Showing posts with label dispersants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dispersants. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Is it raining OIL in Louisiana?
From Jalopnik:
So considering the effect of light and crude oil evaporation and seawater emulsification oil from the Deepwater Horizon may be having an effect on the water cycle. An unknown variable on the overall cycle is the introduction of BP's dispersant of choice, Corexit 9500, which may be either helping or hurting the degree of evaporation. Dispersants break up the natural surface tension in oil, sending small droplets into the water column and reducing the surface area which may evaporate, however it also changes the chemistry of the oil which remains on the surface. We have yet to find any science on the subject of the effects these evaporated compounds and their likelihood to come back down as contaminated rain.
In the worst case scenario this sheen is actually oil mixed Corexit, which according to Bellona.org:
"is associated with headaches, vomiting and reproductive problems as sides effects at high doses to clean-up workers. 2-BE has also been documented to cause the breakdown of red blood cells, leading to blood in urine and feces, and can damage the kidneys, liver, spleen and bone marrow of humans – effects not included on the information sheet for workers."
So WTF? Oil is not supposed to evaporate and end up in the water cycle! When has THAT ever happened before?
What, did Sarah Palin pray the Corexit laced oil out of the Gulf and up into the clouds so that it can rain down and poison the people along the Gulf more effectively? Hey lady, STOP trying to help!
Look if this were happening back in the fifteenth century I have no doubt that people would believe that God is mad at them. And you know what? Maybe he fucking is! Perhaps it is time to take the hint and start taking care of this planet that so many Christians consider a gift from the Almighty.
Monday, June 07, 2010
BP continues to use every means available to control the message and to minimize potential litigation.
Have you Googled "oil spill" lately? Well if you have you may have discovered this amazing fact:
BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in U.S. history, has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that the first result that shows up directs information seekers to the company's official website.
A simple Google search of "oil spill" turns up several thousand news results, but the first link, highlighted at the very top of the page, is from BP. "Learn more about how BP is helping," the link's tagline reads.
A spokesman for the company confirmed to ABC News that it had, in fact, bought these search terms to make information on the spill more accessible to the public.
"We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer," BP spokesman Toby Odone told ABC News.
How many of you really believe that BP did this to "make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims"? Not very damn likely.
From the first moment that the oil started gushing into the Gulf, BP has done everything it could to keep the oil from reaching the surface and to hide just how much was flowing out of the broken pipe from being seen by the public.
It appears that rather than treat this as the disaster that is obviously is, BP has treated it as a public relations problem and have worked diligently to control the message. And this has included keeping reporters away from the beaches so that we the public cannot see just how much oil has washed up on them.
Well on that last point, just this weekend on the news program "This Week", Admiral Thad Allen, the former Coast Guard head who has been appointed the "incident commander" for the oil spil, promised that things would change:
At this point I have little confidence that BP will release their iron grip that controls the message willingly, so if Admiral Allen is serious about getting the reporters access he may have to knock some heads together over at BP, and I for one would willingly come up with the Pay-Per-View price to see that happen!
BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in U.S. history, has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that the first result that shows up directs information seekers to the company's official website.
A simple Google search of "oil spill" turns up several thousand news results, but the first link, highlighted at the very top of the page, is from BP. "Learn more about how BP is helping," the link's tagline reads.
A spokesman for the company confirmed to ABC News that it had, in fact, bought these search terms to make information on the spill more accessible to the public.
"We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer," BP spokesman Toby Odone told ABC News.
How many of you really believe that BP did this to "make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims"? Not very damn likely.
From the first moment that the oil started gushing into the Gulf, BP has done everything it could to keep the oil from reaching the surface and to hide just how much was flowing out of the broken pipe from being seen by the public.
It appears that rather than treat this as the disaster that is obviously is, BP has treated it as a public relations problem and have worked diligently to control the message. And this has included keeping reporters away from the beaches so that we the public cannot see just how much oil has washed up on them.
Well on that last point, just this weekend on the news program "This Week", Admiral Thad Allen, the former Coast Guard head who has been appointed the "incident commander" for the oil spil, promised that things would change:
At this point I have little confidence that BP will release their iron grip that controls the message willingly, so if Admiral Allen is serious about getting the reporters access he may have to knock some heads together over at BP, and I for one would willingly come up with the Pay-Per-View price to see that happen!
Monday, May 17, 2010
BP uses dispersants to keep oil spill off of the surface, and away from the news cameras, but now it is under the surface and virtually impossible to reach. BP has now taken a huge problem and made it much, much worse.
From MSNBC:
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. “If you keep those kinds of rates up, you could draw the oxygen down to very low levels that are dangerous to animals in a couple of months,” she said Saturday. “That is alarming.”
The plumes were discovered by scientists from several universities working aboard the research vessel Pelican, which sailed from Cocodrie, La., on May 3 and appears to be the first scientific expedition to gather extensive samples and information about the disaster in the gulf.
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.
So did you get that? These scientists are calculating that the amount of oil gushing from the broken pipe is between five to eighteen times the amount that the government is calculating because the government is tracking it using satellite images which can only see the surface oil. But BP used dispersants to sink the oil out of sight of the satellite so that it cannot be seen as easily and they can then lie about how much is gushing into the gulf.
Assholes!
And it looks like they are doing this right under the noses of the EPA.
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. “If you keep those kinds of rates up, you could draw the oxygen down to very low levels that are dangerous to animals in a couple of months,” she said Saturday. “That is alarming.”
The plumes were discovered by scientists from several universities working aboard the research vessel Pelican, which sailed from Cocodrie, La., on May 3 and appears to be the first scientific expedition to gather extensive samples and information about the disaster in the gulf.
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.
So did you get that? These scientists are calculating that the amount of oil gushing from the broken pipe is between five to eighteen times the amount that the government is calculating because the government is tracking it using satellite images which can only see the surface oil. But BP used dispersants to sink the oil out of sight of the satellite so that it cannot be seen as easily and they can then lie about how much is gushing into the gulf.
Assholes!
And it looks like they are doing this right under the noses of the EPA.
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