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Massive Horseshoe Crab Die Off in Cape Cod: Corexit poisoning?
Posted on 09/17/2010 by "Gulf Leak Watch" editors
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From YouTube: August 20th I met my friend down at the beach on the Cape near our family home in Chatham. Harding’s Beach has always been a great clean beach.
I sat for a few seconds and saw it right off. OK the seaweed but then I took a walk further & right off noticed the immense horseshoe crab die off.
Ive been there my whole life & Ive never seen this. Yes storms bring in many things but one species & not others & only the young of the species. Something was wrong to me and I had to show it.
I’ll get right to it. Yes I suspect it has a relation to the Corexit 9500 & that the currents have carried that deadly poison to our shores. Our own Fishing industry & livelihood is not only in jeopardy but more important our lives our health is. This will last our life time and then on.
This is significant & critical as to the scope of this environmental disaster & how it will or is affecting anywhere the waters flow around the globe.
Our government has signed off to the industry and military to allow the use of this dispersant Corexit 9500 & it is deadly. Don’t let them tell you other wise & those who dropped it I’m sure they know in their own hearts it was wrong.
It’s like they dropped the A bomb and I’m serious about this people. We have been poisoned and it is not isolated to the Gulf and I do not believe it was an accident.
I am very upset over the oil spill and what they used to disperse or cover up the magnitude of the spill. We know we are being messed with and it’s our lives and our children’s lives. They do not care.
Our sea is dying and it is too late. This event in the Gulf has really done us in. Millions of gallons PLUS this Corexit 9500 has been injected into the well under the sea and also sprayed from up above by our own air force.
What did they think would be the result of such an action? Who signed off on such a thing? Who? You know who!
This is no longer a threat to our shores but to others as well outside our own country. This is a Global event & my little film here is nothing but a small fragment of what is to come.
“The Canary in the Mine” for sure.
BP was & is in control of our beaches telling our own people who wanted to report on the issue they had no jurisdiction and were not allowed to photograph or walk the most contaminated areas. I do not buy the “it was for their own safety” We have no idea of the scope of this yet but I can only estimate. Not imagine I’m thinking the reality is very scary at this point.
Forget the most contaminated areas. They are all contaminated.
This is so devastating it is Global. Wake up people were really in a Global Crisis were all in this together and I am not sure we can get out of this one.
I took samples of the Horseshoe crabs to an environmental testing lad today. The manager was called in & a marine biologist & we talked and we all agreed what can we do? nothing at this point but spread what we have found.
They didn’t even have to test. They knew. That’s what is scary. They knew. The manager was a diver & he knew it was possible & it was here. So he was in agreement but the reality is what can we do now that the damage is done.
I told him this was not about money this was about an environmental disaster we have no control over and all we can do now is report on it. No fund will recover our marine life. we don’t have to pay law firms to tell us what we already know.
Our fishing industry is going to die but that’s the least of our worries. We may go along with it.
There is nothing at this point to do but to yell all about it. He agreed yes the contamination had reached our shores. That’s all I needed to hear. He was a diver and knew this was not good and not surprised.
I told him the dispersant was light enough to make its way up the coast in the currents to Massachusetts. He agreed.
He agreed but what can we do about it? What can we do!!!!!! It’s happened how can we correct it? We can’t.
Really this is horrible & I’m just showing you what I alone have seen and I’ll write more later. This is my own evidence.
It has made it to our shores who is next. Oh and yes this is no surprise and how long has this been going on? It isnt the first time I can say that with a clear mind
No the oceans are not warm because of the climate change they are warming because they have been poisoned with a chemical so lethal it has created a thermal chemical reaction..
The thermo change is from the chemical reaction in the water due to contamination which effects the marine life more and the crustaceans are the first to go so here we are.
If we notice the birds die off then we know for sure. They have ingested the guts of the crabs so it’s moving up the food chain.
Do not trust your country to have your back they have allowed this and I am more than upset.Massive Horseshoe Crab Die Off in Cape Cod: Corexit poisoning?
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Jun 8, 2010 By ■ Bill Lindner
PART ONE...
