P-5 OIL SPILL NEWS UPDATE

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

LIVE BP OIL FEED
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
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OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html

ITS DAY 48 SUNDAY JUNE 6,10 OF THE OIL SPILL.

ITS 11:50 PM JUNE 6,10 THEY CLAIM BY SAVING 10,000 GALLONS FROM GOING INTO THE SEA IS SO GREAT.MEANWHILE 10,000 BARRELS A DAY STILL GO INTO THE SEA WHICH THE GUSHER CAN'T STOP.AND 45-50 MILLION BARRELS ARE IN THE GULF ALREADY AND KILLING AND DESTROYING BUT I GUESS BP AND THE ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASES ARE SAYING THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SO WE CAN GET RID OF OIL DRILLING IN THE USA AND BRING IN OUR INVISIBLE GAS TAX TO PAY THE IMF TO PAY FOR THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.

ITS 7:30 AM JUNE 7,10 DAY 49 OF THE OIL SPILL.THE COST OF THE SPILL SO FAR IS $1.25 BILLION DOLLARS.

ITS 11:30 AM JUNE 7,10-THE PROPAGANDA IS ALWAYS ON-NOTICE NOW BP IS SAYS THEY WILL BE PEVENTING 20,000 BARRELS A DAY FROM GOING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.WHEN IN NEGETIVE STORIES THEY JUST SAY 20,000 GALLONS ARE GOING INTO THE GULF.THIS SHOULD ALL BE BARRELS NOT JUST GALLONS USED TO MAKE IT SEEM LESS OIL GOING IN THE GULF.BY THIS TAKE AT LEAST 40,000 BARRELS ARE POLUTING AND KILLING SEA FISH ETC EVERY DAY.THE MEDIA PROPGANDA IS JUST INCREDIBLE TO HELP BP LOOK BETTER THEN THEY ARE AND TO PROPAGANDIZE THE LESS KILLING AND OIL GOING INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO.

ITS 10:35 AM JUNE 8,10 DAY 50 OF OIL SPILL.BARRY SOETORO-OBAMA CLAIMES WITH WORDS HES ANGRY AT BP,BUT IN HIS USELESS ACTIONS HES HYPOCRITICAL.NOTHING NEW-THIS ILLEGEL FRAUD OBAMA IS ALL TALK AND NO ACTION EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO WANTING TO BAN GUNS,AND BE A CONTROL FREAK IN EVERY AMERICANS LIFE.OBAMA GO BACK TO KENYA AND TRY TO TELL THEM TO STOP BUILDING HOUSES LIKE YOU DEMAND OF ISRAEL AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU BY THE CRIMINALS THERE.CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT SEE HOW MUCH OF A LIER OBAMA IS AND A FORERUNNER OF THE FUTURE EU WORLD DICTATOR.WAKE UP DECIEVED WORLD.

ITS NOW 3:10PM JUNE 8,10-THE CEO OF BP IS A BILDERBERG PARTICIPATER.REPORTS HAVE A 2ND BP SPILL SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE HAS BEEN LEAKING SINCE APRIL 30,10 AS AN ENVIROMENTAL GROUP HAS BEEN WATCHING THEM SPRAY CHEMICALS TO BREAK UP THE OIL THATS COMING TO THE SURFACE FROM THE 2ND SPILL.ALSO SO CALLED BP WORKERS HIRED BY BP ARE ON THE BEACH,HARDLY WORKING AT ALL,WATCHING WOMEN ON THE BEACH AND HAD A LUNCH BREAK TODAY FROM 10:56AM TILL 1PM.THIS GETS MORE REDICULAS BY THE DAY.

READ LINKS
http://www.prisonplanet.com/evidence-points-to-bp-oil-spill-false-flag.html
Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag 2:20PM JUNE 8,10
- Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand
- Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion
- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment
- Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk

Steve Watson, Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Jun 8th, 2010

Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured.On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control company.The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War.The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law.Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.As the New York Times noted on May 26th, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options,Workers from the rig and company officials have said that hours before the explosion, gases were leaking through the cement, which had been set in place by the oil services contractor, Halliburton. Investigators have said these leaks were the likely cause of the explosion.

