P4 - OIL SPILL 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

ITS 10 AM JUNE 4,10 AND SEE WHATS UP WITH THE OIL SPILL TODAY.

ITS 3:10PM JUNE 4,2010 A LOT OF THE BILDERBERG MEMBERS ARE STARTING TO GET SCARED AND ARE AFRAID TO BE SEEN AT BILDERBERG-THEY WANT TO AVOID BEING SEEN THERE.THE NUTCASES CONTROL FREAKS ARE FINALLY ON THE RUN AND KNOW THEY ARE BEING WATCHED VERY CLOSELY OF THEIR DEMONIC DEEDS AGAINST THE WORLDS CITIZENS.THIS IS PRETTY GOOD FOR BEING A RACIST AND IMAGINING THAT THE BILDERBERGS EXIST AND CONTROL WORLD EVENTS WITH THEIR BIG MONEY THEY ROBBED THE WORLD CITIZENS OF.THE BILDERBERGS WANT THE IMF AS THE TREASURY OF THE WORLD JUST LIKE I FIGURED WOULD BE SAID THERE.THE IMF BANK OF THE WORLD TO PAY CAP & TRADE-CLIMATE CHANGE TAXES TO WORLDWIDE BY EVERY CITIZEN.THE GLOBAL BANK OF THE WORLD GOVERNMENT.

THE BILDERBERGS ARE AFFRAID THEIR CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM IS BEING DESTROYED,JIM TUCKER SAID THE NEW WORLD ORDER WILL BE IN FULL PROPAGANDA GEAR TO GET THIS CLIMATE CHANGE CAP & TRADE TREATY PASSED.OBAMA WILL BE PUSHING FOR IT TUCKER SAYS OBAMAS OUR BOY.NOW WE KNOW WHY OBAMAS PUTTING CLIMATE CHANGERS ON THE BP SPILL JUST AS I FIGURED AGAIN.GAS WILL BE WELL PRICED TILL NOVEMBER WHEN IT WILL GO TO $4.00 A GALLON.THIS MAKES SENSE TO AS IN AUGUST THEY SAY BP WILL HAVE THE SPILL CAPPED.SEE HOW EVERYTHING IS COMING TOGETHER AS THE NEW WORLD ORDER BILDERBERG NUTCASES WANT A TREATY TO BAN GUNS ALSO WORLDWIDE.THEY REALLY ARE SCARED.GET READY FOLKS BIBLE PROPHECY IS COMING TOGETHER QUICK NOW.

ITS 4:20PM DAY 46 OF OIL SPILL JUNE 4,10.552 BIRDS ARE DEAD ALONG THE GULF COASTLINES.AND I WONDER WHO BOUGHT THE 44% OF BP STOCKS THAT GOLDMAN SACHS GOT RID OF.IF IT WAS A MUSLIM COUNTRY THIS COULD BE A TERRORIST ATTACK THIS OIL SPILL TO DESTROY AMERICANS OCEAN AND FORCE THE PRICE OF OIL AND GAS TO GO UP.THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT BUT THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT IN THE END.

ITS 7:35PM JUNE 4,10 THERE SAYING TONY HAYWARD WILL STEP ASIDE AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE OVER.IF TONY HAYWARD GETS FIRED YOU CAN BET HE WILL GET MILLIONS IN SEVERENCE PAY,GOLDMAN SACHS WILL HIRE HIM,THEN 6 MONTHS LATER HE WILL BE A CZAR IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO OVERLOOK THE OIL INDUSTRY.THIS IS HOW THESE CHICAGO THUGS WORK-SOETORO-OBAMA AND HIS CREW OF CRIMINALS.

ITS 8:20PM JUNE 4,10 NOW THERES ALLIGATIONS THAT 100 AND POSSIBLY MORE SO CALLED ENVIROMENTAL WORKERS HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR BACKROUNDS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.WELL JAILBIRDS IF THEY WERE HIRED FROM THEIR CELLS WOULD BLEND RIGHT IN WITH THE CRIMINAL OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.NOTHING SURPRISES ME WITH THIS OBAMA DICTATORSHIP.

