Who Died And Made BP King Of The Gulf Of Mexico? (Prepare To Get Really Angry!)

The Economic Collapse Blog ^ | June 18, 2010 | Staff

[lbryce]

There is one question that I would really like an answer to. Who died and made BP king of the Gulf of Mexico? In recent weeks, BP has almost seemed more interested in keeping the American people away from the oil spill than in actually cleaning it up. Journalists are being pushed around and denied access, disaster workers are being intimidated and abused and now BP has even go so far as to hire an army of private mercenaries to enforce their will along the Gulf coast. Are we suddenly living in occupied Iraq? How in the world did a foreign oil company get the right to start pointing guns at the American people? The last time I checked, BP did not own the Gulf of Mexico and did not have the right to tell the American people where they can and cannot go. The truth is that BP could have avoided all of this by running an open, honest and transparent operation from the start. They could have welcomed help from all sources, they could have tried to be open with the media, and they could have tried to be fair with the volunteers and rescue workers. But instead BP has been conducting this whole thing as if we are living in a totalitarian dictatorship and they are the dictators.

Over the last several weeks, members of the mainstream media attempting to cover the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been yelled at, harassed, kicked off public beaches and threatened with arrest. The Obama administration keeps promising "to improve media access", but so far their promises haven't seemed to make much difference. In fact, a recent AP report detailed several recent highly disturbing incidents of journalist intimidation....

[John S Mosby]

In a larger sense it would be impossible to respond to your list of sources and interlinked people and companies, point by point. There are many shareholders of NALCO, and one would not be surprised at the major people you list, inasmuch as the company is number one in the business of water quality, municipal and industrial. NALCO has product lines that address manufacturing use of water (the re-use of water and its quality being prime concern to ensure there is water for everyone). Berkshire Hathaway is a major shareholder of many many companies, including Amtrak- not surprising. From a chemical action point of view, your statements about Corexit are simply wrong. Dispersants are highly active surfactants whose goal is to create a colloidal suspension of normally hydrophobic petrochemicals. The result of the creation of a colloid is to make these particles, while still in the ocean, accessible to proteolytic and oliophilic bacteria to digest the components of the petroleum into organic components that are not toxic. In short, a brilliant invention.
I’m the first to be concerned at the “government” partnership BP has enjoined as it is a major player in carbon trading and Goldman Sachs. Until the well flow can be contained, the sheer volume of crude cannot be dealt with by simply letting it float to the top— because it will not all float to the top. And it is not due to a dispersant. The real money is in a corporation trying to morph in place into a “green” company and its enormous payoff to obambi in the first place. Everyone in this situation appears to be at the trough, whether the government’s, the fascist obama’s illegal “tap” of an escrow account without benefit of a law from Congress, or BP trying to continue to pay its shareholders and pensioners. The real question is why did obambi delay until now when cleanup was his primary directive. Answer: he and his marxist pals want this to damage US citizens, want it to come ashore.

[kcvl]

If you want to know what is in a product you naturally go to the website of the company that makes the stuff!

I certainly trust them before the liberal tree huggers/environmentalist at the federal government's EPA!

[kcvl]

Obama’s Energy Czar: Carol Browner formerly EPA’s longest serving Administrator in the history of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency = environmentalist nutjob

[OldDeckHand]

"a colloidal suspension of normally hydrophobic petrochemicals."

I think I caught that once while on shore leave. Thankfully, a dose of penicillin cleared it right up.

[mojitojoe]

You have not provided ONE link, NOT ONE, other than the one from Nalco’s own website. It’s clear you have a vested interest in seeing as much used as possible. Follow the money. I want you to show me where it has been tested for toxicity at the depths and levels used. You sound like the nuts on KOS and DU that blindly defend the Marxist Kenyan.

The manufacturer’s safety data sheet states “No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product,” and later concludes “The potential human hazard is: Low.”[14]

According to the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the use of Corexit during the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused “respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders” in people.[9] According to the EPA, Corexit is more toxic than dispersants made by several competitors and less effective in handling southern Louisiana crude.[15]

UK authorities have an approved list of products which must pass both “sea/beach” and “rocky shore” laboratory toxicity tests, following a review of approval procedures over a decade ago.[16] Corexit did not pass the rocky shore test when submitted for renewal of its inclusion on the list, and was dropped. Although it has been omitted from the approved list since 1998, existing stocks which pre-date the removal may be permitted for use away from rocky shorelines, subject to prior approval.

