GeorgeWashingtonsBlog.com Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Yesterday, I explained what is happening with the efforts to stop the oil gusher. I have some important updates. Initially, it turns out that it was the government which ordered the delay in the well integrity test. As Bloomberg points out: BP Plc delayed testing on its latest effort... »
Archive for July 14th, 2010
Government Stops Oil Well Integrity Test, Relief Well Drilling Temporarily Stopped, Chaos Reins
Madsen: Ecocide Turns GOM into Gulf of Death
FellowShipOfMinds.com The following is a summary of investigative journalist Wayne Madsen’s latest exclusive (for subscribers only) reports from the Gulf coast, dated July 12-14, 2010: ■“BP and Obama administration committing ecocide on islands in Gulf“ ■“Photographic evidence of hydrochloric acid spraying by BP on Gulf barrier islands“ Madsen says BP has been conducting night... »
BP Oil pipe can’t be capped…Bill Nye
You Tube.com THERE IS NOT MUCH NEWS COMING OUT OF THE GULF. BP is trying to silence news out of the Gulf. People that live in the Gulf please contact Charlie at info@wideawakenews.com Please let us all know what is going on in your area. BP Oil pipe can’t be capped! According to Bill... »
Scientists Say Gulf Spill May Permanently Alter Food Chain
Gus Lubin BusinessInsider.com Jul. 14, 2010 After various reports of dead and mutated animals, scientists have concluded damage will infiltrate the entire food chain. Here’s a rundown of the early ecological impact of all that oil, from the AP: Researches have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes — cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by... »
Will human life be wiped out by a BP-induced methane eruption? No.
By Brett Michael Dykes NewsYahoo.com Wed Jul 14,2010 Let’s just get this out of the way now: The BP oil disaster, while horrible in innumerable ways, is not literally the end of the world. If you’ve spent any considerable length of time on the Internet lately — and not just its dark conspiratorial alleys... »
BP Gulf Relief Oil Wells Nightmare Scenario
Kent Moors, Ph.D Market Oracle Jul 14, 2010 Although the global energy sector is entering its most-promising stretch in decades – with more new technologies and more investment opportunities than ever before – I just can’t seem to get away from BP PLC (NYSE ADR: BP) and its problems. Take last Thursday, for instance.... »
Shell Oil ex-CEO: Industry experts “feel the casing must have been damaged”; Losing the casing “like having a volcano on the bottom of the sea” (VIDEO)
FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 14th, 2010 “If you lose the casing its game over”, “You cant stop it” Hardball, MSNBC, July 14, 2010: Rush Transcript Excerpts I think the fundamental issue… is there are serious concerns about the integrity of the casing that is the well itself. And that by putting the cap on and doing... »
BP Oil Spill: Containment Cap to Be Tested, Environmental Devastation Spreads
By MATT GUTMAN and DAVID MUIR ABCNews.com July 13, 2010 As BP begins to test the new cap that the company hopes will finally contain its gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil continued to roll into sensitive coastal areas today, an assault on the environment that will last long after the... »
Work on both relief wells halted; BP worried tests “could cause the back side of the relief well to be blown out” (VIDEO)
FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 14th, 2010 Hopes high for cap on well, but testing delayed, CNN, July 14, 2010: Drilling of both relief wells has been suspended Meanwhile, work on two relief wells — seen as the ultimate solution to the oil disaster — was suspended. Wells said work on the first relief well, expected to... »
Researchers “have spotted FLUORESCENT clouds in the deep Gulf, likely a byproduct of benzene in the water”
FloridaOilSpillLaw.com July 14th, 2010 How fast will the Gulf bounce back from the BP oil spill?, Christian Science Monitor, July 13, 2010: he unprecedented use of kerosene dispersants and the deep-water nature of the BP oil spill is littered with unknowns. In localized places such as marshes and beaches, they could stretch the ability... »