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Title: First Louisiana Shrimp Season Since BP Oil Spill Starts
Source: Agence France-Presse
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/First_ ... imp_season_since_08162010.html
Published: Aug 16, 2010
Author: Agence France-Presse
Post Date: 2010-08-16 13:38:22 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 42383
Comments: 74

Louisiana's first shrimping season since the BP oil disaster spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico got underway Monday, but few boats took to the water and the ones that did found oil, a major shrimp wholesaler said.

"We got four boats that went out -- out of 1,400 -- and I'm hearing they're finding oil," Dean Blanchard, the largest shrimp wholesaler in the United States told AFP by phone from Grand Isle, Louisiana.

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in, and they're looking for cleaner waters," he said.

The Louisiana commission of wildlife and fisheries announced that the August shrimp season would open on schedule Monday after several government agencies gave most of the state's fishing grounds a clean bill of health, Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion Board said.

"NOAA, FDA, EPA -- all those groups have given us a clean bill of health as far as the waters that are open," said Smith, referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.

"Nearly all state waters are open -- we're close to 90 percent open including part of Barataria Bay," a key shrimping ground, Smith added.

Blanchard said he had heard reports that only around 50 boats out of Louisiana's fleet of around 5,000 had taken to sea for the start of the four-month shrimping season, but it was impossible to confirm the number.

Many Louisiana fishermen were still working on the clean-up effort, for which they get paid by BP, whose rig sparked the worst environmental disaster in US history when it blew up in April and sank to the sea floor, hemorrhaging crude for more than 100 days.

The well was capped early this month, but scientists have warned that the effects of the oil that gushed from it and the dispersant used to break up the slick could contaminate Gulf seafood for years.

"Oil can release hydrogen sulfide gas and contains traces of heavy metals as well as nonvolatile polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that can contaminate the food chain," Drs Sarah Janssen and Gina Solomon wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons include "probable carcinogens" and can accumulate for years in invertebrates such as oysters, crab and shrimp, the signature seafood of the Gulf of Mexico, they warned.

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#15. To: Brian S, mcgowanjm (#0)

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in

Throw em in the Maytag on the rinse and spin cycle, and then send em to hObama. He loves GOM seafood!

Hondo68  posted on  2010-08-16   20:36:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: hondo68 (#15)

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in

While acting as whistleblowers, Miller and Stewart have both been accused of being "troublemakers" and "liars" by persons in the Mississippi government and some of their local media, in spite of the fact that they are doing so from deep concern for their fellow fisherman and the environment.

Meanwhile, both men told Truthout they live with chronic headaches and other symptoms they've been experiencing since they were exposed to toxic dispersants while in the VOO program. Recent trips to investigate their waters for oil and dispersant have worsened their symptoms.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   21:34:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: All (#16)

Treason.

Coast Guard Complicity

"Lockheed Martin aircraft, including C-130s and P-3s, have been deployed to the Gulf region by the Air Force, Coast Guard and other government customers to perform a variety of tasks, such as monitoring, mapping and dispersant spraying," states a newsletter published in July by Lockheed Martin.

An article by the 910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Office, based in Youngstown, Ohio, states that C-130H Hercules aircraft started aerial spray operations Saturday, May 1, under the direction of the president of the United States and secretary of defense. "The objective of the aerial spray operation is to neutralize the oil spill with oil dispersing agents," it says.

Joseph Yerkes, along with other Florida commercial fishermen and Florida residents, have seen C-130s spraying dispersants on oil floating off the coast of Florida numerous times.

But the Coast Guard denies it.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   21:37:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: mcgowanjm (#17)

When you don't put links to your posts it sounds like the ranting of a lunatic. Sorry dude but it does.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-08-16   21:40:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: A K A Stone (#19)

When you don't put links to your posts it sounds like the ranting of a lunatic.

You would be a great judge of lunacy.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-16   22:02:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone (#25)

You would be a great judge of lunacy.

INDEED!!!

Brian S  posted on  2010-08-16   22:56:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Brian S, A K A Stone (#36)

Note AKA:

Brian S gets upset when ever pedophiles get caught.

WhiteSands  posted on  2010-08-17   0:27:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: WhiteSands (#38)

Get lost, you obsessed kook.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-17   7:33:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Fred Mertz (#39)

To: WhiteSands

Get lost, you obsessed kook.

There's a herding principle here. Comfort. The problem is that in the herd the grass has been trampled. Water muddied. So...

these critters HAVE to come out to the edge every once in a while for survival.

Then they meet us and reality. ;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-17   9:04:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Fred Mertz, All (#40)

So, to Update:

US Gov't lying.

As is bp of course. Monkeyfister has a 17 point timeline of Epic Fail.

