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This contract will need to be worth several million to move this stock. Look at f d e i. 400 plus million contract and the price of the stock has went down. It doesn't have 18 billion share authorized either. I wouldn't get my hopes to high. I am a share holder but I am not holding my breath that this company is going to work out. GLTA
Nothing of subtance in this news release. Show me the money! Company not named, no dollar amout mentioned, no product named by name. Speculation.
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Is the suppossed buyout for A/S or O/S? If it is for authorized shares could they dump them on the market, get paid for them now and again at the buyout of .04?
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I have had my shares in my Fidelity accout for some time. Guys there are only 3 million shares out corect? It would not take much to get the share price up. If they sign a big deal with BP or in the oil sands in Canada this stock could go to $30 or $40 dollars quick. I saw a 5 cent BIO stock go to 30 dollars last year. FWIW
Independent panel to share findings on Gulf spill
By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Dina Cappiello, Associated Press – 1 hr 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The causes of the massive Gulf oil spill will be laid out for the first time Monday by investigators working for President Barack Obama's independent commission, potentially shifting the blame and settling disputes between companies over the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Representatives of the three companies most involved in the April accident — Halliburton, Transocean and BP — will be on hand to answer the allegations and respond to questions.
"It's the first public look at the events and actions that our investigators believe contributed to the blowout," said David Cohen, a spokesman for the seven-member commission, which has a Jan. 11 deadline to deliver a report to Obama outlining what caused the disaster and what needs to be done to prevent another one.
In a preview of what is likely to come, the panel's chief investigator, Fred H. Bartlit Jr., revealed in a letter last month that testing on cement mixtures similar to those used in the well showed that the formula was unstable before the blowout, but BP and Halliburton used it anyway. Bartlit said the companies should have reconsidered the type of cement used in the well. Cement is an essential barrier to preventing blowouts.
Hours after the letter's release, Halliburton Co., the contractor hired by BP to mix and pump cement, said in a statement that it never conducted stability tests on the final mixture, and that the earlier failed tests were on a different formulation than the one used.
After months of hearings, investigations and finger-pointing, there is still disagreement over what and whose mistakes triggered the explosion that killed 11 workers and released more than 200 million gallons of crude oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico well.
The president's commission could bring needed clarity, as the first independent body to weigh in. Other investigations have been done by companies involved in the blast, Democratic lawmakers keen on taking on Big Oil, and boards with members from the government agency that approved BP's drilling plan.
BP PLC had its say — its internal investigation found flaws with contractor Halliburton's cement job and the maintenance performed by rig owner Transocean Ltd. on critical pieces of equipment. The company also questioned how its own employees misread a critical pressure test before the blowout.
Democrats in Congress have focused on BP's well design, saying the company made decisions that sacrificed safety for profits.
The panel so far has shown that it's not shy about leveling criticism.
Led by President George H.W. Bush's former Environmental Protection Agency administrator and a Republican senator from Florida, the panel has been critical of the Obama administration's response to the spill, including decisions to suspend deep water exploration and whether the Interior Department did enough to separate its dueling duties of collecting money from oil companies and policing the companies' activities on federal lands.
