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For Purple Mountains Majesty
Posted in Environment, tagged I Love Mountains, Mountaintop Removal Mining on July 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“Why Would We Lie?”
Posted in Environment, tagged Democracy Now; Dhar Jamail; Gulf Coast Fisherman Say Fish Not Safe to Eat, Dhar Jamail Food Safety Gulf Coast; Democracy Now, Dhar Jamail Gulf Coast Fishing on August 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
From Democracy Now:
The Obama administration announced last week it’s safe to eat fish and shrimp caught in the 78 percent of federal waters in the Gulf that are now reopened to fishing. But many are still concerned about the levels of toxins in the water and the impact on marine life. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail has been reporting from the Gulf Coast for over a month now. Last week he spoke to some commercial fishermen in Mississippi who are refusing to trawl because of the oil and dispersants that are still in the water. James “Catfish” Miller told Jamail, quote, “Why would we lie about oil and dispersant in our waters, when our livelihoods depend on our being able to fish here?” Dahr Jamail joins us now by Democracy Now! video stream from Texas, where he lives.
Read and watch:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/23/fishing_industry_in_gulf_still_worrried
Eat at Your Own Risk
Posted in Environment, tagged Dhar Jamail BP oil Spill, Dhar Jamail Dispatches, Dhar Jamail Gulf Coast, Dhar Jamail Gulf Coast Fishermen on August 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
From Dhar Jamail:
“The government, both state and federal, is pushing to open all these fishing areas back up and say it is OK, but this is a load of shit,” Guidry, who is from Lafitte, Louisiana, told Truthout, “It’s not OK. They claim 75 percent of the oil is gone or accounted for, but there’s still oil coming in. There is more oil in many of our bays, right now, than there has ever been.”
Read more:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gulf-coast-fishermen-challenge-us-government-over-dispersants
EPA Whistleblower Reveals Cover Up on Gulf Coast; Known Dangers of Corexit, Which is Banned in Britain; Children Playing on Toxic Beaches
Posted in Environment, tagged Amy Goodman; Democracy Now EPA Whistleblower BP oil Spill, Corexit Banned in Britain, Dahr Jamail BP Oil Spill; EPA Whistleblower, EPA Whistleblower Exposes Dangers on Gulf Coast and EPA Cover Up, WKRG Mobile Alabama; Tests on Water Reveal High Toxicity After EPA Clears for Use; BP oil Spill on July 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
From democracy Now:
SHARIF ADBEL KOUDDOUS: Let’s go to a clip that’s been circulating on the internet. It’s from an investigation from WKRG News 5 into the toxicity levels of water and sand on public beaches around Mobile, Alabamba. One of the water samples collected near a boom at Dauphin Island Marina just exploded when mixed with an organic solvent separating the oil from the water. This is Bob Naman, the chemist who analyzed the sample, explaining why it might have exploded.
- BOB NAMAN: We think that it most likely happened due to the presence of either methanol or methane gas or the presence of the dispersant Corexit.
SHARIF ADBEL KOUDDOUS: Hugh Kaufman, can you talk about this video clip?
HUGH KAUFMAN: Well, yes. I saw that when it first came out, I think on Sunday. And what they documented was that the water—you know, when you’re on the sand with your children and they dig, and there’s a little water?—they documented there was over 200 parts per million of oil waste in the water, and it’s not noticeable to the human eye, that the children were playing with on the beach. On top of it, the contamination in one of the samples was so high that when they put the solvent in, as a first step in identifying how much oil may be in the water, the thing blew up, just as he said, probably because there was too much Corexit in that particular sample.
But what’s funny about that is, on Thursday, the administrator of EPA, in answering Senator Mikulski’s question at the hearing that you played the clip on, said that EPA has tested the water up to three miles out and onshore and found that it’s safe. And then, a few days later, the television station in Pensacola and in Mobile document with their own limited testing that that statement was false, misleading and/or inaccurate by the administrator, under oath, to Senator Mikulski in that hearing.
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: We want to also bring in Dahr Jamail. He’s an independent journalist who’s been reporting from the Gulf Coast for the past three weeks.
Dahr, you’re joining us from Tampa, Florida, right now. You just drove along the Gulf Coast. But talk about this dispersant, as well. You wrote in article about the effect it had on you personally.
DAHR JAMAIL: Right. About a week and a half ago, my partner and I were down in Barataria talking with shrimpers and fishermen and people affected by the oil disaster. And literally within minutes of driving down there, the air was so chemically laden, you could smell and taste chemicals in the air. And immediately, our eyes began to burn. And everyone that we were talking with there, Tracy Kuhns with the shrimpers’ union, Clint Guidry on the board of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, and their spouses and everyone else that we spoke with down there, everyone was complaining of different kinds of health problems—headaches, which, actually, again, within minutes, I personally was starting to experience that; shortness of breath; nausea—all kinds of different symptoms, which I then went home and started to educate myself on the immediate and then longer-term effects of the two Corexit dispersants being used and realized that myself and everyone that we spoke with down there were basically having onset of these symptoms, and people were suffering from it very much…
Watch:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/20/epa_whistleblower_accuses_agency_of_covering
From Hundredth Humminbird May 29, 2010, about Corexit being banned in Britain and about it’s secret formula!
