P-8 OIL SPILL UPDATE NEWS

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
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
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
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html

ITS 6:00 AM DAY 54 OF OIL SPILL JUNE 12,10.THE SAGA GOES ON.

ITS 4:00PM JUNE 12,10 AND THERE WAS A SMART YOUNG GAL ON FOX EARLIER I THINK HER NAME WAS ANGELA AND SHE SAID THEY WILL USE THIS SPILL TO GET THE CAP & TRADE BILL THROUGH.NOW THIS GAL KNOWS WHAT SHES TALKING ABOUT.I BELIEVE THE SAME THING.THEN ON CNN ALI VELSHI WAS TALKIN ABOUT THE SAME THING.SO WE CAN START TO SEE A PROPAGANDA PUSH FROM MSNBC NOW TO GET THE CAP & TRADE BILL PASSED SO EVERYBODY CAN PAY TAXES FOR INVISIBLE SMOKE AND INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS.AND THEIR FINALLY ADMITTING MORE BARRELS ARE COMING OUT THEN THEY WERE SAYING.THERE SAYING 40,000 BARRELS A DAY AND I'M SAYING 4 TO 5 MILLION GALLONS A DAY.IM THE ONE USING GALLONS NOW SINCE IM NOT SURE HOW MANY BARRELS HOLDS 4-5 MILLION GALLONS.EXCUSE ME IM USING A BIT OF PROPAGANDA ON THE PROPAGANDIZERS.I WONDER HOW THEY LIKE THE GALLONS INSTEAD OF BARRELS PROPAGANDA.

I DISCOVERED 42 GALLONS OF OIL TO A BARREL.BY MY CALCULATIONS BETWEEN 100,000TO 200,000 BARRELS ARE LEEKING OUT OF THE PIT A DAY.IM NO OIL STATISTICIAN BUT THATS A TON OF POISON GASES COMING OUT OF THERE KILLING SEA ANIMALS AND THEN HUMANS IN THE AREA.

ITS 8:10PM AND REPORTS ARE 80 PEOPLE ARE SICK ALREADY FROM THE OIL CHEMICALS.THEIR SAYING BRAIN TROUBLES ARE HAPPENING.DIZZINESS,FOGINESS,THERE CALLING IT GULF OIL SYNDROME.NOTICE THEY DON'T CALL IT CHEMICAL POISONING THEY MAKE UP A PROPGANDA NAME SUCH AS GULF OIL SYNDROME TO COVERUP THE TRUTH OF PEOPLE BEING POISONED AND BRAIN DAMAGED FROM THE CHEMICALS.JUST ANOTHER DAY OF PROPAGANDA DESQUISED AS TRUTH FOR SHEEPLE TO BELIEVE THE LIES.

ITS DAY 55-SUN JUNE 13,10 OF THE OIL GUSHER POISONOUS PIT LEAK SPILL.ITS 7:40AM AND REPORTS HAVE 21 SHORE WORKERS HAVE SYMPTOMS AND ARE GETTING SICK FROM THE POISONOUS CHEMICALS IN THE OIL-FROM INHALING AND CLEANING UP THE OIL LUMPS.

THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAS GOT FAREED ZAKARIA TRYING TO CLEANUP OBAMAS REPTUATION BY SAYING THE MEDIA IS OBSSESSED WITH OBAMAS EMOTION ON THE OIL SPILL.I SAY FORGET ABOUT OBAMAS EMOTION GET THAT FRAUD MUSLIM DOING DEEDS NOT JUST WORDS ON THE OIL SPILL GET THE POISON STOPPED FROM KILLING ANIMALS AND NOW PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA AND SURROUNDING GULF AREA OF THE GULF OIL SPILL.ITS 10:10AM JUNE 13,10

ITS DAY 56 OF THE POISONOUS OIL SPILL JUNE 14,10.

ITS 3:15 PM JUNE 14,10 ANND WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN TROUBLE BY JUST THE LEAK.NOW THERE BURNING THE OIL RIGHT OFF THE WATER AT THE TOP OF THE SPILL AND THE SMOKE IS SO THICK A SHIP GOING NEAR IT CAN NOT EVEN SEE WERE ITS GOING.JUST THINK NOW ALL THE POISONS FROM THAT OIL ARE REALLY GOING INTO THE AIR NOW.WE DEFINATELY WILL BE SEEING A LOT OF SICK PEOPLE FROM HERE ON IN AS THE POISONS WILL GET IN THE LUNGS,HOUSES AND ANYWHERE ELSE THE PEOPLE ARE.SOME OF THE POISONS WILL BE INVISIBLE AND USE WILL BE INHALING IT IN YOUR LUNGS AND BODY PARTS AND USE WILL NOT EVEN KNOW ANYTHINGS WRONG TILL USE GET EARLY SICK SYMPTOMS AND THEN THE MORE USE INHALE,DEADLY SYMPTOMS.THIS WILL BE A DEADLY SUMMER I PREDICT.I WOULD MOVE FROM THERE QUICK IF I WERE USE ALL AND FORCE BP TO BUY USE NEW HOMES IN YOUR COUNTRY OF CHOICE.

