It is incredibly hard to put into words the absolute horror that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now. The millions of gallons of oil that have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico and BP's efforts to fight the massive leak are turning the Gulf into a lifeless toxic stew of oil and chemicals. The damage caused to wildlife in the Gulf by this spill will be incalculable. Entire species are at risk of being wiped out. Scientists are telling us that the primary dispersant being used by BP ruptures red blood cells and causes fish to bleed. This is by far the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, and there is no end in sight. It is a worse environmental and economic disaster than all of the hurricanes of the past ten years combined. The great wetlands and beaches along the Gulf of Mexico will never be the same in our lifetimes. The seafood and tourism industries in the Gulf are being completely destroyed. The thousands of jobs and businesses being wiped out by this disaster could potentially throw the entire Gulf coast region into a depression. The damage already caused by this oil spill is beyond measure and yet the government tells us that up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) of oil a day continue to flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Federal officials have expanded the "no fishing" area in the Gulf of Mexico to 75,920 square miles. That is 31 percent of all federal waters in the Gulf. As the oil continues to spread out there may soon be nowhere to fish.
And the oil is starting to come ashore in more places. Red-brown oil was found on Alabama's Dauphin Island on Tuesday. As Gulf coast residents slowly watch this oil destroy everything around them they are starting to realize that this is it.
Life along the Gulf of Mexico will simply never be the same again.
The following are 30 shocking quotes about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that reveal the soul-crushing horror this disaster is causing....
#1) Councilman Jay LaFont of Grand Isle, Louisiana:
"As long as you have something to look forward to, a little glimmer of hope, you can move on. But this just drained everything out of us."
#2) Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish:
"They said the black oil wouldn’t come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It’s here to stay and it’s going to keep coming."
#3) Prosanta Chakrabarty, a Louisiana State University fish biologist:
"Every fish and invertebrate contacting the oil is probably dying. I have no doubt about that."
#4) Marine toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw, director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute on BP's use of chemical dispersants:
"They've been used at such a high volume that it's unprecedented. The worst of these – Corexit 9527 – is the one they've been using most. That ruptures red blood cells and causes fish to bleed. With 800,000 gallons of this, we can only imagine the death that will be caused."
#5) Dr. Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies in Texas:
"Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species."
#6) Carol Browner, Barack Obama's adviser on energy and climate:
"This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response."
#7) Richard Charter of the Defenders of Wildlife:
"It is so big and expanding so fast that it's pretty much beyond human response that can be effective. ... You're looking at a long-term poisoning of the area. Ultimately, this will have a multidecade impact."
#8) Reverand Mike Tran:
#9) Louis Miller of the Mississippi Sierra Club:
"This is going to destroy the Mississippi and the Gulf Coast as we know it."
#10) Dean Blanchard, owner of a seafood business:
"I hold Obama responsible for not making BP stand up and look at the people in the face and fix it."
#11) Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal:
"The day that we’ve been fearing is upon us."
#12) Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, about BP CEO Tony Hayward:
"We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him 'What's that all over your face?"
#13) Former Clinton adviser James Carville:
"The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it."
#14) An anonymous Louisiana resident:
"A hurricane is like closing your bank account for a few days, but this here has the capacity to destroy our bank accounts."
#15) U.S. Representative Edward Markey:
"I have no confidence whatsoever in BP . I think that they do not know what they are doing."
#16) Gulf coast resident Marie Michel:
#17) Brenda Prosser of Mobile, Alabama:
"I just started crying. I couldn't quit crying. I'm shaking now. To know that our beach may be black or brown, or that we can't get in the water, it's so sad."
#18) Qin Chen, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on the possibility that a hurricane could push massive amounts of oil ashore along the Gulf:
"A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico this year would be devastating."
#19) Retired Army General Russel Honore on the effect this spill is having on residents of the Gulf coast:
"I'm sure, every time they hear a negative word, their skin crawls, 'cause they need these jobs. ... This is what's going to put their kids in school, and what pays the rent."
#20) A group calling itself "Seize BP":
#21) Louisiania Governor Bobby Jindal:
"There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president."
#22) BP’s chief operating officer, Doug Suttles:
"This scares everybody — the fact that we can’t make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven’t succeeded so far."
#23) Doug Rader, chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund:
"You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait."
#24) Public Service Commissioner Benjamin Stevens:
"You get hit by a hurricane and you can rebuild. But when that stuff washes up on the white sands of Pensacola Beach, you can't just go and get more white sand.''
#25) Wilma Subra, a chemist who has served as a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency:
"Every time the wind blows from the south-east to the shore, people are being made sick."
#26) Hotel Owner Dodie Vegas:
"It's just going to kill us. It's going to destroy us."
#27) Louisiana resident Sean Lanier:
"Until they stop this leak, it's just like getting stabbed and the knife's still in you, and they're moving it around."
#28) White House energy adviser Carol Browner:
#29) Marine toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw, director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute:
"We'll see dead bodies soon. Sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, whales: the impact on predators will be seen in a short time because the food web will be impacted from the bottom up."
