Halliburton - Gulf Oil Rig Explosion

Swerdloc · Post by **Swerdloc** » 06-20-2010 10:31 AM

Latest from James Fox:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nty2UU7wAk

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 06-21-2010 02:47 AM

BP was told of oil safety fault 'weeks before blast'
"That is unacceptable. If you see any evidence of the blowout preventer not functioning properly, you should fix it by whatever means possible"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and ... 362139.stm

BP estimates of Gulf oil spill range up to 100,000 bpd
"Since there are no plans to remove the blowout preventer, the number is irrelevant"
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world- ... 65218.html

Cherry Kelly · Post by **Cherry Kelly** » 06-22-2010 09:24 AM

and in today's headline news

The IRS will tax the BP recipients...

IRS May Tax Payments to Gulf Coast Victims

Published June 22, 2010 | Associated Press

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 06-22-2010 02:57 PM

Judge Blocks Deep-Water Drilling Moratorium

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/us/23drill.html

and then there is this....

Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies

According to Feldman's 2008 financial disclosure form, posted online by Judicial Watch [pdf], the judge owned stock in Transocean, as well as five other companies that are either directly or indirectly involved in the offshore drilling business.

Full Article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100622/ ... ews_ts2771

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 06-22-2010 05:02 PM

Methane in Gulf 'astonishingly high'-US scientist
"We saw them approach a million times above background concentrations.... What is it going to look like two months down the road, six months down the road, two years down the road?"
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2221822720100622

Danger of Tsunamis From Methane?
Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - London
http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.p ... 210610.php

Post by **Linnea** » 06-22-2010 06:51 PM

Sounds like a doomsday scenario, Janus...

Unbelieveable...

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 06-23-2010 11:25 AM

The oil has officially made it to the west coast of Florida. Raw Story reports that BP has pulled the containment cap off the well and the gusher is getting worse.

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 06-23-2010 11:30 AM

Cory Gardner, Colorado GOP Candidate, Holds Fundraiser With BP Lobbyist And Joe Barton

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/2 ... 22386.html

We have been sold to the Corporations, as everyday of this tragic scene plays out its more and more evident.

SETIsLady · Post by **SETIsLady** » 06-23-2010 12:34 PM

Oil gushes into Gulf following accident in containment effort

The gulf well is an uncapped geyser again after an accident forced officials Wednesday to remove the containment device that had been effectively capturing much of the gushing oil for weeks.

Separately, the response to the spill took a tragic turn when two people associated with the clean-up died in unrelated incidents, one a swimming pool accident and the other involving a person enlisted in the effort to skim oil, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced. He had no further information about the two deaths, which he learned about just before his noon EDT briefing.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=topnews

Prayers to the families of the latest victims of this tragedy.

Bill and Janus, and everyone else thank you for posting up your videos, etc....it appreciated, there is so much information coming out its nice to be able to come to this thread and get updated.

joequinn · Post by **joequinn** » 06-23-2010 02:49 PM

It has started to rain oil in Louisiana...

http://video.godlikeproductions.com/vid ... _Louisiana

And people are starting to compare the Deepwater Horizon disaster to Chernobyl. I started doing so a week ago...

It's the end of the world as we know it...

HB3 · Post by **HB3** » 06-23-2010 09:32 PM

Whatever happened to "oil and water can't mix"?

megman · Post by **megman** » 06-23-2010 09:52 PM

Oil and Water DO mix

HB3 · Post by **HB3** » 06-23-2010 10:30 PM

Uh oh...

HB3 · Post by **HB3** » 06-24-2010 12:54 AM

Wha?

Big Oil Maneuvering and Vestiture, or The Unified Theory of Obama Fail

As William Teach points out, the left blogosphere is freaking out over the revelation that the judge who overturned the moratorium on deep-water drilling has investments in oil stocks. I would rather that that weren’t the case, honestly, but it is a demonstrable fact that the Obama administration deliberately misrepresented the findings and recommendations of their panel of experts regarding what should be done. Ken Salazar is seeking the overturning of the overturning of the moratorium on drilling.

Meanwhile, what’s not receiving a lot of focus is Obama’s own economic interests in preventing Gulf drilling. As I mentioned yesterday, Obama’s wealth is largely held in two Vanguard funds. Vanguard was among the companies that dumped BP stock shortly before the disaster. It now turns out that BP informed the office of mineral managment that there were problems with the well back in mid-February. That led to the sacking of Birnbaum, no doubt, though Pelosi tried, with her usual mendacity, to blame it on burrowed-in Bush holdovers. Apart from the timing of the stock dumping, and the revelation that the feds had indeed been informed earlier on of potential problems, there’s the issue of Soros’ timely investment in Petrobras, backed up by US billions. Many of us found it scandalous that Obama was opposed to US offshore drilling before the disaster, but ready to invest in offshore drilling for Brazil, which, environmentalists will tell you, has the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Those rigs represent an enormous investment. If there’s a moratorium, they’re not going to wait around for it to be lifted: instead, they will move to where they are permitted to be utilized, in this case, Brazil.

China is backing Cuba to perform drilling in the Gulf. Other countries will no doubt wish to up their stakes. Those operations will be completely outside of US control.

But for Obama and company, that’s not a bug, but a feature, because what they really want to do is convert the US economy away from oil towards biofuels, wind, and other renewables, despite the disastrous economic consequences already experienced by nations that tried to bottle unicorn farts. That they have significant investment in such projects is entirely justifiable in their eyes, because of the benefits they naively believe such schemes will confer. These projects are to be mandated by the EPA power grab and the imposition of cap-and-trade schemes, benefitting the likes of Franklin Raines, and justified through the cultivation of climate hysteria.

Mistress of Disaster and Serial Architect of Fail Jamie Gorelick meanwhile works as legal counsel for BP, and like Raines earned millions for driving Fannie and Freddie into the ground and imposing an enormous burden on US taxpayers. No clawback for them.

Circling back to Salazar, the Department of the Interior has been charging the Border Patrol millions in fines for “ecological damage” inflicted in the performance of their duties. It’s my belief that those people negatively affected by the federal government’s refusal to enforce the laws of the US ought to sue the hairy hide off of the agencies responsible. That Mexico has gotten involved in this dispute is a travesty. And it turns out that Kyl was absolutely right about what Obama intends: to make border security, despite the invasion of savage Mexican drug lords, hostage to the vote-building strategy of blanket legalization.

There’s simply no other way to explain the administration’s refusal, rather than mere inability, to come to grips with the spill. They see it as an opportunity, and Rahm has already signalled that in the upcoming elections, the Dems intend to run against BP, despite their own links with the company that was going to save the world.

http://powip.com/2010/06/big-oil-maneuv ... vestiture/

Janus232 · Post by **Janus232** » 06-24-2010 02:50 AM

Oil Spill Unstoppable? MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nNA9sBB-cE

Methane Explosion Explained
includes a section on lake Nyos - Cameroon 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BE42PzZZc