P-18 POISON DISASTER UPDATE

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

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

POISONED WATERS

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

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

LIVE BP OIL FEED
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
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html
PART 9-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-9-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 10-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-10-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 11-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-11-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 12-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-12-oil-spill-news.html
PART 13-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-13-oil-spill-update.html
PART 14-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html
PART 15-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-15-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 16-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-16-poison-disaster-scheme.html
PART 17-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-17-poison-disaster-news-setup-spill.html

FALSE FLAGS (SET UP OR STAGED BY SOMEONE)
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1219
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1227
JONES ON BP FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TAX SCAM THROUGH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNW0lkjTxAQ&feature=player_embedded

GRANT JEFFREY ON WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THE ENVIROMENTAL RELIGION CULT SCAM OF GLOBAL WARMING UNDER FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH SCAM.CARBON TAX,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1279
WW3 COMING TOGETHER-GRANT JEFFREY-RUSSIA WANTS OIL CONTOL DOMINATION.
http://www.god.tv/video/play?video=1369
HOLLY SWANSON ON OBAMA CAP & TRADE SCAM-ENVIROMENTALS DICTATORSHIP JUNE 21,10 HR 1
http://therothshow.com/show-archives/june-2010/
OIL SLICK REACHES FLORIDA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250674/oil-slick-reaches-florida?playlist_id=86856
WHAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF THIS OIL SPILL-LAST 30 MINUTES OF SHOW
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2353
http://ruvysroost.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
OIL SPILL IRAN CONNECTION-ALL MUT LISTEN
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2357
TOXIC WATER AT SPILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRrbqBEGxiw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq65E7rmO_k&feature=player_embedded
NUKE THE WELL CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1539178724&play=1
OIL RAIN POISON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC9W8EqRUQ
http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/extreme/oil-rain-lousiana.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZnDYsnRP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4&feature=player_embedded
GEORGE HUNT-WORLD BANK-ENVIROMENT-DISASTER STAGED BANKERS=WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6642758020554799808#

DAY 84-MON JULY 12,10 OF THE POISON DISASTER.THAD ALLEN SAYS 35-60,000 BARRELS WERE POISONING A DAY BUT FOR THE LAST 2 OR 3 DAYS IT HAS TO BE AT LEAST 100,000 BARRELS A DAY GUSHING POISON.YESTERDAY I SEEN A COMMERCIAL SAYING HOW BAD IT IS FOR CHICKENS TO BE CAGED TO LAY THEIR EGGS.ANIMAL RIGHTS NUTS WANT THE CHICKENS FREED AND RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE LAYING THEIR EGGS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.SO ITS NOT ONLY THE ENVIROMENTALS-NOW THE ANIMAL RIGHTS NUTCASES ARE GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS EARTH WORSHIP AND TAX SCAM-CAP & TADE HOGWASH,CLIMATE SCAM,ENERGY SCAM.THESE EARTH WORSHIPPERS ARE BRINGING THE WORLD TO JUDGEMENT.GOD(KING JESUS)IS A JELIOUS GOD AND HE WILL NOT STAND FOR PEOPLE WORSHIPPING THE EARTH AND NOT HIM THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS.WE BETTER REPENT QUICK BEFORE WW3 STARTS AS 1/2 OR 4 BILLLION PEOPLE DIE IN WW3 WORLDWIDE.

ITS DAY 85 TUE JULY 13,10 AND SEE IF THE CAP OF POISON HOLDS.

ITS DAY 86 WED JULY 14,10,8:10 AM AND THE POISON FLOW CONTINUES WHILE THEY MAKE UP EXCUSES WHY THEY SHOULD NOT TEST THE SO CALLED CAP.

Fears of new leak delay BP well test
by Mira Oberman Mira Oberman – JULY 14,10 2:oo PM

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – BP engineers made last-minute preparations Wednesday for crucial pressure tests that could allow the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well to be finally sealed.But after months of environmental and economic ruin, there was a further agonizing delay for anxious Gulf residents as US officials reviewed procedures to make sure the well integrity test was safe and properly set up.