But the well is still leaking, now out of a very energetic leak on the bottom flange seal on the FelxJoint. There is still pressure on the BOP because you can't have leaks without pressure. Plugged wells don't LEAK!

17. BP says they're going to get some pressure readings off the BOP after venting to see if they can establish flow up the annulus... or something. No one can figure out what the hell they're talking about here and they don't elaborate beyond Thad Allen blubbering a bunch of stuff NO ONE understands.... They freeze off their chokes atop the Capping Stack by flowing hydrocarbons through them with a very large pressure drop. ALL feeds showing anything that is going on are blacked out. After promising to release data, BP and Thad Allen... don't...Bob Cavnar picks up the timeline:

Today, the Admiral admitted that there were three components in the the BOP stack that are of concern; we know which ones those are, since we've been talking about them for over a month. The weak components are: the flex joint, right on top of the old stack, the riser adapter, and what they call the transition spool are all rated below the other components in the stack, between 5,000 psi to 6,000 psi maximum working pressure. In each of these procedures that BP has undertaken, the top kill, the well integrity test, the injectivity tests, and static kill, the pressures that BP announced actually exceeded the rated pressures of at least one of those components. After performing all of these machinations, they are now suddenly concerned about pressure on the BOP, and are actually talking about changing out the entire stack before completing the bottom kill. What?

Much more at the link.

Why, oh why, am I so bitter?

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-17   9:05:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: mcgowanjm (#41)

the well is still leaking, now out of a very energetic leak on the bottom flange seal on the FelxJoint.

Don't know where that 550bls of cement they pumped went, but it wasn't down the high pressure leak path. It followed the path of least resistance to somewhere where it is doing NOTHING to stop the leak. Another day, another xxxx bls of oil leaking into the GOM!

Since they're afraid to drill the last 3' on the new well, the only option is to nuke it, but the odds of that stopping the leak are slim to none.

Basically, they're paralyzed with fear and just letting her spew. hObama's a bungling boob! Or is he? That's the most charitable assessment.

Hondo68  posted on  2010-08-17   12:11:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: hondo68 (#52)

Since they're afraid to drill the last 3' on the new well, the only option is to nuke it, but the odds of that stopping the leak are slim to none.

Why thank you. very accurate assessment.

If they're afraid of a 'nuke', then shaped charges, where solids move like fluids. BigOil the #1 user of same. Long history. Very Precise. Kinda like IED's in Iraq. Add Depleted Uranium and you can shape an inches wide penetration thru the most hardened armor.

OR use BOTH RW's to just go ahead and produce the field. Go strait into the Macondo and start sucking for all it's worth. That wouldn't last 6 months before they have to start injecting water/nitrogen INTO the field.

No, the Bottom 95% have Zero Say now. The Battle Orders have been issued.

Lock and Load. The MSM has a Fall Campaign all ready to go, complete with glitzy video arrays. Time's up:

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-18   9:24:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: All (#53)

Note the Cordoba House. Can ANYONE think of anything more stupid for the MSM to spend 24/7 time on:

Let me begin by asking: What harm would befall the United States if we actually decided, against all odds, to close those hundreds and hundreds of bases, large and small, that we garrison around the world? What if we actually dismantled our empire, and came home? Would Genghis Khan-like hordes descend on us? Not likely. Neither a land nor a sea invasion of the U.S. is even conceivable.

Would 9/11-type attacks accelerate? It seems far likelier to me that, as our overseas profile shrank, the possibility of such attacks would shrink with it.

Would various countries we've invaded, sometimes occupied, and tried to set on the path of righteousness and democracy decline into "failed states?" Probably some would, and preventing or controlling this should be the function of the United Nations or of neighboring states. (It is well to remember that the murderous Cambodian regime of Pol Pot was finally brought to an end not by us, but by neighboring Vietnam.)

Sagging Empire

In other words, the main fears you might hear in Washington -- if anyone even bothered to wonder what would happen, should we begin to dismantle our empire -- would prove but chimeras. They would, in fact, be remarkably similar to Washington's dire predictions in the 1970s about states all over Asia, then Africa, and beyond falling, like so many dominoes, to communist domination if we did not win the war in Vietnam.

The Guns of August

Lowering the flag on the American Century by Chalmers Johnson

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not available to participants. They were acting, as Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara put it, in the fog of war.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-18   9:28:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: All (#54)

DEEPWATER HORIZON

Could you GET a better NAME for the Dragon King Disaster marking our Entry into the Olduvai Gorge.

The Epic Movie to be made will start with that Cokes&Whores Party of bp Exacs arriving on the DHZ. You know the thrilling Bruckheimer/John Williams Score.

The Perfect Kill Shot on the Most Strategic Asset of the United States of America.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-18   9:31:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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