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UPDATED: July 1, 2010
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Oilprice.com is reporting that Wayne Madsen has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that,"Emergency preparations in dealing with the expanding oil menace are now being made for cities and towns from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Houston, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile, Pensacola, Tampa-St.Petersburg-Clearwater, Sarasota-Bradenton, Naples, and Key West. ...
There are plans to evacuate people with respiratory problems, especially those among the retired senior population along the west coast of Florida, before officials begin burning surface oil near the coastline," according to Oil Price.com
This report has not been confirmed by independent government agencies or BP.
Since the April 20th explosion which resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig, there have been more than a million gallons of the chemical disbursant Corexit, poured into the Gulf of Mexico in efforts to break up the spill. Corexit has come under scrutiny because it is four times more toxic than the oil being spilled.
Estimates of the rate of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have varied. Independent scientists now suggest that the true spill rate, before the riser pipe was cut off in June, was between 20,000 and 50,000 barrels a day.
BP currently has 246 controlled burnes in progress according to MSNBC. Plans to do additional controlled burns around the well site were announced by Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen at a briefing in early June.
** IMPORTANT NOTICE:
An earlier version of this article stated that plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area were expected to be announced. The article has since been clarified to explain that the alleged plans were not independently confirmed and referred only to some people with respiratory problems along the coast in the event of controlled burns.
The information in the article came from an OilPrice.com report stating that “there are plans to evacuate people with respiratory problems, especially those among the retired senior population along the west coast of Florida, before officials begin burning surface oil near the coastline.”
Resources:
1.Panic brews under suspicions of Gulf oil spill media blackout and threat of gas bubble tsunami
2.The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
3. http://www.petroleumworld.com/sf10062001.htm
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Comments
Thank you so much for your stories at this time. It's good to have Examiners out there watching what is going on. I did not realize the unbelievable danger this leakage poses to the entire planet! Let alone all coastal regions in the Gulf and beyond. Mike Adams of Natural News had a shocking article "Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we're being told?" and now to see the statistics you quoted here... oh dear. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
BP will clean up effects of this incident, and there will be very little impact to the beach. There is lots of good news, the leak is slowing, winds are keeping it offshore, fish and birds are getting out of the oil slicks way, etc. Soon a second site will be redrilled and things will be back to normal, and we can progress with all the new offshore drilling opprotunities that await us.
Hey Maryann,
I'm so glad you're covering this horrendous story. I would be too if I hadn't started a job around the time of the spill that has kept me occupied since. Your coverage has reminded me of the severity of this crisis, though, so I hope to return soon to the site.
It's sad that we have sacrificed our environment for money. The one positive outcome, if any aspect of this continuous gusher can be considered positive, might be the wake-up call the disaster provides to the people and politicians of the Gulf Coast. One thing I find curious is that no one in the mainstream media mentions Haliburton owned the Deepwater Horizon, probably because they fear the ramifications of such reporting on the military-industrial-media hype complex. Haliburton's role in the incident, merely because it has been silenced, might be an interesting direction to pursue. However, keep raising hell for BP! Your work is invaluable, and these greedy sociopaths deserves to be outed for their true colors.
If Fred on drugs?
Fred is a shill.
Where's the outrage? Where's the call to action? Where's the call for arms?!! What is the agenda here? We have the ability to shut this off why has it not been done? Those inglorious bastards!
Maryann, thanks for sharing this vital data with your readers. An additional crises looms from the gases being released into the water, some estimates show up to 30% of the oxygen in the Gulf has been depleted in certain locations. This could become the next dead sea.
Fred is from the PR firm working with BP Oil.
maybe Fred is an unemployed comedienne
No, Fred is just another machine that repeats itself until you give in and agree. Dont be fooled. Theres alot of money involved with the biggest eco disaster in Earth history. Besides the creation of greedy humans that is.
Evacuation for a controlled burn is standard procedure when it's done by the US forestry service. Why would it be any different if it's done on the water? Just because the oil isn't sitting in Tampa Bay doesn't mean the wind wouldn't take the smoke there. This is not as far fetched as some of you think.
