Tar from BP Oil Spill Continues to Surface
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For many of us, the gulf oil spill is a thing of the past. We don't hear much about it but thanks to Eddie Vedder's interview last night on Jimmy Fallon, the issue rises once again, as do balls of toxic tar.
Here's Ed's interview:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com ... th/n42336/
And here's a recent article on the subject from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and company's Ring of Fire Radio program:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/10/ ... s-surface/
Tar from BP Oil Spill Continues to Surface
Last week, the Coast Guard recovered 4,167 pounds of matted tar that officers believe to be from the 2010 BP oil spill. The vast tar mat was found by crews inspecting the Louisiana coast at Port Fourchon following Tropical Storm Karen, the Times-Picayune reports.
The exact size of the tar mat has not been determined, but Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Anderson told the Times, “We’re expecting a significant amount of product.”
The Coast Guard does not expect that the new mat will be as extensive as the one found earlier this year. In June, shortly after BP ended its cleanup efforts in 3 states, the Coast Guard discovered a 40,000 pound tar mat under the surf off Isle Grand Terre, Louisiana.
Workers have been recovering oil that was buried under little more than a foot of sand, HoumaToday notes.
BP ceased cleanup efforts in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi this summer, though environmental groups said the decision was premature. “We don’t want the nation to think this disaster is over when oil washes ashore somewhere along Alabama’s 53 miles of beach every day,” Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Baykeeper, told CNN.
At the time, the director of the National Wildlife Federation’s Gulf of Mexico Restoration Campaign, David White, said that “As much as one million barrels of oil from the disaster remains unaccounted for, and tar mats and tar balls from the spill continue to wash up on the coast.”
“We cannot just accept oiled material on our beaches and in our marshes as the ‘new normal,’” he added.
Contrary to past incidents, BP does not seem to be contesting that the tar mat is a result of their 2010 disaster.
A BP PLC spokesman, Jason Ryan, said the most-recently uncovered tar mat is located in an “active area,” where authorities “knew the storm might expose residual oil,” according to The Republic. Today, patrolling and maintenance takes place on just 26 miles of Louisiana coastline. Fifty-two additional miles are in “various stages of inspection, periodic monitoring or the approval process,” Ryan said.
During the week following Tropical Storm Karen, cleanup workers found more than 500 pounds of tar balls and nearly 400 pound of oiled debris.
Just last week, researchers at Auburn University released new findings that tar balls “are reservoirs for a multitude of dangerous bacteria, including at least one pathogen that can and has caused life-threatening sickness and death in some humans,” The Locust Fork News-Journal reports.
“What matters is that people be aware that tar balls can be hazardous to their health and that the more tar balls you encounter, the higher the risk,” said Cova Arias, Auburn aquatic biologist and the study’s leader.
As early as months after the spill occurred in April 2010, BP was sponsoring advertising campaigns claiming that Gulf Coast beaches were safe. The newest tar mat surfaced even as BP has been fighting in a federal court in Louisiana, attempting to downplay the damage from their Deepwater Horizon disaster.
see also: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=222584
Here's Ed's interview:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com ... th/n42336/
And here's a recent article on the subject from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and company's Ring of Fire Radio program:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2013/10/ ... s-surface/
Tar from BP Oil Spill Continues to Surface
Last week, the Coast Guard recovered 4,167 pounds of matted tar that officers believe to be from the 2010 BP oil spill. The vast tar mat was found by crews inspecting the Louisiana coast at Port Fourchon following Tropical Storm Karen, the Times-Picayune reports.
The exact size of the tar mat has not been determined, but Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Anderson told the Times, “We’re expecting a significant amount of product.”
The Coast Guard does not expect that the new mat will be as extensive as the one found earlier this year. In June, shortly after BP ended its cleanup efforts in 3 states, the Coast Guard discovered a 40,000 pound tar mat under the surf off Isle Grand Terre, Louisiana.