Opinion: Gulf coast oil devastation growing as BP's credibility plunges
By Bill Lindner.
More than a month and a half since the Gulf Coast oil crisis began, evidence of criminal negligence and public outrage are growing, the devastation, and BP's -- as well as the Federal government's -- lack of credibility is becoming increasingly obvious
After 50 days of nonstop oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, contrary to media referring to the gusher as a 'spill,' British Petroleum (BP) and the U.S. government -- with, as noted by Common Dreams, the usual Government Impotence and Corporate Rule -- have bent over backwards to keep the truth about the spill out of the public eye. As this virtual crime against humanity slowly unfolds, it's difficult to believe anything BP or the Federal government tells you.
Since the environmental catastrophe began in April, BP's actions have, in addition to a lot of other things, been extremely hypocritical. For instance, aside from intentionally low-balling the estimated amounts of oil that continue gushing nonstop, BP has claimed it's not important to accurately estimate the amount of oil -- contrary to what they said a year ago. A year ago, BP said that measuring the oil flow was critical to gauge an effective response. Now that they're in the middle of the largest oil disaster in U.S. history, measuring the true amount of gushing oil is not important when it could possibly cost them everything.
As more of the devastations become public, and the crude continues spewing virtually unimpeded, the race to buy off politicians has shifted into overdrive -- BP and Halliburton are reportedly trying to buy off Government officials with 'deep Department of Justice and White House ties' investigating the oil spill. In an effort to slow down criticism of their handling of and responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP has reportedly bought Google and Yahoo search words to keep people away from the real news about the spill.
Public anger is mounting steadily. Oil from the still spewing gusher in the Gulf of Mexico has reached from Louisiana to Florida and there have been reports of oil-soaked birds showing up in Texas. The East coast will end up being another victim this summer. A recent study reportedly reveals that oil from the Gulf Coast spill could soon foul thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast.
In an apparent effort to quell the rage over the non-stop spewage of oil, the Federal government announced that there would be a criminal investigation into the leak. In its usual tradition, the highly politicized Justice Department is being vague, and as the past decade has shown, 'Justice' is one-sided, always in favor of the ruling class, and the Justice Department is nothing more than a pawn used by the White House to weasel itself et. al. out of any responsibility for their actions. Even when former government officials admit they committed crimes, the 'Justice' Department will not do a thing about it but make sure there is no accountability. As noted by Global Research, for years the government has used the law to harm people and shield the establishment. If President Obama handled his corporate cronies -- who literally continue getting away with murder -- the way he does whistle-blowers, an actual investigation would happen. However, he doesn't, and he won't.
Mounting evidence of criminal negligence
Six weeks before the oil rig blew, BP reportedly told regulators that its workers were having trouble maintaining control. Recently released emails showed that as early as the second week of March, BP was enlisting help from a Houston-based firm on how to respond to oil spills according to the Bloomberg report, which goes on to note that emails also show that Federal regulators gave BP permission to cement the well at a shallower depth than normally would have been required after the hole caved-in on drilling equipment. In fact, internal BP documents reportedly show that there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig far earlier than mentioned by BP in a Congressional hearing. As noted by the WSWS, there is plenty of evidence showing criminal negligence in the run-up to the oil rig explosion. Government corruption continues running unabated.
As the devastation from the oil spill becomes more evident, clean up workers have been barred from talking to the press, but some of the workers are talking. Reporters and the press have been barred from many of the affected areas of the spill, and BP is still playing games with and lying to the press and the public.
One cleanup worker reportedly told Mother Jones some of the secrets of BP's cleanup ops, despite being warned more than "500 times" that if he spoke to the press, he'd be fired. According to Mother Jones' BP insider, over a week ago, when the Coast Guard was announcing that the top kill appeared to be working, the cleanup supervisors on Grand Isle had already been told that it was a failure -- information that was intentionally withheld from the public for several days...despite the fact that it was blatantly obvious.