According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.Another intriguing connection Boots and Coots has to the Deepwater Horizon explosion comes via Pat Campbell, the man BP has employed to cap the well beneath the ruined rig. Campbell worked for Boots and Coots as general manager for many years.BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. It seems that the company is taking all the flack for the spill while the Halliburton link is being roundly ignored.BP’s prepared testimony briefing, which has since leaked online, also intriguingly notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion.the extent of these modifications is unknown at this time states the report on page 37.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/evidence-points-to-bp-oil-spill-false-flag.html

Possible prior knowledge of the explosion is also evident via huge dumping of stocks and shares in the weeks and days prior to the incident.Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million.Other asset management firms also sold huge blocks of BP stock in the first quarter. Though the amounts pale in comparison to Goldman’s holdings, Wachovia, owned by Wells Fargo, sold 98% of its shares in BP and Swiss bank UBS sold 97% of its BP shares.Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.In the days before the Deepwater explosion, Obama had announced a new effort to explore for and lease new drilling locations in the deep Gulf and in Alaska. In the wake of the disaster, these plans have been cancelled and BP is taking a PR bashing.All of which has been capitalized on by the Obama administration to reinvigorate talk of a carbon tax and has created the opportunity to reintroduce the idea of nationalizing oil, which the Democratic leadership has long sought.The full story of what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico is yet to emerge, there are rumours of more spills and an ongoing coverup. The site represents a $2.2 trillion source of wealth and power, a motive along with a plethora of suspicious activity that needs to be investigated further.

NOAA: Under water oil plumes confirmed
12:30 PM JUNE 8,10

WASHINGTON – The government says water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes from the BP oil spill, but that concentrations are very low.NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said that the tests conducted at three sites by a University of South Florida research vessel confirmed oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface 42 miles northeast of the well site. Oil also was found in a sub-surface sample 142 miles southeast of the spill, but further tests showed that oil is not consistent with oil from the spill.Lubchenco said the water analysis indicate there is definitely oil sub surface. It's in very low concentrations of less than 0.5 parts per million. Additional samples from another research vessel are being tested, she said.We remain concerned about the location of oil on the surface and under the sea, said Lubchenco.BP had questioned whether oil actually was forming below water.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects that oil found 142 miles from well not believed to be from spill, though plumes at other sites are; ADDS Lubchenco quote)

Fickle oil slick scatters its threats across Gulf By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press Writer - 4:30 AM JUNE 8,10

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – In sensitive marshes on the Louisiana coast, oil thick as pancake batter suffocates grasses and traps pelicans. Blobs of tar the size of dimes or dinner plates dot the white sands of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Little seems amiss in Mississippi except a shortage of tourists, but an oily sheen glides atop the sea west of Tampa.The oil spill plaguing the states along the Gulf of Mexico isn't one slick — it's many.We're no longer dealing with a large, monolithic spill, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday at a White House news conference. We're dealing with an aggregation of hundreds of thousands of patches of oil that are going a lot of different directions.Officials reported that a containment cap over the BP gusher at the bottom of the Gulf was sucking up one-third to three-quarters of the oil †but also noted that its effects could linger for years.And as the oil patches flirt with the coastline, slathering some spots and leaving others alone, residents who depend on tourism and fishing are wondering in the here and now how to head off the damage or salvage a season that's nearing its peak.At the Salty Dog Surf Shop in Panama City Beach, near the eastern end of the spill area, manager Glen Thaxton hawked T-shirts, flip-flops and sunglasses with usual briskness Monday, even as officials there warned oil could appear on the sand within 72 hours.It could come to a screeching halt real quick,Thaxton said.So we've been calling vendors and telling them don't ship anything else until further notice.In Mississippi, Gov. Haley Barbour over the weekend angrily blasted news coverage that he said was scaring away tourists at the start of the busy summer season by making it seem as if the whole coast from Florida to Texas is ankle-deep in oil.