Originally scheduled for Tuesday, BP senior vice president Kent Wells told journalists it had been delayed by 24 hours because it was so important and everyone wanted to make sure this was the best possible test procedure.Wells said a decision on when to proceed was expected in the coming hours when there was absolute clarity on this is the right test.Engineers carried out final checks and ran through how to analyze the all-important pressure readings as they prepared to close three shut-off valves on the giant 75-tonne cap which was latched onto the leaking pipe on Monday.

Once the valves are closed, no oil will be streaming into the Gulf for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank 83 days ago.The process has to be done with great care as officials fear that if there is a leak in the casing of the wellbore, which stretches 2.5 miles (four kilometers) down below the seabed, further damage might be caused.Under a worst-case scenario, the massive pressure caused by shutting off the flow could send oil shooting up through a new leak on the sea floor, further aggravating the worst oil spill in US history.A sign of the high stakes involved, the US official in charge of the disaster response delayed the test after meetings on Tuesday with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and other experts.As a result of these discussions, we decided that the process may benefit from additional analysis that will be performed tonight and tomorrow, Admiral Thad Allen said in a statement.Allen also ordered drilling on a relief well that is now only four feet (1.2 meters) away from the leaking well to be suspended until after the integrity test is completed as a precaution.BP's capping device, which contains three giant valves, was lowered Monday and latched onto the ruptured pipe almost a mile (1.6 kilometers) down on the sea floor where only underwater robots can operate.Once given the go-ahead, BP engineers will gradually close the valves to shut in the oil, in a process expected to last between six and 48hours.Fingers will be crossed for high pressure readings which would mean there are no leaks in the wellbore. If these last long enough, through the 48 hours and perhaps longer, officials may decided to keep the valves closed, effectively sealing the well once and for all.

Allen has said that pressure readings anywhere between 8,000 and 9,000 pounds per square inch would indicate that the casing of the wellbore is secure.Low pressure would indicate oil is seeping out of the external casing of the well, meaning the valves would have to be reopened immediately to reduce the risk of doing further damage to the well or even a new gusher on the seabed.Although containment operations would have to resume at that point, officials say the new cap gives them the ability to capture all the leaking oil in a matter of days.Gulf residents have seen an estimated 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil spewing into the sea daily since an explosion destroyed the BP-leased drilling platform 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana in April. Tar balls and ribbons of crude have washed up along all five Gulf states, from Texas to Florida, shutting down key fishing grounds and scaring away tourists key to local economic health. An estimated two million to four million barrels of crude have gushed into the sea since the Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, two days after the blast which killed 11 workers. Despite the endgame under way in the Gulf, victims voiced their dismay at a presidential commission hearing into the disaster this week. There was anger too at a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf with Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu saying it could cost some 120,000 jobs. The Gulf disaster has cost BP some 3.5 billion dollars (2.78 billion euros) and compensation could mean it ends up forking out 10 times that figure.

Gulf oil to keep flowing while cap is analyzed By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 14,10 6:30 AM

NEW ORLEANS – The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done Wednesday before critical tests could proceed.No explanation was given for the decision, and no date was set for when testing would begin on the new, tighter-fitting cap BP installed on the blown-out well Monday.In the meantime, oil continued spewing into the Gulf.The oil giant had been scheduled to start slowly shutting off valves Tuesday on the cap, aiming to stop the flow of oil for the first time in three months. BP was initially ahead of schedule on its latest effort to plug the leak. The cap was designed to be a temporary fix until the well is plugged underground.A series of methodical, preliminary steps were completed before progress stalled. Engineers spent hours on a seismic survey, creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. It also provides a baseline to compare with later surveys during and after the test to see if the pressure on the well is causing underground problems.An unstable area around the wellbore could create bigger problems if the leak continued elsewhere in the well after the cap valves were shut, experts said.It's an incredibly big concern,said Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Professional Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston.They need to get a scan of where things are, that way when they do pressure testing, they know to look out for ruptures or changes.

