Corexit 9500-Dispersal Agent BP is using in the Gulf

Dispersit is a much less harmful water-based product which is both EPA approved and the U.S. Coast Guard’s NCP list. So why isn’t it being used?

Lack of campaign contributions?

DOUBLE DOOM!!!

Maybe using Palin's spit would work!

drill babe drill.

why are not they using those oil eating microbes engineered by a subsidiary of genetech (in austin) believe it was used in Exxon spill??


I will try and find the name

[link to www.scientificamerican.com]

My friend says these engineers in austin Tx are screaming that they can help and BP ain't giving a DAMN

it has been on there news am searching for a linky poo

Fuck the Gulf of Mexico and fuck anyone that gives a shit about it.

You must live a sad and pathetic like caring about wild life all the time. Shit dies and always fucking will, nothing you can do. Eventually the entire earth will be gone because God will be taking it away. What the fuck you going to do then with no earth? Guess you are going to cry about the fucking wild life. Who gives a shit.

Kill animals to eat. Kill animals to make room for your house. Kill animals to get business done.

It is that simple you fucking retards.

Animals kill eachother all the fucking time anyhow, what you going to sit there and cry all day everyday thinking about that shit?

How about all the hunters? You going to cry about that shit too?

oh boo hoo little hippie fags. Animals are dying. Guess you should stop going to McDonalds then huh? Oh better not cut down that tree on your lawn! A squirrel might die!

THE HORROR!

you are not the sharpest TOOL are you?

I feel bad for you that you are so uneducated but let me inform you dumbass we live in a closed eco-system which means you shit in your food source you eventually EAT it.

FUCKTARD!

here is more info on the microbes

[link to www.cnn.com]

wooohooo

on the pin OP

my bro works for genetech

I will ask him about the microbes.

thanks OP...


you are correct...they are trying to sink it all :(

this is weird I can't find the austin story about this engineers clamoring to help. she said it was really new tech encapsulated(the new part was delivery method) and they strongly believed they could stop this destruction!
I feel like it has been scrubbed

damn it I will search on!

a mushroom that does it isnt there? mycaellium damn spelling mycillium .... my-silly-um...

Have you ever thought that you might die because of this? Maybe the oceans will be degraded so much that the air we breathe doesn't have enough oxygen to support human life. Then we die.

It is a horror

Nah, the ocean algae only produces 85% of the oxygen that we breathe. If the oceans die those of us in the developed world can huddle around our tru-green chem lawns for oxygen, no prob.

would yall get this excited if I said there are invasive species throughout north american waters killing more native species than the oil spill will, by the time its cleaned up

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yes.

TRUE!

migrgatus Mexicanus

That's just natural selection moving being affected byhuman vectors... But this kills everything.

let me guess - made by a division of halliburton?

a lot of us are really getting tired of you shit 'Russ jr'.

The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics And The Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
Written by Wayne Madsen
[link to oilprice.com]

We have been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign -- more than John McCain or Hillary Clinton, are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and working together to limit BP's liability for damage caused by what can be called a "mega-disaster."

Obama and his senior White House staff, as well as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, are working with BP's chief executive officer Tony Hayward on legislation that would raise the cap on liability for damage claims from those affected by the oil disaster from $75 million to $10 billion. However, WMR's federal and Gulf state sources are reporting the disaster has the real potential cost of at least $1 trillion. Critics of the deal being worked out between Obama and Hayward point out that $10 billion is a mere drop in the bucket for a trillion dollar disaster but also note that BP, if its assets were nationalized, could fetch almost a trillion dollars for compensation purposes. There is talk in some government circles, including FEMA, of the need to nationalize BP in order to compensate those who will ultimately be affected by the worst oil disaster in the history of the world.

Plans by BP to sink a 4-story containment dome over the oil gushing from a gaping chasm one kilometer below the surface of the Gulf, where the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and killed 11 workers on April 20, and reports that one of the leaks has been contained is pure public relations disinformation designed to avoid panic and demands for greater action by the Obama administration, according to FEMA and Corps of Engineers sources. Sources within these agencies say the White House has been resisting releasing any "damaging information" about the oil disaster. They add that if the ocean oil geyser is not stopped within 90 days, there will be irreversible damage to the marine eco-systems of the Gulf of Mexico, north Atlantic Ocean, and beyond. At best, some Corps of Engineers experts say it could take two years to cement the chasm on the floor of the Gulf.

Only after the magnitude of the disaster became evident did Obama order Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to declare the oil disaster a "national security issue." Although the Coast Guard and FEMA are part of her department, Napolitano's actual reasoning for invoking national security was to block media coverage of the immensity of the disaster that is unfolding for the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and their coastlines.

From the Corps of Engineers, FEMA, the Environmental Protection Agency, Coast Guard, and Gulf state environmental protection agencies, the message is the same: "we've never dealt with anything like this before."

The Obama administration also conspired with BP to fudge the extent of the oil leak, according to our federal and state sources. After the oil rig exploded and sank, the government stated that 42,000 gallons per day was gushing from the seabed chasm. Five days later, the federal government upped the leakage to 210,000 gallons a day.

However, WMR has been informed that submersibles that are monitoring the escaping oil from the Gulf seabed are viewing television pictures of what is a "volcanic-like" eruption of oil. Moreover, when the Army Corps of Engineers first attempted to obtain NASA imagery of the Gulf oil slick -- which is larger than that being reported by the media -- it was turned down. However, National Geographic managed to obtain the satellite imagery shots of the extent of the disaster and posted them on their web site.