Workers have been recovering oil that was buried under little more than a foot of sand, HoumaToday notes.
BP ceased cleanup efforts in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi this summer, though environmental groups said the decision was premature. “We don’t want the nation to think this disaster is over when oil washes ashore somewhere along Alabama’s 53 miles of beach every day,” Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Baykeeper, told CNN.
At the time, the director of the National Wildlife Federation’s Gulf of Mexico Restoration Campaign, David White, said that “As much as one million barrels of oil from the disaster remains unaccounted for, and tar mats and tar balls from the spill continue to wash up on the coast.”
“We cannot just accept oiled material on our beaches and in our marshes as the ‘new normal,’” he added.
Contrary to past incidents, BP does not seem to be contesting that the tar mat is a result of their 2010 disaster.
A BP PLC spokesman, Jason Ryan, said the most-recently uncovered tar mat is located in an “active area,” where authorities “knew the storm might expose residual oil,” according to The Republic. Today, patrolling and maintenance takes place on just 26 miles of Louisiana coastline. Fifty-two additional miles are in “various stages of inspection, periodic monitoring or the approval process,” Ryan said.
During the week following Tropical Storm Karen, cleanup workers found more than 500 pounds of tar balls and nearly 400 pound of oiled debris.
Just last week, researchers at Auburn University released new findings that tar balls “are reservoirs for a multitude of dangerous bacteria, including at least one pathogen that can and has caused life-threatening sickness and death in some humans,” The Locust Fork News-Journal reports.
“What matters is that people be aware that tar balls can be hazardous to their health and that the more tar balls you encounter, the higher the risk,” said Cova Arias, Auburn aquatic biologist and the study’s leader.
As early as months after the spill occurred in April 2010, BP was sponsoring advertising campaigns claiming that Gulf Coast beaches were safe. The newest tar mat surfaced even as BP has been fighting in a federal court in Louisiana, attempting to downplay the damage from their Deepwater Horizon disaster.
see also: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=222584
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off to watch the interview
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
that was frickin awesome
ed kicks ass
@#$%^&*((*&^%$@#$%^
PEARL JAM ALBUMS & THEIR GEAR
like really. dump a semi trailer load of albums & gear from 1000 feet square on a fucker's head. i swear they will drop to the ground like a fucking rock
lightning bolt their fat asses
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
you'd one one dumb ass son of a bitch to throughly believe that millions of gallons of oil isn't still out there fucking around in the gulf & swimming around the world like good oil balls & tar shits
do not ever for all the money in the world, ever believe what some big ass company like BP is selling. they are false, they are fake & they do not give a fuck about you or me or the oceans or the environments around the world... never ever trust them kinds of people. you will be getting fucked & you will be living in a polluted planet
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Sounds interesting. I'll watch for it. (Is it "eco-terrorist" or eco-sabateaur"?)
movie is a few years old ... so, you'd have to look for it somewhere ...
it's probably a little of both ...
Meanwhile they push for drilling in the Arctic and the keystone pipeline etc, with reckless disregard for environmental safety and even property rights (using eminent domain to steal land for the pipeline), fund the global warming deniers, and try to kill alternative energy (A recent example being preventing Tesla auto sales in Texas). :evil:
Pretty disgusting stuff. Sad that our government is for sale and these guys we some of the highest bidders.
Thanks to Ed for attempting to talk about this on national TV despite Fallon repeatedly cutting him off. Perhaps Fallon is heavily invested in BP? Who knows!
Well said, grooveme. And yeah, Fallon really diverted things. Ed kept cool and rolled with it. I'm guessing he figured out anyone with ears got the point. And most if not all talk show hosts keep pretty close to the middle so I wan't surprised by Fallon, but good for him anyway for having Ed and PJ on the show.
Thank you for posting this topic. It befuddles me that people don't know or care about this anymore
There is just so much crap in the world to care about. Tough to keep focus on a 3 year old issue unless it is local to you.