Feds sue BP, other companies for oil spill damages

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101216/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_justice


By: Michael Kunzelman And Harry R. Weber, Associated Press –
Date: Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:16 am ET

NEW ORLEANS – A powerful plaintiff has joined the hundreds of people and businesses suing BP and other companies involved in the Gulf oil spill: the Justice Department.

The government, in an opening salvo in its effort to get billions of dollars for untold economic and environmental damage, accuses the companies of disregarding federal safety regulations in drilling the well that blew out April 20 and triggered a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Wednesday's lawsuit is
separate from a Justice Department criminal probe that has not resulted in any charges.

"The department's focus on investigating this disaster and preventing future (spills) is not over," Attorney General Eric Holder said during a news conference in Washington. "Both our civil and criminal investigations are ongoing."

The federal lawsuit filed in New Orleans names BP, rig owner Transocean and some other companies involved in the ill-fated drilling project, but not Halliburton — the project's cement contractor — or the maker of a key cutoff valve that failed. Both could be added later.

Rahm Emanuel's middle finger

Vatic Note: Remember, Rahm was given a free apartment by BP, the oil company that the White House allowed to run the entire gulf fiasco and to run it as a gestapo operation stomping on the rights of just about everyone including hte press. So, Rahm has been taken care of very well by his people. Now Mayor Daley just announced he is retiring as Mayor of Chicago and the person they designated to replace him is non other than Rahm. No wonder he said he would be resigning his chief of Staff position by November. We will see. Chicago is Israel redux and Rahm is Mossad, nice combination.    He will run Obama from Chicago through who knows who.   I like this articles analogy to  the "middle finger" concept.  Its appropriate.

Rahm Emanuel's middle finger
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/20/19724/5977
by Steven Searle
Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 04:07:24 PM PDT

Rahm Emanuel and his book ("The Plan: Big Ideas for America," co-authored by Bruce Reed), are the subjects of my reflections today. Appropriately enough (as you will see), I will start with Rahm's middle finger (on his right hand), which was lost to a meat slicer when he was a teenager. Bear with me on this train of thought:

Wikipedia states: "During the 1991 Gulf War, Emanuel [then 32 years old] was a civilian volunteer in Israel, rust-proofing brakes on an army base in northern Israel."

Questions:

1) Isn't it difficult to perform a tactile function like "rust-proofing brakes" with a missing finger?

2) Doesn't it strike you as rather odd that someone as talented and ambitious as Rahm chose to assist his fellow Jews in such a mundane capacity?

That's on the one hand (as it were); on the other, we have this claim by one Sherman Skolnick (10/17/05):

"[Rahm Emanuel] is Deputy Chief for North America of Israeli Intelligence, The Mossad, even while he is now a Congressman."

No matter what you may think of Sherman Skolnick (or Wikipedia, for that matter), perhaps Rahm as Mossad-man is more believable than Rahm as grease monkey. Or perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

First Oiled Turtles Released in Gulf after Rehab

Vatic Note: Excuse me? I just read a whole bunch of type saying the gulf was destroyed, no oxygen, the plums were worse than they thought, the oil was moving into the jet stream and killing fish all along the coast line from the gulf to the east coast. So what in the world are they doing releasing these endangered species back into such a horrific, FEARFUL, and earth destroying environment??? Can anyone please explain this to me??? I desparately need a reality check here. Something is not lining up at all.   If I allowed it, this back and forth would drive me crazy, but I refuse to allow that to occur.   Until I see hard evidence of all this doom and gloom and it matches the behavior, then I will not believe it until then.   That tactic eliminates the uncalled for fear until its proven to be needed and real.  

First Oiled Turtles Released in Gulf after Rehab
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/18/national/main6785535.shtml?tag=stack
CEDAR KEY, Fla. , Aug. 18, 2010,

Rescuers Released 22 Oiled Sea Turtles into Fla. Area Unaffected by Spilled Crude (VN: remember this phrase)

AP) The first rehabilitated turtles oiled by BP's massive leak were released back into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, with scientists saying that animals taken in by rescuers including birds - appear more resilient than first feared.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the oil crisis for the government, helped release the 22 oiled sea turtles about a mile off the coast of Cedar Key, Fla., an area unaffected by the spilled crude. They were the first oiled turtles found in the Gulf and rehabilitated.

"I think it's emblematic of us starting to look forward in the recovery," Allen said, smiling as he released some of the turtles. "This is a very pristine environment. This is their natural habitat."

Even though oil spill rescue crews have brought more sea turtles and birds to shore in the month since BP capped its broken well than the previous month, wildlife officials said both kinds of animals have suffered less damage than originally projected.

Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill

Vatic Note:   I can see why BP doesn't want videos or pictures of the intentional  destruction they have caused because then they would need those swat teams the President has sent to protect BP and their precious earth destroying assets.  What is worse, is you can see the REAL DAMAGE they intended to cause and since they have no souls or spirits, they have no concept of what they have done nor do they care.  Its not just the oil that is the problem, ITS THE TOXIC DISBURSANTS THAT ARE KILLING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT AS IT WAS MEANT TO DO, to ensure no living thing survives in order to get to us, humans.   To do what they intended requires they deprive us of any food in that gulf.  Remember, they had an option for cleaning up the oil itself THAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS from reaching this level of destruction and STILL NO ONE HAS ACTED ON IT...Spare me, Obama supporters your rationalizations, since this is a "PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BP AND THE US GOVERNMENT" as the military spokesperson has said.   So I guess our government is colluding with BP to destroy our food and water.   Makes you wonder exactly where this is all suppose to lead once the full contaminationof these waters, marsh lands, and inland waters are done.   I read that the objective is to make it impossible to breath with that combination of oil and toxic disbursements and that was the reason they used them.  If so, this is beyond crimes against humanity,  its literally undescribable what we would call this kind of intentional work.
There is another post coming up here on how Campbell offered their expertise in the underwater robots at that depth, and it was ignored by both the White House and the BP people.  That is when I KNEW this was intended and the only ones that can fix that are us.... we the people and now we find out if we want to do that.  I do, anyone else? 

Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/02/2010-06-02_the_hidden_death_in_the_gulf.html


BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy,
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Originally Published:Wednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM
Updated: Wednesday, June 2nd 2010, 5:44 PM
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/02/2010-06-02_the_hidden_death_in_the_gulf.html#ixzz0ptODH26s

Here's what President Obama didn't see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds.

"When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at," said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.

His motive: simple outrage.

Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP

Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052302164.html?hpid=topnews

By Joe Stephens, contributed to Vatic Project by "Fernwood",  USA
Monday, May 24, 2010

In the days after the immensity of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became clear, some Nature Conservancy supporters took to the organization's Web site to vent their anger.

"The first thing I did was sell my shares in BP, not wanting anything to do with a company that is so careless," wrote one. Another added: "I would like to force all the BP executives, the secretaries and the shareholders out to the shore to mop up oil and wash the birds." Reagan De Leon of Hawaii called for a boycott of "everything BP has their hands in."

What De Leon didn't know was that the Nature Conservancy lists BP as one of its business partners. The Conservancy also has given BP a seat on its International Leadership Council and has accepted nearly $10 million in cash and land contributions from BP and affiliated corporations over the years.

"Oh, wow," De Leon said when told of the depth of the relationship between the nonprofit group she loves and the company she hates. "That's kind of disturbing."

The Conservancy, already scrambling to shield oyster beds from the spill, now faces a different problem: a potential backlash as its supporters learn that the giant oil company and the world's largest environmental organization long ago forged a relationship that has lent BP an Earth-friendly image and helped the Conservancy pursue causes it holds dear.

Inventors say BP ignoring their oil spill ideas - 2 UPDATES

UPDATE #2: 12:14 mtn time, 5/26/10 - see video with all the updates on mobilization countrywide. Its almost everywhere.   He scrolls down on his video as he is talking so watch it and read and pause as you do when he goes too fast.  Its excellent intel he is giving up from many different sources including those in the guard.     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBSwCdfDoVQ  This is an invasion under the bogus "CARING" about our citizens when they have proven they think we are cattle and have ignored every single thing we have shown we care about.  Lock and load.  Remember when I posted about Obama and the drones they were assigning over Texas???  Now does it make sense???  I highly recommend that series of preparations I discussed yesterday about all of this. 

UPDATE:  9:43 am, 5/26/10 Its raining oil in Tampa Florida per intel by a tampa resident experiencing it as she was driving.
See email below this story. Looks like Vatic was right to post the tampa FEMA evac plans. Means they knew in advance what would happen.  You do not mobilize troop movements that big in just a few days, this has been on the books for a while and remember all those city war games over the past few years in Georgia, getting us used to military on our streets, and Oregon along a coast line?  I still say this was all planned.  It was the only way they were ever going to keep the south under conrol and GET THEIR GUNS, This is a call for confirmation by anyone else living in the tampa area.   Nasty bunch of HIGH TREASONOUS leaders we have, eh, add the quadrupling of our gas tax (SLAVERY/CATTLE) and no recovery costs taken from BP (FACISM) with Obama saying they did all they could while we have proof by correspondance that wasn't true, see Whitley letter and BP's response and see article below this blog showing OBAMA SAID MONDAY BP WAS DOING A GOOD JOB AND THE FED GOV HAD NO INTENTIONS OF INTERFERING with the clean up.  Now we need creative thinking to get around that gas tax and how we as citizens can fix the mess and toxins they are using to clean up the oil that is killing everything in site.  This is a crime against the globe and not just humanity.  .  

