And Maybe, just maybe, there will be a way, a new scalar technology, to clean this all up, and we can go one with our everyday happy lives; just like in the good ole days long before this all happened.
Maybe Fukushima will be included, too.
Peace out!
Editorial: Concern about shrimp
Oct. 12, 2011
the harvest of white shrimp appears to be down dramatically in Louisiana waters, the hardest hit by the BP oil spill.
Unfortunately, no one is surprised.
No one is surprised because last year's spill occurred just as many species, including shrimp, were headed, or about to head, out into the Gulf to spawn. Damage done to marine species was predicted to be most severe to the youngest fish and shrimp, especially those in the larval stage.
The Times reported that a major seafood processor in Louisiana accustomed to handling 10,000 pounds of shrimp a day in September pulled in 41,000 pounds for the entire month.
Like much of the spill's impact, it's impossible ...
http://www.pnj.com/article/20111013/OPINION/110130301/Editorial-Concern-about-shrimp?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp
If they continue to fish it, it may kill off the few that can overcome and repopulate, it's time to maybe take heed to what Alaska (Valdez spill) found out a few years after the spill, fish were gone !
Two short-finned pilot whales that died this week on the region's shorelines mark the first sightings in recent memory of the species in New England local waters.
Short-finned mammals tend to stay in warmer waters in the "Gulf of Mexico" and in the Atlantic from Florida to Cape Hatteras,
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1221/339/Second_Dead_Pilot_Whale_Washes_Ashore,_Massachusetts.html
More dead seals dead as toll rise to 66 and counting, New England beaches31
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1221/672/More_dead_seals_dead_as_toll_rise_to_66_and_counting,_New_England_beaches.html
Deaths of 94 harbor seals alarm officials, New England
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1237/312/Deaths_of_94_harbor_seals_alarm_officials,_New_England.html
Wildlife groups sue for more protection of turtles
They claim more than 1400 dead and injured turtles have washed ashore this year. The agency says it has not reviewed the suit and it typically doesn't comment on litigation. Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, ...
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/13/3978840/wildlife-groups-sue-for-more-protection.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgAIAAoATABOAFA_q7d9ARIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=yVz5xQUzc9w&usg=AFQjCNEKHCF5RIU-FLeiOEQAUAUcYjxHBw
BP denied more drilling in the Gulf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F10%2F13%2FMNB11LHFH7.DTL
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Whale found on Jupiter Island dies, Florida
By xdrfox on Monday, October 17, 2011 ...
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1242/809/Whale_found_on_Jupiter_Island_dies,_Florida.html
Sounds like this really could indeed be related to the blowout.
"The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (part 5) is very interesting as Transocean is in the sight of legal action.
Peace out!
I try and learn something new everyday. Thanks for the information.
A small BP protest.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/10/20/protesters-target-bp-houston/
They screw up the water supply...then they want the public to drink it.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/10/19/driller-ok-to-halt-water-to-pennsylvania-town/
Plymouth Harbor pilot whale dies; 3rd in 10 days, Massachusetts
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, October 21, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1267/029/
Tuna joins ranks of puzzling wildlife deaths on New Hampshire beaches
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, October 21, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1262/703/
If these oils spilling and drilling is not addressed I think more and more sea marine animals will continue to wash ashore. It takes a lot of decades for a marine to grow up and only a few short moment to die no matter what will be the outcome its a loss of everybody. Life is a circle of cycle Tampa Car Accident Lawyers
5 to 6 Thousand Dead Birds wash ashore at Wasaga Beach, Canada54
By xdrfox on Sunday, October 23, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1270/020/
Got to wonder, is it toxins or really somthing else ???
Foam, Is it Oil and Corexit filmed here during Irene ??? *2 News Videos*
To Gulf Oil Spill on Thursday, September 01, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1038/133/
If so could this have stirred up the deadly concoctions again into the waters/food chain for latest wildlife deaths !
Related to the spill or not, don't they worry about public perception when they keep denying responsibility for things such as this.
I think BP should be in the forefront of sponsoring research about safe oil drilling and better ways to protect the earth from oil spills.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Apalachicola Bay Corexit Poisoning
March 16, 2011
WARNING: EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
In the waters of the GULF OF MEXICO at depths of 700 to 1,500 meters, 104.1 MILLION GALLONS of concentrated crude oil mixed with SPECIFIED AND UNSPECIFIED TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is covering 60 PLUS SQUARE MILES of ocean floor.
This TOXIC OIL MIXTURE has created large areas of DEAD ZONES and is currently responsible for the DEATH OF MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF FORMS OF MARINE AND AQUATIC LIFE. ...
http://gulfofmexicooilspillblog.com/2011/03/16/gul-of-mexico-oil-spill-blog-apalachicola-bay-corexit-poisoning/
BP AFTER THE TRAGEDY
LEAVING THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
We kept smelling burnt wire, we didn't realize it was the smell of arsenic. It's the chemicals that were being sprayed that left that smell. ...