It was unclear whether there was something in the results of the mapping that prompted officials to delay. Earlier, BP Vice President Kent Wells said he hadn't heard what the results were, but he felt comfortable that they were good.National Incident Commander Thad Allen met with the federal energy secretary and the head of the U.S. Geological Survey as well as BP officials and other scientists after the mapping was done.As a result of these discussions, we decided that the process may benefit from additional analysis,Allen said in a statement. He didn't specify what type of analysis would be done, but said work would continue until Wednesday.
Assuming BP gets the green light to do the cap testing after the extra analysis is finished, engineers need to shut off lines already funneling some oil to ships to see how the cap handles the pressure of the crude coming up from the ground.Finally, they would shut the openings in the 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves gradually, one at a time, while watching pressure gauges to see if the cap would hold or if any new leaks erupted. The operation could last anywhere from six to 48 hours, once it gets started.Scientists will be looking for high pressure readings of 8,000 to 9,000 pounds per square inch. Anything lower than 6,000 might indicate previously unidentified leaks in the well.The oil giant was optimistic about the latest effort after other attempts failed, and White House officials earlier expressed optimism Tuesday.But BP has said all along they were working carefully so as to not jeopardize the effort to stop the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and one of the nation's worst environmental disasters.If the cap works, it will enable BP to stop the oil from gushing into the sea, either by holding all the oil inside the well machinery like a stopper or, if the pressure is too great, channeling some though pipes to as many as four collection ships.

Earlier, Allen stressed there were no guarantees on the latest measure and urged patience from Gulf residents.Along the Gulf Coast, where the spill has heavily damaged the region's vital tourism and fishing industries, people anxiously awaited the outcome of the painstakingly slow work.I don't know what's taking them so long. I just hope they take care of it,said Lanette Eder, a vacationing school nutritionist from Hoschton, Ga., who was walking on the white sand at Pensacola Beach, Fla.I can't say that I'm optimistic — It's been, what, 84 days now? — but I'm hopeful,said Nancy LaNasa, 56, who runs a yoga center in Pensacola.The cap is just a stopgap measure. To end the leak for good, the well needs to be plugged at the source. BP is drilling two relief wells through the seafloor to reach the broken well, possibly by late July, and jam it permanently with heavy drilling mud and cement. After that, the Gulf Coast faces a long cleanup.The leak began after the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers. As of Tuesday, the 84th day of the disaster, between 90.4 and 178.6 million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf.Online: BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Matt Brown and Tom Breen in New Orleans and Matt Sedensky in Pensacola Beach, Fla., contributed to this report.

Leaking Well Capped – Story Over
By Neil Braithwaite Tuesday, July 13, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS

Now that BP has finally capped the leak, the media will literally treat it like a car wreck on the Washington beltway - move along people – nothing to see here. No reason to spend any time on anything to do with the clean up, the devastated Gulf coast economy or the incompetent leadership of President Obama for the last eighty days.No, all that’s left for the media to do is air Obama’s victory over the spill speech wall-to-wall for the next week or so and try and sell America on every last word of his total BS.Hey, the liberal media isn’t stupid, they just believe we are, after all, it’s an election year – screw the environment and the truth – the expedient thing for them to do is help Democrats get elected.

Our Toxic Gulf: A Wakeup Call
By Jim O'Neill Monday, July 12, 2010 CANADA FREE PRESS
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25254 (READ LINKS)

I’ve never seen anything like it. We’re seeing pods of whales and dolphins out in the oil, and lots of dead things.Things I’ve never seen before coming up from the deep…floating, dead.Elizabeth Grossman, quoting David Willman—experienced boat captain, Gulf of Mexico .The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

BP and the federal government, using various guises, continue to spray, pump, and dump, the oil dispersant Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody seems to know exactly how many gallons of that stuff has been flushed into the Gulf. The same folks who have been lying to us about the amount of oil gushing from the underwater wellhead, are not going to be truthful regarding how much Corexit has been used. A rough guesstimate would be around 2 million gallons, to date. (Link)Corexit can be toxic to humans and marine life. According to marine biologist and toxicologist, Dr. Chris Pincetich, among other things, it may disrupt cell-wall membranes. The oil from the sea-floor gusher can, of course, be toxic in its own right. Dr. Manny Alvarez has labeled the flu-like symptoms associated with the oil spill Gulf Oil Syndrome.Marine toxicologist, Dr. Rikki Ott, who worked on the Exxon Valdez oil spill, warns that people are surprised when these flu-like symptoms hang on for months, and then years, and then…they’re dead. These toxins may take their time, but eventually they get the job done. Can you say population control? (Link)

