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

The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in point. Instead of cleaning up the ... Read More

By Tom Brown May 14, 2010 Robert Weisberg, a physical oceanographer at the University of South Florida, told a conference call the so-called Loop Current that sweeps around the Gulf was poised to connect with the spreading oil slick. Once "entrainment'' occurs, he said, the oil would be pulled quickly south along Florida's ... Read More

By Jacqui Goddard, Miami 15 May 2010 State officials are angry that federal regulators gave the company permission to try out new chemical techniques to break up and hold back the growing tide of oil. Despite registering concerns about the potential implications for the ... Read More

Scientists have raised urgent new concerns over the latest efforts to mitigate the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the oil rig explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon. Latest efforts to limit the environmental damage involve an untried deep-water technique, using a toxic dispersant that they believe ... 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

original article By Gregory Mone, Contributor (May 14) -- Since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began three weeks ago, most eyes and cameras have been focused on the widening, orange slick. But now, as experts argue that the flow rate could far exceed the government's estimate of 210,000 gallons a day, ... 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

By SUSAN SAULNY Published: May 14, 2010 NEW ORLEANS — At almost 300 years old, somewhat moldy from the remnants of Hurricane Katrina and surrounded by muddy water and swamps, this city is not exactly known for being lemony fresh. The signature scent around Bourbon Street, after all, is the smell of spilled ... 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

By IAN URBINA Published: May 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from that ... Read More

PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) - Louisiana wildlife officials say huge tar balls have littered the beach at Port Fourchon, some of them 8 inches across. Laura Deslatte, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said Friday that the glossy globs were found along the entire beach at Port ... Read More

By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Katarzyna Klimasinska May 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled his lack of confidence in the industry experts trying to control BP Plc’s leaking oil well by hand-picking a team of scientists with reputations for creative problem solving. Dispatched to Houston by President Barack Obama ... Read More

By J. Speer-Williams 5-14-10 Spill? The corporate media continues to call the volcano of continuous gushing oil, in the Gulf, a spill. How insulting. A volcano that shoots out a million gallons of crude oil a week is hardly a spill. The common definition of a spill is the liquid that fell out ... Read More

I get what she's saying, but DEAD DOLPHINS ON THE WHITEHOUSE LAWN???? I don't know what that would accomplish. from YouTube........... morningmayan — May 09, 2010 — GAS UP! BP making 10 million more a day as oil spills !!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0Izf... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6-JI... What's it gonna take to get our gov to ... Read More

US wildlife officials are investigating whether the deaths of six dolphins on the Gulf Coast are related to the massive oil spill. Tests are being run now to clarify if the oil spill was the contributing factor in the dolphins deaths. The dolphin carcasses have ben found in Louisians, Mississippi and ... Read More

Trouble on the Horizon Both options are designed to avoid the formation of methane hydrate, a solid composed of methane (natural gas) and water that clogged the first containment system. (It's believed that methane gas triggered the explosion that caused the spill.) Produced when water molecules form a cage ... Read More

Florida environmental authorities Wednesday declared a final emergency order ahead of the arrival in the state's northwest of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The order is meant to speed up the measures that can be taken to try to protect rivers and estuaries, Governor Charlie Crist's office said. "Giving local ... Read More

orginal article....Farmers Find Hayseed (Really) Solution to Oil Spill Contrairimairi sent me the video below.  The Department of Energy employs more than 16,000 full time bureaucrats and 100,000 contractors.  CW Roberts and his colleague show how to solve the oil spill problem.  We can replace the entire Department of Energy with ... Read More

A new Nasa satellite photograph of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill appears to show the slick’s shape resembling that of a swan. By Andrew Hough 13 May 2010 While a dead Portuguese Man-O-War floats on a blob of oil in the waters of Chandeleur Sound off the coast of ... Read More

This does make you think. "This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it." Hopi Prophecies Gulf Oil Catastrophy 2010 ... Read More

This is insanely catastrophic. YouTube Link Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP Admits Video is from Alabama resident John Wathen as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Officials have stopped guessing at the amount of oil leaking although some speculate it may ... Read More

I received this email today from Mr. J. Speer-Williams. This oil situation is on another level of catastrophic. This is bad. We do need to pray, hope & wish for a livable outcome to this. Pray, Please Pray for the Life of Our Mother. When it’s “fourth down and long” most ... Read More

By Patrick Oppmann and Wayne Drash, CNN// // -1) {document.write('May 11, 2010 -- Updated 1606 GMT (0006 HKT)');} else {document.write('May 11, 2010 12:06 p.m. EDT');} // ]]>May 11, 2010 // // // Fairhope, Alabama (CNN) -- Bob Pope zips along the two-lane highway, among the swooping ... Read More

Flashback a couple of weeeks........... April 30, 2010 The President announced yesterday that the Department of Interior is sending swat teams to inspect all oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. What in the hell is going on? Is the White House about to manufacture a ‘crisis’ over an oil spill with the ultimate ... 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

by Wayne Madsen WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign -- more than John McCain or ... Read More

A top executive of BP PLC, which leased the rig for exploratory drilling, focuses on a critical safety device that was supposed to shut off oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout but "failed to operate." "That was to be the fail-safe in case of ... Read More

CW Roberts employees demonstrating the use of hay to assist in a defense against the oil spill in the Gulf. This is the method that is included in the Walton County Plan of Action. ... Read More

Thank Dick Cheney for Gulf Oil Spill Blogger connects dots and finds arrow pointing to ex-VP By M. Morris from Newser.com (Newser) ... Read More

This shit is soooo fucked up. These fools don't know what to do. Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion two weeks ago, it has been hard not to view as primitive the efforts to contain the oil and prevent more of it leaking. Whether it is the containment booms drafted in to ... Read More

by Tom Philpott In addition to the indignity of oil oozing into its depths at a rate of at least 5,000 barrels per day, the Gulf of Mexico is now enduring a heavy rain of mystery chemicals. BP and the U.S. Coast Guard are dumping large amounts of "dispersants" both on the surface ... Read More

C'mon, how big is the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, really? Official estimates for the flow of oil out of the Deepwater Horizon well may be just a drop in the bucket. Critics call for release of worst-case scenario data to describe the oil spill disaster. By Patrik Jonsson, Staff ... Read More

// ROBERT, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP Plc engineers desperately explored options on Sunday to control oil gushing from a ruptured well deep under the Gulf of Mexico after a setback with a huge undersea containment dome fueled fears of a prolonged and growing environmental disaster. The spill is spreading west, ... Read More

Written by Walter Pierce Sunday, 02 May 2010 A federal judge in New Orleans Sunday heard arguments from lawyers from Louisiana fishermen concerned that agreements they were signing with British Petroleum to serve as compensated volunteers in the cleanup effort from the oil spill would “seriously compromised the existing and future rights ... Read More

By George Ure Peoplenomics.com 5-3-10 12 days into the oil rig 'accident' events continue to evolve and weather is slowing down efforts to contain things, we have two interesting items to report that are not in the MSM yet...OK, three then. 1. We have heard that a supply ship arrived just before the explosions ... Read More