P-22 POISON OIL DISASTER

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
PART 18-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-18-poison-disaster-update.html
PART 19-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-19-poison-oil-disaster.html
PART 20-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/p-20-oil-poison-disaster.html
PART 21-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/07/pestilences-chemical-and-biological.html

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#
OBAMA NEEDS TERRORIST ATTACK TO SAVE ADMINISTRATION-STAGED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22-CIxjm5-Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuL9SNdaSqc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFXy0apNuQ&feature=player_embedded
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

ITS DAY 97 OF THE POISON DISASTER-SUN JULY 25,10.SEE WHATS UP TODAY.

ITS DAY 98 OF THE POISON DISASTER.NOW PEOPLE ARE IN FEAR OF WHO IS WORKING ON THE POISON DISASTER,IS IT CRIMINALS FROM JAIL OR PEACE LOVING LAW OBIDING WORKERS.

ITS DAY 99 OF THE POISON DISASTER TUE JULY 27,10 AND HAYWARD GETS FIRED FINALLY.BUT THIS IS PROBABLY JUST A COVERUP SO HAYWARD CAN GET MILLIONS IN COMPENSATION AND END UP WORKING FOR GOLDMAN SACHS OR A HIGH UP IN ANOTHER OIL COMPANY AND BP CAN GET A TRILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT TO COVER ALL ITS LOSSES IS MY PREDICTION.

ITS DAY 100 OF THE POISON SPILL WED JULY 28,10.

ITS DAY 101 THU JULY 29,10 OF THE POISON DISASTER.

ITS DAY 102 OF THE POISON DISASTER FRI JULY 30,10.

BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stage By George Prentice – Thu Jul 29, 7:35 pm ET

BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) – More than 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, a panel of U.S. judges heard arguments from lawyers on Thursday on how piles of oil spill-related lawsuits against BP Plc should be merged.The panel, meeting in Boise, Idaho, as part of its regularly scheduled rotation among federal courts, did not immediately rule on how it would handle the mounting civil litigation brought against BP and other defendants involved in the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.

A decision is expected within several weeks.

At stake is whether civil lawsuits from injured rig workers, fishermen, property owners, investors and others will be combined in Houston, where BP has its U.S. headquarters and wants the cases heard, or New Orleans, the preferred venue for many plaintiffs -- or elsewhere. Some lawyers argue the litigation is too massive for any one court to handle.The environmental havoc wreaked by the oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers could take years to reverse. A temporary cap has halted the gusher a mile below the sea's surface while crews try to plug the well for good next week, but the massive spill has wrecked the Gulf's fishing and tourism industries.BP could start its static kill plan to pump mud into the Macondo well -- the first in a two-step process to choke it off with mud and cement -- by this weekend, ahead of the scheduled start time on Monday, the top U.S. official dealing with the spill said on Thursday.There's a chance that that schedule can be accelerated, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told reporters in New Orleans.He also said the U.S. government is laying the groundwork to shift its massive oil spill clean-up operation from acute disaster management to long-term recovery, and that the clean-up could take years.

Millions of gallons of oil leaked into the ocean over nearly three months -- until the well was capped two weeks ago.But clean-up boats have found it increasingly hard to find oil on the surface and officials say much has dispersed or evaporated, although hundreds of miles of coastline are polluted with orange or black deposits.
The disaster has posed a huge challenge for U.S. President Barack Obama, whose administration has tried to halt deep-sea oil drilling until the causes of the BP spill are clear.A U.S. court overturned a six-month moratorium imposed after the spill but the government is seeking a new one.Potentially adding its name to the line of claimants, Royal Dutch Shell Plc idled seven rigs and took a $56 million charge related to the drilling ban on Thursday. Saying the ban would reduce its production by almost 3 million barrels this year, the company did not rule out reclaiming the cash from BP.Shell, one of the biggest oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico, said it had idled rigs rather than move them elsewhere because the ban's six-month duration meant it was not profitable to redeploy them to other areas.BP, which has created a $20 billion fund to compensate companies and individuals affected by the spill, declined comment on compensating Shell. Executives at the London-based group believe it is not liable for damages resulting from the ban.