ITS 9:06 AM JUNE 5,10 AND PEOLE ARE FINALLY WAKING UP TO THIS BEING PROPHECY FULFILLED LITERALLY FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION.GOD (KING JESUS)SAID ONCE SIN OVERTAKES A NATION AND PEOPLE HATE HIM (JESUS-GOD)AND ISRAEL-THAT NATION OR PERON WILL BE DESTROYED.SINCE THIS PROPHECY OF THE OIL SPILL IS LITERALLY COMING TO PASS,ALL THE REST OF THE PROPHECIES I PUT ON MY SITE WILL LITERALLY COME TO PASS TO JUST LIKE JESUS (GOD)SAID RIGHT FROM HIS WORD.

DAY 47 11:05 AM JUNE 5,10-NOW THERE TALKING ABOUT NUKING THE OIL SPILL TO STOP IT.THIS COULD CAUSE A GIGANTIC TSUNAMI AND END UP POISONING THE WATERS AND STREAMS TO LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS WOULD HAPPEN.SO THEY MIGHT USE THE NUKE OPTION ON THIS SPILL WHICH WOULD CAUSE A TSUNAMI LIKE THE BIBLE PREDICTS AND THE RADIATION FROM THE NUKE GOING OFF WOULD THEN POISON ALL OF THE GULF AS WELL AS GO IN THE AIR AND POISON THE WATERS AND STREAMS.WE ARE IN FOR INTERESTING TIMES NOW.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS PERILAS DANGEROUS TIMES.
VIDEO OF NUKE WORK RESULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPNQoTlacU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BE42PzZZc&feature=player_embedded

Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 13:58 ET How The World Works Enough lollygagging: Nuke the Gulf oil spill! The Soviet Union employed the nuclear option to stop runaway gas wells. So what could possibly go wrong? Video By Andrew Leonard

iStockphoto/AP Why can't we just nuke the oil well out of existence? As each successive failure to stop the nation's worst-ever spill ratchets up popular outrage and political pressure on the Obama administration, chatter about the nuclear option has also heated up. We've got an extreme problem, so why not an extreme solution? Strange as it may seem to hear people advocating thermonuclear devastation to stop an environmental catastrophe, one can understand the psychological attraction. Enough with the nutty Rube Goldberg "top kill" kludges. Let's just blow the damn thing up and get it over with! Hey, the Soviets did it, why can't we? This much we do know: In four separate instances dating back to 1966, the Soviet Union successfully used nuclear explosives to shut off runaway onshore gas wells. According to a report published by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2000, The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions,the first successful application of the nuclear option took place in the Urtabulak gas field in Southern Uzbekistan. The Urtabulak well had been gushing more than 12 million cubic meters of gas per day for almost three years and had defied numerous techno-fixes.Finally, in the fall of 1966, a decision was made to attempt closing the well with the use of a nuclear explosive... Two 44.5-cm (13.5-in) diameter slant wells, Holes No. 1c and 2c, were drilled simultaneously. They were aimed to come as close as possible to Hole No. 11 at a depth of about 1500 m in the middle of a 200-m-thick clay zone.... The location for the explosive in Hole 1c was cooled to bring it down to a temperature the explosive could withstand. A special 3O-kt nuclear explosive developed by the Arzamas nuclear weapons laboratory for this event was emplaced in Hole 1c and stemmed. It was detonated on September 30, 1966. Twenty-three seconds later the flame went out, and the well was sealed.