Obama To Use BP Oil Spill As An Opportunity To Push His Economy Killing Climate Change Bill The Economic Collapse June 14, 2010 12:20PM

Never one to to allow a good crisis to go to waste, Barack Obama is pledging to use the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an opportunity to push the U.S. Congress to pass his controversial climate bill. In fact, during a recent interview Obama directly compared the current crisis in the Gulf to 9/11, and indicated that he believed that it would fundamentally change the way that we all look at energy issues from now on. But the truth is that Obama’s climate bill is the same economy killing legislation that it was before the BP oil spill. It would still drive gas and electricity prices through the roof, it would still cause large numbers of U.S. businesses to flee overseas, it would still be one of the biggest tax increases in U.S. history and it would still usher in an unprecedented era of climate fascism. But now thanks to the BP oil spill there is suddenly a lot more momentum in Congress for doing something about energy and about climate change.Of course the truth is that carbon dioxide is not causing climate change and high levels of carbon dioxide are actually very good for the environment, but reducing carbon emissions has almost become a religion for radical environmentalists, and Barack Obama is absolutely determined to push through his cap and trade carbon trading scheme. In fact, just as 9/11 completely changed the war that Americans viewed the fight against terrorism, Barack Obama sees the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico fundamentally changing the way that Americans see energy issues. During a recent interview, Obama told Politico columnist Roger Simon the following….

In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.Not only that, but Obama considers it one of his greatest leadership challenges to make sure that we all draw the right lessons from the BP oil spill…. One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster.

So what are those right lessons? Well, apparently what we are all supposed to get out of this disaster are the lessons that Obama has been trying to teach us all along – that carbon taxes and cap and trade schemes are good for us.But Barack Obama is not the only one urging us to learn the right lessons from the BP oil spill.In a recent interview with ABC News, Microsoft’s Bill Gates also linked the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with climate change. Gates warned that if we don’t make the necessary changes soon that we will suffer severe consequences….We’ll have more crises like the oil spill and we’ll have the supply disruption. We’ll start to see more and more effects of the climate problem.But would the climate bill that Obama is pushing really save us from climate change? Of course not.But Barack Obama’s climate change bill would do the following things….
-It would drive gas and electricity prices through the roof.
-It would crush the already fragile U.S. economy by piling a bunch of new taxes and regulations on U.S. businesses. Needless to say, large numbers of them would begin looking for greener pastures.
-It would increase worldwide pollution by forcing companies out of the U.S. and into nations that have no restrictions on pollution whatsoever.
-When you add up all of the overt and hidden taxes in the bill, it would represent one of the biggest tax increases in U.S. history.
-Since every action we take involves the production of carbon emissions (including every breath that we take), it would open the door for an era of tyrannical climate fascism where the U.S. government literally monitors every aspect of our lives to make sure that we are being eco-friendly.But Barack Obama makes this climate bill sound like it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. In fact, he continues to promise that the number of green jobs gained by this bill will far outweigh the number of other jobs lost.

But is this true? Of course not.In fact, other countries that have tried a cap and trade scheme have experienced disastrous results. For example, a leaked internal assessment produced by the government of Spain reveals that the green economy there has been an absolute economic nightmare for that nation. Energy prices have skyrocketed in Spain and the new green economy in that nation has actually lost more than two jobs for every job that it has created.The unemployment rate in Spain is now hovering around 20 percent and the economy there is on the verge of complete and total collapse. In fact, if the government of Spain does end up defaulting on their debts, it could make the financial crisis that has been unfolding in Greece look like a Sunday picnic.It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that a climate bill like the one Spain implemented will devastate the U.S. economy. But facts haven’t gotten in the way of Barack Obama pushing his agenda before, so why should they now?