And, of course, a mixture of oil and Corexit is worst of all. Marine toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw, founder and director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, informs us that This stuff is so toxic combined… Very, very toxic, and goes right through skin.And lets not forget associated toxic gases, like benzene and hydrogen sulfide.Population control aside, it’s always a good idea to follow the money. So who is making money, and stands to make money, from the oil spill? The usual suspects—the Chicago thugocracy, large corporations, BP, Goldman Sachs…. Their fingerprints are all over this thing—from the Chicago based Nalco, that manufactures Corexit, to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). (Link)The CCX is poised, along with several large corporations, to take advantage of the trillions of dollars that will roll in from the bogus carbon-credit racket. (Link)But as long as the US stubbornly sticks to an oil based economy, they can’t get their hands on that money. And then there’s the elimination of America’s middle-class to think about, and the redistribution of wealth, and the greening of the world, and…gosh, just a lot of stuff. (Link)

So—well—you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelet, ya know? Nothin’ personal.Such people do not lay awake at night worrying about the pelicans, turtles, and other marine life. (Link)If, by chance, you feel that destroying the Gulf of Mexico and its surrounding population, (while enriching evil scum), is not such a great idea, then you may want to get in touch with your local politician, and tell them to get off their butt, and DO SOMETHING! Otherwise, by all means go back to sleep. Sorry if I disturbed you.P.S. If you’re reading this on a computer, then I strongly urge you to view each of the short videos that I’ve linked to. If you’ve already watched some of them, then please watch any you haven’t yet seen. It’s important.

No promises as BP set to test if new cap stops oil By COLLEEN LONG and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 13,10 10:30AM

NEW ORLEANS – After securing a new, tight-fitting cap on top of the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP prepared Tuesday to begin tests to see if it will hold and stop fresh oil from polluting the waters for the first time in nearly three months.

The oil giant expects to know within 48 hours if the new cap, which was affixed Monday after almost three days of painstaking, around-the-clock work a mile below the Gulf's surface, can stanch the flow. The solution is only temporary, but it offers the best hope yet for cutting off the gush of billowing brown oil.The cap's installation was good news to weary Gulf Coast residents who have warily waited for BP to make good on its promise to clean up the mess. Still, they warned that even if the oil is stopped, the consequences are far from over.I think we're going to see oil out in the Gulf of Mexico, roaming around, taking shots at us, for the next year, maybe two,Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's oil-stained Plaquemines Parish, said Monday. If you told me today no more oil was coming ashore, we've still got a massive cleanup ahead.Starting Tuesday, the cap will be tested and monitored to see if it can withstand pressure from the gushing oil and gas. The tests could last anywhere between six to 48 hours, according to National Incident Commander Thad Allen.Kent Wells, a senior vice president at the oil giant, made no promises in a Tuesday morning news briefing about whether the cap will work.We need to wait and see what the test actually tells us, Wells said. It's not simple stuff. What we don't want to do is speculate around it.The cap will be tested by closing off three separate valves that fit together snugly, choking off the oil from entering the Gulf. BP expects no oil will be released into the ocean during the tests, but remained cautious about the success of the system.

Pipes can be hooked to the cap to funnel oil to collection ships if BP decides the cap can't take the pressure of the gusher, or if low pressure readings indicate oil is leaking from elsewhere in the well.The sealing cap system never before has been deployed at these depths or under these conditions, and its efficiency and ability to contain the oil and gas cannot be assured, the company said in a statement.BP will be watching pressure readings. High pressure is good, because it would mean the leak has been contained inside the wellhead machinery. But if readings are lower than expected, that could mean there is another leak elsewhere in the well.Even if the cap works, the blown-out well must still be plugged. A permanent fix will have to wait until one of two relief wells being drilled reaches the broken well, which will then be plugged up with drilling mud and cement. That may not happen until mid-August.Even if the flow of oil is choked off while BP works on a permanent fix, the spill has already damaged everything from beach tourism to the fishing industry.Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi said the sloppiest of the oil — mousse-like brown stuff that has not yet broken down — will keep washing ashore for several months, with the volume slowly decreasing over time.He added that hardened tar balls could keep hitting beaches and marshes each time a major storm rolls through for a year or more. Those tar balls are likely trapped for now in the surf zone, gathering behind sand bars just like sea shells.