Emboldened by their success, the Soviets proceeded to cap three other runaway gas wells in ensuing years, once in 1968 and twice in 1972. Another attempt in 1981 failed, however, and as far as we know, there have been no further efforts at nuclear well destruction. I cannot affirmatively attest to the authenticity of the footage in the following video, but the events recorded align pretty well with the DOE report, and it certainly makes for gripping viewing:One of the Soviet scientists involved with the Urtabulak effort has already helpfully proposed that the U.S. follow the Russian example, inspiring animated discussion among the online Deepwater Horizon voyeurs who hang out at places like the indispensable The Oil Drum. What's Obama waiting for? What could possibly go wrong? The first cautionary note would be to observe that there's a big difference between a gas well on land and a deep-water oil well. The primary reason why the Deepwater Horizon spill has proven so difficult to stop is precisely because the wellhead is 5,000 feet underwater, and the well bore penetrates another 13,000 feet below the seabed. Solutions that are possible on land or in shallow water are not readily applicable, or the well would already be plugged.It's also worth noting that in the Soviet case, additional slant wells had to be drilled in order to get the nuclear explosive deep enough and close enough to the original well to be able to seal it off. Although some armchair nuclear option quarterbacks have recommended exploding a nuclear device at the seabed in the hope of fusing the surrounding seafloor into a giant cap, it's not clear that such a cap would be able to withstand the immense pressure exerted by the oil and gas bubbling from below. To properly place any explosive -- conventional or nuclear -- deep enough to be able to permanently plug the well would require drilling a new well -- a process that we already know is time-consuming.

This is just speculation, but I'm also guessing that we don't have a whole lot of data about what happens to the geology of a deepwater oil reservoir when a nuclear bomb is detonated in the general vicinity. I'd hate to be the president who authorized a nuclear strike against an oil well and discover that the blast created numerous fractures in the seafloor that allowed even more oil and gas to escape. It seems to me that one might want to hold such a tactic in reserve as a last resort.
And then there are the worst-case scenarios -- such as the possibility that a nuclear explosion might ignite a chain reaction of methane hydrate eruptions that could result in the most horrific global catastrophe since the Permian extinction:
You think the good citizens of Louisiana are upset now. Imagine how they'd feel after a tsunami followed by clouds of deadly methane gas laid waste to the Gulf?

Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real By HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 7:20 PM.

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions of gallon of oil.These waters are my backyard, my life, said boat captain Dave Marino, a firefighter and fishing guide from Myrtle Grove.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, even as a cap placed by BP over the blownout well began to collect some of the escaping crude. The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.

If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day. But that is a small fraction of the roughly 24 million to 47 million gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.Allen, who said the goal is to gradually raise the amount of the oil being captured, compared the process to stopping the flow of water from a garden hose with a finger: You don't want to put your finger down too quickly, or let it off too quickly.BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the buildup of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.President Barack Obama pledged Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida — now confronting the oil spill firsthand.In Gulf Shores, Ala., boardwalks leading to hotels were tattooed with oil from beachgoers' feet. A slick hundreds of yards long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with a thick, red stew. Cleanup workers rushed to contain it in bags, but more washed in before they could remove the first wave of debris.

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Allen met for more than an hour Saturday in Mobile, Ala., agreeing to a new plan that would significantly increase protection on the state's coast with larger booms, beachfront barriers, skimmers and a new system to protect Perdido Bay near the Florida line.Riley, who was angered by a Coast Guard decision to move boom from Alabama to Louisiana, said the barriers must be up within days for him to be satisfied. Allen said he needed to report to the president before confirming more details of the agreement.The oil is showing up right at the beginning of the lucrative tourist season, and beachgoers taking to the region's beaches haven't been able to escape it.This makes me sick, said Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude. We were over in Florida earlier and it was bad there, but it was nothing like this.At Pensacola Beach, Erin Tamber, who moved to the area from New Orleans after surviving Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, inspected a beach stained orange by the retreating tide.I feel like I've gone from owning a piece of paradise to owning a toxic waste dump, she said.Back in Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against unused containment boom. The futility of their struggle was confirmed when Joe Sartore, a National Geographic photographer, sank thigh deep in oil on nearby East Grand Terre Island and had to be pulled from the tar.I would have died if I would have been out here alone,he said. With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the 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.After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue center for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way. Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.

Yet 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 invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.People naturally tend to focus on things that are most conspicuous, like oiled birds, but in my opinion the impacts on fisheries will be much more severe, said Rich Ambrose, director of the environmental science and engineering at program at UCLA. 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, though, 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.Gilly Llewellyn, oceans program leader with the World Wildlife Fund in Australia, said she observed the same behavior by dolphins following a 73-day spill last year in the Timor Sea.A heartbreaking sight, Llewellyn said.And what we managed to see on the surface was undoubtedly just a fraction of what was happening.