If BP doesn`t cap this thing soon the sand blast effect of the intense flow pressure could eat away the well head pipe exposing a gaping hole in the sea floor causing a volcanic flow of oil of infinite proportions, in other words, a planet killer.Cap the thing you fools,before you kill all of us!
lets take our boats and collect the oil
The Govt and BP are sick
controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, if wind or other conditions are expected to take the toxic fumes through Tampa Bay, control burn when did man become a god, fire ball 500 miles long sweep through florida kills thousands new flash! control my ass! bad idea
DASH IS RIGHT - If they don't get that spill under control, the wellhead will blow.
if they can't cap this, and it spews for decades, it's not just the gulf that's toast, it's all the oceans on the planet, as well as the sea life. when this goes around florida it will be caught up in the gulf stream, and be circulated up and down both sides of the atlantic, and then proceed to the pacific. there's a current that runs around the entire planet. this is gravely serious to our survival. offshore drilling must be banned forever, because accidents happen, and our oceans are too precious to risk. our lives depend on them. and when the epa tells bp to use safer dispersants and bp tells the epa no, who's in charge...the government or the corporations? wake up folks.
Sounds like vyzygoth is the one freaking out. Guess what - this is a genuine disaster. It is dramatic. And don't think for a minute that a phone call is going to let you in on anything. People are freaked out enough. Unless you're completely brain dead you must know that this is the real deal. We are in deep poo.
The society we live in controlled by the bankster rothchild pyscopaths of infinite growth ,more,more,more has to change to a no growth economy.We need to teach birth control,ride a bike, walk ,public transat should be the norm. Small houses ,local production of food ,non polluting industries as much as possible.Less is more should be the way,the end of themilitary industial,bankster economy. People should throw away their tv,credit cards.Wake uppeople
Hey, y'all. Have you considered that THEY want a lot of people to die?
RELAX! When the oil slick gets to Miami Beach, we can call it
'Anti-Semetic'! Think of all the beach front properties, owned by jews, that is probably ruined forever!
By the use of dispersants, now the oil, is 'impossible to clean up'! Our beaches & very, Very Expensive Waterfront properties, ruined beyond repair! Maybe the 'water car', wasn't such a bad idea! Just wait until it hits Miami Beach! Just WAIT!!!
Will you people just shut up and quit complaining bunch of p**ssies you debate and debate and debate and where does it go, won't fix anything BP WON'T fix anything nothing's going to change that oil is going to keep flowing out no matter what. Were in the days of armageddon baby better buck up and just roll with it.
@ SmartestOne
Beltaine is NOT a satanic holiday... do some research you idiot!
beltaine comes from pagan religion and is a cross-quarter day, half way in-between spring equinox and summer solstice.
There is absolutely NOTHING satanic about beltaine. Its a celebration.
pagan ? satanic. (unless you are a brainwashed christian.)
The President and his staff have decided to interfere with state-wide political races....multiple times
so, I will be obnoxiously butting my head into his space..here's how
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I will be posting everywhere I can for free and everywhere I can with whatever budget I can muster.
Why bother? Because there is a lot at stake. The future of this country is heading down an ugly path fiscally,morally and even judicially (campaign finance reform).
Here goes...I own www.obamatalkingpoints.com and www.obamatalkingpoints.org
Scott Noren DDS
Democrat
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
US Senate Candidate, NY 2010
Let the Games begin!
Do any of the municipalities on the gulf coast use desalinization to "make" their drinking water and would oil shut down this source of drinking water? Just asking.
@SmartestOne,
You left out the biggest one, 4/20 would mark the 121st Birthday of Adolph Hitler - The man that All these secret societies look up to. 121 = 2/11.
Also the Madrid bombings were on 3/11.
It all about the numerics for these fools.
PS - The movie 'Knowing' with Nicholas Cage has a nice Gulf Oil disaster scene.
Actually, from what I have read, there ARE plans in place to evacuate the entire coastal region from Texas to the Florida Keys, from the water to 500 MILES INLAND, beginning June 16th. As of mid-may, more National Guard troops have been activated since WWII. Locals are already being sickened by toxic fumes(benzene, which occurs naturally from crude, and the poisonous dispersant COREXIT, used by BP to sink the oil out of sight).
This is supposedly a two part evacuation. Phase two will involve the entire eastern seaboard from Florida(ALL OF FLORIDA) to Cape Cod, MA.,FROM THE COAST TO 500 mi. west.
Note that during this MANDATORY EVACUATION, all possessions including vehicles, must be abandoned, evacuees likely bussed/railed to govt. owned detention facilities for "processing".
too late;
Oil Volcano Pressure Too
Strong For Containment
Dr. James P. Wickstrom
6-9-10
It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control.
What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf
What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration.
They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max.. Scientists confirming these findings cannot be named due to the above, but what they believe, they want to be known by all.
Take a U. S. map, lay it flat and measure inland just the minimum 50 miles of total destruction all around the Gulf of Mexico as to what you will read below.
The carnage to the United States is so staggering, it will take your breathe away.
Should what the scientists who are trying t
SUMMARY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING
The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.
