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Vigils are scheduled across nation to honor oil spill victims, people questioning progress oil spill investigations.
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...(Check out our sources below for some of the best links.) But we hope a few facts and figures can illustrate the state of the oil spill recovery effort, the government's lack of action and BP's duplicity: Initial official estimate of spill volume (April 20,...
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...Kate Sheppard, "10 Reasons to Still Be Pissed Off About the BP Disaster." Mother Jones, April 19, 2011. Eric Niller, "BP Oil Spill Anniversary: Where Are We Now?" Discovery News, April 19, 2011. How to Submit an Article This is a working list, so please suggest...
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More: to.pbs.org Hari Sreenivasan talks to Washington Post reporter and author Joel Achenbach about his new book on the Gulf oil spill disaster, "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea."
SOURCES: "BP Oil Spill Stalls Gulf Loop Current" yowusa.com GULF STREAM SHUTTING DOWN BECAUSE OF OIL SPILL!!! AND IT'S HAPPENING FAST!! www.colinandrews.net Eworldwire cites Dr. Gianluigi Zangari www.eworldwire.com Zangari paper: www.associazionegeofisica.it "If you want confirmation, look outside the window." www.youtube.com "Snow now a thing of the past" in the Independent: www.independent.co.uk Publication list of papers by David Viner www.cru.uea.ac.uk "A link between reduced Barents-Kara sea ice and cold winter extremes over northern continents" Petoukhov, V., and VA Semenov, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, Nov 2010 VOL. 115, D21111, 11 PP., 2010 doi:10.1029/2009JD013568 Blog comment 1 www.boards.ie Mail comment www.dailymail.co.uk "Charles Onians migrated to journalism from the world of human rights NGOs some time ago." blogs.afp.com "Summer snow extent heralding of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation" Mark A. Saunders, Budong Qian, and Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 30, NO. 7, 1378, doi:10.1029/2002GL016832, 2003 NASA map data.giss.nasa.gov "Decadal trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: regional temperatures and precipitation" JW Hurrell - Science 1993
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In other news Wednesday, the Interior Department said it is reversing the plan laid out last March to drill for oil off the East Coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration unveiled the plan before the BP oil spill. The new plan means no new drilling proposals off of the East Coast for at least seven years.
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...Horizon crisis on BP becomes clearer, including plans potentially to reduce the regular more Information about BP's devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is slowly leaking out, in this case, by mistake. Part of a presentation was inadvertently more ...
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...4:40 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Kenneth Feinberg said that he would get checks out quickly to economic victims of the BP oil spill, and so far, he has been sticking to his word. Thus far, Feinberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility is paying out claims faster...
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...oil rig “Centenario”, off the coast of the State of Veracruz, more Macondo partners parry payment claims from BP for oil spill Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Mitsui Oil Exploration (Moeco), co-owners with BP PLC in the Macondo oil well, have not changed their...
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...something it's not. cbskeenan Scientists find dead and dying coral covered with a brown substance 7 miles from BP oil spill site http://bit.ly/aPn3D8 MSchleifsteinTP Scientists find dead and dying coral covered with a brown substance 7 miles...
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/05/gulf-oil-spill-dead-coral_n_779366.html
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...oil spill, putting the expected bill at close to 40 billion dollars. Ships work near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in August 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. BP expects to incur higher-than-expected charges of almost 40 billion dollars related...
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Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/204461/bp-oil-spill-costs-surge-to-40-bln
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...compared to July to Sept. 2009, to 3.76 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, due partly to dislocation related to the oil spill. Analysts had expected BP to register an extra charge related to the oil spill in the third quarter, after delays in capping...
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Globe and Mail
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Syracuse University's Hendrick's Chapel hosted a panel discussion on th British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Alexa Greenberg from CitrusTV News was there.
The past decade was one of rapid growth for BP, a company that now dominates the oil industry. Mergers expanded the BP empire and cost-cutting helped keep shareholders happy. The newest collaboration between Frontline and ProPublica is an hour-long documentary called "The Spill". It looks into whether that profits-first kind of corporate culture contributed to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon last spring. Correspondent Martin Smith and investigator Abrahm Lustgarten have joined forces to report on BP's poor safety record and the signals missed by the company and government along the way leading up to the Gulf oil disaster. From a Texas plant explosion in 2005 that killed 15 workers to the 2006 oil spill on Alaska's North Slope, BP's recent track record may have warned of a deeper problem. Smith spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about the documentary airing tonight on most PBS stations.
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...continue to call for more and more drilling in our sensitive oceans. We need to stop and apply the lessons of the BP oil spill. Instead of opening up new places for drilling, we need to protect our coasts and beaches. Instead of letting the oil industry threaten...
