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Title: “The oil is creeping towards my home in Alabama as I write this, and it is breaking my heart.”
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Published: May 12, 2010
Author: bh
Post Date: 2010-05-12 20:44:06 by tom007
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“The oil is creeping towards my home in Alabama as I write this, and it is breaking my heart.” Published by ash_anderson, May 12th, 2010 Climate Justice , Climate Policy , Climate Science , Climate and Forestry , Corporate Responsibility , Corruption , Dirty Energy , Extraction , Government , Impacted Communities , Oceans , Oil , global warming 1 Comment Brinkley Hutchings, Greenpeace Student Network activist, at home on the Alabama coast -- directly in the path of the fast-approaching spill. From Brinkley Hutching’s blog, a post entitled A Local’s Account of the Deepwater Disaster. She filmed an astonishing video from her fathers aircraft, as they flew from their home to the source of the spill and back. See below. She is also the Greenpeace Campus Coordinator at University of North Carolina-Wilmington. itsgettinghotinhere.files...r-lighter.jpg?w=357&h=382 I grew up in one of the most beautiful places. Montrose, Alabama. My family lives on Mobile Bay, and I spent my childhood exploring the many bays, rivers, streams and creeks near my home. Starting at age 7, I would spend whole days exploring the local waters and shorelines with my little 13 foot boat. What existed naturally in my own backyard was truly utopian. Now, all the beautiful trees, wildlife and pristine waters, all will see the thick black and red oil within these next days. It brings a deeper ache than I can express. As I flew out to the spill last Friday with my father (he’s a pilot), I wasn’t prepared for what I was going to witness. Here are some notes I took during the flight as we approached the source of this disaster: “We are starting to smell oil…the pungent smell burns my nostrils and I feel nauseated to the core of my being….oh my God…red streaks of oil are everywhere…thick black near the well…it is crude oil and it stretches as far as I can see…I am sick…I can’t feel my own body or distinguish any of my feelings right now… this is the worst and most saddening situation I have ever seen in my life…The boats are randomly skewn about, and they are so disorganized! The cleanup efforts look completely haphazard and ineffective. It is utter chaos down there! Boats randomly placed, pulling booms that are simply swirling the oil around in circles! I really don’t feel alive right now…this is a horrible dream…why the heck didn’t BP have to have a plan in place for a disaster like this?!” It was so much worse than I could have ever imagined and not even close to what the media has been portraying. I couldn’t even take it all in. I saw miles and miles of crude oil pouring from the Earth’s core to the ocean’s surface, red as blood, where it then proceeded to move eerily and ominously with the current toward my home. Before I even registered sadness, tears poured down my face. My entire body cried. I felt so helpless looking down at that uncontainable and chaotic mess. I will never be able to clear that picture from my mind. This disaster could have been prevented, yet it wasn’t due to BP’s own negligence and a weak national energy policy. What’s outrageous is that BP is doing everything they can to avoid assuming responsibility for this spill. How dare they try and sidestep responsibility for the worst disaster in the Gulf’s history?!?!?! Over 4 million gallons of crude oil are destroying the Gulf coast and innumerable wildlife habitats while also crippling local economies – this is destroying my home.The time of giveaways and loose regulation of the oil industry must end. I hope with all my heart that this disaster will be a huge wakeup call. Things must change. We must all work to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and be involved in a clean energy revolution. Congress needs to ban offshore drilling and President Obama needs to provide unwavering support to end offshore drilling. Please talk to your friends. Talk to your neighbors. Start organizing yourselves. Become involved with these serious issues we are facing. If we continue on our current path of carelessly extracting fossil fuels like oil and coal, rather than harnessing clean, renewable energy like wind power, we will see many more tragedies like the BP oil spill. From the disaster zone, Brinkley Hutchings Still photos taken during the flight Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) * Oil continues to dump into the Gulf * National Day of Action, Night of Mourning Against Offshore Drilling. Friday… * My Op-Ed on the Offshore Drilling Disaster * Powering Our Future
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#25. To: tom007 (#0)
Four million gallons is a drop in the bucket when you are talking about the Gulf of Mexico. Not to say it won't kill some fish and birds but to think that four million gallons is going to destroy the Gulf of Mexico is foolish. Now if she is talking about that much a day or something like that, then yes, that could be very serious. But oil seeps into the ocean all the time and it is broken up by natural processes. I suspect this one will be too.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. what, nobody has come up with 'this is obamas tarbaby' or similarly inappropriate remark fuck. lets get it together people, that was a gimme.
'It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.' - Apache proverb
Is the first family going down there and bob their nappy locks into the spill? Or what? We be needing all their ancestors back to Kunta Kentay to mop up this mess. LOL! Good one, Lod.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ...which explains why the mass media has to hype this event with 25,000 stories a day (according to google headlines) as the spill operation was just getting cranked up. we know whose side the mass media is on, dont we? ...as they continue their attempts to expand the wars to iran...
Because those who own BP, own the media.
There is some truth to that. However, there WILL be damage. Unfortunate for the people, plants and animals of the Gulf. Not so unfortunate for BP.
A likely moniker.
