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Alarms Were Disabled on Transocean’s Gulf Oil Rig

Jul23
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

General alarms on Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had been disabled for a year before it exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the biggest U.S. oil spill in history.

The alarms would’ve warned all crew members of a fire or a large amount of explosive gas and were connected to an emergency shutdown system, Mike Williams, chief electronics technician for Geneva-based Transocean, said at a U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department joint investigation hearing today in Kenner, Louisiana.

Supervisors told him when he discovered the issue that “they didn’t want people woken up at 3 a.m. to false alarms,” Williams said.

The panel is investigating what caused the rig, which was leased to BP Plc, to explode on April 20 about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana. The incident killed 11 workers. Today is the final day of a third round of hearings, which started in May. Another week of hearings has been scheduled in Houston next month.

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Posted in Environment, North America, Technology

China oil spill after pipe blast ‘worse than thought’

Jul21
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Some reports suggest windshave started blowing the oil back towards the shore

Efforts to clean up an oil slick continue in China, amid fears strong winds have dispersed the pollution more widely than previously been thought.

Shipments of oil from the north to the industrial belt in the south have been disrupted since the accident.

The oil spilled into the sea in North East China after two pipelines exploded on Friday night.

The environmental group Greenpeace says the spill is China’s worst in recent memory.

In the area around where the pipes caught fire, beaches have been polluted.

An official in the State Oceanic Administration has told Chinese official media that heavy winds on Monday broke up the spill and dispersed it more widely than had previously been reported.

An area of ocean covering 430 sq km is now polluted.

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Posted in Asia-Pacific, Environment

BP admits using Photoshop to exaggerate oil spill command centre activity

Jul21
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command centre in Houston.

The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images.

The spokesman Scott Dean said yesterday that three screens were blank in the original picture and a staff photographer used Photoshop software to add images.

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Posted in Business, Environment, Hoax, North America, Technology

Massive Hole Spewing Oil Miles Away From Well!

Jul17
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

July 15, 2010 MSNBC

Posted in North America

Whistleblower: Relief payments get slashed if fishermen refuse to work for BPWhistleblower: Relief payments get slashed if fishermen refuse to work for BP

Jul07
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong.

According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of work by the spill, BP will deduct money from individual payments on claims for lost income if the claimant refuses to work in assisting the spill response.

Reading from a letter she’d received from BP, Arnesen quoted the company’s line:

“BP will continue its efforts to pay legitimate claims for losses incurred due to the Deepwater Horizon incident. However, federal law clearly provides for adjustments for all income resulting from the incident, all income from alternative employment or businesses undertaken [...] and potential income from alternative employment or businesses not undertaken but reasonably available.”

In other words, if you are a fisherman who was put out of work by BP and you do not elect to work in their employ, but you still file a claim for losses over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, that claim could be significantly less than the actual damages incurred.

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Posted in Activism, Business, Environment, North America

B.P. Oil Spill Day 77 Tar Balls Wash Up On Texas Beaches!

Jul05
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

July 05, 2010 ABC News

Posted in Environment, North America

That Person Will Be Personally Responsible For Hundreds Of Dead Pelicans!

Jun24
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

June 23, 2010 CNN

Posted in Environment, North America, Technology

U.S. judge rules against drilling ban

Jun23
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON – The Obama administration scrambled Tuesday to resurrect a ban on deepwater oil drilling after a U.S. judge declared that its six-month moratorium was too broad and arbitrary, despite the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“I will issue a new order in the coming days that eliminates any doubt that a moratorium is needed, appropriate, and within our authorities,” U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar said in a statement.

Administration officials said they would mount a two-pronged attack, appealing the court ruling and issuing a new order that would support a moratorium to allow enough time to ensure other exploratory drilling was safe.

This may ensure that no deepwater drilling — below 500 feet — would be resumed while the administration wrangles with the oil drilling firms challenging the ban.

