Spilled oil is GONE!

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Wednesday August 04, 2010 · 2:47 PM PDT

2010/08/04 · 14:47

75% of oil is...gone?

Spinning madly, the US Gov and BP just reported that between 50 - 75% of the (low ball estimated) 4.9M barrels of oil spewed into the gulf is "gone".

"Its all over, move along, nothing to see here!"

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Monday July 05, 2010 · 1:16 PM PDT

2010/07/05 · 13:16

More like clean peoples consciences...

Drive your Prius to the Bird wash?

On today’s NPR "Talk of the Nation" Michael Ziccardi, director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, debates Biologist Brian Sharp on efficacy of cleaning oiled birds.

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Monday June 21, 2010 · 9:03 AM PDT

2010/06/21 · 09:03

Just heard an NPR report that said the majority of pharmaceuticals have no appreciable expiration date; a DOD study for their (huge) drug stockpile found the effective expiration date was >10years. The very short expiration date (there are often 2 dates on the bottle) are automatic 1 year pharmacy expiration dating mandated by state law, largely from nonscientific Pharma lobbying.

The Mfg expiration dating is based on elevated temperature and humidity study of opened drugs and even then the drug degrades less than 10%, actual storage conditions are never approximated unless you store your meds open in your sauna. The estimated cost is hundreds of millions of dollars yearly to consumers who discard active drugs (and poison the landfills but that's another issue!). The NPR report states "To date, though, the FDA has no reports of adverse events related to outdated drugs." NONE!

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 3:27 PM PDT

2010/06/07 · 15:27

http://www.latimes.com/...

7 former Union Carbide employees convicted in India

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Sunday June 06, 2010 · 2:00 PM PDT

2010/06/06 · 14:00

BP’s somewhat mystifying response to this "accident" has to do with well known forms of risk management and quality control. Where it's seen as important, it is straight forward to limit risk, but when money is optimized, the safety net is pruned to a few old strand of jute.

This is happening EVERYWHERE in industry, as "productivity" and "profitability" is perpetually maximized.

The MMS actually has pseudo-scientific "studies" to "prove" that decreased inspection frequency has no impact on accident probability. The studies use uncontrolled data from a tiny sample to suggest that moving from inspections every week to every month will result in no meaningful increase in accidents. It’s a complete snow job cloaked in science and statistics.

Also a recent reality check; the top kill failure suggests the pipe is unsound UPSTREAM from the blow out preventer...so it wouldn't have worked even if it had an intact annular, no hydraulic fluid leak and/or dead backup battery. So those 4000 wells ALL have "safety features" which are untested and likely don't work as promised.

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Thursday June 03, 2010 · 5:52 PM PDT

2010/06/03 · 17:52

I did an analysis of BPs reported dispersant use and the numbers don't
add up.

Essentially BP has fudged when they began subsea application, with 4
different reported start dates. They also have "missing" dispersant in their reported numbers. This is dispersant which "dissapeared" from their reported stockpile without showing up in their applied numbers.

Maybe they sold it on Ebay but I believe a more reasonable explanation
(given their brash mendacity) is "stealth" subsea application to keep
the scope of their crime "out of sight out of mind"

my original post:
http://www.dailykos.com/...

Possibly an additional 665,773 gallons of toxic subsea Corexit by June 1st.

Check my numbers, they're all from the beasts own mouth:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse....

The numbers suggest 70% more dispersant has been used than reported, all of it subsea and much of it prior to approval.

Too damn funny

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Sunday May 23, 2010 · 11:17 AM PDT

2010/05/23 · 11:17

I hurt myself laughing at this Teaparty spoof at the onion...

too damn funny

click "skip the ad" to miss out on "Red Dead Redemption" lessen you ARE a teapartier...

http://www.theonion.com/...

NOTE: contains some language that may be offensive to sensitive ears!

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 9:02 AM PDT

2010/05/21 · 09:02

When the hell did BP start pumping this toxin subsea and when was this approved?

April 30: The company reports it began "testing" subsea dispersant application with a 3,000 gallon application BEFORE any official approval of this practice:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse....

May 5: Tony Hayward mentioned beginning full scale subsea dispersant application after receiving an email suggestion on May 5th (in a BBC interview of 5/20, transcript not yet found)

May 10: BP official told the Associated Press news agency that the company had received US government approval to continuously pump dispersant chemicals underwater.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

May 14: Admiral Landry approves subsea dispersant application
http://www.grist.org/...

Also there is evidence that BP used about 2x the total amount of toxic dispersant and this was likely in the unapproved subsea application, while it didn't begin reporting application amount until May 17th.

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 10:32 AM PDT

2010/05/20 · 10:32

Reuters reports that "five Democrats" wrote a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Bacus seeking an exemption for venture capital in the proposed 15% tax loophole closure being discussed as part of the financial reform package.

http://www.reuters.com/...

the five nameless Dems are quoted: "Removing the capital gains tax status for the carried interest earned by these venture capitalists when companies are successful will be a harmful disincentive,"

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 · 12:48 PM PDT

2010/05/19 · 12:48

According to ABC's Diane Sawyer on Day 29 of the BP Oil Crime, the undersea video reveals what "83 gallons an hour of oil looks like"
http://abcnews.go.com/...

This number is 36.2 barrels a day, or over 1500 fold lower than the low end estimate made by Scientist Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, using particle image velocimetry that was commissioned by NPR:
http://www.npr.org/...
and is even 138 fold lower than the low ball initial government estimates of 5000 barrels a day.

Does a 1500 fold error deserve a correction in today's "journalism"?

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