Houston, We Have A HUGE Problem ! ! ! (BP America is headquartered in Houston, TX) Posted on August 29, 2010 by concernedcitizensofflorida Compelling Evidence Points To A Different Well Being Capped What would the world say, if the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that gushed for 87 days, ... Read More

Gulf Chemist: Mercenaries Hired By BP Are Now Applying Toxic Dispersant - at Night and In an Uncontrolled Manner - Which BP Says It No Longer Uses Bob Naman is an analytical chemist with almost 30 years in the field, based in Mobile, Alabama. When WKRG News 5 gave Naman samples of ... Read More

Live feed from Oly — ROV 2, August 30, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. EDT: Black bubbles rise from the capping stack on top of the BOP. Skip to 0:25 seconds in: ... Read More

Diagrams of the Sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (Macondo Prospect) Proposed by BK Lim And What They Represent Concerning The Well In Question & BP Narrative BK Lim has done it again. He presents here an alarming analysis of the events prior to and after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon on ... Read More

According to CNN‘s report ‘Plumes of Gulf oil spreading east on sea floor,’ University of South Florida researchers found oil on the seafloor “all along their way” during a 10-day mission that did get much closer than 25 miles from the BP blowout. Scientists are now suggesting that the naturally occurring ... Read More

MSNBC: Feds receive “tremendous pushback from scientific community” over orchestrated ‘disappearing oil’ act ... Read More

SUMMARY No oil has leaked from the broken Gulf well since July, and the federal government is reopening some waters for fishing. But some fishermen are split over whether to start trawling the waters again when there may be a risk of seafood being contaminated with oil and dispersants. Tom Bearden ... Read More

Mike G from our US office writes... Since the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded and sank in April, BP has devoted inadequate resources to the oil spill response, withheld information from the American public, and denied access to spill sites to journalists. So our ship the Arctic ... Read More

Jerry Cope and Charles Hambleton Huffington Post August 8, 2010 The unprecedented disaster caused by the BP oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon 252 site continues to expand even as National Incident Commander Thad Allen and BP assert that the situation is improving, the blown-out source capped and holding steady, the ... Read More

Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, August 6, 2010: Your first question comes from the line of Greg Bluestein with the “Associated Press.” Greg Bluestein: Hi, Admiral. Thanks for the call. BP indicated today it could still dig another well to tap the underground reservoir that feeds the oil ... Read More

Venice, La., is facing extinction. The small fishing community, located just 50 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is in jeopardy, as the BP oil spill has put the livelihood of the residents in danger. The people of Venice are now left with a difficult choice. Do they stay ... Read More

How deep is the Deepwater Horizon rig? Karl Tate from OurAmazingPlanet.com put together this handy chart that shows the relative depth of the Deepwater Horizon compared to other recognizable features of the planet…manmade and otherwise. source ... Read More

Written by Wayne Madsen Tuesday, 22 June President Obama and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were informed that BP would drill an unprecedented 35,000 feet well bore at the Macondo site off the coast of Louisiana. In September 2009, the Deepwater Horizon ... Read More

Latest HYCOM-GFS oilspill forecast shows a large stretch of oil approximately 15 miles south of the Florida Keys, near Marathon and Big Pine Key. Imagery: http://deepwaterhorizon.fsu.edu/proje... This video is available in full resolution by request: http://floridaoilspilllaw.com/contact You can learn more about the oil spill by visiting: http://floridaoilspilllaw.com Like this video? Subscribe to our YouTube ... Read More

Havana calls in Venezuelan experts to combat potential environmental disaster as tarballs spotted off island's coast Cuba is steadying itself for an ecological and tourism crisis as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill appears to be heading towards its pristine northern coast. Authorities are preparing coastal communities to respond to the first sign ... Read More

BP took measures to cut costs in the weeks before the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as it dealt with one problem after another, prompting a BP engineer to describe the doomed rig as a "nightmare well," according to internal documents released Monday. The comment by BP engineer Brian ... Read More