Mississippi, he insisted on Fox News Sunday,was clean.That sounded about right to Darlene Kimball, who runs Kimball Seafood on the docks at Pass Christian.Mississippi waters are open, and we're catching shrimp, Kimball said. Still, her business is hurting because of a perception that Gulf seafood isn't safe, she said, and because many shrimpers have signed up to help corral the spill elsewhere.The random, scattered nature of the oil was evident Monday during a trip across the state line between Alabama and Florida.On the Alabama side, clumps of seaweed laden with oil littered beaches for miles. Huge orange globs stained the sand in places.But at Perdido Key, on the Florida side, the sand was white and virtually crude-free. Members of a five-person crew had to look for small dots of oil to pick up, stooping over every few yards for another piece.It's beautiful here today, said Josiah Holmes, of Gulf Shores, Ala. He and his wife, Lydia, had driven across the state line because the beach was such a mess at home.For some who are planning vacations in the region but live elsewhere, the spill's fickle nature is causing confusion.
Adam Warriner, a customer service agent with California-based CSA Travel protection, said the company is getting a lot of calls from vacationers worried the oil will disrupt their trips — even if they're headed to South Carolina, nowhere near the spill area.As of now we haven't included oil into any of our coverage language, and that's not something that I've heard is happening,he said. That kind of misperception worries residents and officials in areas that aren't being hit hard by the oil — and even those in some that are. The daily images of the oil is obviously having an impact,said Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, the state closest to the leak and the one where the oil is having its most insidious effects on wildlife. It's having a heavy, real, very negative impact on our economy.Some of the most enduring images are of pelicans and other wildlife drenched in oil.

In a sweltering metal building in Fort Jackson, workers in biohazard suits were doing the time-consuming task of cleaning oiled brown pelicans and releasing them back into the wild. After getting 192 in the last six weeks, 86 were delivered on Sunday, the biggest rescue since the BP rig exploded on April 20, spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We did have someone faint today because of the heat, said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center. A table is lined with tubs, bottles and even a microwave. In the tub an enormous pelican, turned almost black by the oil, sits stoically as workers pour a light vegetable oil over it. A process they humorously refer to as marinating, which has to be done before the birds can be washed. They respond really well to the cleaning, said Heather Nevill, the veterinarian overseeing the process.If we get them in time.
At Barataria Bay, La., just west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, large patches of thick oil floated in the still waters Monday. A dead sea turtle caked in brownish-red oil lay splayed out with dragonflies buzzing by. The Barataria estuary, which has become one of the hardest-hit areas, was busy with shrimp boats skimming up oil and officials in boats and helicopters patrolling the islands and bays to assess the state of wildlife and the movement of oil. On remote islands, oil visibly tainted pelicans, gulls, terns and herons.President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans by saying that we will get through this crisis but that it would take dedication. Later, he said he's been talking closely with Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP's catastrophic oil spill and not for lofty academic reasons.

I talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers — so I know whose ass to kick, the president said. The salty words, part of Obama's recent efforts to telegraph to Americans his engagement with the crisis, came in an interview in Michigan with NBC's Today show.This will be contained, Obama said earlier. It may take some time, and it's going to take a whole lot of effort. There is going to be damage done to the Gulf Coast, and there is going to be economic damages that we've got to make sure BP is responsible for and compensates people for.
Obama's prediction of further damage only exacerbated a sense of dread filling residents in places the oil had yet to foul, like Panama City Beach. It just makes me sick to my stomach to think about one morning I could wake up and our beaches would be ruined,said Joseph Carrington, a 39-year-old worker at a scooter rental service who moved five years ago from Chester, N.Y., out of love for the beach. I have nightmares thinking about it on what it would do to us, my job, all of our jobs.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Tom Raum in Washington; Harry R. Weber in Houston; Ray Henry in New Orleans; Mary Foster in Fort Jackson, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; Brendan Farrington in Perdido Key, Fla.; Holbrook Mohr in Pass Christian, Miss.; Cain Burdeau in Barataria Bay, La.; Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala.; and Brian Skoloff in Grand Isle, La.