HOUSTON VS NEW ORLEANS

At the packed Boise federal courthouse, attorneys were given a few minutes each to make their case to the seven-judge panel during the hour-and-a-half-long hearing.

Plaintiffs' attorney Russ Herman of Louisiana pressed for lawsuits pending in various federal courts to be moved to New Orleans. He said the spill has devastated the city, which is still climbing back after the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. Our culture rises as a gumbo of Cajuns, Creole, French, German and Spanish, he said. All of that is threatened now. This disaster threatens our hope and faith. That's why New Orleans is the best avenue of justice.The U.S. Justice Department also requested that the lawsuits be handled by a New Orleans federal court. The U.S. is not a party at present in the cases against corporate defendants, but we think we will be, Justice Department representative Steven Flynn told the panel. He said New Orleans would provide the best access to all litigants.Whichever court, or courts, end up overseeing the cases could grapple with them for years. The panel, formally known as the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, will decide whether the cases belong under the umbrella of one court, or potentially several. BP asked that the cases be combined in Houston, the U.S. oil capital, as did an attorney for Cameron International Corp, manufacturer of the blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded on April 20.

ASSET SALES

BP pushed ahead with plans to sell assets in Vietnam, Colombia and Venezuela, as it scrambles to hive off $30 billion of assets to pay for the cleanup. Bankers said many of the most likely bidders are already part owners of the assets BP wants to sell, and this could help speed up the sales. Incoming Chief Executive Bob Dudley said on Wednesday BP would stay involved with the cleanup long after the well was finally plugged, which he said could happen next week. Although the flow of oil has been stopped, experts say the clean-up operation will take months. The major oil slicks appear to have dispersed and experts are analyzing the extent of pollution in the sea. An area of nearly 60,000 square miles (150,000 sq km) of Gulf of Mexico waters is closed to fishing and more than 600 miles of coastline in four U.S. states is affected by oil, according to the latest U.S. government reports. Environmentalists have said it could be years before some Gulf beaches are declared free of toxic pollutants. Shares of BP -- which has lost about 40 percent of its market value since the blast -- closed 2 percent higher in New York on Thursday. Its London shares closed up 2.7 percent.(Additional reporting by Chris Baltimore in Houston, Quentin Webb in London and Joseph Chaney in Hong Kong; writing by Martha Graybow and Ed Stoddard; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Censored Gulf news: People bleeding internally, millions poisoned says EPA whistleblower July 21, 9:44 AMHuman Rights Examiner Deborah

...we have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants are supposed to do... Congressman Markey and Nadler, as well as Senator Mikulski, have been heroes... Mark Kaufman, EPA whistleblower, Democracy Now!

Poisoning millions of people

In its report, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup, Democracy Now! states that many lawmakers and advocacy groups say the Obama administration is not being candid about the lethal effects of dispersants,so Amy Goodman interviewed Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and a leading critic of the decision to use Corexit who disclosed how the officials are lying about many things related to the catastrophe poisoning millions of people.The rushed transcript includes Kaufman saying, And I think the media now has to follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf. (Emphasis added)While concerns over the impact of chemical dispersants continue to grow, Gulf Coast residents are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money cleanup workers earn by working for the cleanup effort from any future claims.The Vessels of Opportunity program has employed hundreds of Gulf Coast out of work people because of the spill which Kaufman says is viewed as yest another way to limit the number of lawsuits against BP.And the government—both EPA, NOAA, etc.—have been sock puppets for BP in this cover-up. (Emphasis added)Kaufman concurs with MSNBC's report last week, that "sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil that has been released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of fines... not to protect the public health or environment. Quite the opposite..He says to follow the money, and that leads to individuals in the Obama Administration, naming Mr. Geithner, Mr. Summers with close ties to Larry Fink who owns BlackRock that owns most BP shares.

