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Aug182010

The Oil Disappeared, My Ass! -- These Fisherman Found Plenty (VIDEO)

Video:  Fishermen find dispersants and oil on Mississippi shrimp and oyster grounds

Take a look at this clip.  Another video and a few links inside.

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Angered by claims from state and federal officials that Gulf Coast waters are safe and clean, fishermen took their own samples of the waters off of Pass Christian, Mississippi today. I had the opportunity to go along and see first hand the results, as well as the thin, oily sheen and bubbles caused by dispersant that streak the Mississippi sound.

The testing method is simple: tie an absorbent rag to a weighted hook, then drop it overboard for a minute or two. In all but one of the samples, the rags came up with brown oily substance which the fishermen identify as a mix of crude oil from the BP disaster and toxic dispersants.

The samples were all taken in water that is now open for shrimping.  We also took samples directly over Mississippi's oysterbed, which will likely open on schedule sometime in September.  The first sample, and one of the dirtiest, came less than half a mile out from Pass Christian harbor, with white sandy beaches as the backdrop.

 

 

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Scientists Dispute Government Stance on the Lingering Effects of Gulf Oil

As we've noted, scientists seemed, on the whole, rather skeptical when a government report said most of the oil from BP’s well was gone from the Gulf of Mexico. [1] Now the pushback against the government’s stance has grown, with several scientific reports released this week.

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that up to 79 percent of the oil released into the Gulf “has not been recovered and remains a threat to the ecosystem.” This “strongly contradicts [2]” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s report and the press coverage of it, according to a statement from the university.

“The news media’s tendency to interpret ‘dispersed’ and ‘dissolved’ as ‘gone’ is wrong,” the report read. “Dispersed and dissolved forms can be highly toxic.” (Read the full report [3] in our document viewer.)

Scientists at the University of South Florida seem to agree. They announced this week that while on a research mission in the Gulf, they had used UV lighting to detect what was likely oil contained in sediment on the ocean floor. (More [4] on the use of UV lighting to detect oil.)

“It wasn’t like a drape, don’t get me wrong, or like a blanket of oil,” chief scientist David Hollander said on a conference call with journalists. “Rather, it looked like a constellation of stars that were at the scale of microdroplets. They seemed to be at every location we looked east of the wellhead.”

The scientists cautioned that materials other than oil could have the same type of ultraviolet fluorescence that they observed, and that further testing was needed to positively identify the substances as oil, particularly as oil from BP’s well. (These are the same scientists [5] who, early on, discovered the deepwater plumes of oil and insisted upon chemically fingerprinting their samples to verify that they matched BP’s oil.)

The USF scientists also announced that they found phytoplankton—organisms that make up the basis of the Gulf food web—in poor health, and noted that they appeared to be more negatively affected by dispersant than were bacteria, which seemed more sensitive to the oil. (Read their report [6].) “The waters have a toxicity that needs to be recognized,” Hollander said.

Finally, the Journal of the American Medical Association also published a study [7] this week that called into question the government’s assertions about the safety of Gulf seafood. According to the report’s authors—Gina Solomon and Sarah Janssen, both medical doctors [8] affiliated with the Natural Resources Defense Council—vertebrate marine life can clear oil hydrocarbons from their systems, but the “chemicals accumulate for years in invertebrates" such as shrimp, crabs and oysters.

The Food and Drug Administration, which has been testing Gulf seafood for oil hydrocarbons [9], disagreed with the study's findings, maintaining that its testing was thorough. The agency told McClatchy Newspapers that officials have a program to test contamination in shellfish and have not found problems [10].

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. officials now expect BP PLC to begin the so-called bottom kill of its deepwater Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico early next month, as the oil major conducts a series of tests in preparation for permanently plugging the source of the worst oil leak in U.S. history.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bottom-kill-of-leaky-gulf-well-still-weeks-away-2010-08-19
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gulf-shrimpers-find-oil-reopened-fishing-areas-governnment-says-shut-sierra-club-alleges-are

Gulf Shrimpers Find Oil In Reopened Fishing Areas. Governnment Says "Shut Up". Sierra Club Alleges Areas Were Solely Reopened to Limit BP's Liability

Excellent link with several clips and much info...
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/17/scientists-toxic-oil-settling-on-gulf-floor/

Scientists: Toxic organisms, oil found on Gulf floor
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
BP Is Telling Fishermen Not To Report Tar Balls

http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-oil-spill-coverup-2010-8#ixzz0x4HAfPmF
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:58 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Florida death toll rises for mosquito-borne virus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100817/us_nm/us_usa_mosquitoes_florida
Aug 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator appointed by President Barack Obama to oversee compensation for the Gulf oil spill, on Tuesday described broad changes to BP's claims system that he will put in place when he takes over the process.