Well cap captures more oil, but outlook's gloomy By HARRY R. WEBER and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers - 10:49PM JUNE 7,10

NEW ORLEANS – The cap on the blown-out well in the Gulf is capturing a half-million gallons a day, or anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said Monday. But the hopeful report was offset by a warning that the farflung slick has broken up into hundreds and even thousands of patches of oil that may inflict damage that could persist for years.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis, said the breakup has complicated the cleanup.Dealing with the oil spill on the surface is going to go on for a couple of months, he said at a briefing in Washington. But long-term issues of restoring the environment and the habitats and stuff will be years.Allen said the containment cap that was installed late last week is now collecting about 460,000 gallons of oil a day out of the approximately 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons believed to be spewing from the well a mile underwater. In a tweet, BP said it collected 316,722 gallons from midnight to noon Monday.The amount of oil captured is being slowly ramped up as more vents on the cap are closed. Crews are moving carefully to avoid a dangerous pressure buildup and to prevent the formation of the icy crystals that thwarted a previous effort to contain the leak. The captured oil is being pumped to a ship on the surface.I think it's going fairly well, Allen said.

BP said it plans to replace the cap — perhaps later this month or early next month — with a slightly bigger one that will provide a tighter fit and thus collect more oil. It will also be designed to allow the company to suspend the cleanup and then resume it quickly if a hurricane threatens the Gulf later this season. The new cap is still being designed.It gives us much better containment than we've got with the existing cap, said BP senior vice president Kent Wells.BP and government officials acknowledged it is difficult to say exactly how much oil is spewing from the well, and thus how much is still flowing into the water. BP spokesman Robert Wine said the figures being discussed are estimates, some of which have been provided by the government.Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences, suggested it is too early for anyone to claim victory. The spill, estimated at anywhere from 23 million gallons to 50 million, is already the biggest in U.S. history, dwarfing the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.We're hopeful the thing is going to work, but hoping and actually working are two different things, Overton said. They may have turned the corner, they may not have. We just don't know right now.He said he doesn't believe BP will have turned the corner until it sees a significant flow from the well stopped. And it is not entirely obvious to me that that is happening,Overton said.I do worry we are not removing as much oil as we ought to be getting, he added.The spillcam video of the leak continued to show a big brown billowing cloud of oil and gas 5,000 feet below the surface.In Washington, President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans that we will get through this crisis.Later, he said he's been talking closely with Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP's catastrophic oil spill and not for lofty academic reasons.I talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers — so I know whose ass to kick,the president said.The salty words, part of Obama's recent efforts to telegraph to Americans his engagement with the crisis, came in an interview in Michigan with NBC's Today show.

This will be contained,he said earlier.It may take some time, and it's going to take a whole lot of effort. There is going to be damage done to the Gulf Coast, and there is going to be economic damages that we've got to make sure BP is responsible for and compensates people for.But in a forecast that was by turns hopeful and gloomy, Allen indicated that cleaning up the mess could prove to be more complex than previously thought. Because what's happened over the last several weeks, this spill has disaggregated itself,Allen said.We're no longer dealing with a large, monolithic spill. We're dealing with an aggregation of hundreds or thousands of patches of oil that are going a lot of different directions.When finished, the new cap would be connected a riser pipe floating about 300 feet below the surface. Engineers say the riser would be deep enough to avoid damage from hurricanes that can roar over the Gulf of the Mexico, but shallow enough to allow returning drill ships to quickly reconnect to the flow. Meanwhile, crews worked furiously to skim, scour and chemically disperse the substance from the water. Tony Wood, the director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, said BP's success at containing some of the leaking oil would not dramatically reduce the amount of time it would take to clean up the Gulf. We have a large volume still escaping,he said. Cleanup levels up to twice as large as we have right now will go on for at least a year. He added: The reality is that most of the spill, the vast majority of the spill, is still well offshore.The oil — brick red in places, chocolate brown in others — has washed up on the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.Some of the most enduring images of the disaster are of pelicans and other wildlife drenched in oil.In a sweltering metal building in Fort Jackson, workers in biohazard suits were doing the time-consuming task of cleaning oiled brown pelicans and releasing them back into the wild. After getting 192 in the last six weeks, 86 were delivered on Sunday, the biggest rescue since the BP rig exploded on April 20, spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We did have someone faint today because of the heat,said Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center.But usually they come in about six or seven in the morning and stay until about six or seven at night.A table is lined with tubs, bottles and even a microwave. In the tub an enormous pelican, turned almost black by the oil, sits stoically as workers pour a light vegetable oil over it. A process they humorously refer to as marinating, which has to be done before the birds can be washed. Other than the oil, the pelicans have been healthy, said Heather Nevill, the veterinarian overseeing the process.They respond really well to the cleaning,Nevill said. If we get them in time.