He commented on the children being poisoned:

...you know, when you’re on the sand with your children and they dig, and there’s a little water?—they documented there was over 200 parts per million of oil waste in the water, and it’s not noticeable to the human eye... On top of it, the contamination in one of the samples was so high that when they put the solvent in, as a first step in identifying how much oil may be in the water, the thing blew up, just as he said, probably because there was too much Corexit in that particular sample.When Goodman asked Kaufman to comment on the similarities between the Ground Zero of the Gulf catastrophe and what happened at Ground Zero of 911, he explained that he did the ombudsman investigation on Ground Zero, where EPA made false statements about the safety of the air ... since proven to be false.

Red herring: No more tests needed. Corexit known to be dangerous.

The largest ingredient in Corexit is oil. But there are other materials. And when the ingredients are mixed with oil, the combination of Corexit or any dispersant and oil is more toxic than the oil itself. But EPA has all that information.That’s a red herring issue being raised, that we have to somehow know more information. When you look at the label and you look at the toxicity sheets that come with it, the public knows enough to know that it’s very dangerous. The National Academy of Science has done work on it. Toxicologists from Exxon that developed it have published on it.So, we know enough to know that it’s very dangerous, and to say that we just have to know more about it is a red herring issue. We know plenty. It’s very dangerous.[T]he media now has to follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf.
No mention was made by the whistleblower about military involvement in this operation, nor that the DoD has been in bed with EPA for decades, testing aerosol sprayed chemicals on unwitting individuals and large populations.With all eyes on big bad BP, could it be the real red herring?

Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human and environmental rights advocate for over 25 years in the U.S., Vanuatu and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles and sharing the link to this article. For a more just and peaceful world, see Dupré's Vaccine Liberty or Death book and Compassion Film Project.

BP dispersant likened to Agent Orange
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:47:48 GMT

The US government says it will take years to cleanup its fouled coastlines. BP's use of chemicals to disperse the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has become a source of concern for the US, with lawmakers warning of another Agent Orange scandal. Agent Orange is the codename for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the US military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

According to Vietnam Red Cross as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange including at least 150,000 children born with birth defects.The US lawmakers at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Thursday urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to keep a closer eye on the dispersants used by BP to properly analyze their effect on the ocean ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico.

I don't want dispersants to be the Agent Orange of this oil spill and I want to be assured on behalf of the American people that this is OK to use and OK to use in the amounts we're talking about, said Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the science panel of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, reported Reuters. The London-based energy giant applies Corexit to the massive oil slick gathered both on the surface and undersea in the disaster zone. BP has so far used about 1.8 million gallons of the chemical agent in the Gulf, an amount unprecedented in the US history to be directly applied to the spill.The EPA said preliminary results of a federal review of Corexit pointed to no impact on marine life.The good news is that we've not seen signs of environment impacts from the use of dispersants so far,EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told legislators, urging more scientific study.The EPA, however, is still awaiting review of chemical's effect when mixed with oil, and environmentalists are also concerned.I suspect that the toxicity impact will in fact be way worse than reflected by the tests that are being conducted by EPA,because animals chosen for testing are less sensitive than those inhabiting the Gulf, said Doug Rader, chief oceans scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. New estimates by the International Energy Agency about the BP oil spill suggest that so far at least 2.3-4.5 million barrels of crude have poured into the Gulf of Mexico since the April event, which triggered the worst ecological disaster in US history.The Gulf of Mexico oil spill began after an April 20 explosion at the BP-run Deepwater Horizon rig shattered the well and left 11 people dead.

Officials ready criminal probe of oil spill: report
Wed Jul 28, 7:35 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several U.S. government agencies are preparing a criminal probe of at least three companies involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, though it could take more than a year before any charges are filed, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.BP Plc, Transocean Ltd and Halliburton Co are the initial targets of the wide-ranging probe, which aims to examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the newspaper said, citing law enforcement and other sources.The federal government is assembling in New Orleans a BP squad composed of officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies to look into whether company officials made false statements to regulators, obstructed justice, or falsified test results for devices such as the rig's failed blowout preventer.On Tuesday, BP said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department had launched a probe into market trading connected to the spill.

