Obama Fully Engaged on the Oil Spill , Question is in What?
June 8, 2010
When the fix worse than the danger the event has caused.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php...
President reacted harshly BP spending $50 million on image-repairing TV ads & a whopping $10.5 billion in quarterly dividend payments to shareholders.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010...
Nothing about profits from chemicals dangers or connections.
Not a word about the chemicals being approved by the EPA or those effects on the people cleaning the beaches or the environment.
We don't want to hear , they're spending money on chemicals that do just as much damage making a profit while nickel & diming fishermen or small businesses here in the gulf."Tourism right here in Fl. I might add.
http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php...
President Obama warned BP Friday to stop shortchanging Gulf Coast residents while spending billions of dollars for stock dividends. "The fact that BP can pay a $10.5 billion dividend payment is indicative of how much money these folks have been making,"
"Given the fact that they didn't fully account for the risks, I don't want somebody else bearing the costs of those risks that they took. I want to make sure that they're paying for it."
They where not the only ones taking risk with somebody else's future livelihood from fisherman to tourism here in Fl not to mention our environment that affects us all.
U.S.exempted BP’s Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
By Juliet Eilperin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 & BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions .Not only did Obama give BP a pass.his administration was warned ahead of time that this rig was having problems:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/04/report-...
Corporations putting money ahead of all to be head of the food chain.
The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/BP-chief-To...
BP Plc told regulators 6 weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded that workers were having trouble maintaining control, according to e-mails released by the House Energy & Commerce Committee investigating the spill.
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-30/...
Is this not another from of terrorism?
Obama has lifted the cap to such Corporations taking on an identity.
Not only in the amount of money then can gave to influence a campaign but in our court systems as well.
Eric Holder, attended meeting of the EU/G6 ministers of interior in Italy last weekend, said he welcomes the EU’s swift action following those discussions.
“This declaration demonstrates our joint commitment to protect our citizens from terrorism consistent with our laws, our values & our commitment to individual privacy,” Holder said.
Our Constitution was designed to a commitment to protect our citizens from terrorism consistent with our laws, our values & our commitment to individual rights not those of corporations.
Privacy of Corporations achieving same rights as the people that our Constitution is designed to protect our rights & freedoms seems to be more important to an administration that vowed transparency in our government
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Gulf Lawmakers Plead With Obama to Ease Drilling Ban, Warn of Economic Blow
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/04/gu...
Maybe instead of pleading ask some pointed questions.
Obama's talked transparency to the public.
Obama knew from the beginning that oil leak would last months
Should have given a national address right away leveling with the public about the potential magnitude of the disaster he was Captain Transparency during the campaign but why risk that when there was still hope at the time that BP could get things under control relatively quickly?
Why has this info. not been disclosed or investigated instead of giving a free hand to BP the cause?
Giving them bill for clean up in one hand while giving a chance at profit in another.
At the cost of ones who he’s suppose to be working for to be clear that would be the people not BP
Get to the Bottom Of Undersea Spill
On Tuesday Attorney General Eric Holder announced a criminal investigation of the accident . "We will not rest until justice is done," ...
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.det...
LIKE TRYING TO STOP THE SPREAD OF DEADLY OIL WITH EVEN MORE DEADLY CHEMICALS
ABOUT AS DUMB AS TRYING TO PUT 2 TONS OF SPIN IN A ONE TON TRUCK WITH NO WHEELS
President reacted harshly that BP spending $50 million on image-repairing TV ads & a whopping $10.5 billion in quarterly dividend payments to shareholders.
Note nothing said about profits from chemicals dangers or connections.
Not a word about the chemicals being approved by the EPA or those effects on the people cleaning the beaches or the environment
What we don't want to hear is, they're spending money on chemicals that do just as much damage making a profit while nickel & diming fishermen or small businesses here in the gulf."Tourism right here in Fl. I might add.
Anger grows as disaster reaches Panhandle beaches
President Obama warned BP Friday to stop shortchanging Gulf Coast residents while spending billions of dollars for stock dividends & feel-good ads.
"The fact that BP can pay a $10.5 billion dividend payment is indicative of how much money these folks have been making,"
"Given the fact that they didn't fully account for the risks, I don't want somebody else bearing the costs of those risks that they took. I want to make sure that they're paying for it."
They where not the only ones taking risk with somebody else's future livelihood from fisherman to tourism here in Fl not to mention our environment that affects us all.
U.S.exempted BP’s Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
By Juliet Eilperin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118_pf.html
The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 & BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions .Not only did Obama give BP a pass.his administration was warned ahead of time that this rig was having problems:
Corporations putting money ahead of all to be head of the food chain.
Drilling deeper than we have the technology to control.
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-in-General_News-100604-406.html
BP Lacked Well Control Six Weeks Before Gulf Rig Disaster, E-Mails Show
BP Plc told regulators six weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded that workers were having trouble maintaining control, according to e-mails released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the spill.