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Posted in Business, North America

BP rig worker reported oil leak weeks before Deepwater Horizon disaster

Jun21
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

A rig worker has claimed that he told both BP and the rig operator of a problem with a piece of equipment blamed by many for causing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He says he gave the warning weeks before the explosion at the rig, and says the problem was not fixed at the time. Tyrone Benton says that he spotted a leak on the rig’s Blowout Preventer (BOP), the device that is meant to shut the well down if there is an accident. He told the BBC’s Panorama programme that both BP and Transocean, who owned the rig, were informed of the leak, and the faulty part — a control pod — was switched off rather than being repaired. This comes as BP announced that the 2 relief wells that are being drilled to stop the oil spill will not be completed until August.

Posted in Business, North America

B.P. Clean Up Crews Killing Baby Birds Crushing Eggs & Nesting Areas!

Jun16
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

June 15, 2010 CNN

Posted in Animal Welfare, Business, Environment, North America

POLICE STATE 2010: National Guard Orders CNN To Stop Filming Birds Covered In Oil

Jun16
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Posted in Environment, North America, Police State/Big Brother

Oil Washing Up In Florida Like Wet Black Cement

Jun14
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

June 13, 2010 CNN

Posted in Environment, North America

BP Discourage Clean Up Crews From Using Respirators

Jun13
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

BP’s logic seems to be that if the oil cleanup doesn’t look dangerous then it must not be. The oil company has told workers not to wear respirators because it’s bad for public relations, according to one human rights group.

RFK Center President Kerry Kennedy traveled to the Gulf Coast to talk to cleanup workers and found that BP was trying to repress the use of safety equipment.

“In all three states that I’ve visited, fishermen said when they went out to work on the cleanup, that if they tried to bring respirators they were told it was unnecessary equipment and would only spread hysteria,” Kennedy told Fox News Friday.

“When I went out with eleven people, we had respirators on and within half an hour, all of our eyes were burning and our throats were closing and we all had headaches,” she explained.

Kennedy was also concerned that BP was refusing to release information about the contents of the dispersant being used.

Posted in Environment, Human Rights, North America

BP Commands Government to Strangle Off Media Coverage of Oil Gusher

May30
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that the government is strangling off access to areas of the Gulf of Mexico impacted by what is now admitted to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

“The Associated Press, CBS and others have reported coverage problems because of the restrictions, which officials say are needed to protect wildlife and ensure safe air traffic,” the AP reported. “A CBS news story said one of its reporting teams was threatened with arrest by the Coast Guard and turned back from an oiled beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River.” Officials said the denial of access was under “BP rules.”

BP and other leviathan transnational corporations own Congress and the White House. Obama’s apparent disinterest in the oil gusher until very recently is not because he does not believe the situation merits attention. The federal government has done little beyond engage in public relations management because transnational corporations and bankers rule (and own) the political process. BP continues to insist it is in control of the situation and the government continues to defer. BP does not want the media poking around and reporting the severity of the disaster to the American people.

“U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration officials said BP PLC, the company responsible for cleaning up the spill, was not controlling access,” Matthew Brown writes for AP. “Coast Guard officials also said there was no intent to conceal the scope of the disaster. Rather, they said, the spill’s complexity had made it difficult to allow the open access sought by the media.”

And yet it is admitted BP contractors are operating alongside the FAA and Coast Guard at command centers that approve or deny flight requests. Charter pilots say they have been denied permission to fly below 3,000 feet when they have reporters or photographers aboard.

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Posted in Environment, Media News, North America

Gulf oil spill: Before explosion, BP was warned to slow down

May26
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hours before the fatal accident that sunk the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico,  Transocean workers quarreled with BP officials who wanted to go ahead and finish the job despite earlier problems, a rig mechanic told a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory committee Wednesday.

Douglas Brown, the rig’s chief mechanic, testified that three Transocean officials balked at the desire of a BP “company man” to go ahead with a process to clear the riser with seawater. The riser is the connector pipe between the rig and well, and this would have been a final step to finish the exploratory drilling job BP had hired Transocean to complete.

“There was a slight argument took place … the company man was saying, ‘This is how it’s going to be,’ ” said Brown, who could not identify the BP official.

After the mid-morning meeting, Brown said, Transocean specialist Jimmy Harrell grumbled, “Well, I guess that’s what we have those ‘pinchers’ for” – apparently referring to the shear rams on the blowout preventer on the sea floor, an emergency device used only when all other means of controlling the oil well have failed. Brown’s account suggests Harrell thought BP was taking a grave risk.

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Posted in Business, North America
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