The oil giant's newly named chief executive, Bob Dudley, on Tuesday called the spill a wake-up call for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses.The newspaper said one emerging line of inquiry for the BP Squad is whether inspectors for the government agency that regulates the oil industry went easy on the companies in exchange for money or other inducements.Investigators plan to get witnesses to turn against others to get insider information, the Post said.The newspaper cited a law enforcement official saying no decisions are imminent and You can bet it would be more than a year before any indictments.(Reporting by Corbett B. Daly; Editing by Philip Barbara)

BP replaces CEO Hayward, reports $17 billion loss By JANE WARDELL, AP Business Writer - JULY 27,10

LONDON – BP's much-criticized CEO Tony Hayward will be replaced by American Robert Dudley on Oct. 1, the company said Tuesday as it reported a record quarterly loss and set aside $32.2 billion to cover costs of the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill.BP said the decision to replace Hayward, 53, with the company's first ever non-British chief executive was made by mutual agreement.In a mark of faith in its outgoing leader, BP said it planned to recommend him for a non-executive board position at its Russian joint venture and will pay him 1.045 million pounds ($1.6 million), a year's salary, instead of the year's notice he was entitled to.The BP board is deeply saddened to lose a CEO whose success over some three years in driving the performance of the company was so widely and deservedly admired, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said in a statement.Svanberg said the April 20 explosion of the Macondo well on the Deepwater Horizon platform run by BP in the Gulf of Mexico has been a watershed incident for the company.BP remains a strong business with fine assets, excellent people and a vital role to play in meeting the world's energy needs,he said.But it will be a different company going forward, requiring fresh leadership supported by robust governance and a very engaged board.

Besides permanently plugging the oil leak and cleaning up the spill and the company's image, Dudley will oversee the sale of $30 billion in assets over the next 18 months to bolster the company's finances.Appearing briefly outside BP's London headquarters with Hayward and Svanberg, Dudley said that sealing the well was his priority and that he planned to focus on building relationships on the Gulf Coast and in Washington D.C.There's no question that we are going to learn a lot from this ... and I'm sure there will be changes, Dudley told reporters, as Hayward and Svanberg looked on without speaking.Hayward, who has a Ph.D in geology, had been a well-regarded chief executive. But his promise when he took the job in 2007 to focus like a laser on safety came back to haunt him after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and unleashed a deep-sea gusher of oil.He became the lightning rod for anti-BP feeling in the United States and didn't help matters with a series of gaffes, raising hackles by saying I want my life back,going sailing, and giving what was viewed as an evasive performance before U.S. members of Congress in June.In a statement on Tuesday, Hayward said it was right that BP embark on its next phase under new leadership.The Gulf of Mexico explosion was a terrible tragedy for which — as the man in charge of BP when it happened — I will always feel a deep responsibility, regardless of where blame is ultimately found to lie,he said.On top of the payout, Hayward retains his rights to shares under a long-term performance program which could eventually be worth several million pounds if BP's share price recovers. The stock has lost around 35 percent, or $60 billion, in market value to around $116 billion since the well explosion. The stock started out marginally higher on Tuesday, but was trading almost 1 percent lower at 413.35 pence in afternoon trade on the London Stock Exchange.Hayward, who will remain on the board until Nov. 30, will also be entitled to draw an annual pension of 600,000 pounds from a pension pot valued at around 11 million pounds.Svanberg described Dudley, 54, who was thrown out of Russia after a battle with shareholders in the company's TNK-BP joint venture, as a robust operator in the toughest circumstances.Currently BP's managing director, Dudley grew up partly in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and has so far avoided any public missteps. He spent 20 years at Amoco Corp., which merged with BP in 1998, and lost out to Hayward on the CEO slot three years ago.

