MOVE ON CALLS FOR BAN ON OFFshore DRILLING



1:01 PM
May 3, 2010


A TOP PLACE TO LOOK
FOR ENVIRONMENT NEWS
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0429-hance_oil_gulf.html



f oil leaking from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico could be as much as five times the original estimate put forward by British oil-giant BP, the situation moved from worrisome to desperate.

It is now believed that the 5,000 barrels of oil (210,000 gallons) are leaking from the ocean floor everyday, as opposed to 1,000 barrels of oil a day which BP originally estimated. As the oil slick was reported to be within hours of hitting the Louisiana coastline, a state of emergency was declared. The Gulf of Mexico coast is home to hundreds of species, including dolphins, birds, alligators, and turtles.


THEY ARE CALLED IT THE EARTH DAY SPLILL

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/30/spewing_5_000_barrels_of_oil


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EXPLAINING THE GULF DIsaster




12:38 PM
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HUFFINGTON POST:

[You are receiving this email as a member of the Huffington Post Citizen Reporting unit.]

Hi everyone.

As many of you may know, the catastrophic explosion that caused an oil spill from a BP offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the shoreline early Friday morning. The leak is currently releasing 5,000 barrels of oil per day, and efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersal and plugging the leak were unsuccessful Thursday. This oil spill is on track to become the worst oil spill in history, surpassing the damage done by the Exxon Valdez tanker that spilled 11 million gallons of oil into the ecologically sensitive Prince William Sound in 1989. Unlike the Exxon Valdez tragedy, in which a tanker held a finite capacity of oil, BP's rig is tapped into an underwater oil well and could pump more oil into the ocean indefinitely until the leak is plugged.

But we need your reports, too. If you have photos, videos, please upload them here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html


GLOBAL GREEN RESPONSE

http://www.globalgreen.org/




CHENEY's FAULT???

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/30/862414/-BP-Oil-Platform-Spill-Dis...



P Oil Platform Spill Disaster is CHENEY'S Fault
by ericlewis0


Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 03:29:50 PM PDT

Mike Papantonio, an environmental lawyer on the Ed Show just now: An 'acoustic switch' would have prevented this catastrophe - it's a failsafe that shuts the flow of oil off at the source - they cost only about half a million dollars each, and are required in off-shore drilling platforms in most of the world...except for the United States. This was one of the new deregulations devised by Dick Cheney during his secret meetings with the oil industry at the beginning of Bush's first term.

(Will try to post Ed Show clip when it becomes available.)

ericlewis0's diary :: ::
Thanks, DICK.

Mr. Papantonio said he is amazed that this part of the story hasn't been reported yet - that it's really the key to the whole thing - that it's yet another classic example of Bush/Cheney Era deregulation wreaking havoc on the planet.

Many thanks to Ed Schultz for shining light on this. I'd say it's high time we brought Richard Cheney to justice. Cheers.

UPDATE 1: From followyourbliss in the comments: the oil platform in question was run by Halliburton, another factor that implicates Cheney. kjoftherock found more on this connection from crooksandliars.com:
http://crooksandliars.com/...


UPDATE 2: From the Wall Street Journal, an article titled Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device:

The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.

The lack of the device, called an acoustic switch, could amplify concerns over the environmental impact of offshore drilling after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig last week.

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/deepwater-horizon-disaster-directly-links-h



ACCORDING TO KEEP THE BEET:

Haliburton staff may be held responsible for negligent workmanship.
I do not understand this. I am sure they care about their work
and Food Safety issues. They are team players, right? They have
never been implicated in any other oil spills, right? They were
not involved in the Austrailia Oil leakage about a year ago, right?



KEEP THE BEET:President Obama has called in Swat Teams
to handle the situation.

KEEP THE BEET MEDIA STAR,
THE WORLD's FIRST TALKING BEET PLANT:
Rush below points out he happened
the day before Earth Day. Good
Catch Rush!

OBAMA: I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier today DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs and I have ordered the secretaries of interior and Homeland Security as well as administrator Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire US government is doing everything possible not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause.

KEEP THE BEET: Maybe, we better back back our troops from
Afganistan, as well as dispatching the
Department of Defense.