I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies. -- Ron Paul
I said there would be. Some fish will die and some birds will die and that is unfortunate. But four million gallons is not a lot when you consider the amount of water in the Gulf of Mexico. 1 cubic mile = 1 101 117 147 400 gallon [US, liquid] source: http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm I don't know how many cubic miles there are in the Gulf of Mexico but look at how many gallons are in just one cubic mile. As I said, four million gallons in the Gulf of Mexico is literally a drop in the bucket.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
he who wants bread is the servant of the man that will feed him, if a man thus feeds a whole people, they are under his control.
this "nuke the spill" tactic ought to be great for terrorizing people into shutting down drilling offshore, dont you think? nobody in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to actually do it, but at least floating the idea is a useful scare tactic... good to see you're so plugged in.
Well, oil is lighter than water, of course. Might be fairer to figure how thick the oil would be spread over the surface of the GoM. GoM area: 579153 sq miles 1 sq Mile: 5280 * 5280 sq feet My calc show it would come to about 1/10,000th of a cubic inch per square foot. which indeed seems miniscule. Of course that's spread out over the whole GoM which this isn't. The current will take it to isolated places. I supposed the Valdez was much worse for the spill being very close to shore. Maybe this won't be that bad.
Yes, but the oil will only be on the surface, so the volume of water doesn't matter, the area does.
Because all of the people working on controlling the oil leak will die - as they are at the center of the oil spill.
Video of spill from the air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=did-S6XbpMM&feature=player_embedded#!
for the first time in his environmental career, he feels hopeless.
Because all of the people working on controlling the oil leak will die - as they are at the center of the oil spill. They could move all the people far out of the way, light the oil on fire, let it burn off and then all the people could return.
we know whose side the mass media is on, dont we? ...as they continue their attempts to expand the wars to iran... The media makes a big ado over nothing in order to divert the people's minds from what is really important. It will be a bad fishing season for a few thousand people, but compared to 100 million, that is nothing. 10,000 people will stay away which hurts the local economies but others will come just to see it which will help the local economies. It takes time, but the oil desolves in ocean water, the bacteria will eat it, and the hot summer sun will evaporate it. In any event, a few months after the oil spill stops, there will not be a trace. Then the media will hype the sex life of some movie star to keep our minds occupied on what is not important.
the main thing is to keep the wars going in the middle east... and restricting drilling in offshore america will contribute to keeping the wars going. so the basic unadmitted fact will be that the wars are to grab oil. the most forbidden fact is that the wars will be to protect israel.
Uhhhh.... what?
But nahhhh, that's too fucking easy. ... SPOT ON OLE CHAP !
"The smallest of frauds such as Santa Claus are perpetrated upon children by criminals in order that the largest of frauds such as the FEDERAL RESERVE may be had upon them as adults."
Beware of Russians offering advice.
he who wants bread is the servant of the man that will feed him, if a man thus feeds a whole people, they are under his control.
pre-9/11, the israeli russians were scheduled to guarantee oil supplies to israeli america, as the middle east was remodeled to israeli spec... ...so we should "beware russians", especially in view of the fact that putin fixed russia by dumping the israeli russians of yukos, along with other jewish oligarchs who were allied with the neocons... too bad the infestation in america has gone past the point of fixing, isnt it? ...so you're likely to remain in control of america right to the bitter end, but there's not much you can do to restore israeli russians to their positions in russia... not much chance of restoring the 9/11 plan to its original glory ...which explains your hostility towards russia and putin... the best laid plans, etc etc etc
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
Sad but true. How Israel highjacked the USA for their benefit when there are just as many Arabs, and certainly more Mexicians, and probably as many Chinese and Japinese, is beyond me.
jews have controlled american mass media from the beginning, starting with the "newspaper of record", the new york times. david halberstam wrote a book on it, "the powers that be". by the time television became the dominant medium, jews were firmly in control of information availiable to the american public.
Crews are still at work in that area trying to staunch the flow on the sea floor while other workers are trying to drill a relief valve in from the side. If BP lights it off, the area will become an impossible place to work. Burning it off, I imagine, would be the last ditch if they decide they can't stem the flow of oil from the depths while they wait weeks for the relief well to hit the leaking borehole.
I see psyops everywhere.
when you couple zionist control of the media to the holyhoax persecution myth, jews became exempt from criticism... any criticism of jews or israel was an obvious manifestation of "antisemitism". so these people have had generations of free lunch... kids turned loose in a candy store.
so jews in america are exempt from criticism, and they've exploited that exemption to worm their way into dominance of america and america culture. meanwhile, they think their dominance proves their racial superiority... their dominance proves that they are entitled to run the world. but what can you expect from mama's boys who are exempt from criticism?