At Barataria Bay, La., just west of the mouth of the Mississippi River, large patches of oil the consistency of pancake batter floated in the still waters. A dead sea turtle caked in brownish-red oil lay splayed out with dragonflies buzzing by. The Barataria estuary, which has become one of the hardest-hit areas, was busy with shrimp boats skimming up oil and officials in boats and helicopters patrolling the islands and bays to assess the state of wildlife and the movement of oil. On remote islands, pelicans, gulls, terns and herons were stained with oil. Jody Haas, a tourist from Aurora, Ill., was among the few walking on tar-stained Pensacola Beach. Haas, who has visited the beach before, said it wasn't the same. It was pristine, gorgeous, white sand,she said.This spot is light compared to some of the other spots farther down and it is just everywhere here. It's just devastating, awful.Harry Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers contributing to this story were Tamara Lush in New Orleans, Cain Burdeau in Barataria Bay, La., Mary Foster in Fort Jackson, La., Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., Mitch Stacy in St. Pete Beach, Fla., Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., and Tom Raum in Washington.

BP plans to replace containment cap next month By RAY HENRY and HARRY WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 7,10 4:00 PM

NEW ORLEANS – As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from a spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, BP PLC said it plans to replace the cap collecting the crude with a slightly bigger device next month.The newer cap will provide a better, tighter fit than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press.The oil began spewing forth after a BP oil rig explosion April 20 and recently increased after officials cut the pipe carrying the flow as part of the latest containment effort.BP believes the bigger cap will fit over more of the outflow pipe than the current cap, Wine said, but the change will allow the oil now being collected to again spew out into the Gulf during the changeover.Wine acknowledged the frustration people must have when they look at the video feeds from undersea that show a lot of oil still flowing into the sea.We want to capture every drop of oil that is still leaking, he said.We want to protect the coastline and repair the coastline that has been damaged.
Officials say the current cap is collecting more than 460,000 gallons of oil per day. BP continues to drill relief wells in hopes of a permanent solution.

Wine said the estimate of the proportion of gushing oil being collected is based on the government's contention that the containment cap is collecting 466,200 gallons of oil of the roughly 604,800 to 1,260,000 it believes is coming out daily.Cutting the riser likely increased the flow of oil by 20 percent from the 504,000 to 1,050,000 gallons the government contends was coming out previously, Wine said.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil spill response, provided the updated oil-collection figure during a news conference earlier Monday at the White House.

Officials: No dead, oiled birds found in Texas
JUNE 7,10

ROBERT, La. – Federal officials responding to a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say no dead, oiled birds have been found in Texas.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Nancy Brown said Monday that an official tally released Sunday was incorrect. She blamed the mistake on a clerical error made while compiling figures from different states.A new report on wildlife harmed by the oil spill will be released later Monday.Texas General Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam (SOO'-dam) says there were no reports of oiled birds in Texas. He says the spill's westernmost limit is about 100 miles east of the Texas-Louisiana border.The April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana triggered the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

BP: Gulf oil spill costs have reached $1.25B
Mon Jun 7, 3:13 am ET

NEW ORLEANS – BP says the cost of the company's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached about $1.25 billion.The company announced the total in a news release Monday. BP says the figure does not include $360 million for a project to build six sand berms meant to protect Louisiana's wetlands from spreading oil.The news comes as the government's point man on the spill warned that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall.Millions of gallons of oil have spilled since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers.