However, it is not just Barack Obama that is pushing an agenda of trying to radically reduce carbon emissions. All over the world, many of the global elite have joined forces with the radical environmentalists in an effort to save the world from the growing threat of carbon dioxide. And since each person on this planet is a source of constant carbon emissions, many of those who truly believe in this radical environmental agenda consider the rapidly growing population of the earth to be the number one cause of climate change.You see, to those obsessed with climate change, just getting corporations around the globe to radically cut carbon emissions is not nearly going to be good enough. The truth is that they know that in order to get carbon emissions down to where they want them to be, they are going to have to do something about the growing world population.To them, in the war against climate change anyone who breathes is the enemy. In fact, according to an official UN report, no human can ever truly be carbon neutral.So please understand that for those obsessed with climate change, carbon taxes and cap and trade are just the beginning. To truly achieve their goals, one child policies and forced abortions will also be necessary.So if Barack Obama does get his climate bill pushed through Congress and it does kill the U.S. economy, that would only be a first step for those truly dedicated to the radical environmental agenda. What they have planned after that is a whole lot more horrific.

REVELATION 8:10-11
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 16:4
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

Clean up efforts continue all over SLC from Chevron oil spill-All water access points along Red Butte Creek, Liberty Park and the Jordan River should be avoided by humans and animals at this time.FOX 13 News 1:12 a.m. EDT, June 14, 2010

SALT LAKE CITY — City officials have reported the pipeline has been capped and crews began excavating the ten-inch pipeline Sunday afternoon to try to determine the cause of the leak. Environmentalists and city officials are trying to stop the oil slick from reaching the Great Salt Lake.Salt Lake City officials and Chevron crews have been working since early morning Saturday, June 12 to stop a severe oil spill discovered East of Red Butte Canyon. The number of barrels of oil released is estimated at 400-500.Crews continue with clean-up efforts at Liberty Park and surrounding neighbors and ask residents to do clean up the mess themselves. The main issue that we're asking is that residents don't engage in cleaning up the oil in their backyard. It is a hazardous material, it does have a skin contaminant element to it and we're asking them to stop,said Lisa Harrison-Smith.

Residents are advised to stay away from Red Butte Canyon and Liberty Park so crews can adequately manage the spill. All water access points along Red Butte Creek, Liberty Park and the Jordan River should be avoided by humans and animals at this time.The Salt Lake Valley Health Department said the oil has leaked into the Jordan River in two areas on the Salt Lake City's west side.Officials say drinking water for residents has not been affected and will have no threat for residents surrounding the area.We are working tirelessly with Chevron teams to contain this spill from the critical ecological areas affected in our City, said Mayor Ralph Becker.Our fire teams have capped the site and will work to determine the damage and best course of action. We ask all residents of Salt Lake City to help by staying away from these areas.Chevron has a pipeline bringing crude oil in from western Colorado and eastern Utah into the Salt Lake Valley. This pipeline runs down Emigration Canyon and heads west over Beck Street to the company refinery.Chevron said it's launched an investigation into what caused the pipeline leak. The company will not speculate on the cause and fixing the ecological damage could cost the company millions of dollars. They are bringing in clean-up crews from out of state and had more than 60 workers on site cleaning up the oil from the waterways.We regret the impact this has had on the community. We're working hard to minimize it. We take full responsibility for the situation,said Chevron Rep. Sean Comey.The company asks that anyone with concerns or questions to please call 1-(866)-752-6340.

A town hall meeting is scheduled for Monday night at 7:00 p.m. at Clayton Middle School located at 1471 South and 1900 East in Salt Lake City. Mayor Becker and Chevron officials will update the public on the latest conditions and any progress being made in the clean-up effort.FOX 13's Ben Winslow reports.

BP deploys deepsea sensors to better measure spill By RAY HENRY and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writers - 3:30AM JUNE 14,10

NEW ORLEANS – BP mounted a more aggressive response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as it started deploying undersea sensors to better measure the ferocious flow of crude while drawing up new plans to meet a government demand that it speed up the containment effort ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the coast.The financial ramifications of the disaster are growing by the day as the White House and states put pressure on BP to set aside billions of dollars to pay spill-related claims in a move that could quickly drain the company's cash reserves and hasten its path toward possible bankruptcy.BP PLC spokesman Mark Proegler said the company would not make public its response due Sunday to a letter from the Coast Guard demanding that it intensify the efforts to stop the spill. One of the actions BP took Sunday was to use robotic submarines to begin positioning sensors inside the well to gauge how much oil is spilling.The robots were expected to insert the pressure sensors through a line used to inject methanol — an antifreeze meant to prevent the buildup of icelike slush — into a containment cap seated over the ruptured pipe, BP spokesman David Nicholas said.

