Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant.
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Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2011-06-18 23:43
British Petroleum possesses 38% of the contract and the Chinese – 37%, while Iraq’s state-owned Southern Iraq Oil Company owns the remaining 25% of the contract.
Submitted by andie531 on Mon, 2011-05-30 15:58
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In the view of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, BP is the safest company to hire for offshore work today, having learned its lesson in the gulf. “One beaten man is worth two unbeaten men,” Mr. Putin said, citing a Russian proverb, after BP signed its Arctic deal with Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company. Rosneft is negotiating joint venture agreements with other major oil companies shut out of North America, including Shell.
Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2011-03-12 19:37
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The long running legal case by the heirs of Andrew Oenga has resulted in a federal court awarding them $4.924 million against the United States (e.g. US taxpayers - BP is not liable, of course).
For the past 16 years, British Petroleum was allowed to use the land in ways not allowed by the lease to produce oil from unauthorized areas. BP also allowed ARCO and Exxon to use Oengas’ land for a fee. The Bureau of Indian Affairs refused to tell BP to stop the unauthorized use and refused to collect additional rents from BP for authorized use.
Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2011-03-09 03:10
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Louisiana BP OIL SPILL 8 Months on Part 2, rawimagefilms, November 24, 2010.
Meanwhile, in Alabama...
12-3-2010 A giant tar mat…nearly an eighth of a mile long…is washing up west of Cotton Bayou in Orange Beach.
12-9-2010 A widespread fungal outbreak is affecting one of Alabama’s key marsh grass species, potentially rendering much of this year’s seed crop sterile, according to scientists.
Also in Missisisppi and Louisiana...
12-9-2010 Dispersants continue to be sprayed, says emergency worker.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-12-12 02:19
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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama's point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America's armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible. A large-scale national marketing campaign will use $30 million in BP money and millions more in federal dollars, to reassure restaurants and markets across the country that Gulf seafood is safe.
Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, said he would like to see Gulf seafood as the choice throughout the public domain, "whether it's the military or prison systems or school systems."
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Submitted by andie531 on Fri, 2010-12-10 04:27
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An hour after BP workers were told they had to shift from Destin, Florida to another location and to not discuss anything with anybody, human body parts washed up where they had been working.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-10-10 19:50
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The Gulf Islands National Seashore is located in Mississippi and Florida.
Submitted by pandora on Mon, 2010-09-20 15:10
600 patients have already signed up five days in advance of the National Association of Free Clinics New Orleans event, while few if any had signed up until just one day before for the group’s free clinic in Washington D.C. earlier THIS MONTH From the NAFC website: “This clinic will help the uninsured of the Gulf region as we approach the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and as the region is struggling with the current oil spill crisis.”
Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2010-08-28 03:02
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OSHA describes 2-butoxyethanol's odor as a "mild, pleasant, sweet, fruity". Corexit 9527, the MOST TOXIC and DANGEROUS oil dispersant compound, contains 2-butoxyethanol. The video shows an unmarked boat with two huge barrels attached to it, with a sweet odor surrounding the vessel.
Natural gas is scented with a nasty smell (the chemical Mercaptan) so we can tell when there is a leak. This warns people NOT to breathe it. HOWEVER, the chemical dispersant (Corexit) is scented with a sweet smell from the 2-butoxyethanol, which isn't perceived as a dangerous smell. This sweet aroma would cause more people to willingly breathe it in on shore, unalerted to the danger in their air.
Submitted by pandora on Sun, 2010-08-22 13:38
SEA GULLS ARE FLYING RATS! They usually eat anything. But they are not touching the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that washed up on the New Jersey Shore near Cape May on August 12, 2010. Why?
Submitted by pandora on Sun, 2010-08-15 02:08
“Goldman Sachs wasn’t alone either in its astute “foreknowledge” of the collapse of BP’s stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP’s own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares<
Submitted by andie531 on Thu, 2010-08-05 07:04
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The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster.
Submitted by andie531 on Thu, 2010-08-05 06:49
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Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2010-07-21 21:57
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The US government has ordered oil giant BP to offer a plan for opening the capped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, after a seep was found threatening to leak into the bedrock.
Submitted by Sullivan on Wed, 2010-07-21 06:49
They lied about what happened on 9/11/2001. They lied about the need to make war on Iraq. They lied about the reasons they started bombing Afghanistan.
So I guess we should not be surprised that they have lied every day about the profound defacement using an out-of-control oil well to destroy the Gulf of Mexico.
Submitted by Sullivan on Tue, 2010-07-20 10:49
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MOBILE, Alabama - 16 July 2010 - News 5 - More than a week has passed since Alabama's beaches have seen significant oil, and despite warnings along the Gulf Coast, some swimmers are taking their chances.
News Five collected samples of water and sand from Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Katrina Key and Dauphin Island. To our eyes, the samples appeared normal, until we took them to a local lab to be tested.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2010-07-18 10:04
Corexit is a product line of solvents primarily used as a dispersant for breaking up oil slicks. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company which is associated with BP . Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, is one of the most poisonous dispersants ever developed, and is up to 20 times more toxic than other dispersants, and only half as effective.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2010-07-18 09:57
Mud eruption 'caused by drilling' headlines a BBC report of 2008, two years after a drilling company was found negligent in drilling for gas and oil on the Indonesian island of Java. The amount of material that is still spewing out of the well would fill 50 olympic sized swimming pools EACH DAY. This has been happening every day for four years, with no end in sight. The Lusi mud volcano may be active for decades, some believe.
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US congressman says company's worst-case assessment of leak was 20 times higher than public estimate.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2010-06-20 23:38
Remnants of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be headed towards Ireland, according to an American computer-modelling study.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2010-06-20 23:32
Residents of the US Gulf Coast braced for more oil from a ruptured BP Plc well to hit their beaches today as oil washed ashore at Panama City, a popular Florida tourist destination.
Submitted by Sullivan on Sun, 2010-06-20 10:19
When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic chemical dispersants on top of an oil spill, it doesn’t just disappear.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-06-19 23:31
Because drilling can bring warm fluids up from depth, potentially melting the shallower gas hydrate, many researchers and engineers anticipate that drilling through gas hydrate may pose a hazard to the stability of the well, the platform anchors, the tethers, or even entire platforms.
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-06-19 23:21
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Although it remains unknown when the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico can be plugged, efforts to clean up the massive BP oil spilled so far could continue until 2011 and well beyond, some experts said.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-06-19 21:39
Does a company that both builds oil rigs and cleans up oil spills have any motivation to prevent oil rig disasters?
Submitted by Sullivan on Sat, 2010-06-19 09:25
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NEW ORLEANS — It is an overlooked danger in the oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of Mexico's fragile ecosystem.
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Submitted by Sullivan on Fri, 2010-06-18 22:28
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.
Submitted by Sullivan on Fri, 2010-06-18 15:32
People all around the country have put so much pressure on the Obama administration that it had to “do something” to look like it was standing up to BP. The announcement today of a so-called $20 billion escrow fund from BP would never have happened without mass pressure. But does this fund truly respond to the needs of the people in the Gulf Coast states?
Submitted by Sullivan on Fri, 2010-06-18 08:48
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YouTube kept taking down the the following video. It compares the Gulf incident with other historic oil disasters as well as their long term result on the environment.