According to the Mother Jones report, as more of the oil spews from the underwater gusher, the cleanup efforts slow down, and many of the cleanup workers -- working for as little as $10 dollars an hour, when they get paid on schedule, and working in a hazardous environment for hostile leadership -- have spent a lot of time sitting around waiting to be utilized. As the beaches get bombarded with more crude, cleanup efforts lessen.
CONTINUED...Jun 8, 2010 By ■ Bill Lindner
PART ONE...
Opinion: Gulf coast oil... more
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Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead
Michael Snyder
Jun. 30, 2010
BusinessInsider.Com
Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many scientists are warning us of, and now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Yes, you read that correctly. Almost all of them are dead.
VIDEO WARNING! To Gulf Volunteers…Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Spill Is Dead!!!....http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/video-warning-to-gulf-volunteers-almost-every-cleanup-worker-from-the-1989-exxon-valdez-spill-is-dead/Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez... more
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Large-scale skimmer begins testing in Gulf
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 3, 2010 6:33 p.m. EDT
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- A ship billed as the world's largest skimming vessel has begun testing its effectiveness in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for its owner, Taiwanese company TMT Shipping, said Saturday.
The A Whale has been assigned a 5-mile-by-5-mile area to test its capability, spokesman Bob Grantham said, citing Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft. Testing is expected to continue Saturday and Sunday, with initial results probably available Monday, Grantham said.
The skimmer works by "taking in oily water through a series of vents, or jaws, on the side of the ship and then decanting the intake," Grantham said. "In many ways, the ship collects water like an actual whale and pumps internally like a human heart."
The testing area is just north of the underwater oil gusher, the statement said.
The A Whale arrived in the Gulf on Wednesday and has been awaiting approval to join in cleanup efforts. The vessel is estimated to be able to skim 21 million gallons of oil a day, at least 250 times the amount that modified fishing vessels currently conducting skimming operations have been able to contain, according to TMT.
Built this year, the vessel was meant to carry crude oil and iron ore. But after hearing about the oil disaster in the Gulf, TMT modified it to become the world's first large-scale skimmer, spokesman Frank Maisano said this week.
Researchers have estimated that between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels (1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons) of oil have been gushing into the Gulf daily since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank off the coast of Louisiana.
Environmental Protection Agency scientists were set to meet with the agency's chief Saturday to discuss the chemicals BP is using to break up the oil slick. Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's briefing on dispersants in Gulf Breeze, Florida, comes two days after the agency released results from its first round of toxicity testing on eight of the dispersants used in the Gulf.
The EPA study showed that the chemicals, when not mixed with oil, did not significantly disrupt the endocrine systems of marine life. But the agency has said it plans to conduct more tests of the toxicity of the dispersant when mixed with crude.
Dispersants have been a key part of BP's cleanup strategy. Since the beginning of the disaster, more than 1.6 million gallons of the dispersant Corexit 9500 alone have been injected into the Gulf.
Critics say the chemicals could harm marine life. But the Coast Guard has said that dispersant use is "evaluated daily" and that it's using the "safest and most effective methods available" to protect the sea environment.
A CNN analysis of daily dispersant reports provided by the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command showed that the chemical dispersants keep flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at virtually unchanged levels despite the EPA's May 26 order to BP to "significantly" scale back.
Before that date, BP used 25,689 gallons a day of Corexit. Since then, CNN's analysis showed, the daily average of dispersant use has dropped to 23,250 gallons a day, a 9 percent decline.
Over the past few days, bad weather has significantly hampered BP's oil cleanup and collection efforts. Hurricane Alex made landfall in northeastern Mexico late Wednesday, but its impact was still felt in the Gulf days later.
On Friday, more oil than what would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool slipped by the cap on BP's ruptured undersea well because of the bad weather, Zukunft said.
The cap on the well in the Gulf of Mexico, bouncing in the rough conditions, captured 20,000 fewer barrels (840,000 gallons) of oil than anticipated, Zukunft said.
The rough seas also prevented skimming or burning for the past two days, displaced boom and made it unsafe to fly, he said.
BP spokesman Mark Proegler noted that forecasters expect rough seas to calm a bit this weekend.