Vatic Note:  I saw a letter from BP to an inventors rep which rejected the invention that would have stopped the oil leak in 8 hours.  Now that is the "claim" and I am no expert on oil anything except how to pour it into my car and even that can be a real task for me.   However, given they did not even attempt to stop the flow for a full month after the blow out,  and given that the company owners shorted the stock before the accident,  then it is hard not to assume an agenda here.  I have heard that we are caught in a big war right now between Rothschild and Rockefeller,  and I also heard it was to let Obama off the hook for his signing the EO banning all offshore commercial fishing which would have turned a whole industry  against him and the dems,  so who knows, but the fact that these have all happened is not coincidence.   We will do as we have done since the first bailout and before, and that is wait and see.   Its all we can do unless we decide to get real pushy about them making moves.   We did, however, get a quadrupling of our gas tax to pay for this when BP is making billions and is continuing to drill in our off shore waters and people want to try and convince me Obama is just naive???  ROTFLMAO.  The answer to their solutions is to kick every single one of the out of office and I guarantee you the next batch coming in will remember how they got there and they know we can and will do  it again.   In the meantime.... prepare, prepare, prepare.   Its time. 

Inventors say BP ignoring their oil spill ideas
‘This is not just a PR stunt,’ oil company spokesman insists

By Michael Kunzelman and Mike Baker,  MSNBC.com

The Associated Press
updated 4:21 p.m. MT, Wed., May 19, 2010

NEW ORLEANS - A suggestion box or publicity stunt? BP has received thousands of ideas from the public on how to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but some inventors are complaining that their efforts are getting ignored.

Oil-eating bacteria, bombs and a device that resembles a giant shower curtain are among the 10,000 fixes people have proposed to counter the growing environmental threat. BP is taking a closer look at 700 of the ideas, but the oil company has yet to use any of them nearly a month after the deadly explosion that caused the leak.

"They're clearly out of ideas, and there's a whole world of people willing to do this free of charge," said Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of InnoCentive Inc., which has created an online network of experts to solve problems.

BP spokesman Mark Salt said the company wants the public's help, but that considering proposed fixes takes time.

"They're taking bits of ideas from lots of places," Salt said. "This is not just a PR stunt."

BP said Wednesday it hopes to begin shooting a mixture known as drilling mud into the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday. The "top kill" method involves shooting heavy mud into crippled equipment on top of the well, then aiming cement at the well to permanently keep down the oil. Even if it works it could take several weeks to complete.

"This is all being done at a depth of 5,000 feet and it's never been done at these depths before," said Doug Suttles of BP PLC, which leased the rig that exploded April 20 off the coast of Louisiana.

If the top kill effort fails, BP is considering a "junk shot," which involves shooting knotted rope, pieces of tires and golf balls into the blowout preventer. Crews hope they will lodge into the nooks and crannies of the device to plug it.

About 70 BP workers are taking more suggestions at a tip line center in Houston. The company plans to test one idea from actor Kevin Costner — a centrifuge device to vacuum up the oil — but that was not delivered through the suggestion-box system.

BP succeeded in partially siphoning away the leak over the weekend, when it hooked up a mile-(1.6-kilometer)long tube to the broken pipe, sending some of the oil to a ship on the surface.

Gerald Graham, a marine environmental consultant and oil spill response expert from Victoria, British Columbia, said he suggested a similar idea at the end of April to the joint incident command center run by BP, government agencies and Transocean Ltd., which owned the rig. The command center had him forward the idea to NOAA, which didn't respond.

"Why didn't they do this sooner?" Graham said. "Why did they wait so long?"

In the weeks before BP hooked up the tube, it tried but failed to use a four-story concrete-and-metal box to funnel the oil into a pipe and to the surface.

Salt said ideas for stopping the leak "have to be taken through loads of different stages" before BP can try to use them.

"We're dealing with things at a depth that has never been done before. They have to go through lots of vigorous tests," he said.

Spradlin, the InnoCentive CEO, denounced BP's call for help as a "publicity maneuver." His Massachusetts-based company challenged its Web-connected network of scientists, engineers, academics and other professionals to come up with possible solutions to stop the spill. Hundreds of ideas have poured in, but the company says BP has not responded.

Ideas submitted through InnoCentive include spreading oil-eating bacteria and dropping bombs to implode the leaking well.

Even the director of EPA's Gulf of Mexico Program Office is waiting to see if his idea will get used. Bryon O. Griffith worked in his spare time to develop an umbrella-style plug that could be deployed inside the damaged pipe, an idea that has been placed on a short list for consideration.