The prospect left fishing guide Marino shaking his head, as he watched the oil washing into a marsh and over the body of a dead pelican. Species like shrimp and crab flourish here, finding protection in the grasses. Fish, birds and other creatures feed here.It's going to break that cycle of life,Marino said.It's like pouring gas in your aquarium. What do you think that's going to do? 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.; and Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.

Truths About the Oil Spill
by Martha Zoller 06/04/2010

There are some truths about the Gulf oil spill that must be considered when addressing this calamity.While there is no doubt the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is a major disaster, it should not mean the end of off-shore drilling.And the slowness of the government response is a disaster of epic proportions.

First, where to drill.

President Obama says we are drilling so far out to sea because the close-in resources have been tapped. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are drilling so far out because of the short sightedness of politicians, including Republicans like Florida Governors Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. These Republicans caved to bad information about drilling off their states’ coasts. They wanted to be liked by environmentalists. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats and environmentalists to derail our energy independence?

We are drilling in deep water, where it’s extremely risky, because in the safer places to drill, such as ANWR, closer to shore along the coast and much of the vast expanses of federal lands in the West, the federal government has placed restrictions preventing energy development. The BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill isn’t a reflection of not enough regulation. We have 300 pages of regulation. It is a reflection of unenforced regulation. The people put in charge of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service were academics appointed by the Obama Administration with little to no experience in the real world. And where is President Obama, other than his Clinton walking the beach picking up a rock moment last weekend. He seems unconcerned with the whole thing. Mr. Cool doesn’t have the answers. And if anyone believes one of the first daughters asked Daddy,
Did you plug the hole, yet? as he shaved, I’ve got some barrier islands in Louisiana I could sell you. This oil spill should not be a condemnation of Drill Here, Drill Now.This disaster supports Drill Here, Drill Now.It is safer to drill off shore in shallow waters and on land in the U.S. than to buy oil from foreign sources and have it shipped to us. I talked to a very high ranking congressman and he said, How do we advocate Drill Here, Drill Now now? It’s easy, be armed with the facts. Stand up and don’t let the emotion lead the debate.Meanwhile, the federal response to the spill has been nothing short of abysmal. In the five states impacted immediately (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida), we’ve seen executives at work. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has shown he is a can-do executive while the feds are doing little but getting in the way. Jindal talks of useless meetings lacking action. The Obama Administration seems to be hung up on having the best minds looking at this but they can’t give Gov. Jindal an answer on the best option: dredging sand and making a barrier to keep the oil away from the coast. He asked for that weeks ago and has gotten only limited approval. Limited approval? This is not a limited disaster.It shouldn’t take the Army Corps of Engineers weeks to approve the sand berms, they should have gotten the equipment to the coast right away.

We can’t change what’s happened but we can act now. Work with Jindal in the lead; don’t have more meetings with the likes of the Atty. Gen. Eric Holder. There will be a time for useless meetings, as Gov. Jindal said. Now is the time for action.But before White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gets us all riding bicycles to work, let’s look at the real truth about this spill. Roy Spencer, former NASA scientist, author of Climate Confusion and research scientist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, took a historical look at the oil spills in the world. Spencer is the official climatologist of The Rush Limbaugh Program,but most importantly, his research at UAB Huntsville is not funded by corporations. Spencer took into consideration what BP says they were pumping daily from the well, which was 15,000 barrels a day and the actual numbers on the historical spills. The largest oil spill, deliberately set in 1991 by Iraqi forces, was an estimated 500 million gallons. The second largest spill occurs every year in leakage from tankers and ships, estimated at 250 million gallons a year. The third largest was the only other spill from a rig—in Mexico in 1979 (IXTOC)—at less than 150 million gallons. Exxon Valdez was way down the list at less than 50 million gallons. BP/Deepwater Horizon is also less than 50 million gallons but still gushing. We are a long way from the worst spill in history and it’s clear that most spills occur from shipping oil, not drilling it. Granted, if we don’t get that thing tapped, it could be worse, but we are not there yet. It’s been said, A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Let’s use it to our advantage for a change. Lets use this to educate about the facts of drilling. I know with the 24/7 spillcam going all the time, Drill Here, Drill Now advocates think they can’t talk about drilling, but this is the perfect moment. Spread the facts and don’t stop telling them. Drilling for oil in America is safe. Let’s fix this and then move close to shore and on land and Drill Here, Drill Now.