It will still be getting on people's feet on the beaches probably a year or two from now, Wood said.But on Monday, the region absorbed a rare piece of good news in the placement of the 150,000-pound cap on top of the gushing leak responsible for so much misery.Around 6:30 p.m. CDT, live video streams trained on the wellhead showed the cap being slowly lowered into place. BP officials said the device was attached around 7 p.m. I'm very hopeful that this cap works and we wake up in the morning and they're catching all the oil. I would be the happiest person around here, said Mitch Jurisich, a third generation oysterman from Empire, La., who has been out of work for weeks.Residents skeptical BP can deliver on its promise to control the spill greeted the news cautiously.There's no telling what those crazy suckers are going to do now,Ronnie Kenniar said when he heard the cap was placed on the well. The 49-year-old fishermen is now working for BP in the Vessel of Opportunity program, a BP-run operation employing boat owners for odd jobs. James Pelas, 41, a shrimper who took a break from working on his boat at a marina in Venice, La., said he didn't think the crisis would be over for a long time.I ain't excited about it until it's closed off completely,he said. Oil's scattered all over the place.Meanwhile, the Obama administration issued a revised moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling Monday to replace the one that was struck down by the courts as heavy-handed. The new ban, in effect until Nov. 30, does not appear to deviate much from the original moratorium, as it still targets deep-water drilling operators while defining them in a different way.As of Monday, the 83rd day of the disaster, between 89 million and 176 million gallons of oil had poured into the Gulf, according to government estimates. The spill started April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon rig, leased by BP from Transocean Ltd, exploded and burned, killing 11 workers. It sank two days later. Online:
BP underwater video: http://bit.ly/bwCXmR Weber reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Frederic J. Frommer in Washington, Matt Brown and Tom Breen in New Orleans and Holbrook Mohr in Belle Chasse, La., contributed to this report.

Former Contractor: BP Not Interested In Cleaning Up Oil Spill
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, July 12, 2010 3:40PM

Former high-level BP contractor and Army Special Operations soldier Adam Dillon told a New Orleans television station that British Petroleum is not interested in cleaning up the oil spill because the company is run by cutthroat individuals who only care about money.Dillon was fired by BP after taking photos that he believes were related to the use of dispersants and to the cleanup of the oil. Before his dismissal, Dillon was confined and interrogated for almost an hour, by BP officials.

There are some very great, hardworking individuals in there. But the bottom line is just about money. There are some very cutthroat individuals. They’re not worried about cleaning up that spill as it is,said Dillon, adding that he has lost faith in BP’s response.Dillon was one of BP’s hired goons used to keep reporters from asking questions of cleanup workers on beaches in Houma, but turned whistleblower after he was fired for taking photos of the consequences of chemicals used by BP to clean up the spill.I saw something when I was out there,he said.I took pictures of something and I brought it to the attention of the command structure and whatever I took pictures of, 12 hours later I was gone.Dillon decided to speak out publicly because he placed his oath to his country over and above any loyalty to BP.I will never have loyalty to this company,he said. I will always have loyalty to my country. And my country comes first.