#30) Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser:
"We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore."
Hey Kathy,
Abortions in very early pregnancy can be humane and ethical in carefully selected cases.
It is a big world out there, Kathy, so you cannot be judge of everyone else’s souls or there most personal and difficult decisions.
Also,this is an oil disaster thread. You have been spamming us with endless abortion/christian propaganda.
Look on the positive side. There still is a silver lining to all this. Now that we have oil literally coming out of our ears, we do not need to send our kids across the world to kill brown people to secure the oil for the large corporations (like BP).
U.S. Representative Edward Markey:
“I have no confidence whatsoever in BP . I think that they do not know what they are doing.”
I believe you are wrong sir, “British” Petroleum knows exactly what they are doing and that is to destroy this country and it’s way life while our useless politicians give lip service to US. We need to go back to the 1950’s when this country had real leaders that put America and Americans 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
I have been reading everything available (that is not blacked-out) on how to fix this oil disaster. Analogously, our government is standing inside a burning house and attempting to determine the cause of the fire, rather than calling for help to extinguish the flames that are surrounding them.
Recently, it has been alleged that oil is leaking from several areas on the Gulf basin floor. However, neither the public nor trustworthy scientific resources can determine the extent of the damage to the well site because our government and BP are attempting to hide the facts, which is like trying to hide an elephant in a broom closet.
If the Gulf basin floor has become unstable; with cracked, sedimentary layers of compressed salt & sand – then any deep well pipe that is imbedded in this stratum will only have the sealing capability of a long pin that has pierced a thick soda cracker (for lack of a better layman’s description). Furthermore, the idea of using a small tactical nuke to close the well hole could also collapse a large portion the entire Gulf basin. Since any restrictive cap that has been used to close-off the pipe has caused the oil to leak around the outer well pipe sleeve or leak from localized floor fissures which are in close proximity to the well head – - then the idea of slowly sinking a large battleship to cover the surface area of this well site may be the best option. If this ship forces the oil to escape from another location, then we shall need to drop another ship to close that cavity also. At best, this will at least slow the amount of oil escaping to a manageable level, and we can start the clean-up process.
http://thehayride.com/2010/05/breaking-if-top-kill-doesnt-work-u-s-navy-to-take-over-spill/
Regardless of the amount of oil that will rise to the water surface, we need to stop injecting chemical dispersants underwater at the well and on the surface of the Gulf. Corexit dispersant is more toxic than the crude oil and Corexit shall also inhibit the only option we have to remove the oil from the seawater.
http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-june/epa-reveals-whats-gulf-oil-spill-dispersants
The only promising fix that I have seen is an organic microbe that will eat the oil quickly, and create a non-toxic by-product waste that won’t harm the water or whatever marine life may still exist. http://www.cnbc.com/id/37596590
And see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18AKWCvGqGI
I must digress though, because BP only wants to collect the oil from the well – they do not want to plug the well, let alone introduce a harmless micro-organism that shall eat the oil toxins. Our government’s lack of oversight to at least prevent the oil from entering the sensitive marshlands along the coastal waterways shows that they would rather see these communities and wetlands destroyed, condemned, and de-populated, rather than attempt to maintain this priceless infrastructure.
In 1979 the same thing happened to the rig Iktok. They never were able to stop it. 2 relief wells had to be drilled just to reduce it to a seep. They tried the same techniques 30 years ago and they all failed then as well. This is criminal neglect, as far as I’m concerned. Thirty years and you haven’t advanced your ability to stop catastrophe that you KNOW will happen again? Willful, intentional disregard. They don’t value our way of life, our lives, our heritage, nor our future. And Dave…you’re a moron.
BP has the original engineering reports about how many barrels of oil this well would produce which is what we should expect will eventually spill out on to the planet.
I enjoy seeing the United states of Terrorist BURN from COAST to COAST what a beautiful site , burn you Amerikkkans BURN , I’m LUVIN IT…BURN AMERIKKKA BURN God answered my prayers the worst is YET TO COME, BURN BITCH BURN.
You nailed it Pandora. I f people had had their eyes open to the world outside the idiot box of DWTS and American Idol they would be able to tie it all together. When did Goldman-Sachs sell off the BP stock? Or what was Haliburton’s timing on the purchase of Boots & Coots? Coincidence? Or is it too neat? Move North out of the Gulf now. Benzene and Corexit are two nasty problems. All dispersants are poisonous to some degree. This does not even address the natural gas going into solution and displacing the oxygen in the water…Ho Humm change the channel. Numerous prophecies foretold the destruction of anywhere between 1/3 and 2/3 of the life in the sea or the oceans turning to blood (coagulated?). I’m no Bible thumper and the references come from places other than those with Judeo-Christian roots some far older. I hope I’m wrong. Way wrong. Move north folks.
