Spill Fighters

Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcement conspires with BP to intimidate journalists
07-07-2010  •  Mike Adams via Natural News
What happened is that Lance Rosenfield, a photographer working for ProPublica (http://www.propublica.org), was standing on a public road, taking photos of a BP refinery in full public view. After taking his photos, he was tailed by local law enforcem Matt Simmons: BP Relief Well A Sham – Nuke Option
07-07-2010  •  streetinsider.com/
Simmons said due to the pressure form the blowout, the casing around the well is unlikely intact and therefore the relief wells will unlikely work. He calls the relief wells a “sham.” Simmons said the only option that will work is a small n Extreme Toxicity: Oil/Water samples from Gulf of Mexico
07-07-2010  •  Youtube.com
James fox is an independent filmmaker who has been covering the Gulf of Mexico disaster for the past month. He decided to have samples of the oil and water tested by a lab, which no one in the MSM will do. Martial Law in the air…

Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells ..ASSOCIATED PRESS - by JEFF DONN, MITCH WEISS – Jul. 07 (Investigative Report)
More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not …

Oil spill reaches Lake Pontchartrain … Anne Rheams saw them this week floating in the water, small and scattered and about the size of silver dollars. Some had washed up near boat docks, others near lakeside subdivisions — tar …

In the 1980′s New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain  was too polluted for fishing and recreation. Few thought it could ever be saved, but efforts to restore the waters proved wildly successful.

Up until this week, the lake played host to swimmers, boaters and fisherman; but now the BP Oil has breached the safeguards and exposed Lake Pontchartrain to an uncapped assault.

All the work to restore the lake may soon be for nothing:

Associated Press reports on the full story.

NEWS HEADLINES & BP

BP’s Culture of Cost-Cutting Isn’t Just in the Gulf: Danger Looms in Alaska Pipeline

Explosive allegations leveled by managers reveal that severe cost-cutting efforts could put the integrity of an 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System at risk. READ MORE

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P Oil Spill Relief Well Scenarios …HUFFINGTON POST - by KUNZELMAN, PETER PRENGAMAN – Jul. 06 (News Analysis)
The 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, the Gulf’s worst oil spill before it was eclipsed by BP’s disaster, wasn’t contained until three months after the first of two relief wells was completed. By then, 140 …

Tar balls hit Texas as BP oil spill cost soars
07-06-2010  •  Agence France-Presse via the raw story
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – BP faced a broadening crisis Tuesday with tar balls from the Gulf oil spill turning up on Texas beaches, as the firm’s clean-up costs soared and British officials reportedly mulled a possible BP collapse BP Collapse Potentially More Devastating than Lehman!
07-06-2010  •  marketoracle.co.uk/
What is yet unknowable is what the reality is of BP’s off-balance sheet obligations and leverage positions. How many Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) is it operating? Remember, during the Enron debacle… Marine biologist claims US Coast Guard involved in Corexit spraying
07-06-2010  •  RawStory.com
“[Corexit] basically disrupts the natural ability of oil to bond with itself,” he said. “Oil bilipid layers next to each other are the very basis of life. Each of us is made out of cells. Those cells are nothing more than an oil layer Glenn Greenwald: The BP/Government police state
07-06-2010  •  Salon.com/news
She detailed how local police and federal officials work with BP to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who are covering the impact of the spill and the clean-up efforts. Department of Homeland Security to take control of spill response website
07-06-2010  •  Blacklistednews.com/ & Bloomberg.com
The Department of Homeland Security wants a one-stop shop for information that is completely overseen by the government as it settles into the long-haul of dealing with the response to the disaster. The U.S. Coast Guard falls under Homeland…

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