What this company is doing to this country right now is just wrong.As we have highlighted, as one of the founding members of the cap and trade lobby, BP stands to reap a financial bounty if the Obama administration succeeds in exploiting the worsening oil spill crisis to push through a carbon tax.The worse the situation gets, the more political capital Obama builds in his effort to impose a consumption tax on American citizens in the name of reducing dependence on foreign oil. Viewed from this perspective, BP has no real motivation in cleaning up the oil spill.BP’s market value plunged by more than a third in the months following the oil spill debacle, but this has recovered somewhat in recent days and once the spill is finally cleared up, expect to see the price return to pre-spill levels.If the government manages to justify a carbon tax in the eyes of lawmakers by pointing to an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf, BP can look forward to massive long-term profits from both a sustained rise in the price of oil allied to a carbon tax that will be passed on to consumers.BP’s botched efforts to cap the leaking oil well have done nothing to alleviate the problem, while the company’s use of the chemical Corexit is worsening the damage caused by the oil spill while causing sickness amongst large numbers of cleanup workers. The Obama administration has similarly dragged its feet in responding to the oil spill, waiting for months before it accepted help offered by thirteen different countries whose sophisticated technology could have fixed the leak within weeks.BP’s reaction to the oil spill has proved that the company is more concerned about blocking media access to information about the situation than actually cleaning up the consequences of the spill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pbsotMLbE&feature=player_embedded

BP says oil spill costs climb to $3.5 billion
Mon Jul 12, 4:15 am ET

LONDON – BP PLC said Monday that the cost of dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has risen to $3.5 billion, though its shares rallied on reports it may sell some assets.The oil company said the overall cost includes nearly $165 million paid to settle individual claims. BP said that by Saturday, it had received 105,000 claims and made more than 52,000 payments.The company says it is still too early to estimate the final total of costs and compensation.BP shares, meanwhile, continued their recent rally, climbing 5.5 percent higher to 384.7 pence ($5.76) in early trading on the London Stock Exchange.BP stock, which was trading at 655 pence before the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform disaster on April 20, had briefly fallen below 300 pence last month.Over the weekend, The Sunday Times in London reported that BP was talking with Apache Corp. about selling 12 billion pounds ($18 billion) in assets including a stake in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field. The Sunday Times also reported that ExxonMobil Corp. had approached U.S. government officials asking if they would object to a takeover bid for BP. None of the companies would comment on the reports.We continue to see good near-term upside in the shares, most particularly if the first relief well is successful in capping the Macondo well, Collins Stewart analyst Gordon Gray said Monday in a research note.BP reports its second quarter results on July 27, a date which some commentators have suggested as a deadline for announcing significant steps toward dealing with the costs of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.Gray believes BP may come through the second quarter with no significant change in net debt, particularly as the company has canceled dividend payments for the rest of the year in response to pressure from U.S. President Barack Obama.

Babies of the oil spill face an uncertain future By JANET McCONNAUGHEY, Associated Press Writer - 7AM JULY 12,10

FORT JACKSON, La. – The smallest victims are the biggest challenge for crews rescuing birds fouled with oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill.There's no way to know how many chicks have been killed by the oil, or starved because their parents were rescued or died struggling in a slick.There are plenty of oiled babies out there, said Rebecca Dmytryk of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, one of the groups working to clean oiled animals.The lucky ones end up in a cleaning center at Fort Jackson, a pre-Civil War historic site on the Mississippi River delta south of New Orleans.Pelican chicks often come in cold because oil has matted down the fluffy down that's meant to keep them warm. They must be warmed quickly just to survive long enough to be cleaned. And the youngest must be taught to eat.They only know their parents regurgitating food into their mouths. They don't know how to pick stuff up, said Dmytryk, whose organization is working with Tri-State Bird Rescue, a company hired by BP to coordinate animal rescue and cleaning in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.That means tube feeding three times a day. Others, a bit older and accustomed to taking fish from a parent's throat, must be hand-fed until they can eat fish from a bowl.Adults can be checked a few times a day, but babies needed two staffers' full-time attention to be sure they are eating and are warm.