Matthew Simmons, founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about BP Plc's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and his view that the use of a "small-bore nuclear device" is now the "only option" to stop the flow of oil. ... Read More

The Deepwater Horizon is not the only well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the last month. A nearby drilling rig, the Ocean Saratoga, has been leaking since at least April 30, according to a federal document. more ... Read More

By Kate Sheppard| Tue Jun. 8, 2010 The BP oil spill is still dominating headlines, 50 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. But how much oil leaks into the Gulf on any other day of the year? Satellite images and photographs from the region indicate that there may be two ... Read More

Wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf of Mexico coast is fast becoming a reality. Pelicans are becoming trapped by the oil and dead birds and dolphins have been washing ashore, coated in the sludge. Government officials estimate that roughly 83 to 182 million litres of oil have leaked into the Gulf ... Read More

This is insane. WTF??!!? Seriously WTF??!? By Brian Lysaght June 6 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward hasn’t spoken directly to President Barack Obama since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20. “There is no need for that,” Hayward told the British Broadcasting Corp. in a live interview in ... Read More

The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse. Tony Hayward: 'This won't stop deepwater drilling. It will transform it' Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding ... Read More

What Happens When the BP Oil Disaster Hits Florida's Shores? — Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi shores have already been hit with oil from the BP disaster. Now Florida is preparing for the arrival of the slick stuff on its beaches this week. What happens when oil starts showing up? “The ... Read More

Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment The brokerage firm that's faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: ... Read More

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says crews are shooting chemical dispersants at oil that began leaking when a saw became stuck in the latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil gusher. (June 2) FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. ... Read More

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The White House says the BP oil spill is probably the greatest environmental disaster the US has faced, but the true impact on surrounding ecosystems could take months or even years to emerge. Experts say the unprecedented depth of the spill, combined with the use of chemicals that broke the ... Read More

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Dozens of species of fish including one just discovered six months ago, could be wiped out by the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spewing crude into the sea for six weeks, a scientist said Monday. "We may very well lose dozens of vulnerable fish species," ... Read More

This post originally appeared on Daily Kos. I’ll give BP some credit: they’ve gotten a little better at PR. Over the last two days, Google News reports over one hundred thousand hits on the phrase “cut and cap,” BP’s description of its latest attempt to contain the oil ... Read More

By the CNN Wire Staff // // -1) {document.write('June 2, 2010 -- Updated 0218 GMT (1018 HKT)');} else {document.write('June 1, 2010 10:18 p.m. EDT');} // ]]>June 1, 2010 (CNN) -- A new flow of oil emerged from BP's damaged undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening after a ... Read More

By MELISSA NELSON PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida beach might get hit with oil from the Deepwater Horizon accident for the first time Wednesday as sheen likely caused by the accident was reported less than 10 miles off Pensacola Beach. A charter boat captain reported the oil Tuesday afternoon and ... Read More

Here are the latest developments involving the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Cleanup – Oil washes ashore on Dauphin Island, an Alabama barrier island, and on Mississippi barrier island Petit Bois, west of Dauphin. – BP has begun its latest attempt to curtail the flow of oil from the ruptured ... Read More

Clouds of crude and chemical dispersants have formed in the Gulf of Mexico and oceanologists fear these could have devastating effects on the food chain While the sight of tar balls and oil-covered birds on Louisiana's shoreline has been the most visible sign of the spill's environmental destruction, many scientists now ... Read More

Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, is one of the most poisonous dispersants ever developed, and is up to 20 times more toxic than other dispersants, and only half as effective. When Corexit 9500, with its 2.61 ppm toxicity level, is combined with the warm waters of the ... Read More

Officials are cautionary but say drilling fluid has blocked oil and gas temporarily. Engineers plan to begin pumping in cement and then will seal the well. The U.S. coastguard claims engineers have managed to use mud to stop the flow of oil from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. ... Read More

Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor Engineers on the Deepwater Horizon rig pressed ahead with an operation to plug and cap the well despite a series of clear warnings that pressure inside was surging, according to a memorandum of events leading up to the April 20 blast. Details of the ... Read More

By GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer Greg Bluestein And Mike Baker, Associated Press Writer COVINGTON, La. – BP on Wednesday launched its latest bid to plug the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico by force-feeding it heavy drilling ... Read More

Jean-Michel Cousteau on BP Oil Disaster: "We are All Responsible; Stop Talking, Take Action" Jacqui Goddard Jean-Michel Cousteau, one of the world’s leading ocean explorers, has spoken of his “frustration at the human species” over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and called for it to become ... Read More

It has been an hour since our sport-fishing boat started streaking through the freshly oil-soaked marshes of Pass a Loutre, but we’re still only halfway through the slick. Eighteen miles out and the stink of oil is everywhere. Rashes of red-brown sludge are smeared across vast swaths, between them a ... Read More

May 24 By GREG BLUESTEIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writers BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) - The executive in charge of fighting a Gulf of Mexico oil spill acknowledged Monday everyone is frustrated at BP's failure to plug the ocean gusher more than a month into a disaster that is spreading damage in ... Read More

Gary Burris, a fisherman in coastal Louisiana, has become severely ill from inhaling fumes during response work following the Deepwater Horizon disaster and claims many more have become sick but hesitate to come forward for fear of losing their only remaining source of revenue. ... Read More

Gas Leak 3000 Times Worse Than Oil By innereye 5-18-10 There is 3000 times more natural gas coming out of the leak than oil. The damage of the massive amounts of Gas being released into the gulf is worse than the oil. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIX WYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9FO07J00 Oxygen levels in some areas have dropped 30 percent, and should continue ... Read More

May 18, 2010: 05:43 AM ET * Oil tar balls seen in Key West, Florida * Congressional committees to ask more questions Tuesday * BP raises expected cost of oil spill clean-up By Jeff Mason and Steve Gorman HOUSTON/COCODRIE, La. (Reuters) - Energy giant BP said Tuesday it was now able to siphon off about ... Read More

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer Justin Pritchard, Associated Press Writer – Sun May 16 LOS ANGELES – The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at ... Read More

Oil trails in Gulf of Mexico are up to 10 miles long as BP continues its fight to stem flow from broken rig By Mail Foreign Service 16th May 2010 Energy giant BP's latest desperate attempt to siphon gushing oil from a broken pipe in the Gulf of Mexico has failed as ... Read More

May 17 By JEFFREY COLLINS and JASON DEAREN NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Engineers finally figured out how to siphon some of the oil that has been spewing into the Gulf for almost a month, but it could be too late to stop the ooze from reaching a major ocean current that could ... Read More

Anne Barrowclough A plume of oil 10 miles (16km) long, three miles wide and 300ft thick is pouring into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The plume is one of a number that scientists have found gushing into the sea a ... Read More

By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS — The underwater plume of oil billowing from a renegade wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is headed away from the coast and back out to sea, according to federally-funded scientists studying the spill. In the first on-site measurements of the oil spreading below the ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up..................... Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse ... Read More

THIS IS A MUST READ. SERIOUSLY. FROM JEFF RENSE The BP Deep water horizon, Macondo Well Blowout. and what we are facing in the Gulf. By SHR 5-15-10 I want to try and put in simple terms what we are facing as far as what is coming in this potentially catastrophic well blow out event. It's ... Read More

BP is using undersea robots to try to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico in the latest attempt to stem the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than 90,000 barrels of crude. The company was trying ... Read More

By CAIN BURDEAU NEW ORLEANS (AP) - For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard to pin down. Satellite images show most of an estimated 4.6 million gallons of oil has pooled in a floating, shape-shifting blob off the ... Read More

In the three weeks since the April 20th explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the start of the subsequent massive (and ongoing) oil leak, many attempts have been made to contain and control the scale of the environmental disaster. Oil dispersants ... Read More

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina. In truth, culpability for the disaster can more accurately be laid at the Bush Administration's doorstep. For eight years, George Bush's presidency infected the ... Read More