BP has fielded some 60,000 calls from the public that led to 10,000 tips. About 2,500 people sent in forms spelling out their ideas in greater detail, and BP advanced 700 to the next phase.

"And then we ask, is this something new?" BP spokesman David Nicholas said. "Can we incorporate it into our stuff, or is there an overlap? There hasn't been one that's come from that system that's come all the way."

Costner, the "Waterworld" and "Field of Dreams" actor, has invested more than $24 million in developing the centrifuge invention, along with business partner John Houghtaling II of New Orleans.

On Tuesday, Houghtaling said BP has agreed to test the devices, which can be dropped into the oil spill and separate water from oil, storing the petroleum in tanks. The smallest weighs 150 pounds (68 kilograms); the largest 4,500 pounds (2,040 kilograms).

"It's like a big vacuum cleaner," Houghtaling said. "These machines are ready to be employed. The technology is familiar to the industry."

It's not just BP that's been receiving ideas.

"You name it, it's been suggested. At least 15 times a day we get something about exploding the well — bombs, nuclear bombs, torpedoes," said Coast Guard Senior Chief Steve Carleton. He said he receives about a dozen emails a day with a link to a YouTube video of a man using hay to sop up oil.

"There's so many ideas you become numb to them."

Mark Badger, a businessman from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, proposed a series of wide fabric tubes that would connect and stretch to the sea floor. That contraption would contain the oil and allow workers to skim it.

"Think of a giant shower curtain at 5,000 feet that goes to the bottom of the ocean," Badger said.

Badger said the proposal hasn't received much response from BP despite a series of attempts to discuss it with company officials.

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Vatic Note:   Here is the email sent to a regular of our blog by a Tampa Bay Resident.  IF THIS IS CONFIRMED.... its time for Gun owners to get on the move and for others to come to their aid. .  DO NOT GO INTO THEIR CAMPS and do not let your relatives go there either.   Find help in other states, we will  open our homes to you to aid you and prevent you from going into the camps if that call comes out.  Take your weapons with you and ammo. 

http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1274767889


Making this quick, don't feel well. About 4:15pm or so eastern, coming back from Tampa, Florida north on Veteran's Expressway...about 7 miles perhaps from SR 54...it sprinkled some gray watery and solid black oil on my car. Thought it was bugs, but so fast did not make sense and windshield wipers just smeared it. Got out of car at store and looked on the paint and solid black dots on my car...I touch? huh? it's wet? it's OIL!!!!!

I had several folks verify it before I sprayed it off and it came off easier than the few love bugs. Two hours later still wet like OIL! nope, not water, smell it, OIL!!!

Anyone on Gulf try not to smear touch it as it is harder to wash off if it happens to you. Bands of storm clouds coming this way from Gulf of Mexico...has not actually rained at least where I have been, just ran through the sprinkle. I smell it now I am inside the house...it's just hard for me to believe also. One can think of a other things...oh maybe it was a vehicle in front of you...there were no vehicles near me at the time. So coincidence oil spill in the gulf and it rains oil on my car? okay believe what you will...but I know my gut and what happened to me, what I saw, others witnessed, I took pics of (sorry don't know how to post them, and it photos could be debatable anyway, take my word or not whichever...but we are in deep hocky doo folks.

I was noticing that big black blotch closer to west coast FL on some images that someone posted yesterday on Disasters board...wondering. Well, maybe wrong board but felt more may see it here and ones that live here. Be careful, if it gets on your clothes, pets, hair, eyes, skin...it won't be so easy to wash off as a well waxed car is.

Not checking this for now, gotta wash out my ears, eyes, nose and lay down...change clothes as I smell it now inside the house on my clothes. I did not smell it while out though and my nose is now desensitizing, but I feel nauseated. I am really sensitive though, some may not be so much or get the heavy warnings I do.

Thanks for letting me post this bopp, if you want to move it, okay with me I understand...maybe nobody pay attention anyway and I am not super pops here as it is!

~Eve

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UPDATE: 5/2/10 - Gulf oil spill: The Halliburton connection - Part I

UPDATE: The hole in the platform could not have been made by fire or burning, please read this from a reader and check out the links, its important.  Also read the blog just put up BELOW about the military secret space flight that  is top secret with a mission of experimentation with obviously weapons.
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"Here are some pics of the burning oil rig. Note the helideck with a large size hole in it which would appear to be burned. I did a search on "can aluminum helidecks burn" and found that they do NOT burn......many tests have been done. Plus the decks are equipped with valves all around the deck to spray either water or foam should a fire occur on the deck which would automatically spray. I will pass on some of the links I found in next post.