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Title: Coast Guard: Oil Cleanup Should Be Scaled Back
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... /02/11/national/a160607S41.DTL
Published: Feb 12, 2011
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2011-02-12 14:56:14 by Brian S
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Views: 7189
Comments: 16
(02-11) 17:01 PST NEW ORLEANS, (AP) -- The cleanup of oiled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico has reached a point where crews, heavy equipment and thorough scrubbing can cause more damage to the ecosystem than good, the Coast Guard said Friday. Birds, sea turtles, fish and other species are more likely to be harmed by an aggressive cleanup than by simply leaving remnants of oil and letting it slowly degrade, the Coast Guard said. The report was designed to guide the cleanup of the BP PLC spill from the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. There are 4,265 people still involved in the cleanup and response on 544 miles of coast. Recent oil samples show weathered oil found along beaches has lost the majority of the toxic compounds in it and the oil left on shores meets federal safety thresholds for people, the Coast Guard said. At least one researcher questioned the Coast Guard's report. Wilma Subra, a Louisiana chemist and consultant for environmental groups, said the toxic elements could last for decades and warned the report could let BP abandon cleanup before its complete. "The real concern is if they walk away and it's not clean enough," said Subra, who has been doing her own testing along the coast. If it's not clean enough, people and animals could still be exposed to harmful toxins, she said. The study focused on beaches in Grand Isle, La., Petit Bois Island, Miss., Bon Secour, Ala., and Fort Pickens, Fla. "Beach cleanup is invasive," said Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Boda of the Coast Guard. "If we were to go in and remove the small bit of oil you'd have to wash the sand, and you'd kill everything else in there." He said that could include removing plants, shells and other sources of food for birds, as well as damaging sea turtle eggs. "We can sterilize the sand, but then there aren't any nutrients left," said Edward H. Owens, a cleanup technical adviser for BP. "Just cleaning and sterilizing is not necessarily in the short term of high value." Since the spill, BP has been cleaning up oil and teams have established guidelines to determine what is clean enough. The cleanup varies from beach to beach. For example, recreational and manmade beaches are getting washed and cleaned much more thoroughly than sand abundant in wildlife and plants. The report signaled the cleanup was nearing an end. BP has cleanup crews on the Gulf Coast and they will stay around to clean up when oil shows up on shores, Owens said. Oil remains buried in sand and as submerged mats along the coast and still washes ashore occasionally. "We're finding in some isolated places new oil because it was buried," Owens said. "We're getting down to a smaller length of shoreline that has to be cleaned up and smaller amounts of oil."
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AgitProp at it's finest. the Soviets would be proud. Oil is gone. degrading. By Spring Break everything will be back to normal. Come on down!!!!! death awaits. 8D We're so fucked: “Never seen anything like it”: No signs of injury on 100s of dead birds just 25 miles from Gulf — Found in two locations (VIDEO) February 13th, 2011 at 07:33 AM Hundreds of dead birds discovered in Lake Charles, KPLC, February 10, 2011: The Louisiana Department of .... FOSL
Where have you and the rest evacuated to? Are you living in FEMA tents and eating box lunches? When will the disaster be under control where you can get back and post your thoughts (I use that term loosely) on everything you know? [snicker}
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
I left NOGC in 1980. It was bad then and that's when BigOil said the rigs were good for the GoM. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Friend moved to Vermont. The rest are getting cancers/rashes/boils as we speak. You know, the kind of shit that happens when you live right next to a refinery and have to breathe Antifreeze all day. The USbpEcocide. Perfect Kill Shot of the US EMpire. Which with Egypt, now collapsing. Good Luck with your gated community. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA “Unusual” Louisiana ‘Flu’? Top Doc says it’s been “extraordinary this year” — Respiratory problems lasting for 3+ weeks (VIDEO) February 13th, 2011 at 04:14 AM “Even some of those who’ve been immunized against the flu have developed a mild form of the flu.”