Departrment of Interior sending Swat teams,
the President said.



HAS THE MOTHER EARTH ANY "HUMAN" RIGHTS?

From DEMOCRACY NOW

Climate change particularly affects women?

HERMINIA COLQUE: [translated] Thank you, brothers and sisters. I extend greetings nationally and internationally. I am Herminia.
This is an important question. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, we’ve come to this summit here in Cochabamba. There are so many people from Bolivia and from around the world who have come here. Bolivia is impacted, and internationally there’s an impact. It’s not just Bolivia.
Us women in Bolivia, we live with our small plots, and we suffer more. Us women work like slaves. I am from Potosí, and capitalists come to Potosi, where there is a mountain called Huayna Potosí, but the wealth is no longer there. The mountaintop has been practically removed through mining. And that is why that we say “poor Bolivia.” And most of us from our community no longer live in Bolivia. Most live in Argentina. There is no life here in Bolivia. So, from 2005 to date, I have been working two years in Potosí. We marched thirty days from La Paz just with our babies and just as we [inaudible]—
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/21/bolivian_indigenous_activists_call_for_end


WONDERMENT FROM RUSH

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042910/content/01125113.guest.html



6:05 PM
April 30, 2010

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575214593564769072.html


http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/110621/gulf-of-mexico-oil-slick-affects-ample-seafo...


FROM RUSH ABOVE


KEEP THE BEET:
WONDERMENT FROM RUSH

KEEP THE BEET:
I love Rush!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042910/content/01125113.guest.html



Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf
April 29, 2010
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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Mike in South Florida, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's a pleasure to be here with you. I have two concerns that are quite bothersome to me. The first is on the oil leak, the big oil spill.

RUSH: Yeah?

CALLER: And I haven't heard anything about this but we know what happened in the ClimateGate situation, and we know about the faulty research and the faulty data, et cetera, and I'm sure that something like this has been done but it's a thought. Is it possible that somebody on the other side might have thought in their minds for the greater good to maybe not have done some maintenance on the oil lines, to maybe have what they thought might have been a controlled oil leak that got outta hand to try and shut off or shun the thought of having any more offshore oil drilling?

RUSH: Well...

CALLER: And all of a sudden we have this huge leak. The whole thing now shifts to we shouldn't be drilling offshore because of this leak.

RUSH: Charlie Crist already led the way there on suggesting we shouldn't be doing any more drilling. By the way, Charlie Crist sometime today, is going to announce that he's going to go for the Senate seat in Florida as an independent.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: And it's being reported, it's being reported he reached out to Rahm Emanuel. He tried to call Rahm Emanuel to try to get the White House behind his candidacy, and they wouldn't take the call because they're going to get behind Meek, who is the Democrat in this. I mean, it's amazing. Now, back to your question. Sure these kind of suspicions, the reason you haven't heard anything about is because nobody's got any proof.

CALLER: Right. I'm wondering if something has been launched to look into even something like this; that it wasn't just a spill, a break, but maybe something that was done purposefully.

RUSH: There was an explosion. There was an explosion and some people died in this. Now they're trying to contain the oil spill, which is pretty big. They're trying to surround it and corral it and tow it out there then they're going to set fire to it. You know, oil floats on water so what they're going to try to do is have a controlled burn of this stuff. Now, Homeland Security is investigating what happened here, which should inspire lots of confidence that we're gonna get to the bottom of it. Then the regime is going to have a statement here on the oil spill in the Gulf coming up pretty soon. After the regime speaks on this, we'll have a better idea because however this happened, accidentally, however it happened, the regime's going to use this for all it's worth. (laughing) We know this. So it really doesn't matter, Mike, if this was an accident or an act of sabotage. The regime will use the occasion of this event to its own political advantage.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't hear this myself, but I have been informed that President Obama is sending SWAT teams to the Gulf oil rigs. SWAT teams? I'm waiting on audio sound bite confirmation of this, but why in the world would you send SWAT teams to Gulf oil rigs? Oh, I know! Obama probably thinks the tea party blew up the rig. That's what it is. (laughing) Yes. Of course the tea party did it! (laughing) Seriously, you know, this rig... We had this call from a guy out there who said nobody's talking about whether this was an act of sabotage because I guess they can't prove it, but they're going to send SWAT teams down there? He was going to send a SWAT team to the rig that blew up or are you going to send a SWAT team to other rigs? What's going on here? Remember, this rig blew April 21st, which is one day prior to "Erf" Day.

