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BP Drilled TWO wells

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Will The Cap Process Work - Or Has The Seabed Erupted?

The video captured below is from the Live BP feed as the capping was being done. You can see the date July 16 bottom right.

The first four minutes appears to show that the sea floor has erupted.

At 4 mins 25 secs the camera seems to suddenly shift and we see what look like pipes and valves for a couple of seconds followed by an image of a different part of the seabed.

This free report (download it here) is called "Truth And Consequences" and it was picked up and published on other web sites, one of which (Rense) described it as "extraordinary."

It's about the potential effects of this disaster - and even "if" the well is successfully capped, they all still apply.Evacuations, East Coast horrors, Toxic Rain, and an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault.

Flames At The Well Head

Plus Free Report - "Dire Effects - Evacuations Imminent?"

June 10 2010:

Update June 12 2010:

As you can see, the above video was quickly pulled.

It showed flames within the oil at the well head, arousing concerns that an eruption might soon follow.

An alternative explanation, which may be another cover up, is that...

"There is a torch inserted into the column of oil to burn off the methane gas. It's being done deep to help prevent hydrate crystals from forming . This is not volcanic or some other natural activity that means something horrible is happening. The methane has to be burnt off to capture and process the oil."

Really? In split second bursts 5000 ft below the surface of the ocean? Inside a column of oil that's coming out of a pipe at the speed of an express train?

Wouldn't that be like passing gas in the bath and igniting it with an underwater candle??

What is the ignition source for this torch they talk about? And where is the "capture" device that is going to bring all that warmed up oil to the surface?

None of which alters the fact that millions of gallons continues to erupt into the ocean - and by the look of it (before the video was pulled), an absolute minimum of gas is being burned off.

Plus, there is no sign of the escaping oil being captured or diverted into a siphon pipe - so what's the point of igniting the gases in open water? Is it simply to give the appearance that something "effective" is being done to halt this ocean-killer?

Or was the claim that BP was introducing oxygen to try and ignite the gas just a retrospective piece of PR obfuscation? (i.e. BS).

That said, this event is so mind-boggling that one can be forgiven for having doubts about everything at every turn while clinging to the (forlorn) hope that it'll all be sorted out very soon. (It won't).

Update mid-day June 12 2010:- While BP and government spokesmen remain predictably and continually semi-optimistic that this will be brought under control, other independent experts (genuine experts) have a much different point of view.

Because of the anxiety and trepidation that goes along with all this, one can also legitimately question whether evacuations are imminent.

However,there can be no doubt that planning for such a contingency is underway. It is hurricane season after all.

And it is perhaps no coincidence that it's reported from Gulfport Mississippi that the air force has just completed a major Operational Readiness Inspection - an exercise in working with civilian authorities to conduct mass medical evacuations.

They say it's in the event of a chemical attack...which is exactly what this oil spill is.

If they plan for the worst, which is a good thing, shouldn't we at least consider doing the same for ourselves? Or must we always wait to be told what to do?

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Evacuations Imminent? Special Free Report

June 10 2010:

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---------------------------------------------------------------June 03 2010: An animation of how the oil will spread to the Atlantic and as far as Europe in coming weeks was released today by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

Big Oil - The Beginning Of The End.

by Michael Knight

The start of the Atlantic hurricane season has added a new dimension of disaster concerns to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Looking back, we know that this has been an accelerating catastrophe from the start. And it will get worse.

Let's review and then look to the future.

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20 killing 11 people.

Millions of gallons of oil and gas immediately began gushing to the surface.

After an initial estimate of 1000 barrels a day, the Coast Guard told us 5000 barrels a day were being released. i(Wrong. Very wrong. And still wrong).

BP and other companies instantly started blaming each other for the accident.ii

BP said environmental impact would be "relatively tiny." iii(Very very wrong).

BP straight away asked fishermen and others on the initial cleanup crews to waive future legal claims in favor of a $5000 one-time payment. iv(They quit doing that when their self-serving strategy was exposed).