Our lungs filled up with fluid, and we had to get up because we can't breathe... terrible, terrible headaches, skin lesions. I want to live to see my granddaughter...
http://www.csiwhalesalive.org/ny4whales/BP_leaving_the_scene.html
January, 2003 - EXXON Plans to Do It Again... It's Called COREXIT, but it has 3 times more poison: 2-butoxyethanol - 38%
....some found oil traces in their lungs, in their blood cells, in the fatty tissue of their buttocks. They got treated for headaches, nausea, chemical burns and breathing problems, and went home. But some never got well. ...
lungs nearly stopped working. ... and breathing problems...
http://www.valdezhousing.com/inipol/pages/worker.htm
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Apalachicola Bay Corexit Poisoning
March 16, 2011
WARNING: EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
In the waters of the GULF OF MEXICO at depths of 700 to 1,500 meters, 104.1 MILLION GALLONS of concentrated crude oil mixed with SPECIFIED AND UNSPECIFIED TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is covering 60 PLUS SQUARE MILES of ocean floor.
This TOXIC OIL MIXTURE has created large areas of DEAD ZONES and is currently responsible for the DEATH OF MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF FORMS OF MARINE AND AQUATIC LIFE. …
http://gulfofmexicooilspillblog.com/2011/03/16/gul-of-mexico-oil-spill-blog-apalachicola-bay-corexit-poisoning/
Gulf War Vets for 2-butoxyethanol exposures?
First off, I'd been learning about 2-butoxyethanol for 10 months - and knew a lot about it when I noticed last March, that the symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome shared by the American Legion ... was strikingly similar to the symptoms of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning. ...
...whether soldiers in Iraq are using it today? to burn up the out house stuff? ...What were the ones doing that died with their lungs filling up with fluid? Was it in one geographic location? Anyway it could have been pulmonary edema from the ethylene oxide in Corexit 9527 (wherever the military has that) ...
http://www.valdezhousing.com/gwv/why2B.htm
A Fisherman's Farewell? Gulf Residents Fight for Their Future 15 Months After the BP Blowout
Posted: 10/26/11
Mark Stewart is a third generation fisherman from the Mississippi Gulf fishing community of Pass Christian. He's a proud and tough working man of the sea, used to hauling in nets until his arms nearly fall off and fishing all night until his eyelids are crusted shut like a saltine sandwich. That’s the life he knows, the life he wouldn’t have any other way.
And it’s the life he fears he may never lead again.
Ever since BP’s mammoth Deepwater Horizon rig blew 15 months ago, Mark’s life -- and the lives of thousands of fishermen across the Gulf -- has never been the same. Many say they were poisoned by oil and chemical dispersants after being thrust into cleanup jobs they were woefully unprepared for.
But it’s the aftermath that really worries them now. Stewart and his fishing colleagues say ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocky-kistner/a-fishermans-farewell-gul_b_1033981.html
Some dolphins in massive die-off killed by bacterial infection, NOAA says
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011
Five bottlenose dolphins found dead in Louisiana waters or stranded on beaches """since February 2010""" were infected with brucellosis, a bacterial infection better known in the United States for killing cattle, bison and elk, pathology experts contracted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.
What the researchers don't know yet, they said, is the source of the deadly bacteria, including whether oil spilled from the BP Macondo well in 2010 played a role in the brucellosis deaths. Of the five dead dolphins, three were fetuses and two were adult dolphins. Nor are the pathologists yet able to determine the cause of the deaths or strandings of an additional 580 marine mammals along the ...
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/10/some_dolphins_in_massive_die-o.html
Researchers: BP oil spill may have contributed to Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths
Oct 28, 2011
Five of the more than 500 dolphins that have washed ashore dead along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas over the past two years died from a bacterial infection called Brucella, federal scientists announced Thursday.
And last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have played a role, they said.
"The working hypothesis is that the oil negatively impacted the dolphins' immune system," said Teri Rowles, coordinator of the National Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program. "It could have impaired the dolphins' ability to respond to the bacterial infection."
What got scientists' attention, Rowles said, is that while some previous dolphin deaths have been attributed to Brucella infections, those have never amounted to more than one at a time.
"To see it happen in a cluster . . . is not expected," she said.
However Rowles cautioned that there could have been other reasons why the rest of the dolphins died in the gulf and pointed out that the investigation is continuing.
"We cannot rule in, or out, a role for the Deepwater Horizon exposure,"...
tampabay.com
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/researchers-bp-oil-spill-may-have-contributed-to-gulf-of-mexico-dolphin/1198826
3 dolphins washed up Friday; 14 dead in October, Miss., Ala.
Three were found Friday in Mississippi -- one on Deer Island, one floating 200 yards off the beach at Cowan Road and one on the beach in Long Beach. ...
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/1298/297/
Researchers: BP oil spill may have contributed to Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths
Oct 28, 2011
Five of the more than 500 dolphins that have washed ashore dead along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas over the past two years died from a bacterial infection called Brucella, federal scientists announced Thursday.
And last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have played a role, they said.
“The working hypothesis is that the oil negatively impacted the dolphins’ immune system,” said Teri Rowles, coordinator of the National Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program. “It could have impaired the dolphins’ ability to respond to the bacterial infection.”
What got scientists’ attention,...
http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/researchers-bp-oil-spill-may-have-contributed-to-gulf-of-mexico-dolphin/1198826