Ms. Zoller is a political analyst and conservative talk show host for WXKT FM 103.7 in Gainesville, Georgia and syndicated on The Georgia News Network. She is one of the Talkers Magazine Heavy Hundred Talk Shows in America. She can be seen regularly on cable news. She is the author of Indivisible: Uniting Values for a Divided America.You may contact her through www.marthazoller.com

Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured By MELISSA NELSON and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 5,10 8:30 AM

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – President Barack Obama promised Saturday to fight the massive oil spill alongside the people of the Gulf Coast, as a cap placed over the gusher was collecting only some of the crude and a slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states.The spreading slick arrived with the tide on the Florida Panhandle's white sands Friday as BP continued its desperate and untested bid to arrest what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.It's brutally unfair. It's wrong. And what I told these men and women — and what I have said since the beginning of this disaster — is that I'm going to stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are made whole," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address, recorded in Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast.Obama also maintained his increasingly forceful tone toward BP PLC, the oil giant responsible for the cleanup: We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast.The government's point man for the crisis, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Friday that there had been progress but cautioned against overoptimism.Early Friday, he guessed that the cap was collecting 42,000 gallons a day — less than one-tenth of the amount leaking from the well. Later in the day, BP said in a tweet that since it was installed Thursday night, it had collected about 76,000 gallons.The widening scope of the disaster deepened the anger and despair just as Obama arrived for his third visit to the stricken Gulf Coast.On Obama's trip to the Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast, his motorcade passed a building that had been adorned with his portrait reminiscent of posters of him during his presidential campaign. Instead of hope or change,the words what now? were on his forehead.

The oil has reached the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It has turned marshlands into death zones for wildlife and stained beaches rust and crimson. Some said it brought to mind the plagues and punishments of the Bible.In Revelations it says the water will turn to blood,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding. This is going to choke the life out of everything.

He added: It makes me want to cry.Six weeks after the April 20 oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, the well has leaked somewhere between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates.The mayor of Grand Isle, David Camardelle, choked up as he told the president of staying up nights worrying.We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, Camardelle said.I'm trying to keep Grand Isle alive.A device resembling an upside-down funnel was lowered over the blown-out well a mile beneath the sea to try to capture most of the oil and direct it to a ship on the surface. But crude continued to escape into the Gulf early Saturday through vents designed to prevent ice crystals from clogging the cap. Engineers hoped to close several vents.One unanswered question was whether the cap fit snugly. BP sheared off the well pipe before installing the cap but was unable to make a smooth cut.As the operation went on at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the effect of the BP spill was increasingly evident.Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess, while other beachgoers inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. David Lucas of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly cut their visit short after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after he and the others cleaned their feet and left. Health officials said that people should stay away from the mess but that swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is no reason for alarm. Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson said there are no plans to close the beach. For the most part if you went and walked on the sand that was not right there on the shoreline, you were in no danger of engaging tar balls, he said Friday.