I don't like their control of America, but I will not dispute their racial Superiority. They have the highest average IQ.
it's likely that the smartest person in the world is chinese, because of the law of averages. you can make a case that jews, because of their persecution myths, are overcompensating... in other words, they're terrorizing themselves into overachieving.
i got to admit that jewish artists, musicians especially, do some really good stuff. and if music is the yardstick, then you have to say that jews, statistically, are superior. on the other hand, it's no great secret that the music biz is run by jews, so jews are gonna get preferential treatment in the industry. and judging from my own behavior in writing music, the best stuff always came out when i was under the most stress... so what if the whole jewish schtick is based on stressing themselves into overachieving? ...what if, in service of this schtick, jews cooked up the holyhoax persecution myth? what if the rest of us are content to sit back and take things as they come, and arent burdened with a compulsion to prove how superior we are? ...we're gonna be duck soup, arent we?
(r)Crews are still at work in that area trying to staunch the flow on the sea floor while other workers are trying to drill a relief valve in from the side. If BP lights it off, the area will become an impossible place to work. (r)Burning it off, I imagine, would be the last ditch if they decide they can't stem the flow of oil from the depths while they wait weeks for the relief well to hit the leaking borehole. How long do you think it would burn for?
I have very carefully and methodically separated the procedure into 4 simple and easy to follow steps. ; )
Exaggerators Anonymous A 12,000 step program.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
What makes you or anyone think that such an event would "seal" it closed? To my amazement, a few days ago an apparently serious radio broadcast of the BBC's "World" they interviewed a reporter in Moscow what flat out stated that the USSR used (I remember five) nukes to plug well in similar situations, but not that deep! I am not saying they did, but that was what was reported by the BBC a day or so ago.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" You can't seal that with a bomb blast of any magnitude; if such an event would occur, it probably would magnify the flow rate. It must be sealed with a coherent retaining system.
"Sarah "Kiss my Torah" Palin" -- Jethro Tull, circa 2010-04-14
See DB's youtube link in comment #33. According to that, it seems plain that they did use nukes to deal with such problems.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestOver 4 million gallons of crude oil are destroying the Gulf coast and innumerable wildlife habitats while also crippling local economies – this is destroying my home.The time of giveaways and loose regulation of the oil industry must end.
Lord Acton
#26. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
#27. To: Lod (#12)
What?
Lord Acton
#28. To: James Deffenbach (#25)
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Four million gallons is a drop in the bucket...
#29. To: tom007 (#0)
It was so much worse than I could have ever imagined and not even close to what the media has been portraying.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#30. To: James Deffenbach, all (#25)
Four million gallons is a drop in the bucket when you are talking about the Gulf of Mexico. Not to say it won't kill some fish and birds but to think that four million gallons is going to destroy the Gulf of Mexico is foolish. Now if she is talking about that much a day or something like that, then yes, that could be very serious. But oil seeps into the ocean all the time and it is broken up by natural processes. I suspect this one will be too.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#31. To: tom007 (#0)
Brinkley Hutchings
#32. To: wudidiz (#30)
However, there WILL be damage.
Lord Acton
#33. To: Pinguinite (#7)
#34. To: DeaconBenjamin (#33)
(Edited)
"nuke the oil spill"
#35. To: James Deffenbach (#32)
#36. To: James Deffenbach (#32)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#37. To: Eric Stratton (#8)
Seriously though, why haven't they set the shit on fire?
#38. To: James Deffenbach (#25)
#39. To: ratcat (#38)
#40. To: ratcat, Eric Stratton (#37)
Seriously though, why haven't they set the shit on fire?
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#41. To: groundresonance (#28)
...which explains why the mass media has to hype this event with 25,000 stories a day (according to google headlines) as the spill operation was just getting cranked up.
#42. To: DWornock (#41)
The media makes a big ado
#43. To: DWornock (#41)
...the oil desolves in ocean water, the bacteria will eat it, and the hot summer sun will evaporate it...
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#44. To: Eric Stratton (#5)
Or, we quit making the easiest to get oil off limits.
#45. To: groundresonance (#34)
nobody in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to actually do it, but at least floating the idea is a useful scare tactic...
#46. To: DeaconBenjamin (#45)
(Edited)
Beware of Russians...
#47. To: ratcat (#37)
#48. To: wudidiz (#40)
#49. To: groundresonance (#42)
the most forbidden fact is that the wars will be to protect israel.
#50. To: DWornock (#49)
How Israel highjacked the USA...
#51. To: wudidiz (#40)
They could move all the people far out of the way, light the oil on fire, let it burn off and then all the people could return.
#52. To: DWornock (#49)
(Edited)
How Israel highjacked the USA
#53. To: DWornock (#49)
#54. To: groundresonance (#53)
they think their dominance proves their racial superiority...
#55. To: DWornock (#54)
(Edited)
They have the highest average IQ
#56. To: DWornock (#54)
(Edited)
#57. To: All (#56)
#58. To: randge (#51)
(w)They could move all the people far out of the way, light the oil on fire, let it burn off and then all the people could return.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#59. To: Eric Stratton (#48)
Just curious, did you have to take a class to figure that out?
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#60. To: Eric Stratton (#59)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#61. To: wudidiz (#59)
#62. To: wudidiz (#60)
#63. To: buckeroo, Pinguinite (#16)
They should seal the well closed with a nuke or similar magnitude blast under the sea floor.
#64. To: tom007, Pinguinite, all (#63)
#65. To: tom007 (#63)
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