Dudley will be based in London when he takes up his appointment and will hand over his present duties in the United States to Lamar McKay, the chairman and president of BP America. BP said the $32.2 billion charge for the cost of the spill led it to record a loss of $17 billion for the second quarter, compared with a profit of $4.39 billion a year earlier.It is the loss in 18 years. The charge includes the $20 billion compensation fund the company set up following pressure from President Barack Obama as well as costs to date of $2.9 billion.But the company also stressed its strong underlying financial position — revenue for the quarter was up 34 percent at $75.8 billion — and Hayward said it had reached a significant milestone with the capping of the leaking well. Crews were restarting work to plug the leaky Gulf well after the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie blew through, forcing a short evacuation. The U.S. government's oil spill chief, Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Monday that the so-called static kill — in which mud and cement are blasted in from the top of the well — should start Aug. 2.If all goes well, the final stage — in which mud and cement are blasted in from deep underground — should begin Aug. 7.BP said the bottom kill could take days or weeks, depending on how well the static kill works, meaning it will be mid-August before the well is plugged for good.Hayward said the company expects to pay the substantial majority of the remaining direct spill response costs by the end of the year. Other costs are likely to be spread over a number of years, including any fines and penalties, longer-term remediation, compensation and litigation costs,Hayward said.

BP said the sale of $30 billion in assets will come primarily from its $250 billion Exploration and Production portfolio and assets will be selected on the basis that they are worth more to other companies than to BP.The company has already made a start with the $7 billion sale of gas assets in the United States, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp. In London, Greenpeace protestors closed more than 50 service stations in a protest timed to coincide with the company's earnings update. The environmental action group is calling on Dudley to focus the company on greener and renewable sources of energy.Richard Hunter, head of U.K. Equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, said that significant challenges remain for the company but it is moving aggressively to position itself for the tough times ahead.The triple pronged approach of increased provisions, asset sales and a new CEO should be a potent mix in forming a strong future foundation,Hunter said.Behind the obvious headlines, the underlying trading performance was robust with a significant improvement having been made on a like for like basis.The company reported that underlying replacement cost profit — the measure most closely watched by analysts — was $5 billion for the three months between April and June when adjusted for one-off items and accounting effects. That compared favorably with a $2.9 billion profit for the second quarter of 2009.Outside the Gulf it is very encouraging that BP's global business has delivered another strong underlying performance, which means that the company is in robust shape to meet its responsibilities in dealing with the human tragedy and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,Hayward said.Higher prices for oil and gas made up for slightly lower output and a loss in gas marketing and trading in Exploration & Production, while Refining & Marketing reported increased profits as a result of strong performance in the fuels value chains and the lubricants and petrochemicals businesses.The company said it planned to reduce net debt to a range between $10 billion and $15 billion within the next 18 months, compared to net debt of $23 billion at the end of June, to ensure that it had the flexibility to meet its future financial obligations.Capital spending for 2010 and 2011 will be about $18 billion a year, in line with previous forecasts.AP Reporter Bernard McGhee in Atlanta contributed to this story.

Oil cleanup brings strangers, tension to towns By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jul 26, 6:02 am ET

GRAND ISLE, La. – The women of Grand Isle are nervous. Used to be, they say, they could walk the streets of their beachside town alone, getting a little exercise after the hottest part of the day or setting out the trash after midnight.Now, a waitress won't let her 14-year-old daughter stroll to the store for a Coke, a souvenir shop owner is afraid to sit on her porch after dark and a bartender deadbolts her door, a newly purchased gun nearby.The vacationing families and sport fishermen who make this tourist town of 1,500 what it is are absent this summer, replaced by an army of workers brought in by BP to clean up the massive Gulf Coast oil spill.The outsiders walk in small groups along Route 1 at workday's end and sometimes cut across lawns and under elevated houses to reach bars like Daddy's Money, where women wrestle in oil. Some wear low-slung jeans, which prompted this warning note on one convenience store door: No pants on the ground allowed.What do such reactions mean? A BP official says some culture clash is understandable, though he's occasionally seen outright racial bias at work. But talk to some of the mostly white residents, and they don't directly mention the skin color of the workers, most of whom are black.The workers, they say, just act different. And that makes some people uneasy, even though the vast majority of the workers pose no threat.Vicki McVey, a 44-year-old who pours beers at Artie's Sports Bar, says she's not taking any chances.