BP was installing the sensors at the request of a federal team of scientists tasked with estimating the flow. The necessary equipment was first identified last week, and the installation procedures were approved over the weekend, said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Tony Russell, a spokesman for Adm. Thad Allen, the top federal official in charge of the spill response. The work should be completed by Tuesday.Scientists have wanted better data on the flow rate. But Russell said the installation of the sensors had to be timed so it did not interrupt the work of the containment cap. That cap was installed earlier this month and has been gradually brought toward its full capacity, although oil continues to escape the well.Scientists haven't been able to pin down just how much oil is leaking into the Gulf, although the high-end estimates indicated the spill could exceed 100 million gallons. The government has stressed that the larger estimates were still preliminary and considered a worse-case scenario.Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the oil spill, on Sunday said government officials think the best figures are from a middle-of-the-road estimate, which would put the spill at around 66 million gallons of oil. That is about six times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.BP is currently capturing about 630,000 gallons of oil a day, but hundreds thousands more are still escaping into the Gulf. The company has said that it could begin siphoning an additional 400,000 gallons a day starting Tuesday by burning it using a specialized boom being installed on a rig — and any new success would be welcome news for Obama as he returns to the Gulf.

The president was scheduled to arrive in the Gulf on Monday for a two-day visit that will be followed by a nationally televised address to the American people on Tuesday and a sit-down with BP executives Wednesday. The crisis has already become a crucial test for the Obama presidency as it takes a greater toll on his image with each day that more oil gushes into the sea.We're at a kind of inflection point in this saga, because we now know that, what essentially what we can do and what we can't do, in terms of collecting oil, and what lies ahead in the next few months, senior adviser David Axelrod said on NBC's Meet the Press. And he wants to lay out the steps that we're going to take from here to get through this, through this crisis.Obama wants an independent, third party to administer an escrow account paid for by BP to compensate those with legitimate claims for damages. The amount of money set aside will be discussed during talks this week between the White House and BP, but the request will most definitely be in the billions.Louisiana's treasurer has told The Associated Press that it wants $5 billion. Florida said it wants $2.5 billion.We are aware of the request,said BP spokeswoman Sheila Williams in London. She declined to comment further.BP could have to tap its cash reserve to pay the fund while also borrow money to comply. That, however, presents a potential problem because the company's borrowing costs are likely to be a lot higher due to investor concerns.

Oil again began washing up in heavy amounts along the shores of Orange Beach, Ala. on Sunday afternoon as the winds shifted, turning the surf into an oily red mixture that left brown stains at the surf line.A plane flew along the coast pulling a sign that read: Obama, 55 days. What's it gonna take? Earlier in the day, crews wearing rubber globes and boots used shovels to scoop up the oil, sand and tar ball mixture and put it into trash bags. The disposal of oil-soaked dirt and sand is part of a broad effort playing out across the Gulf Coast to clean up the mess.Waste Management received a contract from BP to transport waste produced by cleanup crews assigned to work the stretch of the coastline. Ken Haldin, a Waste Management spokesman, said Sunday that the company has designated 65 trucks and 535 containers that are being filled with solid oil waste.Waste Management has designated three landfills in three different states that are operated by the company to handle the oily refuse. Haldin noted that before the refuse is dumped, it has to be analyzed by both the waste removal company and by local government environmental authorities to make sure it is nonhazardous.Waste Management also is handling some of the liquid waste skimmed from the ocean by cleanup crews, and has set up special equipment, including vacuum trucks, along the docks that separates oil from the water. Once separated, the oil will be resold to oil services companies.This is a major mobilization effort,noted Haldin.Skoloff reported from Orange Beach, Ala. Associated Press Writers Anne D'Innocenzio in New York, Harry R. Weber in Houston and Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., contributed to this report.(This version CORRECTS Corrects Allen's title to admiral; Multimedia: An interactive timeline looking at the affect on marine life, surface currents carrying the oil spill and the life cycle of shrimp and coral reefs is available at _national/flood_timeline. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.)

EU offers equipment to US as oil spat brews
ANDREW WILLIS 11.06.2010 @ 18:06 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Union has pledged to send additional equipment to help contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, even as Washington and London appear to be heading for a diplomatic spat over the disaster.Europe is determined to fight this ecological disaster alongside the US authorities, the EU's crisis response commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, said in a statement on Friday (11June) after several member states offered support. Sweden, Germany, Norway, the UK and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) agreed to provide booms used to restrict the oil spreading following a US request on Thursday evening. Dutch equipment is already being used by US authorities who are desperately trying to contain oil escaping from an underwater well after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, leased by UK energy giant British Petroleum, exploded on 20 April, killing 11 workers. Latest estimates suggest 25,000 barrels per day are still escaping despite a partial capping of the well last week. On Friday, British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg warned against a growing row between the two sides of the Atlantic. I don't frankly think we will reach a solution to stopping the release of oil into the ocean any quicker by allowing this to spiral into a tit-for-tat political diplomatic spat,he said from Spain after a meeting with the Spanish prime minister.