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Online:
National Oil Spill Commission: http://www.oilspillcommission.gov
Tests Now Being Conducted for Corexit and Oil ... Results Not Very Reassuring
Submitted by George Washington on 11/02/2010 12:11 -0500
Crude Crude Oil Florida NOAA
? Washington’s Blog
Real testing is starting to be conducted on dispersant and oil in the Gulf, the results are not looking so good:
U.S. Government press release says NOAA, FDA now testing for dispersant: Corexit ingredient DOSS found in 13 samples — Up to 500 ppm allowed in shrimp, crabs, oysters ["DOSS" stands for Dioctyl Sulfosuccinate Sodium Salt - which might be nastier than BP is telling us]
Crab containing 8,815 ppm of hydrocarbons had NO smell or sight of oil — “We were astonished there were levels like that”
Research team “uncovered a PAH bonanza” — And just 190 parts per BILLION of PAHs is “considered pretty toxic” says professor at NASA installation
Scott Milroy, a marine scientist at the University of Southern Mississippi, said seafood samples he gathered in September along the Mississippi coast showed levels… hundreds of times higher than the levels the government tests found
TV report on shrimp with nearly 200 ppm oil in digestive system (VIDEO)
LSU professor: Crude oil in seafood NOT detectable by ‘smell test’ — “We are being lied to”
Fish organs are NOT the same color as they used to be, says BP/P2S worker — “You cut them open and they’re not the same” (VIDEO)
Photo surfaces of black substance inside large fish caught by Florida man in late September
193 ppm of oil found inside shrimp purchased on Oct. 22 (Lab Results)
EPA “BP Spill” testing across Gulf finds highest amount of heavy metal INSIDE FLORIDA BAYS — Raises “Level of Concern” (Lab Results)
In related news:
“World renowned” scientist says currents WILL transport oil throughout Gulf — Florida’s EAST & WEST coasts under threat (VIDEO)
“As deep as you could go”: No matter how far they dig at beach, the oil is already there — BP dissolved the oil in the water and it seeped into sand
Head of cleanup on MS island: “Finding more and more and more oil” — “And this is like the fifth time we have come through here” (VIDEO)
Reconnaissance flight over Gulf finds wetlands surrounded by oil (PHOTOS)
BP cleanup worker: Oil “really hasn’t even been touched” — It’s “rolling in as we speak” (VIDEO)
60 percent have “NO TRUST” for BP’s information or the Feds’ response (Mobile, AL Survey)
Clean up workers say that BP is limiting how much oil cleanup workers can clean up, and instead just covering oil up with sand, and that Corexit is still being sprayed at night
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by bubba1231
on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:31
#693710
GW,
Making up lies because you are most likely short a stock is absolutely pathetic.
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by Cistercian
on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:34
#693728
How odd.I wonder where the contamination came from.
Surely not BP...the Behemoth Polluter!
On the upside, you can now use shrimp as paint remover!
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by knukles
on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:40
#693744
Aw come on now, everybody knows that Corexit and Oil don't mix.
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by merehuman
on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:46
#693759
Thank you George Washington.
And to "Bubba the shill" FU! One liners with no backup facts are not persuasive. Our people are dying in the gulf from a british attack on our shores is how i choose to see it.
Obama gone from our country for 2 weeks and a few other high and mighties as well makes me wonder if something is coming they all know about and they are saving themselves. 40 + airplanes , all for our president during a time of austerity to visit india. Something wrong with this picture?
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tests-now-being-conducted-corexit-and-oil-results-not-very-reassuring
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HHS Launches Oil Spill Distress Helpline
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 1, 2010
Contact: SAMHSA Press Office
(240) 276-2130
HHS Launches Oil Spill Distress Helpline
Individuals Affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Can Call 1-800-985-5990 for Help
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of a new toll-free helpline to provide information, support and counseling for families and children affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Part of the Obama Administration’s long term oil spill recovery plan, the Oil Spill Distress Helpline (1-800-985-5990) links callers to behavioral healthcare services and will serve as an important resource for the localized oil spill outreach efforts in the Gulf Coast states.
“We know that residents throughout the Gulf Coast region continue to deal with the disruption to their livelihoods and communities caused by the oil spill. The resulting stress they are feeling is real and if behavioral health conditions are left untreated, we can expect that the situations these individuals and their families are living in will worsen,” said Secretary Sebelius. “The Oil Spill Distress Helpline will be a critical tool in getting people the help they need, and I want to acknowledge the state, local and federal partnership that helped get it set up and available.”
Administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Helpline will route callers to the nearest Gulf Coast area crisis center, where trained staff from the region will answer calls and provide assistance. In addition, these crisis centers are working to provide support via text messages, a capability which will launch later this fall.