Gulf oil crisis could stretch into the fall By RAY HENRY and JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writers - 11:30 PM JUNE 6,10

NEW ORLEANS – A containment cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that bit of hope was tempered Sunday by a sharp dose of pragmatism as the federal government's point man warned the crisis could stretch into the fall.The inverted funnel-like cap is being closely watched for whether it can make a serious dent in the flow of new oil. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, overseeing the government's response to the spill, reserved judgment, saying he didn't want to risk offering false encouragement.Instead, he warned on CBS' Face the Nation that the battle to contain the oil is likely to stretch into the fall. The cap will trap only so much of the oil, and relief wells being drilled won't be completed until August. In the meantime, oil will continue to spew out.But even after that, there will be oil out there for months to come, Allen said.This will be well into the fall. This is a siege across the entire Gulf. This spill is holding everybody hostage, not only economically but physically. And it has to be attacked on all fronts, he said.Since it was placed over the busted well on Thursday, the cap has been siphoning an increasing amount of oil. On Saturday, it funneled about 441,000 gallons to a tanker on the surface, up from about 250,000 gallons it captured Friday.But it's not clear how much is still escaping from the well that federal authorities at one point estimated was leaking between 500,000 gallons and 1 million gallons a day. Since the spill began nearly seven weeks ago, roughly 23 million to 49 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf.The prospect that the crisis could stretch beyond summer was devastating to residents along the Gulf, who are seeing thicker globs of oil show up in increasing volume all along the coastline.

In Ruth Dailey's condominium in Gulf Shores, Ala., floors already are smeared with dark blotches of oil, she said, and things are only going to get worse.This is just the beginning, she said.I have a beachfront condo for a reason. With this, no one will want to come.Kelcey Forrestier, 23, of New Orleans, said she no longer trusts the word of either BP or the U.S. government in laying out the extent of the spill. But it is clear to Forrestier, just coming in off the water at Okaloosa Island, Fla., that the spill and its damage will last long into the future.Oil just doesn't go away. Oil doesn't disappear, said Forrestier, who just earned a biology degree.It has to go somewhere and it's going to come to the Gulf beaches.BP chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture the majority, probably the vast majority of the oil gushing from the well. The gradual increase in the amount being captured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt.Allen was reluctant to characterize the degree of progress, saying much more had to be done.

We need to underpromise and overdeliver,he said.On Sunday, BP said it had closed one of four vents that are allowing oil to escape and preventing that water intake. The company said some of the remaining vents may remain open to keep the cap system stable.Hayward told the BBC that the company hopes a second containment system will be in place by next weekend. Allen told CBS that the oil would stop flowing only when the existing well is plugged with cement once the relief wells have been completed.Once the cap is fully operational, if it is ultimately successful, it could capture a maximum of 630,000 gallons of oil a day. Besides installing the containment cap, BP officials have said they want a second option for siphoning off oil by next weekend. The plan would use lines and pipes that previously injected mud down into the well — one of several failed efforts over the past six-plus weeks to contain the leak — and instead use them to suck up oil and send it to a drilling rig on the ocean surface. BP also wants to install by late June another system to help cope with hurricanes that could roar over the site of the damaged well. When finished, there would be a riser floating about 300 feet below the ocean's surface — far enough below the water so it would not be disturbed by powerful hurricane winds and waves but close enough so ships forced to evacuate could easily reconnect to the pipes once the storm has passed.None of these fixes will stop the well from leaking; they're simply designed to capture what's leaking until the relief wells can be drilled.Since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, killing 11 workers, BP PLC has tried and failed a number of efforts to contain the leak. In the past week, increasing quantities of thick oily sludge have been making their way farther east, washing up on some of the region's hallmark white-sand beaches and coating marshes in black ooze. An observation flight spotted a sheen of oil 150 miles west of Tampa, but officials said Sunday they didn't expect it to reach western Florida any time soon.