Reportedly Corexit is toxic to marine life and helps keep spilled oil submerged. The quantities used in the Gulf will create ‘unprecedented underwater damage to organisms.’[17] 9527A is also hazardous for humans: ‘May cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver’.[18]

Alternative dispersants which are approved by the EPA are listed on the National Contingency Plan Product Schedule[4] and rated for their toxicity and effectiveness.[19]

[edit] See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit

[mojitojoe]

You are an idiot. Why would I trust a company that stand to make billions and admits it has never done toxicity studies. You care NOTHING about the ocean or what lives in it, that is clear. You do care about your stocks though.

[kcvl]

It’s clear you have a vested interest in seeing as much used as possible. Follow the money.

It is all going in my pocket. Follow the money. I am a HUGE investor in NALCO, even more so than George Soros. /SARCASM

You need medication. Or maybe search somewhere besides the freaking EPA - liberals who think the air we breath is TOXIC!

[OldDeckHand]

"Answer: he and his marxist pals want this to damage US citizens, want it to come ashore."

Or, he's just a bumbling moron who doesn't know his ass from a whole in the ground, and because he's never been in charge of anything bigger than a college panty-raid team, he doesn't have a clue how to lead this, or any crisis that strikes America.

I think his political instincts, as well as the instincts of the people who manage him, drove him to make political hay with this at the very beginning. He didn't have the intellect or the foresight to think much past that initial news cycle, and once he got his digs in at "drill baby drill" and the Republicans at large, he didn't have a CLUE what to do next. Barack Obama knows how to campaign and score political points, but he's feckless at just about anything else.

[Skepolitic]

Here are the hazard ratings from the Corexit 9500 Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS):

HEALTH : 1 FLAMMABILITY : 1 INSTABILITY : 0

0 = Insignificant 1 = Slight 2 = Moderate 3 = High 4 = Extreme

Here's the MSDS for sodium chloride:

HEALTH : 1 FLAMMABILITY : 0 INSTABILITY : 0

Sodium chloride is otherwise known as table salt.

[XenaLee]

Why, exactly, would flights over the coast be banned? What possible harm could it do to flyover the cleanup area....unless they’re hiding something from the public. Gee. I wonder what it is.

When the hell is this country going to wake the hell up and rise up against this crooked, corrupt and INEPT administration? The whole thing stinks from the top down. Every “”coincidence”” that’s happened should be another nail in Obama’s political coffin...but instead, the media continues to ignore it (and in essence, cover for Zero) and the public continues to be blissfully ignorant.

GOD HELP US ALL.

[mojitojoe]

Toxicity and alternatives
The safety data sheet states “The potential human hazard is: High.”
According to the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the use of Corexit during the Exxon Valdez oil spill caused “respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders” in people.[7] According to the EPA, Corexit is more toxic than dispersants made by several competitors and less effective in handling southern Louisiana crude.[11] However, the oil from Deepwater Horizon is not believed to be typical Louisiana crude.
Reportedly Corexit is toxic to marine life and helps keep spilled oil submerged. The quantities used in the Gulf will create ‘unprecedented underwater damage to organisms.’[12] 9527A is also hazardous for humans: ‘May cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver’.[13]
Alternative dispersants which are approved by the EPA are listed on the National Contingency Plan Product Schedule[14] and rated for their toxicity and effectiveness.[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit

[Waco]

Actually, the Chicoms and Mericans are in charge of the Gulf, and the commiecRATS are very proud of it,,,,Cuba and Floridas’ Governor also.

[kcvl]

You care NOTHING about the ocean or what lives in it, that is clear. You do care about your stocks though.

roflol.

Yes, I care nothing about the Gulf Coast where I vacation yearly and own a docked sailboat. It's all about my stocks. /s

I have stock in BP, not NALCO. How do you figure that I am more concerned about NALCO solvent than 'BIG OIL'? /s

[Skepolitic]

Corexit is a dispersant, not a solvent.

[kcvl]

Stop making sense! That is not allowed on this thread.

[lonestar]

Obama is in charge. He's taken full responsibility. He's right on top of this. He's fully engaged.

FORE!!!!

[kcvl]

“According to the EPA”

I rest my case.

[XenaLee]

Well if the dispersants are working so well (like they’re supposed to), why is there so much oil in and around the shores and marsh areas? Are those faked photos we’re seeing? It can’t be both ways. Either the dispersants aren’t working like they’re supposed to and the photos of the damage are legitimate, or the photos are faked.

Which is it?

[lonestar]

Who Made BP King Of The Gulf Of Mexico?

Let me guess...George W. Bush?

[Skepolitic]

Actual, the Corexit 9500 MSDS has potential human hazard as moderate.
http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf

That’s the product being used in the Gulf.

I suppose environmentalist bozos would prefer that no dispersant or other appropriate technology be used so that the oil will wash ashore as a punishment for America’s environmental sins.