The GLP Gulf Disaster Eyewitness Documentation Thread / Image & Video Archive: Coastal GPL'rs Wanted. PG 1 Update 7/09/2010

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A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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I think the CEO of BP (aka British Pollution) should be forced to have a LARGE photo of the above hanging in his office until this mess is cleaned up.

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I think he would laugh.


Mission Accomplished.

I think he would laugh.


Mission Accomplished.

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Possibly so.

In which case, make him hang it in the dining room of his mansion -- to be viewed daily by his wife and children.
Surely there is at least one family member with a heart and soul.

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Has this been posted yet? (I don't think so.) Heartbreaking.

June 03, 2010 — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries rescue a handful of birds from Grand Isle covered in oil.


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Heartbreaking
Posted in another thread

La. - To date

Birds collected 612 / 527 Dead
Sea Turtles colleced 278/ 274 Dead
Mammals (includes dolphins) collected 31/ 30 Dead


[link to www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com]

Alabama health officials are issuing an advisory for beachgoers to stay out of all coastal waters from Mississippi to the Florida line.

Dr. Donald Williamson, Alabama's state health officer

Posted: Saturday, 05 June 2010 5:46PM

Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real
Associated Press Reporting

The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.
Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.

Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions of gallon of oil.

"These waters are my backyard, my life," said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove. "I don't want to say heartbreaking, because that's been said. It's a nightmare. It looks like it's going to be wave after wave of it and nobody can stop it."

The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days, even as a cap placed by BP over the blownout well began to collect some of the escaping crude. The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000 gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.

If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day. But that is a small fraction of the 23 million to 47 million gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.

Allen, who said the goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured, compared the process to stopping the flow of water from a garden hose with a finger: "You don't want to put your finger down too quickly, or let it off too quickly."

BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.

President Barack Obama pledged Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: "We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast."

But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states - Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida - now confronting the oil spill firsthand.

In Gulf Shores, Ala., boardwalks leading to hotels were tattooed with oil from beachgoers' feet. A slick hundreds of yards long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with a thick, red stew. Cleanup workers rushed to contain it in bags, but more washed in before they could remove the first wave of debris.

The oil is showing up right at the beginning of the lucrative tourist season, and beachgoers taking to the region's beaches haven't been able to escape it.

"This makes me sick," said Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude. "We were over in Florida earlier and it was bad there, but it was nothing like this."

At Pensacola Beach, Erin Tamber, who moved to the area from New Orleans after surviving Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, inspected a beach stained orange by the retreating tide.

"I feel like I've gone from owning a piece of paradise to owning a toxic waste dump," she said.

Back in Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against unused containment boom. The futility of their struggle was confirmed when Joe Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, sank thigh deep in oil on nearby East Grand Terre Island and had to be pulled from the tar.
"I would have died if I would have been out here alone," he said.

With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the slime dripping from its wings.

"We're in the sixth week, you'd think there would be a flotilla of people out here," Hahn said. "As you can see, we're so far behind the curve in this thing."
After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue center for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way. Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.

Yet scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting.

Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight. The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.

"People naturally tend to focus on things that are most conspicuous, like oiled birds, but in my opinion the impacts on fisheries will be much more severe," said Rich Ambrose, director of the environmental science and engineering at program at UCLA.

The Gulf is also home to dolphins and species including the endangered sperm whale. A government report found that dolphins with prolonged exposure to oil in the 1990s experienced skin injuries and burns, reduced neurological functions and lower hemoglobin levels in their blood. It concluded, though, that the effects probably wouldn't be lethal because many creatures would avoid the oil. Yet dolphins in the Gulf have been spotted swimming through plumes of crude.

Gilly Llewellyn, oceans program leader with the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, said she observed the same behavior by dolphins following a 73-day spill last year in the Timor Sea.

"A heartbreaking sight," Llewellyn said. "And what we managed to see on the surface was undoubtedly just a fraction of what was happening."

The prospect left fishing guide Marino shaking his head, as he watched the oil washing into a marsh and over the body of a dead pelican. Species like shrimp and crab flourish here, finding protection in the grasses. Fish, birds and other creatures feed here.

"It's going to break that cycle of life," Marino said. "It's like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that's going to do?"


[link to www.wwl.com]

Latest from Wayne Madsen, from the paid members area. Ya'll can raise the BS flags if you like but WM is a top-notch investigative reporter. If he says it, he has been told it by reputable sources. This sucks, if true.

June 7-8, 2010 -- BREAKING NEWS: EPA and media lying about air monitors on Gulf coast
WMR's colleague John Caylor, who lives on the Gulf Coast near Pensacola, Florida, has reported that the concentration of benzene fumes in the air along the Florida and Alabama coast is at dangerously high levels. The benzene fumes are coming from the massive amounts of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that came from the BP catastrophe at the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig.

Caylor also reports that BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which have stated that several hundred air quality monitors have been deployed around the Florida and Alabama coasts and have not detected any benzene levels that would be harmful to human health, are lying.

Caylor, who suffers from a breathing impairment, is planning to evacuate his coastal home for the Washington, DC area.

