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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Government Insiders: Get Ready for the Gulf "Dead

Zone"
From OILPRICE.com

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.
Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans,
Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette,
Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort
Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview, and Pascagoula.

The toxic rain from the Gulf is expected to poison fresh water reservoirs
and lakes, streams, and rivers, which will also have a disastrous impact on
agriculture and livestock, as well as drinking water, in the affected region.

See more on the endless oil eruption in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Illness Plagues Exxon Valdez Cleanup Worker

Author Merle Savage recently left the following comment regarding the
Gulf oil disaster:

The crude oil is toxic!! Workers cleaning the oily Gulf beaches need to
know the danger. Don't become BP's Collateral Damaged, like Exxon’s
Collateral Damaged.

My name is Merle Savage, a female general foreman during the Exxon

Valdez oil spill (EVOS) beach cleanup in 1989. I am one of the 11,000+
cleanup workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS), who is suffering
from health issues from that toxic cleanup, without compensation from
Exxon.

Dr. Riki Ott visited me in 2007 to explain about the toxic spraying on the
beaches. She also informed me that Exxon's medical records and the
reports that surfaced in litigation by sick workers in 1994, had been sealed
from the public, making it impossible to hold Exxon responsible for their
actions.

Exxon developed the toxic spraying; OSHA, the Coast Guard, and the
state of Alaska authorized the procedure. Beach crews breathed in crude
oil that splashed off the rocks and into the air -- the toxic exposure turned
into chronic breathing conditions and central nervous system problems,
neurological impairment, chronic respiratory disease, leukemia, lymphoma,
brain tumors, liver damage, and blood disease.

My web site is devoted to searching for EVOS cleanup workers who were
exposed to the toxic spraying, and are suffering from the same illnesses
that I have. There is an on going Longshoreman’s claim for workers with
medical problems from the oil cleanup. Our summer employment turned
into a death sentence for many -- and a life of unending medical conditions
for the rest of Exxon’s Collateral Damaged.

See more from Merle Savage:

Exxon Valdez oil risks spur warning for gulf cleanup crews

BP's Other Toxic Legacy: 'Decades of Misery' for Gulf Health

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Attention Gulf Coast: Prepare To Abandon Ship
If you are waiting for an official announcement to evacuate, you will
have waited too long. - Editor, Watcher's Lamp

From The Washington Post:

Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil spill

"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."

"...Much of the worst-case-scenario talk has centered on the flow rate of

the well. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), among the harshest critics of
BP in recent weeks, generated headlines with a dramatic announcement
Sunday.

"...I actually have a document that shows that BP actually believes it could
go upwards of 100,000 barrels per day," Markey said on NBC's "Meet the
Press." "So, again, right from the beginning, BP was either lying or grossly
incompetent. First they said it was only 1,000. Then they said it was 5,000
barrels. Now we're up to 100,000 barrels."

"...In effect, what BP considered the worst-case scenario in early May is in

late June the bitter reality -- call it the new normal -- of the gulf blowout."
See more on the endless oil eruption in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gulf Oil Disaster: Corexit Suspected In Widespread
Crop Damage
From Wake Up Call.com

A mysterious “disease” has caused widespread damage to plants from

weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very
strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or
droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread
damage or “disease”.

Yobie Benjamin SFGate June 10, 2010

Just when you thought the damages BP could cause was limited to
beaches, marshes, oceans, people’s livelihoods, birds and marine life,
there’s more.

BP’s favorite dispersant Corexit 9500 is being sprayed at the oil gusher on
the ocean floor. Corexit is also being air sprayed across hundreds of miles
of oil slicks all across the gulf. There have been widespread reports of oil
cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress,
dizziness and headaches.

Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now

manufactured by the Nalco of Naperville, Illinois. Corexit is is four times
more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at
only 2.61ppm).

In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon

Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit
Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most
toxic dispersal agents ever developed.
According to the Clark and George-Ares report, Corexit mixed with the
higher gulf coast water temperatures becomes even more toxic. The UK’s
Marine Management Organization has banned Corexit so if there was a
spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP is banned from using Corexit.

The danger to humans can be expected. The warnings on the Corexit

packaging is straightforward. Breathing in Corexit is not recommended.

See more on the endless oil eruption in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Gulf Oil Disaster: Corexit's Collateral Damage

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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010

Gulf state emergency preparedness agencies confirm

mass evacuation plans
Wayne Madsen Report – June 28, 2010

A well-placed source in California told WMR that the California Emergency

Management Agency (CEMA) has been briefed by its counterpart
agencies in the Gulf coast states that there are plans to conduct a mass
evacuation of millions of Gulf coast residents due to the catastrophic
environmental and public health effects of the BP oil disaster.