We learned they had failed to include a back-up acoustic trigger device to activate the Blowout Preventer that had failed to stop the gusher as it was intended to do.v

We learned that staff of the US government agency, the Minerals Management Service, had at times literally been in bed with BP executives - and cut them a lot of slack in their license applications.vi

Dick Cheney and the former administration were fingered for having held secret meetings with oil company executives to offer them a "wish list" that would make their lives much easier.viiA "top hat" procedure - lowering a 100-ton containment structure over the blowout - failed.viii

BP took a long time to release any video footage of the gusher, eventually did so under pressure, but some claim it has avoided showing the primary gusher hole to the public - only oil spurting from a broken pipe. And even this has been called a loop.

Independent scientists were quick to analyze video footage and calculate that there could be hundreds of times more oil being spewed into the ocean than BP and the Government were telling us.ix

News coverage was hampered when the US Coast Guard threatened to arrest a CBS film crew. Then access to much of the area was restricted.x

BP started pouring hundreds of thousands of gallons of a product called Corexit into the ocean to hide the escaping oil ias underwater globules - despite the fact that Corexit is itself highly toxic. (The EPA agreed to it, but later insisted on other types being used. BP ignored that call).xi

An early hearing into the disaster was told there had been arguments between on-site drilling engineers and BP executives as to the safety of certain procedures just prior to the blow-out.xii

Within days, huge areas of the Gulf - which supplies 40 per cent of the US seafood market - were closed to fishing.xiiiConcerns were raised that the oil would enter the Loop Current and find its way into the Caribbean and then up the East Coast. (This is obviously unstoppable).xiv

A "top kill" procedure involving pumping a million gallons of slurry down the hole failed.xv

The gusher was being described as a "spill," and then more correctly as a "volcano."

At least 120 miles of coastline has so far been contaminated, despite the deployment of oil containment booms - of which there are not enough.

Clean-up workers began to get very sick - nauseated by the fumes that we've been told can cause brain damage and even death.xvi BP said it was food poisoning. xvii

Numerous law suits have been filed by various parties, and six weeks into the disaster the US Administration started distancing itself from BP with the announcement that criminal charges might be brought against the company. xviii (May be PR spin).

Tens of thousands of people have seen their livelihoods put at risk - or disappear - because of the fishing ban. From fishermen to on-shore handling facilities to trucking firms and restaurants, the impact has been beyond disastrous.

BP started drilling two "relief wells" to intercept the blowout hole and plug it - but they won't be finished till August at the earliest.xix

BP (as of early June) planned another effort at siphoning oil into surface ships. This was to cut the riser pipe and try and cap it or capture some of the oil. Chances of success were put at about 60 per cent by the company - at about zero by others in the industry. It ran into problems early on.xx

Among thousands of suggestions (or rumors) as to how to stop the oil was one that a barge - or even a battleship - should be scuttled and sunk over the mouth of the well.xxi

A bomb - even an atomic bomb - was another suggestion. (Explosives had actually been used in the past by the legendary Red Adair to plug surface wells that had blown out). But the geology of the Gulf sea floor may preclude such an option - or make the problem far worse if it is resorted to.xxii

Late May, emergency medical tents were being set up to deal with continuing illness among clean-up workers.xxiii

Turtles fish and breeding birds started turning up dead or covered in oil as wildlife sanctuaries and breeding grounds became inundated with toxic water and oil.xxiv

Hurricane season officially started June 1 - with 14 to 23 stormsxxv predicted for the next few months. Any one (or more) of them could be strong enough to disrupt drilling of relief wells and other containment operations for at least 10 days. That could potentially see a further quarter million gallons a day polluting the Gulf, the Caribbean and the Atlantic on into September or beyond.

"Insider information" started appearing on the Internet, saying "secret plans" were being drawn up to evacuate millions of people from the Gulf Coast because of the possible life-threatening effects of the oil spill and its poisonous gases.xxvi

The NOAA put out a "fact sheet"xxvii implying that a hurricane could potentially drive the oil slick away from the coast - and that it would not pick up much of the highly toxic underwater dispersant and oil. It did not address the issue of acid rain or what gases released from the well might do to waterways, catchment areas, and city water supplies.