“Football field” of submerged crude found on Florida beach; Officials say “oil washing onshore everyday” — BP claims “the sand is clean” (VIDEO) February 12th, 2011 at 11:10 PM BP Beach Cleanup, WEAR ABC 3, February 12, 2011: Transcript Excerpts … BP is now saying the The great loser of the second Arab Revolt is clearly the United States. One can see it by the incredible vacillation of the U.S. government in the present moment. The United States (like every other major power in the world) places one criterion before all others – regimes friendly to it. Washington wants to be on the side of the winner, provided the winner is not hostile. What to do then in a situation like that of Egypt, which presently is a virtual client-state of the United States? The United States is reduced to calling publicly for more “democracy,” no violence, and negotiations. Behind the scenes, they seem to have told the Egyptian army not to embarrass the United States by shooting too many people. But can Mubarak survive without shooting a lot of people? The second Arab Revolt is occurring amidst a worldwide chaotic situation in which three features are dominant – a declining standard of living for at least two-thirds of the world’s populations; outrageous increases in the current income of relatively small upper strata; and a serious decline in the effective power of the so-called superpower, the United States. The second Arab Revolt, however it turns out, will further erode U.S. power, especially in the Arab world, precisely because the one sure base for political popularity in these countries today is opposition to the intrusion of the United States in their affairs. Even those who normally want and depend on U.S. involvement are finding it politically dangerous to continue to do so.
Recent testing finds tar balls contain 93% Corexit and watery goop, only 7% oil says chemist February 10th, 2011 at 07:56 AM Private Seafood Tests Uncover Toxins Missed By Feds, Susan Buchanan for the Huffington Post, February … Read more >> 3 comments Dispersant/Corexit, Strange/Unexplained corexit, dispersant, oilspill, tarballs Report: Oil blowing inland after heavy ‘cleanup’ equipment and sifters grind it into fine bits — “A most alarming development” (PHOTOS) February 10th, 2011 at 06:45 AM Ft. Morgan 2-3 mile marker oil update, SkyTruth Gulf Oil Spill Tracker, February 9, 2011:
“Dire Situation” in Miami: Shrimpers wonder if BP Disaster to blame for “failure of shrimp to show up” — Oil and dispersant worries February 9th, 2011 at 11:55 AM Shrimpers at a loss as supply and economy sink, Miami Herald, February 8, 2011: This year, … Read more >>
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
you wish. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm listening to CNN this morning, listening to people like Wolf Blitzer refer casually to Hosni Mubarak as an "autocrat," talk about his 30-year dictatorship, and talk about how the Egyptian people can now look forward to "free and fair" elections. Do you suppose that once in the his entire tenure at CNN (prior to the last two weeks, anyway) that Wolf Blitzer had referred to Mubarak as an "autocrat," or said or even implied that the election in Egypt weren't "free and fair"? At the same time, the sudden removal of blinders from the eyes of the corporate media hasn't changed their view of the Iranian revolution (32 years ago to the day) one bit. They simply refuse to acknowledge that Iran became a democratic country 32 years ago. Of course it's an imperfect one, with theocratic approval required for Presidential candidates, for example. Is that any less or more democratic than this country, where the approval of Wall Street bankers is required instead?
Laughing Boy, do you think you can get all your issues into one single indecipherable post, rather than scattering them around the board like rabbit shit?
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
That's Mister Laughing Boy to you, rud. And heavy on the Mister. 8D It is the nature of an ignorant man to say, "Oh, this is just a little spill. We will just cover it up with a little poison and a few pesticides that won't hurt anyone, and a few Genetically Modified Nematodes won't hurt anyone, either." On top of that tanker spill in Alaska, Exxon dumped Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) called Pseudomonas Putida. [10] After meeting Dr. Ott, I discovered that thousands were reporting symptoms of rashes, brain fog, neurological problems, crawling and biting and itching to Dr Ott's group. The average life expectancy in Alaska where that spill occurred is 51 years, and that was just a tanker, mind you. The people were told by Exxon, "Oh don't worry, we'll take care of you and 'NOT ONE DROP' will be found when we are done." Exxon took good care of them all right - their way of life was almost destroyed. The divorce, alcoholism, suicide and a literal wedge that was driven between the people proved disastrous. That spill decimated the way of life for those people, their culture and their world. The one hope, though, is that the humans who live on in that region of Alaska are praying for us as we face eerily similar circumstances. They were never fully nor even partially compensated for the havoc and hell that Exxon put them through.