http://www.propublica.org/article/incoming-paymaster-for-spill-claims-outlines-changes-to-bps-system
Aug 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
BP has agreed to pay a $50.6 million fine [1] for failure to correct safety violations at its Texas City refinery after a deadly 2005 explosion, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/bp-agrees-to-pay-50-million-for-earlier-texas-city-problems
Aug 19, 2010 at 2:59 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
That is not oil, it is a government approved dipping sauce for the shrimp, the government would not lie!!!! There is still oil at the Exxon Valdez site as well, and that was billed a success.
Aug 19, 2010 at 3:50 PM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers
There is still oil at the Exxon Valdez site as well, and that was billed a success.

Yea, its just under the rocks, and will be 100 years from now. Not much is living around that site still today. & it was a success, for as the goverment getting out of its duty to the people and our country.

Send all them bad eggs to the goverment for free, we'll pay the shipping.
Aug 19, 2010 at 4:15 PM | Unregistered CommenterTexas Dar
Perhaps we should case thee shrimp and oysters up, send it to Congress, and watch them eat it. Since it is O.K. and all. Have them eat a weeks worth to show us it is safe... Just watch them closely, don't let them pull the old bait and switch with some Chinese imported shrimp, which is usually less toxic.

The Exxon Valdez site was prime fishing ground, it has yet to recover.
Aug 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/19/AR2010081904127_pf.html

Academic scientists say oil from gulf spill is not going away quickly
Aug 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
"about half had been cleaned up, evaporated or dissolved. "

As quoted in the link in your last post Steve, I am dying to know more about how oil evaporates, and where it goes when it is "dissolved".
Aug 20, 2010 at 3:06 PM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers
Gomp, it dose. I hauled fuel for 12 years between shows, to pay the bus payments, and up keep. Its late tonight, and tommrow I'll tell ya's how it gos a way over time.

Then, Crude will take for ever. It Aint Goin No-whAre anytime soon....................... Im on my 5th "Big-Gulp-Vodca" and will send Goopie, into a tail dragger loop, so I'll tell ya's all about oil, and how it gos up in thin air, tommrow.

Dar gets to "Rambleing On & On & On, so I hear from "Darth ZaRa", so we will go into the oil dark side 12 hr. from now. But it dose go away, over time, like 100 years, maby.

If its warm enough, that is. & all the oil under the sea water, aint goin no place anytime soon. It has its pourpous, along with all the DEAD Things that used to swim in the gulf waters.

If ya get my drift......................
Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 PM | Unregistered CommenterTexas Dar
Temperature that deep is like 48 degrees, volume of oil sitting on the bottom of the gulf means it stands a better chance of migration due to currents instead of evaporation in 100 years.

The "dissolved" oil is not really dissolved, the dispersent's make it smaller particles so you do not "see" it, but it is still there, along with the toxic brew of chemicals they are using to "hide" it.

25 years after the Exxon Valdez, oil is still there, and it was a much smaller spill.
Aug 21, 2010 at 5:57 AM | Unregistered CommenterS. Gompers
When I would drop off 300-500-1,000 gal of Diesel and spill some at the filler, it would be gone, not a trace in 60 days. Open air, wind, rain, would make it all gone. Realy cool how that works.

Motor oil takes 6 mo. to go away, with out a trace. So oil dose go away over time. The goverment is not telling us that with crude oil. it will take 100's of years to do the same thing. Mother nature just can not take it away becouse its just to thick.

Thats why the oil is still there in Alaska. Its just to cold up there. In the winter in "Sconsin" that same spill on the tank would take 3-4 mo. to go away becouse the air is not hot enought to make it evaporate.

If all the oil was left on the surface, the entire gulf would have crude oil on the surface, and just think what the east coast would look like with it a drift.

They wanted it under the surface for a very good reason. & guess what, now they cant do the bottom kill till late Sep. Just more stalling again by our goverment.

Im submitting my claim to BP for loss of spouse and family. Yea, my wife has no companion any more. He spends 10-12 hr. on the puter everyday keeping up with what the goverment is doing to the American People...........$1,000.000.00 in damage.

"Tex Out" mad-as-hell !
Aug 21, 2010 at 8:43 PM | Unregistered CommenterTexas Dar
Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are "Trying to Crawl Out of the Water"

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/portions-gulf-are-so-toxic-dolphins-fish-crabs-stingrays-and-other-animals-are-trying-crawl-
Aug 23, 2010 at 9:23 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail

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