At Gulf Shores, Ala., a slick of oil hundreds of yard long washed ashore at a state park, coating the white sand with thick, reddish goo. A squad of cleanup workers bagged up the oil, but more washed in before they could remove the debris from the first run. Rebecca Thomasson of Knoxville, Tenn., watched as drops of oil turned the surf brown and collected at the waterline, smearing the beach with big, thick globs.
This makes me sick, said Thomasson, her legs and feet smeared with brown streaks of crude.Alabama Gov. Bob Riley said he's frustrated with the Coast Guard's response on the state's coast and will consider closing the beaches if the oil becomes a public health threat.Back in Grand Isle, one frustrated man didn't hold back before the president's visit.He ain't much of a leader, Eugene Ryman Jr. said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership? I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Meanwhile, BP's Hayward assured investors that the company had considerable firepower to cope with the severe costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, promising to meet its obligations related to the spill. Frank Basson has a comfortable monopoly along the main drag in Grand Isle. He owns a restaurant, souvenir shop and daiquiri spot. Business plummeted once oil washed up on the shores, but he isn't going anywhere. He came back after Hurricane Katrina, and if he has to close his doors, he figures he'll find a new venture. But he worries about the greater community. BP has to take care of us,he said.Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr in East Grande Terre, La.; Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Eileen Sullivan in Washington; Paul J. Weber in Houston; Jay Reeves in Gulf Shores, Ala.; and Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., contributed to this report.

Will the Oil Spill Help Secure Cap and Trade?
More By Max Fisher on June 03, 2010 11:15am

It's hard to find an upside to the disastrous oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. But Democrats may be looking to push cap and trade legislation, which had previously stalled, off of public outrage against the offshore drilling accident. What are their chances?

-Finding Something Good From Oil Spill The Washington Post's Steve Mufson and Michael Shear write, President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency. In a speech at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, Obama made one of his strongest pitches for comprehensive climate legislation, arguing that the case for breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels has been made clearer by the environmental catastrophe in the gulf.

-Exploiting Crisis for Bad Policy The Heritage Foundation's Nicolis Loris fumes, Similar to Rahm Emanuel’s You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste statement, President Obama urged both Democrats and Republicans to move quickly to pass cap and trade legislation. This is not the solution to America’s energy needs because cap and trade will raise energy prices, kill jobs and contract the economy.He adds,The president said he is angry and frustrated – as are most Americans. But that frustration should not lead to policies that will shrink America’s economy, destroy jobs and affect America’s energy production for years to come.

-But Policy Remains Unpopular, Difficult to Secure The Examiner's John Ryden notes, It is clear from his speech that the president’s top priority is to pass cap and trade legislation. It is notable that he did not directly address it by that name. Probably because cap and trade is not very popular, often referred to by critics as cap and tax. He does not have the votes in the senate to pass this legislation as he noted. ... To get his cap and trade bill passed he is trying to add energy development measures to develop off-shore oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. The BP oil spill in the Gulf has made this more difficult as it has stiffened the opposition to any off-shore drilling, leaving the president less incentives to win votes for his cap and trade legislation.

-Economic Cost Too High National Review's Stephen Spruiell makes the case. The state’s independent auditing agency just released a damning study on the cap-and-trade program California plans to implement unilaterally, concluding that the 'net economywide impact' — which includes badly needed revenue for the state’s empty coffers — will in all likelihood be negative.The case of California shows us that our illusions about the economic feasibility of a green-energy utopia are on a fast track to the dust bin.

-Oil Spill Hurting Obama's Energy Agenda The New York Times' Peter Baker writes, Now that engineers have given up trying to plug the leak and have turned their efforts to containing it until a relief well can be finished in August, Mr. Obama faces at least two more months of crisis management that will complicate his hopes of advancing his agenda in other areas. Every day he devotes to a spill that seems beyond his control, and every day it consumes attention in Washington, is another day that he cannot focus as much energy and resources on his own initiatives.

Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Fla. By MELISSA NELSON and JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writers - 4:15PM JUNE 4,10

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude now fouling four states.Even though the inverted funnel-like device was set over the leak late Thursday, crude continued to spew into the sea in the nation's worst oil spill. Engineers hoped to close several open vents on the cap throughout the day in the latest attempt to contain the oil.As they worked on the system underwater, the effect of the BP spill was widely seen. Swimmers at Pensacola Beach rushed out of the water after wading into the mess while children played with it on the shore and others inspected the clumps with fascination, some taking pictures. Brown pelicans coated in chocolate syrup-like oil flailed and struggled in the surf on a Louisiana island, where the beached was stained in hues of rust and crimson, much like the color of drying blood.In Revelations, it says the water will turn to blood. That's what it looks like out here — like the Gulf is bleeding,said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Plaquemines Parish as he kneeled down to take a picture of an oil-coated feather. This is going to choke the life out of everything.President Barack Obama was in Louisiana, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.