The caution comes after Mr Clegg's boss, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday reminded the US of the economic value BP brings to the US, as share values in the embattled company plummeted. Earlier in the week, US President Barack Obama launched a direct attack on BP's chief executive Tony Hayward, saying he would have fired the executive if he was in charge of the company. He added that he was on a fact-finding mission to find out whose ass to kick over the disaster, which pundits say could damage Mr Obama's political standing. British press report that the two leaders are set to discuss the issue in a telephone call tomorrow.

Lessons for Europe?

The ecological disaster caused by the spill has prompted European politicians to examine their own safety procedures and ability to cope with a similar event, while environmentalists say the event highlights the West's continued over-dependence on fossil fuels.This is clearly a result of politicians believing that the oil industry knew what they were doing, said Greenpeace spokesman Mark Breddy. Drilling for oil is not the solution, we must develop renewable resources.Norway indicated earlier this month that it will not allow any deepwater oil and gas drilling in new areas until the investigation into the explosion and spill in the US Gulf of Mexico is complete. National regulators in a number of member states have been told by governments to double-check safety procedures, while the EU is looking into the need for new legislation.EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger called in senior energy executives on 11 May to explain their ability to deal with a comparable incident. The German politician is keen to identify any loopholes in the bloc's current legislation, although officials stress that Europe's deepwater drilling is much less prevalent than in the US.In July, the commissioner will consult with national regulators and may then come forward with new proposals.If it turns out from these consultations and the analysis of the Gulf of Mexico accident that there is something we do not have in place, then he will consider making a proposal, Marlene Holzner, the commission's energy spokeswoman, told this website.Europe's legislation in the oil sector was stepped up after the sinking of the Erica and Prestige oil-tankers in 1999 and 2002.

BP exec gives pep talk amid US tensions over spill By RAY HENRY and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 13,10 4:30 AM

SCHRIEVER, La. – A top BP executive acknowledged the growing tensions between the oil giant and the federal government but also gave workers at a command center a much-needed pep talk, reminding them of the huge challenge they faced as they try to stop a massive oil leak and keep the crude away from the fragile Gulf Coast.BP's public image has taken a beating and its stock price has plunged since the April 20 explosion of a deep-sea rig that killed 11 people and triggered a massive oil spill that has coated parts of the Gulf Coast with stinking, dark piles of crude and created environmental and economic devastation.Hours before BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, thanked hundreds of BP workers, government officials and contractors at the command center, the Coast Guard made public a testy letter sent to him demanding the energy giant pick up its pace and present a better plan to contain the spill by the time President Barack Obama arrives at the beleaguered coast on Monday.Suttles didn't address the letter when he spoke with workers who crammed into the center on the Louisiana coast, but admitted there were big frustrations out there. Nearby wall postings reminded the bleary eyed that emergency operations had gone on for 53 days.It's a huge challenge, we're doing something that we hoped we'd never have to do, but we're doing something that no one's ever done before,he said. And I want to say thank you. You guys are doing a tremendous job under horribly difficult circumstances.Saturday's meeting was a tightly staged event. Though media were invited, reporters were escorted into the command center for his speech but had to watch from the sidelines as Suttles greeted four BP employees in a side hallway.Suttles later said in an interview that the company would respond to the letter by Sunday night.As the federal government ramped up pressure on BP, Gulf states affected by the disaster also were putting the squeeze on the company, seeking to protect their interests amid talk of the possibility that BP may eventually file for bankruptcy.

The attorney general in Florida and the state treasurer in Louisiana want BP to put a total of $7.5 billion in escrow accounts to compensate the states and their residents for damages now and in the future.At the end of the day, my concern is Louisiana, state treasurer, John Kennedy, told The Associated Press on Saturday. BP ultimately will do what BP thinks is best for BP.Alabama doesn't plan to take such action, and Mississippi and Texas haven't said what they will do.But even with Florida and Louisiana, BP might have a hard time complying, and if it did, it could hasten the company's spiral downward.That's because as of March 31, BP had $6.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents available.Experts say BP wouldn't necessarily need to use cash to fund the accounts the states are asking for. Instead, the company could borrow money to comply. That, however, presents a potential problem because the company's borrowing costs are likely to be a lot higher due to investor concerns.BP said in a statement to the AP that it's considering the Florida request. It didn't address the comments by Kennedy.We have received a variety of funding requests from different states and have been responding to them in due course based on the particular issues raised in each, BP said, adding that it already has made grants totaling $245 million to four Gulf states and is committed to spending up to $360 million to fund construction of six barrier island berms in Louisiana.And as to the concerns raised about a possible bankruptcy filing, BP said only that as of Saturday it was not in discussions with and had not engaged any bankruptcy experts.