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...it will be processed and sent by tanker to a refinery to be sold. “It’s exactly the same as if it’s normally produced oil,” BP spokesman Graham MacEwen said. spill was ‘unlikely,’ now unprecedented MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER – British Petroleum once...
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http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/18/1387354/bp-waives-75m-cap-for-some-oil.html?storylink=rss
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...it will be processed and sent by tanker to a refinery to be sold. âItâs exactly the same as if itâs normally produced oil,â BP spokesman Graham MacEwen said. spill was âunlikely,â now unprecedented MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER â British Petroleum once...
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...White House Committee to be Formulated A committee formed to create an official opinion by the White House on the BP (NYSE:BP) oil spill will start meeting on Wednesday of this week. more Dispersant use not 'unreasonable', despite lack of data The US government...
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Journalist who swam in BP oil slick returns to Gulf of Mexico
September 29, 2010 MSNBC HARDBALL
Cement is being poured into BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing it one step closer to being sealed. BP expects the well to be completely fixed by the end of the day. The oil leak has been plugged since a temporary cap was placed on the well in mid-July. The explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig in April killed 11 workers, leading to the worst offshore oil spill in US history.
www.projectgulfimpact.org This is some raw video footage taken from a Project Gulf Impact boat trip we took on August 24th, 2010. Within minutes of departing in Perdido Bay, Florida, we came across massive amounts of oil that had been obviously freshly sprayed with Corexit. The problem was, the dispersed oil wasn't just in one place, but it was everywhere we went between there and Dauphin Island, AL. This is one of the worst we have ever seen it, with the dispersant still in powder form in some cases. This is happening in massive quantities across the Gulf of Mexico everyday. For those of you who don't know, Corexit 9500 and 9527A (the oil dispersant) are some of the most poisonous substances on Earth. They are greatly impacting our Gulf, and the animals and HUMANS who reside in it. Help support Project Gulf Impact's continuing efforts to get the truth out to the public, get aid to the people who need it most. Project Gulf Impact team members and friends on board Matt Smith, Heather Rally, Gavin Garrison, Alyssa Martinez, and our friend Michelle Nix from Gulf Coast Volunteers. Thanks to Jo Billups and Karen from Sassafrass and Michelle Nix and Marty (our captain) for making this trip possible. Inquiries: 609-374-5485 E-mail: ProjectGulfImpact@gmail.com
NOTE: The color-shift and exposure level change occurring is not in the original footage. This is a YouTube phenomena that is affecting several of our videos. Now that cleanup crews are being let go, more and more former cleanup workers, angered and confused by the way they were treated by temp agencies sub-contracted by BP, are coming forward with stories of improper training, threats to their health, unsafe working conditions, violations of labor laws, health problems, and other harmful practices they were subject to. As traditional media continues to celebrate the unlikely disappearance of the oil spilled by the Macondo 252 well, Gulf residents are becoming increasingly disconcerted by the severe neglect of corporations and government agencies involved with the spill.
PLEASE ADD US ON FACEBOOK"TAKING BACK THE GULF" www.facebook.com ADD IT & PASS IT ON:) NEW VIDEO: www.youtube.com Port Fourchon, Louisiana Bach Springs MSGrand Isle LA From Flounder to Mullet to Drum ,Crabs & Laval fish.There were many different types of Marine life washing up.BP does damage control by making up stories were the fish came from or oxygen issues in the oceans not related to them???They really think we are really dumb ,ignorant & education deprived. Sadly it is criminals investigating criminals.....You can't rely on the gov to do the right thing, they are controlled themselves....Look into who owns what ..... Examine the evidence: * BP CEO Hayward sold L1.4M shares of BP stock three wee...ks before the oil 'event'[2] on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. * Goldman Sachs sold $250M of BP stock three weeks before the event, and shorted Transocean just days before the catastrophe. * BP, Transocean, and Halliburton ignored tests indicating faulty safety equipment hours before the rig catastrophe occurred. * Halliburton was on rig twenty hours before collapse. Rig workers reported "unknown persons working that day." * Obama dispatched "SWAT teams" to the rig area "to investigate the cause of the disaster." * Halliburton acquired cleanup company Boots & Coots just before the explosion on 9 April 2010. * The EPA ordered BP and Hayward to halt all Corexit dispersant dumping. Corexit 9500A is four times as toxic as oil, and disperses to aerosol form, mixing ...
British Petroleum (BP) energy giant is set to formally announce a new CEO to replace Tony Hayward due to his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Hayward is reportedly leaving with a payout worth about $17 million and is to be appointed to the board of BP's joint venture in Russia. His successor is slated to be Robert Dudley, a senior American executive who is currently in charge of oil spill clean-up efforts in the Gulf. Dudley will have to try and clean up the company's reputation as well as the oil spill, but for those who have to deal with the layers of crude in the Gulf of Mexico, the leadership change means little for now. The 90-day shrimping season that hauls in a whole year's income for so many Gulf Coast boatmen has been delayed because of the oil spill. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Chauvin, Louisiana.
