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 …

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.

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

Jason Leopold / TruthOut.org

Texas BP Refinery Released 538,000 Pounds of Chemicals Into Atmosphere

Tana Ganeva

Is BP Hiding Seriously Ill Clean-Up Workers?

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5 Most Infuriating BP Gulf Spill Developments

Tana Ganeva

BP Sends Local Gas Stations Signs To Post Stressing They’re “Part Of The Community”

Amanda Terkel

“Were you aware that a natural solution existed that could have literally “dissolved” the oil before it reached the shore during the early stage of the oil spill”.

Executive replies

“No sir, we were not aware of all of the wonders of bioremediation until after we had destroyed the majority of the marine life in the Gulf of Mexico and millions of coastal residents had lost the homes and businesses.”

BULL CORN!

Just for the record, BP spent over 400 million doing bioremediation research in their own company in 2005 and it is believed that similar sums were spent in recent years.

BP had even used both microbes and enzymes to bioremediate over a dozen spills they had caused in other areas around the world.

Finally, and the most damning evidence that BP knows it is destroying the Gulf is that their executives had witnessed over a half a dozen demonstrations of either oil eating microbes or enzymes degrading the oil is just days—making it virtually harmless just hours after treatment to wildlife and marine life.

Today as I write this, the surface slick is now 1/3 the size of the Gulf (don’t get me started about how much more actual oil is subsurface). When BP first reviewed these natural solutions, there was only about 1/20th of the Gulf affected.

Today, the war still wages.  There is no longer a question about whether bioremediation works…the question is: will the Federal Government force BP to allow the Parishes and Counties along the Gulf to use bioremediation to save what is left of the sensitive environments and life…or is it going to sit by and watch as BP’s idiocy kills the rest of the Gulf of Mexico.

Please contact SpillFighters.com if you want to know how you can help influence the Government and PB to adopt the natural oil eating bacteria or enzyme approach to save our Gulf of Mexico.

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…

Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? … Why BP may be trying to destroy the evidence by burning it.  … Michael Graham Richard / TreeHugger

Four Possible BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come … The disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly. It’s an arrow pointing toward future disasters. … Michael T. Klare / Tomdispatch.com

BP Skirts Offshore Drilling Moratorium by Building an Island 3 Miles Off Alaska Coast

Judge who nixed drilling ban invested in oil, what else is new? …evona Walker

A Louisiana Tea Party for More Oil Drilling … Plenty of non-crazy folks in Louisiana want to keep the oil industry chugging along, but for Louisiana Tea Partiers, it’s all about Obama. …By Mac McClelland / Mother Jones Online

BP, Climate Blues? ON COAL RIVER Film Premieres Inspiring Story of Fearless Activists … jeffbiggers