Along the Gulf coast, ominous new signs of the tragedy emerged on the beaches of Alabama. Waves of unsightly brown surf hit the shores on Saturday in Orange Beach, leaving piles of oil that dried in the hot sun and extended up to 12 feet from the water's edge for as far as the eye could see. It was the worst hit yet to Alabama beaches.This is awful, said Shelley Booker of Shreveport, La., who was staying in a condominium with her teenage daughter and her friends near the deserted beach about 100 miles from the site of the spill.Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded. The latest cap installed on the blown-out well is capturing about 650,000 gallons of oil a day, but large quantities are still spilling into the sea.BP is hard at work trying to find new ways to capture more oil, but officials say the only way to permanently stop the spill is a relief well that will drill sideways into the broken well and plug it with cement.To boost its capacity, BP also plans to trap oil using lines that earlier shot heavy drilling mud deep into the well during a failed attempt to stop the flow. This time, those lines will work in reverse. Oil and gas from the well will flow up to a semi-submersible drilling rig where it will be burned in a specialized boom that BP estimates can vaporize a maximum 420,000 gallons of oil daily. Suttles said this system could be working by early next week.Another ship should be in place by mid-July to process even more oil.Henry reported from Schriever, La., Weber from Houston. Associated Press Writer Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., contributed to this report.

Coast Guard to BP: Speed it up, stop the spill By JAY REEVES and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers 10:45PM JUNE 12,10(MY ADD STOP THE SPILL IF YOU CAN UNLESS GOD IS FULFILLING PROPHECY THEN NO ONE WILL STOP THE SPILL NO MATTER WHAT TRICKS THEY TRY OR PROPAGANDA THEY PULL)

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – The Coast Guard has demanded that BP step up its efforts to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the weekend, telling the British oil giant that its slow pace in stopping the spill is becoming increasingly alarming as the disaster fouled the coastline in ugly new ways Saturday.

The Coast Guard sent a testy letter to BP's chief operating officer that said the company urgently needs to pick up the pace and present a better plan to contain the spill by the time President Barack Obama arrives on Monday for his fourth visit to the beleaguered coast. The letter, released Saturday, follows nearly two months of tense relations between BP and the government and reflects the growing frustration over the company's inability to stop the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.The dispute escalated on the same day that ominous new signs of the tragedy emerged on the beaches of Alabama. Waves of unsightly brown surf hit the shores in Orange Beach, leaving stinking, dark piles of oil that dried in the hot sun and extended up to 12 feet from the water's edge for as far as the eye could see.It was the worst hit yet to Alabama beaches. Tar-like globs have washed up periodically throughout the disaster, but Saturday's pollution was significantly worse.This is awful, said Shelley Booker of Shreveport, La., who was staying in a condominium with her teenage daughter and her friends near the deserted beach about 100 miles from the site of the spill.Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. The latest cap installed on the blown-out well is capturing about 650,000 gallons of oil a day, but large quantities are still spilling into the sea.The Coast Guard initially sent a letter to BP on Wednesday asking for more details on its plans to contain the oil. BP responded, saying a new system to trap much more oil should be complete by mid-July. That system's new design is meant to better withstand the force of hurricanes and could capture up to roughly 2 million gallons of oil daily when finished, the company said.

But Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson said in a follow-up letter Friday he was concerned that BP's plans were inadequate, especially in light of revised estimates this week that indicated the size of the spill could be up to twice as large as previously thought.BP must identify in the next 48 hours additional leak containment capacity that could be operationalized and expedited to avoid the continued discharge of oil ... Recognizing the complexity of this challenge, every effort must be expended to speed up the process, Watson said in the letter addressed to chief operating officer Doug Suttles.Suttles said the company will respond to the letter by Sunday night.We've got a team of people looking to see, can we accelerate some of the items that are in that plan and is it possible to do more,Suttles said in a brief interview after speaking to workers at a command center where he thanked BP employees and contractors for their work in cleaning up the spill. There are some real challenges to do that, including safety.Suttles also acknowledged that there's big frustrations out there. They're out there in the community, they're out there in government, they're out there everywhere. And I think they're all rooted in the fact that none of us want this to happen. And none of us want this to occur, and we all want it to get fixed now.The letter and deadline come just before Obama is set to visit the Gulf Coast on Monday and Tuesday. On Saturday, Obama reassured British Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the oil spill in the Gulf was not an attack on Britain.The two leaders spoke by phone for 30 minutes Saturday. Cameron also has been under pressure to get Obama to tone down the criticism, fearing it will hurt the millions of British retirees holding BP stock that has taken a beating in recent weeks.Cameron's office said the prime minister told Obama of his sadness at the disaster, while Obama said he recognized that BP was a multinational company and that his frustration had nothing to do with national identity.BP is hard at work trying to find new ways to capture more oil, but officials say the only way to permanently stop the spill is a relief well that will drill sideways into the broken well and plug it with cement.Right now, a containment cap sitting over a well pipe is siphoning off around 653,100 gallons of oil to a ship the ocean surface. That oil is then unloaded to tankers and taken ashore.

