Showing posts with label GOM oil spill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOM oil spill. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Environmental Protection Agency?

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by Dahr Jamail from Al Jazeera. This report illustrates how a government agency of the US ruling class functions--to serve their interests...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Is the Gulf of Mexico safe?

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by Dahr Jamail from Al Jazeera .  Experts, fishermen and residents disagree with federal agencies' claims that the Gulf and its seafood...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Reappearance of Huge Plumes of Oil is Making It Hard to Pretend that the Problem Has Disappeared

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from Washington's Blog .  The blogger lists numerous sources of evidence that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is being widely o...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Scientists Find Thick Layer Of Oil On Seafloor

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by Richard Harris from NPR .  Scientists on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico are finding a substantial layer of oily sediment stretc...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Blood Tests Show Elevated Level of Toxic Hydrocarbons in Gulf Residents (article and 2 videos)

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from Washington's Blog .   A number of different chemists are finding elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in the bloodstream of Gulf ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists

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by Dahr Jamail from Dahr Jamail's Dispatches .  Another massive fish kill, this time in Louisiana, has alarmed scientists, fishers an...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Gulf Chemist: Mercenaries Hired By BP Are Now Applying Toxic Dispersant - at Night and In an Uncontrolled Manner - Which BP Says It No Longer Uses

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from Washington's Blog . More subterfuge by BP uncovered.

Is Gulf Seafood Really "Safe"?

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by Kate Sheppard from Mother Jones .  In addition to efforts to convince us that the oil is all gone in the Gulf (it's not), the govern...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Good News for a Change, Or More Faulty Science? Newly-Discovered Species of Bacteria Claimed to be Breaking Down Oil in Deepwater Plumes in the Gulf

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from Washington's Blog . This report was plastered all over mainstream media without any caveats. But our intrepid investigative journa...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Dispersants Cause Gulf Fish to Absorb More Toxins and then Make It Harder for the Fish to Get Rid of the Pollutants Once Exposed

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from Washinton's Blog.  The data is starting to come in regarding the harmful environmental effects of dispersants used by BP to break...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are "Trying to Crawl Out of the Water"

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from Washington's Blog . This blogger finds some rather startling reports of the toxic effects on marine animals caused by the oil and d...

How Has it Come to This?

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by Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld from Truthout .  This article with its pictures and descriptions gives the best portrayal that I have ...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Top Expert: Geology is "Fractured", Relief Wells May Fail ... BP is Using a "Cloak of Silence", Refusing to Share Even Basic Data with the Government

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from Washington's Blog .  It seems to me that corporate secrecy over a major catastrophic event such as the oil drilling disaster in t...

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants

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by Dahr Jamail from IPS .  The author reports that local fisherman are not taken in by US government authorities who insist that the Gulf ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Government Lies to the American People About the Safety of Gulf Seafood

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from Washington's Blog .  Once again the "government of the people, by the people...." lies to its people. But this is becau...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it’s not out of sight)

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by Dahr Jamail from Dahr Jamail's Dispatches . This fine journalist is one of a few outstanding, independent US journalists who, unlik...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Deepwater Horizon: it’s worse than you thought (again) – part 2

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from The Great Beyond . Contrast the reports from science oriented websites like this with official reports widely repeated by compliant c...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

BP Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness

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by Dahr Jamail from Truthout . BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale,...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Who is Kenneth Feinberg?

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from World Socialist Web Site. The author delves into the background of the BP victims "claims czar", and it looks like the ruling...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

BP Admits That - If It Tries to Cap the Leak - the Whole Well May Blow

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from Washington's Blog. This blogger has an uncanny way of sifting through all the media garbage until he finds the truth. If you want t...