Obama got a briefing on the spill and said progress was being made but that it was way too early to be optimistic about BP's latest attempt. He criticized BP for spending on advertising and shareholder dividends, saying the company must not do that if it's nickeling and diming local businesses and workers.In Grand Isle where the president was headed, the once-bustling fishing pier was filled not with anglers, but photographers seeking a new angle on the invading ooze. The community of 1,500 rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina and residents savor their pristine shoreline.Their frustration is boiling over. One sign on the street said: Tony Bologna, a dig at BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward.Stephanie and Eugene Ryman Jr., who live in nearby Rockport, come to the pier every year to celebrate their wedding anniversary. This was their 33rd, and they were going to make the most of it — even if it meant looking at oil sheen instead of a beautiful vista.Eugene, 54, who has worked for decades in a shipyard, said he was growing tired of the government's response.He ain't much of a leader,he said of Obama. The beach you can clean up. The marsh you can't. Where's the leadership. I want to hear what's being done. We're going to lose everything.Off the coast and a mile below the water's surface, crews were working on the cap to try to curtail the spill. The device has different colored hoses loosely attached to combat near-freezing temperatures and icylike crystals that could clog it. It started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface overnight, but it wasn't clear how much.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, said Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster.He said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed the information was anecdotal.

Robots a mile beneath the Gulf were shooting chemical dispersants at the escaping oil — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the main pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon to know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap. The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 22 million and 47 million gallons of oil, according to government estimates. In Florida, spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches. David Lucas, of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly ended their visit to Pensacola Beach after wading into oily water. It was sticky brown globs out there, Lucas said after the group cleaned their feet in the parking lot and headed south to Orlando.

People should stay away from oil on the beach or in the water, but swallowing a little oil-tainted water or getting slimed by a tarball is not considered grounds for a trip to the emergency room, health officials said. Oil is considered toxic. Short exposures may cause only fleeting symptoms, and exposure to large amounts of it for a long time could lead to problems with breathing, thinking and coordination, and potentially raise the risk of cancer, said Niladri Basu, a University of Michigan environmental toxicologist. Children are more sensitive to pollution than adults. Steven Majerus and his 11-year-old nephew, Zach, walked along Pensacola Beach and checked out the oil clumps as family members splashed in the surf. Majerus filled a plastic baggy with tar and photographed it with his phone.It's really hot. See how hot it gets in this bag with the sun beating down on it, he said. Just to the west at Gulf Shores, Ala., Wendi Butler watched glistening clumps of oil roll onto the white sand beach during a morning stroll. An oily smell was in the air. You don't smell the beach breeze at all,said Butler, 40. Butler moved to Perdido Bay from Mobile days before the spill. Now, her two kids don't want to visit because of the oil and she can't find a job.Restaurants are cutting back to their winter staffs because of it. They're not hiring,she said. Meanwhile, BP's Hayward sought to reassure investors, saying the company has considerable firepower to cope with the severe, long-running costs. Hayward and other senior BP executives struck a penitent note in their first comprehensive update to shareholders since the oil rig explosion, stressing their commitment to rebuilding BP's tarnished reputation, improving safety measures and restoring the damaged Gulf coast.Reeves reported from Gulf Shores, Ala. Associated Press writers Greg Bluestein in Grand Isle, La.; Holbrook Mohr in East Grand Terre, La.; Jane Wardell in London, Mike Stobbe in Atlanta and Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Cap collecting Gulf oil, still unclear how much By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer 10 AM JUNE 4,10

GRAND ISLE, La. – A cap collected some of the oil spewing out of the blown-out Gulf well, but black crude was still leaking into the sea, and officials said they won't know until later Friday how the device is working.It's the latest bid to contain — not plug — the nation's worst spill. Even if the cap is successful, it will not collect all the oil coming out. Stopping the leak is still months away.But officials were optimistic when the inverted funnel-like system, wrapped in hoses and more sophisticated than previous devices, started pumping oil and gas to a tanker on the surface.Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the disaster, said a very rough estimate of current collection would be about 42,000 gallons a day, though he stressed he wasn't certain.Progress is being made, but we need to caution against over-optimism, he said.President Barack Obama was set to visit the Louisiana coast Friday, his second trip in a week and the third since the disaster unfolded following an April 20 oil rig explosion. Eleven workers were killed.