To boost its capacity, BP also plans to trap oil using lines that earlier shot heavy drilling mud deep into the well during a failed attempt to stop the flow. This time, those lines will work in reverse. Oil and gas from the well will flow up to a semi-submersible drilling rig where it will be burned in a specialized boom that BP estimates can vaporize a maximum 420,000 gallons of oil daily. Another ship should be in place by mid-July to process even more oil. News that the federal government had given BP until the end of the weekend to speed up the oil containment was met with raised eyebrows and long sighs as locals gathered to barbecue, drink Budweiser and listen to classic rock at a fishing benefit in Pointe a la Hache, La.I'll believe it when I see it, said Dominic Bazile, a firefighter. On a Florida beach about 190 miles from the rig explosion, a stainless steel tank with markings that identified it as having come from the Deepwater Horizon washed up on shore. Bay County Sheriff Deputy Ray Maulbeck was working beach patrol Saturday when he came upon the wreckage. The Coast Guard and state environmental officials took the piece away. Meanwhile, Gulf states affected by the disaster are putting the squeeze on BP, seeking to protect their interests amid talk of the possibility that BP may eventually file for bankruptcy.The attorney general in Florida and the state treasurer in Louisiana want BP to put a total of $7.5 billion in escrow accounts to compensate the states and their residents for damages now and in the future. Alabama doesn't plan to take such action, while Mississippi and Texas haven't said what they will do.As of the end of March, BP had only $6.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents available.BP said in a statement that it is considering the Florida request. It didn't address the comments by the state treasurer in Louisiana. Associated Press writers Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tamara Lush in Pointe a la Hache, La., Dave Martin in Orange Beach, Jill Lawless in London and Harry R. Weber in Houston contributed to this report. Henry reported from Schriever, La.

Coast Guard tells BP to speed up containment pace By JAY REEVES and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers 3:30 PM JUNE 12,10

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – The federal government has given BP until the end of the weekend to find ways to speed up efforts to contain huge amounts of oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter released Saturday, as large globs of brown crude coated Alabama's white sand beaches.Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson sent a letter to BP officials on Friday expressing frustration with the overall pace of the effort and ordered the company to identify ways to expedite the process in the coming says.Recognizing the complexity of this challenge, every effort must be expended to speed up the process, Watson wrote in the letter, sent to Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer.BP has struggled with several efforts to contain the oil. The latest cap installed on the blown-out well is capturing about 650,000 gallons of oil a day, but large quantities are still spilling into the sea.

Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to 109 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the worst oil spill in U.S. history.The Coast Guard initially sent a letter to BP on Wednesday asking for more details on its plans to contain the oil. BP responded, saying a new system to trap oil spewing from the well should be complete by mid-July.That system's new design is meant to better withstand the force of hurricanes and could capture about 2 million gallons of oil daily when fully built, the oil giant said.But Watson said he was concerned that BP's plans didn't maximize resources or go far enough to mobilize redundant resources in the event of an equipment failure or another problem.BP must identify in the next 48 hours additional leak containment capacity that could be operationalized and expedited to avoid the continued discharge of oil, Watson wrote.

BP spokesman Jon Pack said the company received Watson's letter and would respond to it as soon as possible.The letter and deadline comes just before President Barack Obama is set to visit the Gulf Coast on Monday and Tuesday. On Saturday, Obama reassured British Prime Minister David Cameron that his frustration over the oil spill in the Gulf was not an attack on Britain, the British government said.The two leaders spoke by phone for 30 minutes Saturday to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the huge spill. Cameron also has been under pressure to get Obama to tone down the criticism fearing it will hurt the millions of British retirees that hold BP stock.Cameron's office said the prime minister expressed his sadness at the ongoing human and environmental catastrophe,but stressed BP's economic importance to Britain, the U.S. and other countries.It said Obama recognized that BP — which he has pointedly referred to in public by its former name, British Petroleum — is a multinational company, and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity.Obama said he had no interest in undermining BP's value. The company's stock has lost 40 percent of its value since the oil rig fire on April 20 that unleashed the United States' worst oil spill.Along the Gulf Coast, Alabama's beaches took their worst hit yet from the oil spill on Saturday as chocolate-colored oil slathered beaches along the coast.During a flight over the Gulf, Sean Brumley, an aerial spotter, said he saw an oily sheen and brown patches of oil floating for miles off the Alabama coast. Boats trying to remove the oil before it hit the coast worked about three miles out.The Gulf looks like it has chicken pox,Brumley said.