Never had a gun. Never had a weapon. Now I got a weapon right next to my bed, says McVey, who stopped taking her grandson to the park when cleanup workers moved into a trailer nearby.You go to the park and they come and they touch you and want to talk to you and they harass you, she complains.Fears like McVey's don't surprise the men whose presence prompts them. Friday night, several black men in town for the cleanup sat in a grassy area near the island's only grocery store, deciding what meat to buy to grill for dinner. They said they hadn't been treated badly, though like most cleanup workers along the coast, they didn't want to give their names for fear of losing their jobs.This little town is just like any little town in the country, said one, who identified himself only as Daryl. A bunch of strangers are going to scare them. A bunch of black strangers are going to scare them even more.Another worker said he and his peers mostly just keep to themselves.People treat you OK, he said. But they haven't put any picnics on for us.People in town are talking about a recent stabbing, the first anyone can remember in ages (one published report said both victim and attacker were cleanup workers). Locals suspect the workers when items go missing now, including golf carts that folks often use to get around.No one offers facts and figures to back up the stories. Neither the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office nor Police Chief Euris DuBois, who's upset over recent media reports about his town, would provide crime statistics or speak to The Associated Press.

But the perception of a problem is undeniable.

You used to be able to go and enjoy yourself, you know? Have a few drinks with your friends,says 68-year-old Emma Chighizola, who used to sit outside and listen to the waves after a day of selling T-shirts and seashell tchotchkes at Blue Water Souvenirs. Now it's kind of dangerous. There's too many strangers.Parish Councilman Chris Roberts says he's witnessed hostile environments ... no question.Tension is natural when a small town has a sudden influx of outsiders, Roberts says, and parish officials are monitoring it. But bringing in help is necessary, he said: There's not (local) people lining up to go work in 105-degree heat to clean the beach.BP spokesman Jason French says some 1,800 workers from around the country report to Grand Isle at least once a day, including almost 300 who clean the town's beaches. BP tried to hire locals, he says, but no more than three dozen submitted applications for jobs that pay as little as $12 an hour. Some tension in town is over cultural differences, he says,but I can't deny there has been some racism.While BP won't respond to complaints it considers motivated by bias, French says it does promptly address any legitimate behavioral problems. Workers, for example, were told to stop crossing lawns because they were trespassing.BP also dismissed some cleanup workers for unspecified misbehavior, though French can't say how many because they worked for subcontractors. The oil company has begun requiring those contractors to screen workers for drug and alcohol use as a condition of employment.As someone who's been here for months, I get frustrated when workers are painted with a broad brush or the community is painted with a broad brush, French says.It's not a community of racists any more than we have convicts working the beach. These are hardworking people working the beaches,he says, and there are people who are nervous because they're seeing something they haven't seen before.All along the Louisiana coast, the flood of oil spill workers has temporarily altered towns. Quiet fishing villages in St. Bernard Parish have become small cities that bustle like military bases, with security checkpoints, a round-the-clock police presence and the never-ending rumble of trucks hauling food, trash and equipment on narrow country roads.