BP's Lobbying Clout: 27 Former Hill, White House Staffers Working For Oil Giant
In the first three months of this year alone, the company at the heart of the current crisis, BP, has hired at least 27 lobbyists who formerly worked in Congress or the executive branch.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/BP-s-Lobbying-Clout-27-Fo-in-General_News-100604-346.html
The oil has now reached the shores of four Gulf states Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida I, am sure Texas not far away
Obama has lifted the cap to such Corporations taking on an identity.
Not only in the amount of money then can gave to influence a campaign but in our court systems as well.
Eric Holder, attended the meeting of the EU/G6 ministers of interior in Italy last weekend, said he welcomes the EU’s swift action following those discussions.
“This declaration demonstrates our joint commitment to protect our citizens from terrorism consistent with our laws, our values & our commitment to individual privacy,” Holder said.
Our Constitution was designed to a commitment to protect our citizens from terrorism consistent with our laws, our values & our commitment to individual rights not those of corporations.
Privacy of Corporations achieving same rights as the people that our Constitution is designed to protect our rights & freedoms seems to be more important to an administration that vowed transparency in our government
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This doesn't sound like hes fighting for the people to my way of thinking.
Now Obama faces what many are calling the "Oil Spill Shake Down". I team of Louisiana politicians have banded together to raise the stakes a little. It has given the Obama administration fits over the last several weeks. Even though they have turned the tide on other policy concerns like immigration.
So how does Obama free himself from these Bayou Bandits determined to blame the Obama administration it seems for everything that is wrong in the state?
Bayou Bandits watch PB money not wasted.
Some whispers are coming out of Washington that the answer lies in accountability. Fiscal responsibility for any handouts given by the federal government. This might even include watching to make sure the money handed out by BP is not wasted. If there’s one Achilles heal for Louisiana politicians. It has to be money management and corruption. Washington might just dump as much money on the Gulf Coast as they can handle and then watch as they sink in it. As improprieties and good old boy deals start to propagate
The only thing that has stopped this from reaching the noise level of Health Care is the internet. As webmasters well know the search engine company known as Google has been doing restructuring behind the scenes. Soon to roll out a new model called Caffeine
News does not travel as fast as it did during health care and it does not propagate as much restructuring behind the scenes. Soon to roll out a new model called Caffeine .
This would seem inline with remarks made by Obama the news media may get tired of the leak.
In other words hes choking off the information to the public.
Might also explain Eric Holder sending team of lawyers to Louisiana to safeguard Bps interest s from the Bayou Bandits
Corexit? *
Another experimental chemical mixture!
Corexitwas videoed by the State of Alaska when it was being sprayed from an airplane and called a 'dispersant'
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In the end, per one college study,
40 tons of granular nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer,
which ends up being Customblen,
was applied by workers to the Soiled Beaches of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Do you know anyone who used the granular CustomblenorCorexitfrom the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup August, 1989? ...
Was Customblenalso used again in 1990?
How many workers were there & are they OK now?
How was it applied?
It's surprising what can be learned when someone asks questions & then listens!
This first version of Corexit (9580) was an Exxon Product
with MSDS by EXXON dated 8-1-89
(Remember EPA was in the mood to approve anything
Exxon said was OK for 'bioremediation') *
If there's a 'next time' don't let Exxon run the show
Seems they do not learn from their mistakes BP seems to be running things.
Exxon claims ingredients are proprietary
Couldn't claim that now, due to 1997 court ruling -
A current MSDS of the version of Corexitthey ended up with would now show ALL ingredients ... so far, though, this has not been available per public records searched.
And that Corexit 9580 is hazardous as defined in 29 CFR1910.1200
"dispersants like Corexit 9527 *(another Exxon formulation)are much less toxic than the dispersants used in the 1960s," Wells said, "but even these new dispersants have adverse effects on biological processes."quoted by ADN 8-15-89
http://www.adn.com/evos/stories/EV147.html
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What Effect has Corexit and Customblen and InipolEAP 22* had on the fishing habitat? Has anyone checked what 'chemicals' do?
As with humans, must chemicals be specifically tested for?
More information on Corexit and other solvents*
Corexitjudged ineffective * (8-15-89)
Another experimental chemical not considered good enough after short term use in 1989 was Corexit ... which the government at Exxon's urging wants to dump in Alaskan waters for official experiment December, 2002, phase II *
Maybe Dispersants Should not be Used at ALL? *
"A researcher *was also amazed bacteria had not broken down the oil."
NO. 7-9580000
So how does Obama free himself from these Bayou Bandits determined to blame the Obama administration it seems for everything that is wrong in the state?
Bayou Bandits watch PB money not wasted.
Some whispers are coming out of Washington that the answer lies in accountability.
“Acountability” This seems a hollow word in Washington when you stop & think how things are done.”
A week ago, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) posted a video on his YouTube account that shows his floor speech in which he voices his concern with secret bills and the fact that the Senate passes over 90% of legislation without any debate, without amendment, and without a roll call vote.
"Folks, you don't get $13 Trillion in debt when you're doing things right. And part of the problem is that 94 percent of the bills that pass the Senate, pass in secret.