Will the DOJ Do It? Will They Tackle BP Secret Access to Cheney’s Energy Task Force?
Posted in Environment, tagged BP Cheney Energy Task Force Mike Ruppert From the Wilderness, Michael Ruppert From the Wilderness BP Cheney Energy Task Force DOJ, NEPDG Report BP Cheney Haliburton Mike Ruppert on June 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Michael Ruppert’s recent post:
” Press and politicians are suddenly remembering NEPDG since it’s just been disclosed that BP was one of the companies that got secret access to Dick Cheney’s energy task frorce. And Halliburton was also directly involved in the cluster**** that led to the blowout and explosion.”
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2010/06/nepdg-report-becoming-major-issue-for.html
Another Turn in the Corporate/US Government Maze; BP, the Notorious Wackenhut, and the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
Posted in Environment, tagged Avi Lewis Al Jazeera English BP Wackenhut Unified Command, BP Gulf Coast Corporate State, Deepwater Horizon Unified Command BP Notorious Wackenhut Security Corporate State Gulf Coast, Jeremy Scahill The Nation. Magazine BP Wackenhut Unified Command, Naomi Klein Jeremy Scahill BP Corporate State, Wackenhut BP Gulf Coast Deepwater Horizon Corporate State on June 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Best-selling author Naomi Klien to The Nation. magazine’s reporter Jeremy Scahill:
“The whole Gulf Coast is a corporate oil state,” she told me. “It’s like BP broke it, so now they own the entire Gulf Coast.” She added: “We might accept the premise that BP is best positionioned to know how to fix the blow up at 5,000 feet, but that also seems to mean they think they should control media access and the entire clean up of a massive national emergency. BP is in charge of everything. We were on the water in open seas the day before the Wackenhut incident and a boat pulls up next to us and asked if we worked for BP and we said, “No,” and they said, ‘You can’t be here.'” It is completely sci-fi. It’s a corporate state.”
Please read Scahill’s article:
BP Has Been Using a Toxic Dispersant Which Has Been Banned in Britain; What’s in It? It’s a SECRET!
Posted in Environment, tagged Abrahm Lustgarten Amy Goodman BP Corexit, Abrahm Lustgarten Democracy Now, BP Oil Spill Harmful Dispersant, Corexit Banned in Britain, Corexit; Toxic to Gulf Coast, Democracy Now Corexit Secret Formula, Nalco; Ties to Exxon Mobil, ProPublica BP Abrahm Lustgarten on May 29, 2010| 1 Comment »
BP has been using a harmful dispersant, called Corexit, it’s been banned in Britain. Corexit is made by Nalco, a chemical company which apparently has ties to Exxon/Mobil. The formula for this product which is further toxifying the Gulf Coast and is making people sick is, believe it or not, a secret formula!
Read what Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative journalist for www.propublica.org had to say to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now about Corexit:
“But we actually don’t know what’s in the dispersants besides 2-BE. According to the material safety data sheet for the chemical, which is the form that’s supplied to OSHA and to laborers to protect them in case of exposure, as much as 60 percent of the dispersant is held as proprietary. This essentially means that it’s a secret formula. It’s a secret recipe that the manufacturers or that the oil and gas industry has come up with that serves their purposes.”
WATCH!
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/26/ahead_of_pivotal_attempt_to_plug
Whaaat? Rand Paul Wants Obama to Stop Criticizing BP; After All Accidents Can Happen!
Posted in Environment, tagged Environment Rand Paul, George Stephanapolis Rand Paul Accidents Happen, Rand Paul Accidents Happen, Rand Paul Criticism of BP by Obama is Un-American, Rand Paul Criticizing Mining Companies for Accidents is Un-American, Rand Paul Stop Criticizing BP Accidents Happen on May 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’m not making it up! Watch Paul in his own words:
Cheney, Halliburton, BP; Accountability for Oil Spill
Posted in Environment, tagged Cheney Secret Meetings as VP With BP, Cheney Secret Meetings as VP With Oil Companies, Chris Matthews Hardball, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Halliburton Deepwater Horizon, Huffington Post on May 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Halliburton connection just keeps on coming, read and watch the latest on Huffington Post and Hardball:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/dick-cheney-needs-to-test_n_575835.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/halliburton-may-be-culpri_n_558481.html