Already, cleanup crews along the coast were struggling to keep pace with oil washing up thicker and faster by the hour. The sight and smell of oil undermined any consolation offered by reports of progress at the wellhead. Instead, Gulf residents voiced frustration with the apparent holes in cleanup efforts. At Gulf Shores, Dailey walked along a line of oil mixed with seaweed that stretched as far as the eye could see. Collecting bits of the rust-colored oil did nothing to ease her anger. Clumps of seaweed hiding tar balls make the scene appear better than it really is, she said. Pick up a piece of weed and often there's oil underneath. They're lying when they say they're cleaning these beaches, said Dailey, of Huntsville. They're saying that because they still want people to come.Eventually, workers used a big sand-sifting machine to clean the public beach, leaving it spotless, at least for a while. But a couple miles away, workers cleaning a section of sand at a state park finished their work and left their refuse on the beach in the way of the incoming tide.Waves are washing over plastic bags filled with tar and oil. It's crazy, said Mike Reynolds, a real estate agent and director of Share The Beach, a turtle conservation group. At Pensacola Beach, Fla., the turquoise waves also were flecked with floating balls of tar. Buck Langston, who has been coming to the beach to collect shells for 38 years, watched as his family used improvised chopsticks to collect the tar in plastic containers.Yesterday it wasn't like this, this heavy,said Langston, of Baton Rouge, La.I don't know why cleanup crews aren't out here.

As hundreds of cars streamed through the toll booths at the entrance to the beach, a protester stood at the side of the road wearing a gas mask, lab coat, latex gloves and holding a Drill Baby Drill sign with tea bags hanging from the edges. Shawn Luzmoor said he works at a local environmental lab and has been testing the oil and tar that is washing up on the beaches. It's not safe and it's not right what's happening out there, he said. Allen expressed similar frustration, ordering cleanup crews to the Alabama coastline over the weekend after surveying the scene from the air. But he acknowledged the relative futility of their efforts.It's so widespread, and it's intermittent,he said.That's what's so challenging about this. Everyone wants certainty. With an oil spill like this, there isn't any.Reeves reported from Gulf Shores. Associated Press writers Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach and Brendan Farrington in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

BP sucking up 10,000 barrels daily from US oil leak by Allen Johnson – Sun Jun 6, 6:07 pm ET

GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AFP) – BP said Sunday it was capturing some 10,000 barrels of crude a day from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it could be containing most of the worst oil spill in US history.With an environmental catastrophe unfolding on the shores of Louisiana and fears for neighboring southern states, BP chief's executive Tony Hayward said a cap fitted on the leaking pipe a mile (1,600 meters) down on the sea bed appeared to be working.As we speak, the containment cap is producing around 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface, he told the BBC.The US official in charge of the government operation, Admiral Thad Allen, agreed with the estimate, but refused to be drawn on what percentage of the leaking oil it represented.Government scientists have estimated that up to 19,000 barrels a day could be spewing into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig just off the Louisiana coast.We're not going to know how much oil is coming out until we're able to optimize the production, and that's what they're doing right now, Allen told ABC News This Week.They are slowly raising production. It was 6,000 a day before and it was 10,000 yesterday, he added, also speaking of the anguish being felt by everyone involved in the momentous operation to stop the disaster.I think everybody is anguished over this. You know, I've been working on the water for 39 years. This is just completely distressing, and it's very frustrating, he told CNN.

He warned that the Coast Guard and clean-up teams were fighting an insidious enemy as they battle to keep the oil from reaching the shores, amid fears Florida's beaches could be badly hit with tar balls already washing up in Mississippi and Alabama.The slick has now spread around a 200-mile (320-kilometer) radius from the fractured wellhead, but has broken into thousands of small spills, Allen explained on ABC.This spill is just aggregated over a 200-mile radius around the wellbore, where it's leaking right now, and it's not a monolithic spill. It is literally hundreds of thousands of smaller spills.Ghastly pictures of birds smothered in thick layers of oil have shown the impact of the disaster, amid warnings the situation is getting progressively worse, with millions of gallons of crude now sloshing around in the sea.Massive spreads of boom have been deployed to protect coastlines, with Canada sending another 3,000 meters to the United States on Sunday, but in many places it has proved ineffective.Around 660 kilometers (410 miles) of boom, mostly from private oil company stock, have been deployed to contain the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the most recent US government figures.As of Saturday, 57 visibly oiled birds have been found dead, and another 156 oiled birds have been discovered alive, according to figures from the government and boatmen, biologists and rescuers at Grand Isle on Saturday.Among them are the brown pelican -- the Louisiana state symbol, which was only removed from the endangered list in November.