Crews are standing by to resume skimming operations and survey inland waterways that may have been affected because of a storm surge. Shoreline cleanup operations continue with limited weather interruption.
For the 12-hour period from midnight until noon Friday, approximately 8,665 barrels of oil were collected and about 4,155 barrels of oil and 28.6 million cubic feet of natural gas were flared, BP said.
Thursday's total oil recovered was approximately 25,150 barrels.
Newly retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced Friday that since June, the skimming capability in the Gulf has increased more than fivefold, from approximately 100 large skimmers to 550 skimming vessels of various sizes working to collect oil in all parts of the region as. To date, 28.2 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been skimmed from the Gulf's surface.
CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.Large-scale skimmer begins testing in Gulf
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 3, 2010 6:33... more
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Dispersants flow into Gulf in 'science experiment'
By Ed Lavandera, CNN
July 2, 2010 1:20 p.m. EDT
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Chemical dispersants keep flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at virtually unchanged levels despite the Environmental Protection Agency's order to BP to "significantly" scale back, according to a CNN analysis of daily dispersant reports provided by the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command.
When the May 26 directive was issued, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said dispersant use should be cut by 75 percent.
Public statements at the time made by the EPA administrator gave the impression that federal officials were trying to cut down overall dispersant use.
"We expect to see a substantial reduction in the overall amount of dispersant used," Jackson said in May.
Before May 26, BP used 25,689 gallons a day of the chemical dispersant Corexit. Since then, CNN's analysis shows, the daily average of dispersant use has dropped to 23,250 gallons a day, a 9 percent decline.
Gulf Coast environmentalists say it's another sign that the federal agencies monitoring dispersant use are not being tough enough with BP.
"I think the EPA has been struggling to respond to this crisis," said Aaron Viles with the Gulf Restoration Network. "It's all really a giant science experiment and we're terribly concerned that in the long run the impacts are going to be significant and we really don't know what we're doing to the ecosystem."
But the EPA argues it deserves credit for getting alarming dispersant use under control. The directive states that BP must ramp down dispersant use by "75 percent from the maximum daily amount used."
And that's the catch. The highest recorded amount of dispersant used occurred on May 23, when 70,000 gallons were injected into the Gulf of Mexico. EPA officials say they feared that number would have become the norm and that's why, they say, the directive was issued.
"This escalation was quickly reversed, ensuring BP only uses the lowest volume of dispersant needed," said Adora Andy, a spokeswoman for the EPA.
But even by the EPA's own standards, BP still routinely exceeds the daily threshold. The EPA and Coast Guard say they're trying to keep dispersant use to around 18,000 barrels a day.
But according to CNN's analysis, BP has gone over that amount 50 percent of the time since the May 26 directive was issued. To do so, BP must request permission from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Coast Guard officials say dispersant use is "evaluated daily" and that it's using the "safest and most effective methods available" to protect the sea environment.
"The EPA-Coast Guard directive has been successful in ensuring that BP uses the lowest volume of dispersant necessary," U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Erik Halvorson, a spokesman with the Unified Area Command.
The EPA continues testing the chemical dispersant Corexit 9500, which has been used by BP since the beginning of the oil disaster. So far more than 1.6 million gallons of the chemical have been injected into the Gulf of Mexico.
But the struggle over daily dispersant use has caught the eye of Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, one of the loudest critics of BP's response in cleaning up the oil spill.
"I think it is obvious we can never again allow for a repetition of what is happening right now, where the science experiment is being conducted without having any idea what the impact on marine life long term will be," said Markey.Dispersants flow into Gulf in 'science experiment'
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By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”.
Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.
The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4.
The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days. Sea Brat 4, on the other hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years.
A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.
Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”.
Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures.
As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service:
“The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good.”
And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the “biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks to destroy it completely for decades to come.
Reports are also coming from the United States that their government is secretly preparing to evacuate tens-of-millions of their citizens from their Gulf of Mexico States should the most dire of these scientific warnings start to come true.
To the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible.
But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place.
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[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
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