The flow of oil and toxic gases is bringing up with it... rocks and sand which causes the flow to create a sandblasting effect on the remaining well head device currently somewhat restricting the flow, as well as the drilled hole itself.
As the well head becomes worn it enlarges the passageway allowing an ever-increasing flow. Even if some device could be placed onto the existing wellhead, it would not be able to shut off the flow, because what remains of the existing wellhead would not be able to contain the pressure.
The well head piping is originally about 2 inches thick. It is now likely to be less than 1 inch thick, and thinning by each passing moment. The oil has now reached the Gulf Stream and is entering the Oceanic current which is at least four times stronger than the current in the Gulf, which will carr
Evac is very possible. They have had FEMA Camps ready in TN, GA and other states for sometime now. People were sleeping and not paying attention. THis is very possible people bc the plans are already in place. ITs too late
I predict that in addition to evacuating the gulf coast region (30 million people, maybe, but now the oil "spill" is so immense they cannot blackout news media forever, time to get everyone out so we cannot see them NOT cleaning up the mess), there will be a BAN on all offshore drilling. Hope you all have woodstoves because oil prices, then natural gas prices, will SKYROCKET. Oil cartels will gouge us for all they can. As govt. has wanted to do all along, they'll finally take over and "nationalize" oil. Already bankrupt US will end, or drastically cut- entitlement programs (welfare, ss,disability, housing, etc.)Food prices will skyrocket-google "food crisis for dummies" by e.decarbonnel. Don't be suprised to see $10 loaf of bread by the end of the year. NOW is the time to stock up on long-term storable foods-NOT CANNED, but dried: rice, beans, fruits, and water or water purification. All the money in the bank will not help you, as the dollar is being intentionally devalued. BUY FOOD!
The combination of corexit (dispersant) & crude makes for one deadly marine "plume" That'll kill off most of the gulf permanantly. Benzene gas kills you by entering thru your skin.
A dust mask, even charcoal filtered will not help. There is going to be a lot of terminally sick people soon. Nesting birds are leaving the gulf shores in droves & flying North to Kentucky & Tenessee & beyond by the droves! Seagulls are reported inland up to 10 miles crying. Shhh..the government does not want you to know this.
Oh noze! Everybody is gonna die!
So, here we are in the middle of the worst crisis modern man has ever seen. I'm pretty sure that this will be the extintion of mankind. The ocean provides the oxygen that humans need to survive and when it's gone..we are gone.
I cannot believe how stupid Sam is. What a moron. How did you get internet access inside your cave?
wow you all have so much to learn and unfortunately for you and many it has and will be the hard way.. or us all... it is time!
There have been reports of sightings of angelic warriors walking/floating across the Gulf, possibly preparing for the "Final Battle". Forget evacuation! This is the apocalypse!
Never mind, it was just some bad mushrooms I got. Sorry.
Where would they evacuate 30 to 50 million people? What happens when the oil starts showing up on the east coast? Where would they evacuate the entire eastern north continent if this were all to occur? Come on people they are not going to evacuate the people... They want them all to die....
Burning oil is Toxic!
solution:
Microbes Will Eat Oil and Turn It Into Non-Toxic By-Products! Why Aren’t We Using This BioTechnology For The Gulf Oil Spill?
Watch this on youtube =ohlP3DViKzc
Get the word out!
Uhh... Guys.. Saddam Hussein burnt this much oil in 1991, and in the late winter and early spring, there is a solid prevailing west wind in that area which sent the soot and fumes across the Persian Gulf into Southern Iran. An international study of the area showed few significant problems with airborne exposure in Iran. Runoff into the Gulf, however, created deposits which are still toxic to wildlife to this day. And as for the Wayne Madsen report, that guy believes the US government was behind the USS Cole attacks when under Clinton and September 11 attacks when under Bush, that Obama was born in Kenya, and that wine flu is manmade. He's also a regular on Russian state English-language media (rt.com) when they need somebody to say weird things about the US.
Such creativity . This is what happens when you mess with Mother Nature. Better start sayin your prayers .
This is something that seem to be ignored by the website TheOilDrum.com.
"Updated: 6:19 PM Jun 30, 2010
No Fishing Zone in the Gulf Expands
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has forced the no fishing zone farther east.
Posted: 6:16 PM Jun 30, 2010
Reporter: Tara Herrschaft"
wctv.tv
It's about Time! What do Gods Farts Smell Like? -Dan Newell
Look up Corexit on YouTube.... Tons of video's about it. Pretty nasty stuff from what I have seen. My question is: Why has BP and the Feds turned down help from other nations?? What BS! Seems as if they almost want this disaster.
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