President Obama said things like "the buck stops here" xxviii (which he has said quite often about other issues) while critics said he hadn't said enough - or done enough - without saying what else he might do. Then along came the investigation and the hint of criminal charges. (Which won't stop the oil).

BP has promised to "clean up every last drop"xxix of the oil spill - and has seen billions of dollars wiped off its share market value.xxx It has not yet explained why it did not spend $500,000 on the system that would have stopped the gusher in its tracks - though it uses them in other oil fields outside the United States.

Having reviewed all that, and turning to the future, it can safely be said that this is a disaster of historic proportions and its ongoing effects are impossible to fully comprehend.

Nevertheless, the cloudy crystal ball gives us a hint of some possibilities.

As a transport hub for much of the United States, the port of New Orleans could lose the bulk of its incoming and outgoing trade if cargo vessels must be diverted to other places to avoid being contaminated by surface oil. Perhaps they could be pressure washed before docking rather than have them contaminate the port and surrounding waters, but the cost would be horrendous.

Seafood is either going to disappear from the menu, or become prohibitively expensive - which may be the only thing that will make some people realize what a catastrophe this reliance on oil as energy has turned into.

Health issues far worse than food poisoning are likely to overtake hundreds and perhaps thousands of people as who knows how much gas including benzene and methane makes its way into the atmosphere. The dead zones will no longer be limited to the undersea environment where oxygen has disappeared.

What hurricanes will do to either compound the problem - or clean it up - remains to be seen.

Hurricane season storm surges will certainly carry poisonous ocean waters into vast swathes of the Gulf coastline, destroying the marshes as breeding grounds and killing off the vegetation that holds the marshes together.

On shore, hotels and tourist resorts will suffer immeasurably, though an influx of clean-up workers may stave off the inevitable bankruptcies.

Should the hurricane season and its storm winds turn to acid rain, then as far as it travels agriculture, viticulture, cropping and farming of all kinds will be in jeopardy.

This could include the Rio Grande Valleyxxxi (as but one example) which according to Wikipedia is reliant on agribusiness and tourism. Cotton, sorghum, maize, and sugarcane are its leading crops, and the region is the center of citrus production and the most important area of vegetable production in the State of Texas.

To date, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico, have been one of the most important areas of oil production in the United States.

Big Oil with its long-standing political connections has called the shots for decades.

The environment, ecology, even human lives have been both ignored, and lost in this endless quest for control of and profit from fossil fuels.

But with so many lives and livelihoods now so obviously at risk, this BP disaster may prove to be the beginning of the end for Big Oil.

(c) 2010 Michael Knight

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About the author: Michael Knight has been an investigative reporter, photo-journalist, cameraman and documentary director since 1960.

He is Editor of the international Internet newsletters "Earth Change Report" and "New Earth News" in which he writes about "everything from Inner Earth to Outer Space."

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Aside from the tragic deaths of 11 men when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, already, just as happened after 9/11, cleanup workers are becoming dangerously ill.

Fishermen Sick

Knight believes that "unless the oil volcano is plugged, it has the potential to be a far worse catastrophe than any war, including those in which atomic weapons have been used.

"Neither BP, nor any politician, or the mainstream media will explore or even admit to what terrible consequences will result. We therefore have to look at the whole issue independently, and form our own conclusions - and even make radical changes for our future - because it will never be the same."

Factoid: Louisiana's $2.4 billion seafood industry supplies up to 40 percent of U.S. seafood supply and employs over 27,000 people. The state is the second-biggest U.S. seafood harvester and the top provider of shrimp, oysters, crab and crawfish.

Following is from a blog that claims government scientists and independents are being muzzled - so their worst fears are being presented anonymously.

If it happens - it's beyond words...

SUMMARY OF EXPECTATIONS"At some point the drilled hole in the earth will enlarge itself beneath the wellhead to weaken the area the wellhead rests upon.

"The intense pressure will then push the wellhead off the hole allowing a direct unrestricted flow of oil, etc.. The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.

"This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was. The temperature at that depth is near 400 degrees, possibly more. The water will be vaporized and turned into steam, creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor. It is difficult to know how much water will go down to the core and therefore, its not possible to fully calculate the rise of the floor.

