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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

BP Denies Existence of Oil Plumes

I think BP's denial of these oil plumes is sick; however, you can judge for yourself...
Video of the spill and BP's Denial of plumes:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/underwater-plumes-doug-su_n_605613.html

and...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/37580832#37580832


Give the image makers at BP credit for knowing how to stick to a story. If you had (a) been spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of up to 25,000 bbls. per day since April 20, and (b) been spraying dispersants on it to keep much of it from floating to the surface, you'd find it hard to say "who me?" if scientists began finding huge plumes of oil drifting in underwater currents.

But that's been BP's position. Not only has the oil giant not been willing to take the blame for the toxic clouds below the waves, it's denied they even exist. Today, however, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they had found the smoking gun that most everyone else believed was there in the first place.

Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1995234,00.html

Photo Essay, "Victims of the BP Oil Spill"
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1994377,00.html

US Sets Deadline over BP Oil Spill...
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/06/201069154326806785.html

Experts Double Estimated Rate of Spill in Gulf

A government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with the new calculation suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/us/11spill.html?ref=global-home

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