We went into iraq to steal its oil and planned or built appeline from Northern Iraq to Haifa (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/taxonomy/term/115). Now God is rewarding us for our nobel efforts and has given us lots of free oil. It is right there in the Gulf ready to be scooped up. God loves us and is shedding his grace upon us.
Everything you need to know about the ‘doomsday’ clock that’s now ticking in the Gulf of Mexico — and soon the rest of the world you can find here…
http://www.theamericansheeple.com/specialpublication.html
It ain’t pretty but it sure is funny. NOT!
Kathy you prove just how stupid humans really are how is it that “humans” are way more important than all the life in the sea? Humans are proving to be a virus to the planet and to ourselves. I can’t stand these born-agains…can’t you people get anything right the first time?
Louisiana, HUMANS and yes fish/mammals are going to die because of STUPID money whores who would not even listen to their hired specialist.
The life on this planet was here long before we showed up and look what they have done. Turtle Island is dying. We can’t even turn the page on slowing down our use of oil, we can’t use our own technology because BIG BUSINESS tells us no and fools like you are the reason why.
Humans will be aborted by the hydrogen sulfide and benzene that is being released into the air wait until the hurricanes starts…people, fish as well as other life forms are being aborted RIGHT NOW there will be a huge impact on PRECIOUS HUMAN LIFE in the next 5 to 7 years.
Now they talk about dropping a nuclear bomb down the shaft? We are so far over our heads and yet we are to trust the very people, the very BIG BUSINESS that caused this? Gads, we are stupid.
My heart breaks for the life in the sea, my heart breaks for the people along the coast, my heart breaks that money whores caused this.
I love my planet and yet I have no voice, none. Why? Then to hear that this was by design? I am SUPER pissed.
Dave you must be a shill…not to worry. You are one of the significant reasons why this country is in such deep ****…don’t worry have a beer and hey let’s watch sports. Stupid.
We are now on the receiving end of some nasty Karma. Wasn’t long ago it was “Drill Baby Drill!” The Bush administrations were owned by big oil and so is Obamas. We started two false unjust wars (Iraq, Afghanistan) to secure oil and are making plans to steal by domination and war the oil in Iran and Venezuela. Now we are literally drowning in oil. Our disaster is biblical in proportions and our folly utterly disgraceful in the history of mankind.
It’s not the worst disaster in US History. Forget History, actually. It’s the sign evident that Earth Destiny can be crushed by successful morons. It’s no more a US “thing”. It’s a planetary catastrophe.
Unless the government takes strong action against BP to recover our lives and our property, this is what our future looks like.
Construct a telescoping set of drill pipes of
increasing diameters from 8 inches up to the inside diameter of the casing (23 inches):shaped like
the cone shaped applicator on a tube ob bathtub caulk. Use a shaped charge to cut the well head off the casing, and insert the “cork” into the casing. Use supertankers to skim surface oil.
And do it soon.
We are really concerned about the idea of “nuking” the well-head–would this create a radioactive tidal wave? Also: would a nuclear device that was intended to stop the oil eruption actually work in that particular geologic setting, or, would it create even more openings for the petroleum to escape from?
Hey decent humnan being,
Abortion is NEVER humane or ethical. It is not spam or Christian proproganda; it is MURDER! Wake up from your slumber.
Kathy- Thank you.
Let’s see: just before 9/11 people govt crooks dumped stock, oild spill – dumped stocks just before too. And…40 nukes reported to be in U.S. that came aross us/ mexican border via MS13 gangs. Despite all the fears the people of the world have, the largest newspaper in London puts out operation Blackjack showing nukes going off in US cities. The movie Knowing shows Gulf catastrophe just before it actually happens. Because of terrorists we have had are american rights taken away, but bin laden’s parents were dining with Bush’s daddy just before 9/11. Chemtrails, morgellons, our water and food poisoned on purpose and we are not allowed to grow our food anymore. hmmm. i wonder what they r up to, and outside of Atlanta u have the georgia guidestones. And here we are trying to figure out what is happening. Obama esculates wars, clinton and bush hanging out at bohemian grove with small children. 1980’s 5 seperate cases of child abuse swept under the rug involving hundreds of children. A Social worker investigating them is shown on TV stalking Jennifer love hweitt and steven spilberg. lady gaga puts out videos (telephone) showing her poisoning americans because she is under monarch mind control which operation odesa nad paperclip nazis brought to america. hmm, i wonder what is going on? i feellike i am in that movie invasion of the body snatchers.
this is aguilty of humaniterian that america is doing in the muslim world so in my opinion the price should be paid and america should face the trouble peace peace !!!!!!!!!! plz
god pls us all!!!!!!!!
Pure hypocrisy by the Americans. Who demands oil? America. They use more of it than any other nation. When America outlaws petroleum, diesel vehicles, and kerosene fuelled aircraft then they won’t need the likes of BP to try to extract the hardest stocks of oil left over. (They after all have already exhausted the easy cheap to get at oil stocks, which have been burnt mostly by Americans.) If you want to blame anyone, and you are an American automobile owner, BLAME YOURSELF.