Government Insiders: Get Ready for the Gulf Dead Zone

OilPrice.com ^ | 24/06/2010 | Wayne Madsen

[bananaman22]

Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf.

A looming environmental and population displacement disaster is brewing in the Gulf. The oil dispersant used by BP, Corexit 9500, is seen by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf and absorbed by rain clouds producing toxic precipitation that threatens to continue killling marine and land animals, plant life, and humans within a 200-mile radius of the Deepwater Horizon disaster site in the Gulf. Adding to the worries of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers is the large amounts of methane that are escaping from the cavernous grotto of oil underneath the Macondo drilling area of Gulf of Mexico.

On a recent visit to the Gulf coast, President Obama vowed that the Gulf coast will "return to normal." However, federal officials dealing with the short- and long-term impact of the oil disaster report that the "dead zone" created by a combination of methane gas and Corexit toxic rain will force the evacuation and long-term abandonment of cities and towns within the 200-mile radius of the oil volcano. Full article at: Gulf Dead Zone

[TennTuxedo]

Scaring people to get behind Cap and Trade.

[NonValueAdded]

While NOAA experts say Corexit is working and should be continued.

[Freddd]

WOW.

[a real Sheila]

WHY are they using Corexit?
What is the reason given by the EPA to allow its use?
One would think it would be easier to skim oil from the surface rather than let it form huge plumes under the sea

[rawhide]

Wasn’t there a worse spill off the coast of Mexico that went on for years, yet Mexico survives? I think this is much an exxageration!

[unkus]

ping

[Whitebread]

if you have the time, read these (3) sources, the potential for disaster is unfathomable...

it seems the key is to watch the methane levels

http://www.helium.com/items/1864136-how-the-ultimate-bp-gulf-disaster-could-kill-millions

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sf10062001.htm

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967

[NonValueAdded]

See NOAA reports underwater cloud of diffuse oil {6 miles max}. Not that I am defending or supporting it, simply reporting so you can decide.

[Whenifhow]

Please watch this video

Kindra Arnesen @ the Gulf Emergency Summit
http://www.gulfemergencysummit.org/

Hear the horrors of the front lines and behind scenes workings of the BP Gulf Oil Spill Catastrophe. This Venice LA local has been granted security clearance to see it all.
She is an “insider” and is whistleblowing - NOAA,EPA, BP, Gov, are all in it together!!

http://video.godlikeproductions.com/video/Kindra_Arnesan_-_Quoted_on_PBS_Newshour_6232010

It Begins… Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Are Put Into Place
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2540892/posts

[Crimson Elephant]

This oil spill is working on about 3 dimensional levels of Orwellian.

[sten]

well, if you let if continue long enough... eventually it will kill everything in the area.

real shocker here.

and yes, this is all about cap & trade, power & control, and the killing of America.

[Integrityrocks]

I can’t wait for the first good hurricane to hit the gulf. It will be all clean again.

[Ann Archy]

Just now om Chrissy Matthews a guy just said that OSHA rules only allow the workers on the beach to work 10 MINUTES an HOUR!!!

[justa-hairyape]

I can’t wait for the first good hurricane to hit the gulf. It will be all clean again.

Unfortunately, strong winds will force the ships collecting the oil to seek shelter. So, the spill will continue during the hurricane with no collection. IE - A full on gusher. Now BP is supposedly making some modifications to the collecting mechanisms to allow for collecting even during a Hurricane. I guess we will find out how well that works.

[Cyber Liberty]

How does this compare to the “dead zone” off the Mississippi delta caused by fertilizer runoff in the Plains states that has existed for years?

[Whenifhow]

See NOAA reports underwater cloud of diffuse oil {6 miles max}. Not that I am defending or supporting it, simply reporting so you can decide.
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Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062205391.html?sub=AR
Excerpt:
“We’re going to have to evacuate the gulf states,” said Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., an oil investment firm and, since the April 20 blowout, the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. “Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought.”