Bradley Verdin, a local boatman who carried journalists out to the badly-affected Queen Bess rookery, said the situation worsened about three days ago.I'm glad they are trying to save these birds, he said.I didn't think it was that bad until the day before yesterday.Allen warned Sunday that regardless of how much oil is now being contained, the leak will not be completely stopped until BP completes the drilling of two relief wells, sometime in August. There will be oil out there for months to come,he told CBS television. This spill is keeping everybody hostage.The latest containment effort involves a cap placed over a sawn-off pipe, which gathers the oil, allowing it to be siphoned up to a container ship. It was the first maneuver to demonstrate some success at curbing the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf, after a series of embarrassing failures. BP said Sunday it was readying a second containment effort, involving feeding pipes into the leaking blow-out preventer (BOP) that could siphon up additional oil to another container ship.The bid will use much of the same equipment deployed during BP's failed effort to flood the BOP with heavy drilling fluid called mud.Pipes will be attached to what's called the choke and kill lines and instead of pushing mud in we'll be pulling oil out, BP spokesman Mark Proegler told AFP.Hayward said the system could be ready by next week and, despite criticisms of his handling of the disaster, said he had the absolute intention of seeing this through to the end.

Containment cap offers hope even as oil spews on By HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers - 10:30 AM JUNE 6,10

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – A device sucking some of the oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico offered optimism Sunday for a region that has seen its wildlife coated in a lethal oil muck, its fishermen idled and its beaches tarnished by the nation's worst oil spill.The containment cap placed on the gusher near the sea floor trapped about 441,000 gallons of oil Saturday, BP spokesman Mark Proegler said Sunday, up from around 250,000 gallons of oil Friday. It's not clear how much is still escaping; an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily.BP chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture the majority, probably the vast majority of the oil gushing from the well. The gradual increase in the amount being captured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt.The next step is for BP engineers to attempt to close vents on the cap that allow streams of oil to escape and prevent that water intake, and Hayward told the BBC that the company hopes a second containment system will be in place by next weekend.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's point man for the response, took issue on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday with BP officials who said they were pleased with results of the latest effort. He said progress was being made, but I don't think anybody should be pleased as long as there is oil in the water.While BP plans to eventually use an additional set of hoses and pipes to increase the amount of oil being trapped, the ultimate solution remains a relief well that should be finished by August.

The urgency of that task was apparent along the Gulf Coast nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and rupturing the wellhead a mile below the surface. Since then, millions of gallons of oil have been rising to the surface, spreading out across the sea, washing ashore and killing wildlife.Pelicans are struggling to free themselves from oil that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, their feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells are stained crimson.These waters are my backyard, my life, said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove, La.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. Government officials estimate that roughly 22 million to 48 million gallons have leaked into the Gulf.A line of oil mixed with seaweed stretched all across the beach Sunday morning in Gulf Shores, Ala. The oil often wasn't visible, hidden beneath the washed-up plants. At a cleaning station outside a huge condominium tower, Leon Baum scrubbed oil off his feet with Dawn dishwashing detergent.Baum had driven with his children and grandchildren from Bebee, Ark., for their annual vacation on Alabama's coast. They had contemplated leaving because of the oil, but they've already spent hundreds of dollars on their getaway.After you drive all this way, you stay,Baum said.At Pensacola Beach, Buck Langston and his family took to collecting globs of tar instead of sea shells on Sunday morning. They used improvised chopsticks to pick up the balls and drop them into plastic containers. Ultimately, the hoped to help clean it all up, Langston said.Yesterday it wasn't like this, this heavy, Langston said.I don't know why cleanup crews aren't out here.With no oil response workers on Louisiana's Queen Bess Island, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, 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.At the mouth of Alabama's Mobile Bay, hundreds of seagulls squawked on a beach dotted with countless small tar balls but not a cleanup crew in sight.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 invertebrates at the base of the food chain.

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 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.Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr on Barataria Bay, La.; Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla.; Ray Henry in New Orleans; and Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.