And besides the influx of men and machines, there's a deeper factor underlying locals' mood. They talk of frustration over the loss of something simple — the joy of a summer on the water. That disappeared when the Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 oil rig workers and spilling millions of gallons of oil.You don't hear no fishing stories, no beach stories, no talking about their kids and how they caught their first fish. None of that,says Buggie Vegas, owner of the Bridge Side Marina in Grand Isle. It's just work, work, work. Every day, from a Saturday to a Monday to a Wednesday. We don't know what day it is. It don't matter what day it is.
Vegas' 30 rental units are full and his store still has some business, but it's different: Instead of selling bait and tackle or T-shirts, he's stocking green plastic hardhats, black rubber boots and tie-down straps.Everybody's like robots, he says. They just trying to get hired on.Artie's Sports Bar normally employs 16 bartenders who serve 2,000 people and pocket at least $250 in tips on a Saturday night. Now, it takes just six of them to wait on a crowd of 100. Security guards who used to work only on weekends now monitor the door at Artie's every night, checking patrons for weapons and watching closely for trouble.When she doesn't like how things are going, McVey plays country music, hoping the crowd will move on.Shannon Ronquille, a 33-year-old waitress, says authorities patrol the beach on four-wheelers at night, protecting waterfront homes that owners are reluctant to rent to cleanup crews.It doesn't help that business is off more than 60 percent at Barataria Seafood Grill, the island's only fine dining establishment — a place where, in normal times, dressed-up vacationers often wait an hour for seating.Now, Ronquille says, looking over the empty, white linen-covered tables,we have guys coming in with oil all over their boots.Two and a half hours away in Arabi, the tension manifests itself differently.

There, a former school, renamed Camp Hope after Hurricane Katrina, has for five years been home to volunteers from across the country who came to rebuild storm-wrecked homes.But in June, the volunteers were told to move: BP was converting the building to a work camp.All the locals were more than happy to see AmeriCorps people here, that people were helping to rebuild, and it's just a stark contrast to that, says 20-year-old AmeriCorps worker Kyla Philbrook, of Albany, N.Y. St. Bernard Parish has been spared the complaints that mar Grand Isle for several reasons: In Hopedale, Shell Beach and Delacroix, there's no infrastructure to support thousands of workers. No grocery stores. No bars. No motels. Many workers are bused in for the day.Law enforcement, citing lessons from Katrina, also set the tone early on: In May, Sheriff Jack Stephens declared the community won't tolerate a criminal invasion in the guise of people claiming they are arriving to help.A month later, he asked federal immigration officials to investigate claims illegal immigrants were working for BP.We're not worried about people who want to earn an honest buck, he said at the time.Since then, deputies have made only a handful of arrests. Under a deal with BP, off-duty deputies provide paid security at worker encampments. And deputies engage every chance they get, whether at a traffic stop or a checkpoint, says Chief Deputy James Pohlmann, who notes that BP has strict rules for the Arabi camp. It's like an extension of the job. There's no alcohol, no weapons, he says. If you leave, you have to leave on a shuttle bus to a parking lot that's offsite.Though workers are free to leave in their own vehicles, they are not free to walk around the neighborhood. If caught doing so, their ID is seized, and what that means is, you lost your job.In Hopedale, oysterboat captain Michael Anglin says the strategies are working. He's even made some friends among the outsiders.There's tension sometimes, but it's just like any job, he says. It's mostly been on where you park your car. In the wrong spot, somebody gets a little arrogant. And fishermen don't put up with that. It's our town, ya know. You just visiting.Traffic, in fact, is the biggest complaint among residents who watch weed-filled lots slashed and burned to make way for trailers. At the end of Hopedale Highway in Breton Sound Marina, BP runs a mess tent that feeds workers three meals a day. That means a steady stream of vehicles.

I'm scared to let my kids cross the highway,says 55-year-old former fisherman Kurt Guerra, his 9-year-old daughter Cassie playing on a swingset a few hundred feet from the pavement.The presence of so many strangers is unsettling, Guerra says, but with barely a place to buy a beer, problems are few.Thank God they keep em working all the time,he says.Associated Press writer Mary Foster contributed to this report.