CEMA officials have been briefed on the planned evacuations by

counterparts in the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency,
the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and the Florida Division
of Emergency Management.
The Gulf states’ emergency planners stressed to their California
counterparts that they are dealing with a disaster of unprecedented
proportions and that contingency plans are being constantly updated and
revised on ways to deal with the transformation of the Gulf of Mexico into a
deadly “toxic soup” of oil and Corexit 9500 oil dispersants and the
atmosphere into a dangerous mixture of hydrocarbon gases.

CEMA was briefed on the impending mass evacuation since California

would be expected to absorb a large number of evacuees from the Gulf
states. CEMA officials did not say how the state of California, which is
virtually bankrupt, would pay for the influx of hundreds of thousands and
perhaps greater numbers of evacuees from the Gulf coastal region.

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Gulf Oil Disaster and Breaking Bonds With Israel

By Joe Kovacs at WorldNetDaily

Is there a spiritual, biblical connection to the BP oil catastrophe?

A new video on YouTube is suggesting a possible link to the disaster due

to America's recent treatment of Israel, and at least one well-known Bible
analyst, Hal Lindsey, thinks there's a valid correlation.

The video was produced and posted today by Carl Gallups of the Hickory
Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Fla...

"April the 19th, Israel celebrates its independence in 2010," Gallups says in
narration on the video. "On April the 19th, Fox News reports that the U.S.
will no longer automatically support Israel in the United Nations. The next
day, on April the 20th, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes.
Coincidence? Or the hand and judgment of God?"

Matthew 11: 20-24

20 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works
had been done, because they did not repent. 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin!
Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done
in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and
ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for
Tyre and Sidon than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted
to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works
done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this
day. 24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment
for the land of Sodom than for you."

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MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill - The Greatest Disaster Since The

Flood?
From the Market Oracle:

...But that’s not all of it; here’s where I outline my “worst case” scenario.
The main reason they’re having such incredible problems capping the darn
thing is not because of depth; it’s because of internal well pressure. In the
pre-drilling geological surveys a massive methane pocket was discovered
coinciding with the oil deposits; this pocket is sitting at a pressure of
100,000 psi. Current engineering technology doesn’t exist to contain
something at 100,000 psi, meaning efforts to cap this puppy are useless.
The presence of this methane pocket is becoming harder to ignore as 40-
70% of the emissions from the leak are now comprised of natural gas (and
we’re still blowing out 60,000-120,000 barrels of oil a day). Best estimates
put the amount of methane leaking at 2,900 cubic feet for every barrel of
oil spilled (with an estimated 4.5-9.0 billion cubic feet of methane leaked so
far… and the dang thing is STILL in six digit psi).

The secondary concern here is the pressure and what happens if (more
like when) it is discovered that the oil leak can’t actually be capped as it
spews with that amount of internal force. The primary concern is what
happens if/when the methane pocket ruptures; some estimates put its size
at 15-20 miles wide (at 100,000 pounds of pressure per square inch).

If the methane bubble explodes, it would create a tsunami that would wipe
out anything within dozens (and possibly hundreds) of miles of the Gulf
Coast in all directions (view this animation of the 2009 tsunami in Samoa
and how it spread). The tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 wiped out
between 150,000-300,000 people, some as far away as South Africa. This
was caused by an earthquake that shifted the ocean floor by meters. An
explosion of this size would shift the ocean floor for miles. The Gulf is
touched by the Mississippi River and opens into the Caribbean where it is
exposed to the Panama Canal...

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MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010

The Gulf's Endless Oil Eruption: 120,000 Barrels Per

Day
Oil Industry expert Matt Simmons states that the Thomas Jefferson
research vessel has compiled data that quantifies the leak at 120,000
barrels per day!

The Jefferson research vessel reports the presence of a growing

submerged "oil lake" that could be covering up to 40% of the entire Gulf of
Mexico.
Simmons states the leak has no casing, a relief well will not work, and the
only way to stop the oil flow is to use a small nuclear explosion to close the
earth's strata...

"I think basically we now know a whole lot of better information from the
scientists who are totally disputing what BP’s story has been.
…
What the Thomas Jefferson found in a week is the most specific
information we know. Basically 1100 meters below the surface of the Gulf
of Mexico is a 300 - 400 meter lake of very heavy oil that has spreading so
fast that it’s covering potentially 40% of the Gulf of Mexico.
…
They’re actually now predicting that it’s 120,000 barrels a day. But more
importantly, they are almost certain, because of the lack of being able to
detect where to well bore was, because they can’t get within three miles of
it because there’s too much fire, there’s no metal there so the casing’s
gone. With no casing it’s an open hole and the only way we’ll ever put it
out is by detonating something that will fuse the rock right above the oil
column into glass. And the only way that anyone’s ever done that is the
four times the Soviets did that in the seventies with a very small bore
nuclear device.

So I think that’s now our only option."

Learn more about the tremendous impact of the Gulf Oil Disaster.