”The problem is not secret holds, it's the secret passing of bills, when very often we don't even know who's requesting bills.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B751mhY-QE&feature=player_embedded
My comment here:
“Acountability” When they don’t even know who’s writing the bills, who's requesting bills or even what’s in them.
Kind of like Eric Holder on the immigration bill from Arizona .”
Fiscal responsibility for any handouts given by the federal government. This might even include watching to make sure the money handed out by BP is not wasted.
If only they would pay as much attention to our tax dollars.
The only thing that has stopped this from reaching the noise level of Health Care is the internet. As webmasters well know the search engine company known as Google has been doing restructuring behind the scenes. Soon to roll out a new model called Caffeine.
News does not travel as fast as it did during health care and it does not propagate as much restructuring behind the scenes. Soon to roll out a new model called Caffeine.
Obama feeling pressure of oil spill shake down by Louisiana ...
Many Gulf fed' judges have oil links
More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows.
Thirty-seven of the 64 active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy industries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP PLC, Halliburton or Transocean — and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells, according to the reports judges must file each year.
Those three companies are named as defendants in virtually all of the 150-plus lawsuits seeking damages, mainly for economic losses in the fishing, seafood, tourism and related Industries, that have been filed over the growing oil spill since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded
http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?id=17784103&ps=1011&srce=news_class&action=9&lang=en&_LT=UNLC_USNWU00L9_UNEWS
BP's Lobbying Clout: 27 Former Hill, White House Staffers Working For Oil Giant
In the first three months of this year alone, the company at the heart of the current crisis, BP, has hired at least 27 lobbyists who formerly worked in Congress or the executive branch.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/BP-s-Lobbying-Clout-27-Fo-in-General_News-100604-346.html
--The Obama administration, Have said they have been facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday that it would move quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters.
Again it would seem the oil jobs Obama administration's interested in saving our those of big oil not of those the current leak as caused.
Nothing has been said about their jobs and lively hoods.
And again there seems to be a rush to lift the drilling moratorium,that it would move quickly to release new safety requirements that would allow the reopening of offshore oil and gas exploration in shallow waters.
Even before investigation as the the cause has been complted how can one put in saft measures to prevent what they don't know how it happened?
When the current well leak had safety requirements to prevent the event we are currently facing .
In the above reading two things stand out one the apparent pass the current administration, gave to the rig in question
The other lessons not learned from the Exon spill .
Gulf Coast residents, political leaders and industry officials said delays in releasing the new rules, along with the administration's six-month halt on deepwater drilling--both issued amid public pressure--threatened thousands of jobs.
I've seen no public pressure other than to stop the leak and be told the truth.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/07/obama-offshore-drilling-reopen_n_603819.html
Why Isn't the Justice Department Pursuing a Real Criminal Investigation Into BP?
We were relieved last week when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into BP's involvement in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
But our relief may be unwarranted, according to Scott West, the former special agent-in-charge at the EPA's Criminal Investigation Division. That's because West believes there isn't actually an investigation.
"I won't say [Holder] is a liar, but he's certainly practicing deception," West tells FastCompany.com. The investigation exists on paper--all the paperwork that goes along with filing an investigation has been completed---but nothing indicates that an actual investigation is underway.
"If there was a bona fide criminal investigation, you would be seeing a number of special agents knocking on doors and interviewing witnesses," West says. No one has come forward to say they have been contacted or subpoenaed, and a grand jury hasn't yet been impaneled for the investigation. This is a problem, according to West, because if an investigation does begin at a later date, witnesses' memories of the spill may have already faded. And while the Justice Department has asked BP to preserve documents, there is no reason to believe that the oil company will comply.
West has reason to distrust BP. In 2006, he investigated BP's involvement in a burst oil pipeline in Alaska. Workers knew that the sludge-filled pipe would burst, West says, but BP ignored their pleas. So West helped launch a criminal investigation. He compiled a massive pile of evidence and a large witness list. "We began to see a pattern of corporate-level cost-cutting putting the bottom line ahead of worker safety and environmental concerns," he says.
But everything came crashing to a halt in August 2007, when BP pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor account of negligence under the Clean Water Act. The company paid extensive fines, but West never had the chance to pursue the investigation to its logical conclusion.
After spending so much time investigating BP's past criminal actions, West wasn't surprised to learn that the company was behind the Deepwater Horizon explosion. "The day I learned that rig was on fire, I looked at my wife and said 'I'm willing to bet you it's a BP operation'. Then I said, 'I'm willing to bet that the sinking of the rig resulted from cutting corners and there will be employees coming forward raising concerns that were ignored'. Lo and behold, all that has unfolded."
So why isn't a criminal investigation being pursued? "Maybe [investigators] have been told some deep dark secret or maybe they're justafraid of losing their jobs,"
http://www.fastcompany.com/1657497/why-isnt-the-justice-department-pursuing-a-real-criminal-investigation-of-bp
Posted by Mac Mcdonald