Many adults and juvenile pelicans get coated with heavy oil diving for fish. That doesn't happen with the chicks, though they may wade into oily puddles or get smeared by oil from their parents' feathers.In general, rescuers don't go into nesting colonies, said Mike Carloss, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist. He said most rescued chicks were near shorelines or were on nests so low that oil washed onto them.Lightly oiled chicks will lose the oil when they shed their down feathers, he said. We've seen a lot of those birds in those stages make it. A lot of them are fledging now. It gives you hope that is the right thing to do.Nearly 60 pelican chicks and more than 600 adults were brought to Fort Jackson in June after oil washed onto a rookery on Queen Bess and other nearby islands in coastal Louisiana.They're among more than 1,000 oiled birds and more than 100 oiled sea turtles rescued since the BP-leased rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. About three-quarters of the birds and all but a handful of turtles have been cleaned in Louisiana.All but two of the sea turtles — a 150-pound oiled loggerhead dubbed Big Mama and an 85-pound loggerhead that was sick but free of oil — are juveniles, ranging from saucer- to dinner-plate size.Doses of fluids, antibiotics and a mix of cod-liver oil and mayonnaise used to help break up the oil they've swallowed are administered based on the animal's weight. But the basic treatment is the same.The difference is it takes five people to lift Big Mama and her sister. It only takes one person to lift the little guys, said Michele Kelley, Louisiana's sea turtle and marine mammal stranding coordinator.Baby turtles leave their sandy nests and head straight for the sea knowing everything a turtle needs to know.

Chicks need far more care.

Keeping them warm can be the biggest challenge, and tern chicks are among the hardest to keep alive because they're so small, said IBRRC staffer Mark Russell. The birds lose body heat through their skin, and smaller animals have more skin in proportion to their size than larger creatures. Some of the tern chicks are smaller than a tennis ball.

The chicks also tend to be dehydrated and malnourished.

If they're dehydrated, they don't want to eat because they feel sick,Russell said. And they're so small that it's hard to keep a tube down their throats to give water and liquid food. In the week he'd been in Louisiana, he knew of two or three tern chicks that died, Russell said Friday.Once a chick is eating on its own, staff have as little contact with it as possible.We don't want to be raising what is commonly referred to as a pier rat, said Wendy Fox, director of Pelican Harbor Seabird Station, the Miami rehabilitation center where the pelican chicks were moved Saturday.The babies will be housed next to adult role models, and eventually with adults, Fox said. Their pens also have pools deep enough to dive for fish. Pelicans take five to six months to reach independence. At Fort Jackson, one of the youngsters perched alongside a pool and flapped its wings energetically.See that? Holcomb said. He's almost ready to learn to fly!

Is It Raining Oil in the Gulf? (Video)
by Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 06.28.10
Science & Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4&feature=player_embedded

You may have seen this video, which has surfaced on a number of blogs and has registered over half a million hits: It purports to show oil literally raining from the sky in Louisiana. And watch the clip -- which I've embedded right after the jump -- and you'll see that it certainly looks a lot like oil. But can oil from the BP Gulf spill really evaporate and then get dumped down miles away as rain? Under normal circumstances, absolutely not -- remember that whole thing about water and oil? It's a saying for a reason. But what if some experimental chemical dispersant had been dumped onto the oil in question? Could Corexit-altered crude turn into oil-rain? Rain that looks like this? Still most likely not.

Kate Shepperd of Mother Jones reports: For the most part, oil itself doesn't actually evaporate, though some of the chemical elements in crude oil can. (The sticky tar balls washing ashore are the remnants.) That hasn't stopped some from hypothesizing that, given the dispersants BP has been applying in unprecedented quantities in the Gulf and the lack of information about how they work, it's possible that dispersant-altered oil may indeed be entering the atmosphere. The EPA says this isn't the case. EPA has no data, information or scientific basis that suggests that oil mixed with dispersant could possibly evaporate from the Gulf into the water cycle,the agency said in a statement. (But then again, the EPA also has very little science on the environmental or health effects of dispersants, as it has admitted previously.)NOAA says such oil rain is impossible, saying that the notion of oily rain is a myth.But Sheppard notes that the video is valuable whether or not it depicts oily rain or not -- it serves as a reminder that there are unseen toxins that do evaporate during spills. There's a bigger concern than oil visibly raining from the sky; it's the toxins you can't see, she writes. Gases in oil that can evaporate are known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. A 2003 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report notes that light crude can lose up to 75 percent of its initial volume due to evaporation of VOCs after a spill.Those VOCs can cause headaches and respiratory problems, and potentially a host of other ailments. They pose the real problem. The oily rain in the video? Most likely just the runoff from oil previously spilled onto the road.