Ships head back to oil well, ready to resume work By DAVID DISHNEAU and HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writers - JULY 25,10 9:15AM

NEW ORLEANS – Ships were getting back in place Sunday at the Gulf of Mexico site of BP's leaky oil well as crews raced to resume work on plugging the gusher before another big storm stops work again.Now that Tropical Storm Bonnie has fizzled on Louisiana's coast, engineers are hoping clear weather lasts long enough for them to finish their work on relief wells. But as peak hurricane season approaches, the potential for another storm-related delay is high.We're going to be playing a cat-and-mouse game for the remainder of the hurricane season, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Saturday. Sure enough, another disturbance already was brewing in the Caribbean, although forecasters said it wasn't likely to strengthen into a tropical storm.Meanwhile, British media reported that BP chief executive Tony Hayward was negotiating the terms of his departure ahead of the company's half-year results announcement Tuesday.Citing unidentified sources, the BBC and Sunday Telegraph reported detailed talks regarding Hayward's future took place over the weekend. A formal announcement was expected in the next 24 hours, the BBC reported.

BP spokesman Toby Odone said Sunday that Hayward remains BP's chief executive, and he has the confidence of the board and senior management.Hayward, who angered Americans by minimizing the spill's environmental impact and expressing his exasperation by saying I'd like my life back, has been under heavy criticism over his gaffe-prone leadership during the spill.Back on the Gulf, a rig drilling the relief tunnel that will pump in mud and cement to seal the well returned to the spill site after evacuating the area.Crews corked the relief tunnel Wednesday and the temporary halt had an unpleasant consequence: Efforts to solidly seal the well were pushed back by at least a week, Allen said.Completion now looks possible by mid-August, but Allen said he wouldn't hesitate to order another evacuation based on forecasts similar to the ones for Bonnie.We have no choice but to start well ahead of time if we think the storm track is going to bring gale force winds, which are 39 mph or above, anywhere close to well site, Allen said.In the past 10 years, an average of five named storms have hit the Gulf each hurricane season. This year, two have struck already — Bonnie and Hurricane Alex at the end of June, which delayed cleanup of BP's massive oil spill for a week even though it didn't get closer than 500 miles from the well.Usually you don't see the first hurricane statistically until Aug. 10,said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The 2010 hurricane season is running just ahead of a typical pace.

Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

Even though the evacuation turned out to be short-lived, it revealed one important fact: BP and the federal government are increasingly sure that the temporary plug that has mostly contained the oil for eight days will hold.They didn't loosen the cap even when they thought they'd lose sight of it during the evacuation, although in the end, at least some of the real-time cameras trained on the ruptured well apparently kept rolling.Ironically, the storm may even have a positive effect. Churning waters could actually help dissipate oil in the water, spreading out the surface slick and breaking up tar balls, said Jane Lubchenco, leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Beaches may look cleaner in some areas as the storm surge pulls oil away, though other areas could see more oil washed ashore. I think the bottom line is, it's better than it might have been,Lubchenco said. At the site of the relief well, workers who spent Thursday and Friday pulling nearly a mile of segmented steel pipe out of the water and stacking the 40-to-50 foot sections on deck will now have to reverse the process. It will likely be Monday before BP can resume drilling. By Wednesday, workers should finish installing steel casing to fortify the relief shaft, Allen said, and by Friday, crews plan to start blasting in heavy mud and cement through the mechanical cap, the first phase of a two-step process to seal the well for good. BP will then finish drilling the relief tunnel — which could take up to a week — to pump in more mud and cement from nearly two miles under the sea floor. Meanwhile, folks in the oil-affected hamlet of Grand Isle, La., spent a gray Saturday at the beach, listening to music. The Island Aid concert, which included LeAnn Rimes and Three Dog Night, raised money for civic projects on the island. For the afternoon at least, things were almost back to normal. Young women in bathing suits rode around on golf carts while young men in pickup trucks tooted their horns and shouted. This is the way Grand Isle is supposed to be but hasn't been this year,said Anne Leblanc of Metairie, La., who said her family has been visiting the island for years.This is the first we came this year. With the oil spill there hasn't been a reason to come, no swimming, no fishing.Associated Press writers Tamara Lush in New Orleans and Mary Foster in Grand Isle, La., contributed to this report.