“History tells us that the emotional impact of the devastating losses experienced by individuals and families as a result of the oil spill will continue to play out over the years to come,” said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. “Now that the immediate response phase has come to a close, we are shifting our focus to long term recovery and being there for gulf coast residents in need of emotional strength as they rebuild their lives.”
The helpline is funded by BP’s contribution to SAMHSA, which will help states to provide counseling and support for individuals and families in the Gulf Coast region affected by the oil spill.
For more information, visit the HHS BP Gulf Oil Spill page at http://www.hhs.gov/gulfoilspill/index.html.
EVXA is not on the list? Does this mean they already have a 1 billion contract! LOL
http://www.cleangulf.org/exhibitor_list/?company_name=e
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Does this help IMGG? FDA Warns MRI Imaging Drugs Can Be Fatal
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/10/health/main6852534.shtml
Get on your hip-boots, campers: The Plavix-CYP2C19 quagmire has just become thicker.
As I wrote last week, a new, widely reported study claims that reports of adverse events tied to CYP2C19's effect on Plavix metabolism are virtually non-existent — despite the gobs of data supporting the link between the gene and the anticoagulant's efficacy, and the FDA's recent Black Box warning urging cardiologists to perform the test before prescribing the drug.
But now comes news that could cause cardiologists to shelve Plavix altogether — and with it any CYP2C19 testing that might have tagged along.
A pair of studies that followed a combined 28,624 patients found that two next-generation anticoagulants (one on the market and the other soon to be) do not need genetic testing to determine dosing; that a pair of CYP2C19 alleles, *2 and *3, do not affect their efficacy in the way that affects Plavix patients; and that the drugs may even be superior to Plavix.
Brilliant Efficiency?
In one study, of AstraZeneca's new anticoagulant Brilinta, researchers found that the two 2C19 alleles that help determine how patients metabolize Plavix didn’t hurt Brilinta's efficacy.
In a second trial, this one studying the clot buster Effient, which is being co-developed by Eli Lilly & Co. and Daiichi Sankyo, one of the two alleles did not reduce the drug's effectiveness
Both studies were published in the last issue of The Lancet; the Brilinta research was funded by AstraZeneca and the Effient trial was paid for by Lilly and Daiichi Sankyo.
Brilinta has not been approved for sale in the US but won the backing of an FDA advisory panel in July. The agency is expected to issue a decision later this month.
Effient was approved by the FDA last summer.
But there could be one bright spot on the horizon for clinical labs banking on revenue from CYP2C19 testing: If cardiologists accustomed to Plavix — it's the second-most prescribed drug in the world — fail to become convinced that Brilinta or Effient are better, then the fact that Plavix will lose its patent protection in two years would make it much more affordable, and could therefore embolden payors to reimburse for the test.
In fact, pharmacy-benefit management companies have been banking on this outcome, and Medco, the biggest in the country, has been studying since at least last year ways in which such pharmacogenetic + pharmacoeconomic testing can help improve drug efficacy, patient outcomes, and, of course, lower reimbursement costs.
However, the finding that the newer anticoags won't threaten cardiologists with the genetic-testing Sword of Damocles — most aren't even sure what to make of the Black Box warning — may add another complication because, as Bloomberg recently quoted one cardiologist, "physicians don’t like complications."
“If I told you there was an alternative to [Plavix] that worked the same way without the [gene] variations, they would jump on it," said the physician, Alfred Bove, immediate past president of the American College of Cardiology.
Conflicting, Confounding, Confusing, Confirming
These cluster bombs of data — call them conflicting, confounding, confusing, or confirming — made me want to plunge my head in a bucket of ice water. I doubt most clinical lab managers will find the results any less frustrating.
Still, some physicians aren't entirely assured that Plavix, and 2C19 testing for it, is doomed. Last week, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic told me that "Plavix PGx will become standard of care despite these recent publications and reports."