There is other satellite imagery being withheld by the Obama administration that shows what lies under the gaping chasm spewing oil at an ever-alarming rate is a cavern estimated to be around the size of Mount Everest. This information has been given an almost national security-level classification to keep it from the public, according to our sources.


The Corps and Engineers and FEMA are quietly critical of the lack of support for quick action after the oil disaster by the Obama White House and the US Coast Guard. Only recently, has the Coast Guard understood the magnitude of the disaster, dispatching nearly 70 vessels to the affected area. WMR has also learned that inspections of off-shore rigs' shut-off valves by the Minerals Management Service during the Bush administration were merely rubber-stamp operations, resulting from criminal collusion between Halliburton and the Interior Department's service, and that the potential for similar disasters exists with the other 30,000 off-shore rigs that use the same shut-off valves.

The impact of the disaster became known to the Corps of Engineers and FEMA even before the White House began to take the magnitude of the impending catastrophe seriously. The first casualty of the disaster is the seafood industy, with not just fishermen, oystermen, crabbers, and shrimpers losing their jobs, but all those involved in the restaurant industry, from truckers to waitresses, facing lay-offs.


The invasion of crude oil into estuaries like the oyster-rich Apalachicola Bay in Florida spell disaster for the seafood industry. However, the biggest threat is to Florida's Everglades, which federal and state experts fear will be turned into a "dead zone" if the oil continues to gush forth from the Gulf chasm. There are also expectations that the oil slick will be caught up in the Gulf stream off the eastern seaboard of the United States, fouling beaches and estuaries like the Chesapeake Bay, and ultimately target the rich fishing grounds of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.

WMR has also learned that 36 urban areas on the Gulf of Mexico are expecting to be confronted with a major disaster from the oil volcano in the next few days. Although protective water surface boons are being laid to protect such sensitive areas as Alabama's Dauphin Island, the mouth of the Mississippi River, and Florida's Apalachicola Bay, Florida, there is only 16 miles of boons available for the protection of 2,276 miles of tidal shoreline in the state of Florida.


Emergency preparations in dealing with the expanding oil menace are now being made for cities and towns from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Houston, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile, Pensacola, Tampa-St.Petersburg-Clearwater, Sarasota-Bradenton, Naples, and Key West. Some 36 FEMA-funded contracts between cities, towns, and counties and emergency workers are due to be invoked within days, if not hours, according to WMR's FEMA sources.

There are plans to evacuate people with respiratory problems, especially those among the retired senior population along the west coast of Florida, before officials begin burning surface oil as it begins to near the coastline.

There is another major threat looming for inland towns and cities. With hurricane season in effect, there is a potential for ocean oil to be picked up by hurricane-driven rains and dropped into fresh water lakes and rivers, far from the ocean, thus adding to the pollution of water supplies and eco-systems.

crap, this is where they let nanobots into the water to try and contain it-and it backfires and kills everything-even worse doom!!!!!!

I've spoken with NJ Senator Robert Menendez's Washington office regarding the use of Corexit vs Dispersit. Senator Menendez is a major opponent of offshore drilling.

Please call his office at 202-224-4744.

latte shipping sheep.......24 years in the patch, yes i am a whore by nature, building a big shale gas thing for bp in northern canada...i make 15 bills a day for this..Big oil controls all that trades on the market...other than the costa over the next 16 months it will take 20 years for the real money to be paid out feel sotty the the ceo in 2018

Indeed -- best things folks can do if they are concerned about the environment and their impact is to stick a gun to their head and pull the trigger -- those who use petroleum based products are ultimately responsible for this fiasco.

As to whether use Corexit or Dispersit -- the choice was to use that one for which their is most available on hand, that which has the longest track record and that which tends to concentrate the damage on site, ie at sea than than which tends to drift inland so as to minimize onshore and estuary impact.

Had BP used Dispersit -- this blog would be all wrapped around the harmful effects of Corexit. It's a "can't win" dilemma for BP, for the oceans, for the estuaries and for all of humanity -- and in the grand scheme of things, it ain't nothing!

And come next week -- and yet another natural disaster -- the news and our eyes will all be focused elsewhere... except for those who can parlay the spill for profit, power or prestige.

Great articles like this is so much better than ranting, and it always makes me wonder why people are so afraid to use the Bible as a reference because books such as Revelations is not hostile, but outlines issues such as these in passages that state those who destroy the earth will NOT inherit it, but be destroyed themselves...
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I love these people who think that "God" is going to come and destroy the earth .. carting the "chosen ones" to heaven in an event called the "Rapture"

The charletans prompting this nonsense, the leaders of local evangelical and pentacostal churches, are no better than the Imams of allah.

Why care about the earth when 42 virgins await in the afterlife ?

1) no one on the earth speaks for God .. not the Pope not the Imams and certainly not this poster or the local preacher

2) nevermind what will happen to you in the afterlife .. we will all find out soon enough .. lets focus on making right here and now better .. thats probably what God wants us to do anyway dont ya think ?

3) The rapture .. as preached by "extremist" fundimentalists is not a reliable biblical interperatation .. and even if you think it is .. Have your belief .. be happy you live in a country that allows you to have such beliefs ... Keep your belief .. but keep it to yourself.

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