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Matthew Simmons, founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton, Lizzie O'Leary and Julie Hyman about BP Plc's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
The President speaks to the press about recent developments with the BP Oil Spill, saying that he is pleased that a new cap appears to be working to capture the oil until relief wells can be completed.
Part 1 of 4: thefloridianguy goes over in depth of what this oil spill could potentially do to the United States of America and how it relates to Bible Prophecy. The videos were filmed at Orlando Wetlands Park. Dumitru Duduman Prophecy: www.youtube.com I have posted AA Allen's prophecy on thefloridianguy.com as a PDF link. All four videos can be seen there as well.
Jim continues his talk with University of Minnesota Geology Professor Justin Revenaugh about the geologic factors behind the BP Oil Spill.
Full documentary that chronicles the events that lead up to the BP Oil Spill, exposing the hidden agenda regarding the sales of stock by BP and Goldman Sachs, the media blackout, the poisonous toxic chemicals used by BP to clean up the spill, and the negative effects it is having on our lives, and shows the natural process of bioremediation that can stop this crisis. It also exposes the way that the Federal Government, BP, and Goldman Sachs are using the crisis to push through Cap and Trade, which they all support and wrote together. 1 Hour in length.
www.youtube.com Please take the four minutes it takes to watch this video. Worth it for your health, worth it for your awareness as to the effects of Corexit. Want to learn more - contact chris at tirn dot net "I interviewed Destin, FL residents who confirmed flights spraying Corexit occurred on multiple nights, and once during the day, over nearshore waters and beaches. JOIN a coalition to ban the use of these chemicals near our beaches, water supplies, and cities." - Chris CONTACT: ProjectGulfImpact@yahoo.com
www.youtube.com Please take the four minutes it takes to watch this video. Worth it for your health, worth it for your awareness as to the effects of Corexit. Want to learn more - contact chris at tirn dot net "I interviewed Destin, FL residents who confirmed flights spraying Corexit occurred on multiple nights, and once during the day, over nearshore waters and beaches. JOIN a coalition to ban the use of these chemicals near our beaches, water supplies, and cities." - Chris CONTACT: ProjectGulfImpact@yahoo.com
www.youtube.com Please take the four minutes it takes to watch this video. Worth it for your health, worth it for your awareness as to the effects of Corexit. Want to learn more - contact chris at tirn dot net "I interviewed Destin, FL residents who confirmed flights spraying Corexit occurred on multiple nights, and once during the day, over nearshore waters and beaches. JOIN a coalition to ban the use of these chemicals near our beaches, water supplies, and cities." - Chris CONTACT: ProjectGulfImpact@yahoo.com
BoB Airplanes "Parody" Caution Chris - Male Vocalist/Co-Writer www.youtube.com Elieve - Female Vocalist www.youtube.com SuperMarioLogan www.youtube.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Video is dedicated to all the lives lost in the BP Oil Spill Disaster. "Lyrics" (Chorus) Can we pretend that the Oil Spill never happened in Gulf of Mexico Want my life back right now, back right now, back right now. Can we pretend that the Oil Spill never happened in Gulf of Mexico Just want my life back right now, back right now, back right now. Yeah It can kill a turtle, or a dolphin, or a fish The oil spill killing cant get simpler then this And even after all the gallons thats passing It seems like mother nature keeps harassing BP oil yeah i hate them with a passion Thinking that its funny but there aint nobody laughing Damn robot had to hit the oil cap man So hard that obama did a back flip Starting from the gulf now headed to the panhandle Thats something that the US can't handle CEO says he wants his life back i say we throw him in the spill with no life raft People losing there jobs some fighting for there life A fishermen committed suicide and ended his life What would BP do if there were more deaths tonight Or black rain coming from the skies (Chorus) Can we pretend that the Oil Spill never happened in Gulf of Mexico Want my life back right now, back right now, back right now. Can we pretend that the Oil Spill never happened in Gulf of Mexico Just want ...
Two months after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people, Panorama's Hilary Andersson tells the story of America's 'greatest environmental disaster.' Dubbed an environmental '9/11' by President Obama, the leak caused by the explosion is still releasing thousands of barrels of crude oil a day into the waters of the Gulf - livelihoods and ecosystems are threatened, fishermen are unable to work and billions have been wiped off the value of BP shares. Panorama examines the full consequences of the disaster amid a mounting war of words between the Obama adminstration and an embattled BP, asking what went wrong and who is really to blame.