I have a story here from Reuters, September 24th, 2008 (shuffling paper) right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: "Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon." So you got the guru here urging civil disobedience, you got the regime sending SWAT teams down there to all the rigs in the Gulf. They're sending SWAT teams to all the rigs in the Gulf! Whoa ho-ho-ho. So obviously Obama thinks the tea partiers are expert scuba divers as well or maybe they have their own fleet of underwater submarines that can go deep enough to go undetected, set explosives, and hightail it back to the protests in Ohio, or wherever they (laughing) happen to be.

So 15 years of no global warming. "That's just anecdotal! It doesn't disapprove anything! It doesn't disapprove that there's a man-made threat going on." But one oil spill -- one oil spill which might have been intentional -- is enough to prove that offshore oil drilling is unsafe and should never be done. This is the logic we're forced to live with. There hasn't been any warming in 15 years, that doesn't mean anything. Those e-mails were hoaxed! The readings at the climate unit in East Anglia, they were all made up. "Doesn't matter. What matters is who leaked those e-mails. What the e-mails said doesn't matter." But those guys made it all up, and they wouldn't produce the data that led to their conclusions. They say they lost it. "Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter at all!" But it hasn't warmed in 15 years. "It doesn't matter." But I just saw a story you guys say you're looking for the "lost" heat. "Doesn't matter." One oil rig blows up, and it proves we can't dig, drill, find more oil.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, here's the regime kicking into action here on the Gulf oil well or the rig explosion, President Obama mere moments ago in the Rose Garden before presenting the teacher of the year award.

OBAMA: I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier today DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs and I have ordered the secretaries of interior and Homeland Security as well as administrator Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire US government is doing everything possible not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause.

RUSH: Wow. All right, so SWAT teams, we're sending big sis down there, Janet Napolitano, to look at all the valves and stuff, make sure they're properly greased. He-he-he-he. Ahem. And Lisa Jackson is doing the same thing. So obviously the regime is open to the idea that this is not an accident. The regime is open to the possibility that this could well have been on purpose. Don't forget, the original Earth Day, 40 years ago, was inspired by the river in Cleveland catching fire. Forty years later, the day before Earth Day this year, the Gulf is on fire. Coincidence? Jury's still out. The regime is on the case, soon to tell us what happened.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig. Since they're sending SWAT teams down there now this changes the whole perspective of this. Now, lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day. I remember that. And then it was postponed for a couple of days later after Earth Day, and then of course immigration has now moved in front of it. But this bill, the cap-and-trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment. So, since they're sending SWAT teams down there, folks, since they're sending SWAT teams to inspect the other rigs, what better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing here.

From The Hill, about the Senate bill: "Sierra Club chief Michael Brune told The Hill’s E2 Wire: 'We will go to the mat for defending Clean Air Act authority.' Brune also pointed to another potential stumbling block: offshore drilling. 'We will not be able to accept the dramatic giveaway that offshore oil drilling represents,' he said." The five hurdles the climate bill must clear, and one of them is offshore drilling. That's in TheHill.com.

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GREEN HOUSE CASES?

Is climate change for real?

These folks say no; why?
I want to know. What is the win
for saying there is no climate change????


Levitt and Dubner have been assailed by some for oversimplifying a complex matter, when all they were trying to do was answer a simple question:
What is the cheapest, fastest way to cool the Earth?

In any event, while some prophesy gloom and doom —
that the Earth will erupt into a fiery ball unless we spend trillions to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions —
I place my hope in human invention and ingenuity.
I’m betting someone will invent clean,
cheap energy that will end our carbon worries forever.

Hey, maybe the IV guys will invent an SUV that runs on kangaroo droppings.
Unlike cow droppings, say Levitt and Dubner,
kangaroo doo is methane-free.

©2009 Tom Purcell. Tom Purcell, a humor columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons.



 

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