On the beach, pools of crude oil as much as 4 inches deep hit the beach in waves, and the surf was a dark, ugly shade of brown. No one was in the water, and the beaches that normally are packed with people this time of year were virtually deserted. Stinking, dark piles of oil dried in the hot sun, extending as much as 12 feet from the water's edge for as far as the eye could see.I didn't think it was a big deal yesterday. This is awful,said Shelley Booker of Shreveport, La., who was staying in a condominium with her teenage daughter and six of her friends. The beaches in Florida's Panhandle were largely free of tar Saturday — but signs of the fight against the spill were everywhere. Officials have said that two wide sections of the slick were just off the shoreline. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, rallied volunteers and employees at Gulf Islands National Seashore on Saturday, preparing them for a long fight against the oil.But the slow movement of the oil and constant preparations for its arrival were taking toll on beach residents.It's like waiting for someone to die from cancer,said Greg Hall, who walks the beach each morning.Reeves reported from Orange Beach, Ala.; Henry from New Orleans. Associated Press writers Melissa Nelson in Pensacola Beach, Fla., Dave Martin in Orange Beach, and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.

Spill oil to seep into supply chain as BP sells it By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer 430AM JUNE 12,10

NEW ORLEANS – Oil from nation's worst spill could soon end up at gas stations, construction sites and even grocery stores once BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to raise money for wildlife protection.Energy giant BP PLC announced this week it will donate its share of the proceeds generated by selling the oil captured from the well to fund efforts to protect and restore wildlife habitat along the Gulf Coast.The company has not released specifics on how the fund will work and said it doesn't know how much money might be raised — but once the oil is brought to shore, it will creep into the world's economic supply chain unnoticed by consumers.Oil is oil, said Julius Langlinais, professor emeritus of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University.There's no stamp or anything on it. It's all the same molecules.Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to 109 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the worst oil spill in U.S. history.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man for the oil spill, said that since the leak began, 4 million gallons of crude have been siphoned off the leaking well using tubes and caps. An additional 18 million gallons have been skimmed from the ocean surface, he said. The skimmed liquid is generally only 10 to 15 percent oil.Negotiations were still ongoing Friday to find a buyer for all that captured oil, BP spokesman Mark Proegler said.There's nothing special about it, other than everyone's looking at it,he said.

It's possible the oil won't even be sold to a refinery directly by BP or even processed in the Gulf. Big oil companies have trading departments that commonly swap barrels of crude with other firms or sell them to traders who could route the oil across the globe, Langlinais said.Once that crude hits a refinery, the oil could end up in a wide array of fuels and products including gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt and plastic — including the bags used at grocery stores, the cases for cell phone and microwaves. It also can be used as raw feed for chemical companies.I think it's an eye-opening experience for people who don't give it much thought when they finally realize how much their lives depend on oil,Langlinais said.BP has said it plans to boost its ability to directly capture oil gushing from the well by early next week. A semi-submersible drilling rig would capture and burn up to 420,000 gallons of oil daily. Once on board, the oil and gas collected from the well will be sent down a boom and burned at sea.A drill ship already at the scene can process a maximum of 756,000 gallons of oil daily that's sucked up through a containment cap sitting on the well head.Federal officials are still reviewing BP's plan to build a new containment system designed to capture more oil and be more durable during hurricane season. Allen said the plan could be revised based on calculations of how much oil is spilling from the well.It's unclear how much the captured oil will be worth once it's sold. Oil was trading around $74 a barrel Friday, but BP officials said they expect to get a lower price than normal because the oil captured from the leak is laced with methanol.BP is injecting methanol as an antifreeze into the inside of the containment cap sitting over the gushing well to prevent the buildup of an ice-like slush that can clog the pipes.

Under its operating agreement, BP gets 65 percent of the net revenue made by selling oil from the leak site. After deducting for royalty payments owed to the government, it will donate its share of the proceeds to the wildlife fund. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which is entitled to 25 percent of the oil revenue, is still discussing what do with its share of the money when the oil is sold, Anadarko spokesman Matt Carmichael said.We're committed to doing the right thing,he said.A subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd., which has a 10 percent stake, declined to comment.