June 13, 2010 - 60 minutes Australia documentary pulled from airing on request of British Petroleum. Part 1
This was the most emotionally disturbing video I have ever done! A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all around it's blow hole. Please spread this around the world. Send me any links to places it gets posted so I can follow. I want to piss off the world. Who will answer for these gentle creatures?
Kevin Pereira's special report on the devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues with his look at the oil's impact on the fragile wildlife. He learns about the techniques used to clean up the oil and save the affected birds. For more from AOTS Exclusive, go here: g4tv.com
Lifelong charter fishing Captain Allen Kruse shot himself in the head on the bridge of his boat just two weeks after starting oil spill clean-up work for British Petroleum. Kelly Cobiella reports.
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The gasping fish video Kindra speaks of is in this clip www.youtube.com The Australian 60 minutes show she speaks of is here www.youtube.com This Venice LA local has been granted full security clearance... has seen the disaster from every possible angle and is NOT impressed. Hear the horrors of the front lines and behind scenes workings of the BP Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe. GulfEmergencySummit.org
My particular interest in this article is how they are spraying this Corexit Chemical, which is not needed because its toxic and there are other alternatives that are more natural and safe. This stuff is ChemTrails on crack... This video, that YouTube blocked, sums up about how I feel about all this to a T: www.vimeo.com This is just the tip of the iceberg. More intel coming in the very near future. I saw with my own eyes, the high tide leave a pool of water on a Pensacola FL beach that was covered in the Corexit chemical film. When that pool dried up in the sun, this is what it looked like: www.collective-thought.org ChemTrails are every where, but this is serious stuff. Signs are warning about it: www.collective-thought.org Below is an excerpt from the article: What's the benefit of this scam? MONEY, and population control. Read the intelhub article linked below. If you're still listening, and even beginning to grasp the sinister nature of the fraud being perpetrated, then you'll realize that the corexit9500, and other dispersant's are not needed. They are purposely being sprayed by Evergreen Air/CIA to cull the population along the Gulf Coast. Evergreen Air is a known CIA front company. The Intel Hub, along many others, have established this fact without a reasonable doubt. This evidence was backed by witness testimony. Once this is established, one must realize just how deep the rabbit hole may actually go? GO HERE TO FIND OUT: shtf411.com As it turns out the deadly ...
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www.prisonplanet.com States Need To Launch Criminal Investigation Into BP, Federal Government's Role In Oil Spill Following the rise of sufficient indicators that BP knew about the conditions of its Gulf oil assets prior to the April 20 leak & explosion 62 long days ago and counting, Alex Jones has called for criminal investigations of key figures at BP, inside the White House administration and elsewhere. Further, Alex has urged activists and concerned citizens everywhere to take a proactive approach to dealing with the looming consequences of the massive oil leak. He suggests calling on Governors and State Legislators in the Gulf Region to assert 10th Amendment rights-- refute the Federal Government's inaction, and institute measures to resolve the situation as best as can be. In addition, Alex alerts awakened people everywhere to the renewed efforts by President Obama and certain allies, to ram through Carbon Taxes and other Climate Change measures via stealth, and using the crisis of the BP Oil Spill to justify such fascist policies-- when the Obama Administration's bewildered response (much like the Bush Administration's delayed response at Katrina) exacerbated the scale and depth of the crisis BP may have let happen.
Bil Ryan , of Project Camelot/Avalon discusses the latest on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with Dr Bill Deagle. Dr Deagle says there is a real danger we could see a tsunami triggered by an underwater volcano that BP drilled into. He also talks about how this event could result in a mini ice age in Europe due to disruption to the flow from the gulf stream. Also, Dr Deagle goes into the dangers of the gases being emitted from the sea floor. This catastrophe is only just starting to unfold. The worst is still to come
Video commentary about a jump in unemployment claims, the consequences of the BP oil spill, what I would do if I were President, the 90 banks that missed TARP Payments, large protest planned at G-20 meeting in Canada, the NBA Finals and more. New jobless claims take surprise jump www.msnbc.msn.com Jobless aid, tax bill hits Senate roadblock again news.yahoo.com More Than 90 Banks Miss TARP Payments www.cnbc.com Spain: the new crisis in Euroland www.independent.co.uk Large protest planned at G-20 meeting in Canada www.businessweek.com Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply finance.yahoo.com BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard abcnews.go.com Hayward estimates size of oil field at 2B gallons www.breitbart.com Gulf Oil Spill Sickness: Cleanup Workers Experience Health Problems, Complain Of Flulike Symptoms www.huffingtonpost.com
President Medvedev wants to loosen government controls and open the doors wider to foreign investment. He told global business leaders in St. Petersburg that he hopes to turn Russia into an innovative economy to overcome its dependence on oil and gas.