"The tsunami wave this will create will be anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how nature will seal the hole.

"Depending on the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland, will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life.

"Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years. [End of scientists information release."

As seen in the above map, hurricanes can be expected to cross the oil slick this season.

In this report the NOAA says oil won't come on shore in any rain, and that hurricanes won't pick up subsurface oil - but tidal surges can be expected to carry oil inland as far as they go.

"The high winds may distribute oil over a wider area, but it is difficult to model exactly where the oil may be transported.

"All of the sampling to date shows that except near the leaking well, the subsurface dispersed oil is in parts per million levels or less."

That's bureaucrat-speak that deliberately evades reports that there are underwater ribbons of oil that are miles long and miles wide.

"The hurricane will mix the waters of the Gulf and disperse the oil even further."

Ain't that grand. If a hurricane covers an area of 2- or 300 square miles, how much further?

And do they say anything about the methane and benzene gas and toxins from burning the oil that are now in the atmosphere? Nope. What will happen to that in a hurricane?

"Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year _ and there's no end in sight.

"If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for," he said after watching BP's televised announcement that the top kill effort had failed..

The top official in coastal Plaquemines Parish said news of the top kill failure brought tears to his eyes.

"They are going to destroy south Louisiana. We are dying a slow death here," said Billy Nungesser, the parish president. "We don't have time to wait while they try solutions. Hurricane season starts on Tuesday."

While presidential rhetoric at the bad news included the word "enraging," the next move by BP is to try and cut the riser pipe and fasten a shut-off valve to it.

BP and the Federal Government today admitted oil could keep flowing into the Gulf until at least August.

May 29 2010 - Day 39:- Speaking at a news conference at Fourchon Beach in Louisiana, Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said that attempts to plug the oil leak with a mixture of mud and debris had done nothing to stem the flow. The attempt was later abandoned.

"I don't think the amount of oil coming out has changed," said Mr Suttles. "Just by watching it, we don't believe it's changed."

This must have been a devastating admission to make. But let's give these people some slack. Accidents do happen. Despite one's best efforts, they just do. Not that the current legal system will ever admit such a thing, because that would mean there'd be nobody to blame, and no money in it for the lawyers or those whose lives have suddenly been truncated...either by death when the rig exploded, or because their livelihoods have simply disappeared.

"But anger with the US government is also high – forcing President Barack Obama to visit the coast on Friday. In the beleaguered resort of Grand Isle, he stood on a beach closed to the public and pledged his solidarity with residents, saying he was ordering a tripling of manpower in areas hit by the spill. "

a beach "closed to the public" on which he "pledged solidarity with residents."

Sounds like a person who wouldn't like to get too close to those he's pledging solidarity with.

So now what? What options does BP have?

Very few. Which leaves a person wondering what the future holds. And none of it looks good.

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May 28 2010 - Day 38:- President Obama visits Louisiana and says "I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis; I am the president and the buck stops with me.

"There are going to be a lot of judgment calls involved here. There are not going be silver bullets or a lot of perfect answers for some of the challenges that we face.

"Even if the leak was stopped today, it wouldn't change the fact that these waters still contain oil from what is now the largest spill in American history, and more of it will come ashore."

It will indeed. Even if they succeed in plugging the well, what's in the ocean now is millions of gallons of oil and highly toxic "dispersants" which in coming weeks and months will come ashore as acid rain within storms and hurricanes.

It will pollute waterways and catchment areas and render water untreatable and undrinkable.

May 28: "When the top kill began on Wednesday, BP said it would need up to 48 hours to gauge its success. But Hayward extended the timeline another 24-48 hours on Friday.

"He said the top kill's chance of success remained at 60 to 70 percent.

"BP has called the effort to plug the hole "a "rollercoaster ride," and investors might say the same. BP shares lost 5 percent on Friday, erasing gains made on hopes for a successful top kill."

Hayward also said the fact they had not released any update information for many hours was "an oversight."

Perhaps the Wednesday claim that they would know within 48 hours whether the top kill was successful is an "undersight"?

Or, more likely, they are not being as successful as we would all hope, and they're just delaying the bad news.

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