In fact, Caylor was told by a senior news source at WEAR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Pensacola, that there are no air quality monitors that have been deployed along the coast by either BP or the EPA. The station sent reporters out to check on the monitors and discovered they were non-existent. The news station also has said that the ABC News network out of New York and CNN are echoing the BP and Obama administration's lines that the air quality is being monitored and is perfectly safe.

The benzene levels in the air are potentially fatally harmful to those with breathing problems, particularly those suffering from asthma and emphysema.

WMR has also learned that officials of the towns of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, Alabama are livid that oil is washing ashore and neither BP or any federal agency, including the EPA, FEMA, or the Coast Guard, are responding to the oil deluge. In addition, WMR has learned that Florida Governor Charlie Crist is preparing to declare a major state of emergency in Florida with evacuation of coastal residents, especially those prone to the deadly benzene fumes, being a top priority for state emergency responders.

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IDK how many know this, but my family and I make our living on condos in Florida. Specifically the gulf/emerald coast from Perdido Key down to Panama City.

We had reports of oil on the beaches in Navarre 3 days ago, and we are expecting oil on Okaloosa Island yesterday actually. We have kept watch in Destin and I havent heard anything yet, but it goes without saying that it will be there and soon.

Okaloosa Island is really less than a mile wide for much of it and it is separating the bay from the gulf. There is no possible way the oil will not make it across what little land is there. Ships will be carrying it over already through the sound.

Here is a map of Okaloosa Island to give you an idea
[link to www.dep.state.fl.us]

here are pictures to show you just one of the things we are losing...

[link to www.co.okaloosa.fl.us]

to all

Aint got nuthin to add to your thread

I'm just hiding from the oven onslaught.........

Aint got nuthin to add to your thread

I'm just hiding from the oven onslaught.........



A retreat back into Doom?

Understandable... ovens are scary (to those of us who don't cook).

A retreat back into Doom?

Understandable... ovens are scary (to those of us who don't cook).



I only cook on the nites we want to eat.

My wife uses the smoke alarm,when it goes off supper is ready.

Thank you all for keeping my eyes wide open. We stay on ready here! I live in BAton rouge, Louisiana. I will tell you the lies I hear. Same as lies you hear.My cajun friends are getting 5k per head to leave LA gulf coast.2 people have died from lung damage. the old first as you said! WE got out the old, kids and mommas. thank you for the heads up! Floridians are getting 2 mil from BP.to sell out and leave.of course BP is broke.
Where is our NATIONAL GUARD? if they were here,Maybe they would shoot our coast guard for not letting us near the beaches,to see and count ourselves.They are buring their corpses. We all know. there are no birds or hermit crabs on our beaches.People are next.Not one animal has been listed as dying from oil. amazing.huh?
Who is going to take over if there is a coup? on the usa.
thank you keep me posted, momma koko/LA

June 7-8, 2010 -- BREAKING NEWS: EPA and media lying about air monitors on Gulf coast

WMR's colleague John Caylor, who lives on the Gulf Coast near Pensacola, Florida, has reported that the concentration of benzene fumes in the air along the Florida and Alabama coast is at dangerously high levels. The benzene fumes are coming from the massive amounts of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that came from the BP catastrophe at the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig.

Caylor also reports that BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which have stated that several hundred air quality monitors have been deployed around the Florida and Alabama coasts and have not detected any benzene levels that would be harmful to human health, are lying.

Caylor, who suffers from a breathing impairment, is planning to evacuate his coastal home for the Washington, DC area.

In fact, Caylor was told by a senior news source at WEAR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Pensacola, that there are no air quality monitors that have been deployed along the coast by either BP or the EPA. The station sent reporters out to check on the monitors and discovered they were non-existent. The news station also has said that the ABC News network out of New York and CNN are echoing the BP and Obama administration's lines that the air quality is being monitored and is perfectly safe.

The benzene levels in the air are potentially fatally harmful to those with breathing problems, particularly those suffering from asthma and emphysema.

WMR has also learned that officials of the towns of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, Alabama are livid that oil is washing ashore and neither BP or any federal agency, including the EPA, FEMA, or the Coast Guard, are responding to the oil deluge. In addition, WMR has learned that Florida Governor Charlie Crist is preparing to declare a major state of emergency in Florida with evacuation of coastal residents, especially those prone to the deadly benzene fumes, being a top priority for state emergency responders.

Photo Update #6

Contributor: Living on the edge User ID: 994058 (thread)

Thread: Today's pics of Tar blobs/nugs on Navarre Beach, Florida

Navarre Beach, Florida Sunday, June 6, 2010

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Thread: The GLP Gulf Disaster Eyewitness Documentation Thread / Image & Video Archive: Coastal GPL'rs Wanted. PG 1 Update 7/09/2010

Anyone else notice the cig sticking out of the goo?

Gulf is nice in clearwater my son checked it out yesterday and said it was great.
I didn't make it to Tarpon Springs out to the sponge/shrimp docks I had to work late. I'll make another attempt but it may not be until Tuesday.