Meanwhile, waves of gooey tar blobs were washing ashore on the white sand of the Florida Panhandle and nearby Alabama beaches as a slick from the spill moved closer to shore.Spotters who had been seeing a few tar balls in recent days found a substantially larger number before dawn on the beaches of the Gulf Islands National Seashore and nearby areas, a county emergency official said. The park is a long string of connected barrier islands near Pensacola.BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said it will be later in the day before they know how much is being captured.

There is flow coming up the pipe. Just now, I don't know the exact rate, Suttles said on NBC's Today show.Robots a mile beneath the Gulf positioned the lid over the main pipe on the leaking well Thursday night. The robots were shot chemical dispersants — though it looked more like flares when illuminated a mile underwater — at the spewing oil.To put the cap in place, BP had to slice off the pipe with giant shears after a diamond-edged saw became stuck. By doing so, they risked increasing the flow by as much as 20 percent, though Allen said it was still too soon know whether that had happened.Once the containment cap is on and it's working, we hope the rate is significantly reduced, he said.The jagged cut forced crews to use a looser fitting cap, but Allen did not rule out trying to again smooth out the cut with the diamond saw if officials aren't satisfied with the current cap.Suttles said some of the oil still pouring out came from vents deliberately placed to keep icelike crystals from forming that could block the funnel. BP will try to close those four vents in succession and reduce the spill, he said.The best chance to plug the leak is a pair of relief wells, which are at least two months away. The well has spit out between 21 million and 46 million gallons of oil since a rig exploded on April 20 about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers. BP was leasing the rig and is responsible to fix and clean up the spill.In oil-soaked Grand Isle, Jason French might as well have painted a bulls-eye on his back. His mission was to be BP's representative at a meeting for 50 or so residents who had gathered at a church to vent.We are all angry and frustrated, he said.Feel free tonight to let me see that anger. Direct it at me, direct it at BP, but I want to assure you, the folks in this community, that we are working hard to remedy the situation.

Residents weren't buying it. Sorry doesn't pay the bills,said Susan Felio Price, a longtime resident. Through the negligence of BP we now find ourselves trying to roller-skate up a mountain,she said.We're growing really weary. We're tired. We're sick and tired of being sick and tired. Someone's got to help us get to the top of that mountain.Obama shared some of that anger ahead of his Gulf visit. He told CNN's Larry King that he was frustrated and used his strongest language in assailing BP. I am furious at this entire situation because this is an example where somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions,Obama said.This is imperiling an entire way of life and an entire region for potentially years.Meanwhile, newly disclosed internal Coast Guard documents from the day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later it was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily. The Center for Public Integrity, which initially reported the Coast Guard logs, said it obtained them from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The logs also showed early in the disaster that remote underwater robots were unable to activate the rig's blowout preventer, which was supposed to shut off the flow from the well in the event of such a catastrophic failure.The damage to the environment was chilling on East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, where workers found birds coated in thick, black goo. Images shot by an Associated Press photographer show Brown pelicans drenched in thick oil, struggling and flailing in the surf.BP CEO Tony Hayward promised that the company would clean up every drop of oil and restore the shoreline to its original state.BP will be here for a very long time. We realize this is just the beginning,he said.

Those on Grand Isle seemed less than convinced by BP's assurances.We want you to feel what we feel,said Leoda Bladsacker, a member of the town's council, as her voice trembled. We're not going to be OK for a long, long time.Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Paul J. Weber in Houston contributed to this report.