indecipherable to a reactionary. Can't quite tie in the USbpEcocide and the USEmpire collapse can you, rud? Just doesn't seem to want to come together in your mind. Your Masters have definitely told you to keep all of these issues separate if you think of them at all. Hey. How come we can keep Gitmo innocents jailed forever w/o trial but DEMAND that Cuba try Alan Gross immediately? Today's jaw-dropping statement of U.S. government hypocrisy comes courtesy of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, commenting on the fact that jailed American Alan Gross is about to be put on trial after a year in jail: "imprisonment without charges for more than a year is contrary to all international human-rights obligations." How about more than nine years? What does that qualify as, exactly? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ignorant Hypocrisy. Where the facts are irrelevant and history happened yesterday. Yeah boy, I'm laughin' 8D
The health and human impact of this spill is already driving wedges through the social fabric of society all along the coast. The depression deepens with each passing day, the alcoholism rates will skyrocket, the suicides will escalate and fighting among brothers will increase. [13] The sociological ramifications are already heightened between people. Proud people have no work unless it is to work for the perceived enemy. This is just what BP and the Corporate Dynasties like to see. BP wants people so worn down that they have no fight in them, no air to breathe to yell, no doctors to treat these people who are ill. If we open clinics and treat these people that BP and Nalco poisoned, these people who are sick and dying, then the poisoners will have to take some responsibility, admitting that they made the wrong choices and caused HARM.
You go right back to spam, don't you, you reactionary?
Well, [war's] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Getting mixed up there, rud. you reactionary. That's the person who launches the Invasion of Archangelsk by UK/US forces and forming a White Army to Counter Revolution the Red. Counter Revolution. That would be you now, rud. Better get busy. Cause you're on the wrong side of history. Kinda like Tel Aviv and the King of Saudi. BWEHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA 8D Look who is advising Obama: the neo-con who hearts democracy and House of Saud ""We do have mending to do with the Saudis and others, who seem to have concluded we threw Mubarak over the side," said Elliott Abrams, a former deputy national security adviser for the Middle East under George W. Bush. "It will take a little tending to the relationship with the king and possibly with others." Abrams, who has been advising the Obama administration on Egypt in recent weeks, said "we come out of this as a country in pretty good shape, with a basis to build a relationship with the new government. "" Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 9:02 PM
"Anyone independent enough, would come to the logical conclusion that the battleground for a disaster was well prepared but not the prevention part (all the defenses left wide open). How come? Isn't Prevention better than Cure? Perhaps CURE or Disaster is a better windfall for some, especially those who happened to know well before the disaster to prepare the coffins?" "Sorry Que, the more I dug into this disaster, the dirtier is this oily business." The Gulf of Mexico is Dying: A Special Report on the BP Gulf Oil Spill This fine man BK Lim has now become the target of an assassination attempt and other fine, caring scientists are missing and have been Murdered. We are no longer a Country of the people seeking the truth, but of the Corporations trying to control our information to the public. [22]
Like nite and day: cheney and Chavez: And, he still provides free heating fuel to poor people in the northeast United States. Venezuela-owned Citgo joined with Citizens Energy "to provide hundreds of thousands of gallons of free and low-cost heating oil to needy American families and homeless shelters across the US." According to Citizens Energy President Joseph P. Kennedy, "Every year, we ask major oil companies and oil-producing nations to help our senior citizens and the poor make it through winter, and only one company, CITGO, and one country, Venezuela, has responded to our appeals." That's right; no other oil company has given even one stinking dime to the charity. Chavez has provided over over 170 million gallons of heating oil since 2005. In contrast, Barack Obama has done nothing for the poor, the homeless, ordinary workers, or the middle class. Zilch. He's been a dead-loss for everyone except the richest of the rich. Maybe we should swap him for Chavez? It's worth a try.
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#3. To: Rudgear (#2)
Where have you and the rest evacuated to?
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Laughing Boy
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do you think you can get all your issues into one single indecipherable post
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You go right back to spam, don't you, you reactionary?
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