He gave a couple of compelling reasons: First, Brilinta "will not succeed on [its] own … because [it] is reversible and needs to be taken twice a day, meaning that noncompliance is quite likely, which can lead to serious adverse events," said the cardiologist, who asked to remain anonymous because he is involved in launching a new company that is in stealth mode.
In addition, the drug "causes breathlessness in 20 percent of patients," which he said "applies to all next-generation antiplatelets."
Plus, he said, unlike the impending generic Plavix onslaught, "the new agents will be expensive." For instance, he said, Effient costs around 18 percent more than Plavix in the US.
Indeed, he said, when generic versions of Plavix start flooding the market the issue will morph into "a cost-saving argument." He backed up this claim by mentioning a pharmacoeconomic study in New Zealand, where Plavix is already sold as a generic, which showed that 2C19 "testing saves money and improves outcomes." He predicted that "this will also apply in the US." The paper has been submitted for publication
http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/get-your-hip-boots-plavix-cyp2c19-quagmire-has-just-gotten-thicker
IMGG competitor? FDA approval.
Mazor wins FDA nod for combined surgical systems
The firm will begin marketing the navigation and imaging system in early 2011.
1 September 10 11:44, Hillel Koren
Mazor Surgical Technologies Ltd. (TASE:MZOR) has obtained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the company's combined spinal surgical system comprising the SpineAssist miniature robotic navigation system and C-Insight 3D imaging system.
Mazor believes that the synergy that can be achieved by use of the combined system and the high added value it provides surgeons will boost company sales and support higher prices. The company will begin marketing the combined system in early 2011.
The combined system enables imaging during surgery without the need to move the patient to a CT scanning room, which will minimize the need for repeat surgical procedures on the spine. The system enables surgeons to precisely position surgical implants, based on prior planning that relies on the 3D scans.
Mazor's share price rose 6.2% in early trading to NIS 9.52, giving a market cap of NIS 185 million.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on September 1, 2010
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Oil Tests Positive for Dispersants in the Mississippi Sound
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/update-gulf-oil-spill
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Was at Sally's Beauty Supplies Sunday. On the back of one of the packages it no loners says Dicon. Also did not say the vitamin E product is Puracell. If I remember correctly it was SoftTX TM? It was the same patent number though. Why?
Company paid back some loans to the CEO. If I am reading it right.
Oil spill: BP reverses, admits there's oil in local waters
Despite persistent denials from BP last week, thousands of pounds of weathered oil is being pulled from under the surface of Pensacola Bay every day.
During more than a dozen interviews last week, BP officials and spokespeople for a number of government agencies working on the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill response denied knowledge of oil in the bay.
Even as they spoke, however, Escambia County officials and local fishermen were reporting finding weathered oil, as they've been doing for weeks. BP's own crews were hand-scooping it up, and a submerged-oil team from BP's Deepwater Horizon Response Incident Command Post in Mobile was investigating.
"BP says it's all gone, but it's not. I've known it was out there for a month," said a commercial fisherman who asked not to be identified because he is working for BP in the cleanup and feared losing his job.
"We were recovering it in a boat ... scooping it up out of sand and dumping it into bags. They're just trying to keep it quiet. Out of sight, out of mind."
On Friday, Coast Guard Lt. Stephen West with the Incident Command Post finally confirmed an area of oil a quarter of a mile long and up to 50 to 60 feet off Barrancas Beach at Pensacola Naval Air Station.
He also confirmed that buckets of sunken oil were being pulled up in another area of Pensacola Bay, near Fort Pickens at Gulf Islands National Seashore.
On Saturday, Scott Piggott, who heads the Escambia and Santa Rosa cleanup operation for BP, said cleanup workers began noticing the submerged oil at Barrancas Beach in July.
"The last month, we've spent considerable effort to get people to concentrate on that," he said. "Then we notice the same phenomenon at the Fort Pickens site, and cleanup has been going on there for two weeks."
The statements from West and Piggott follow the federal government's claim earlier this month that 70 percent of the oil is gone, with much of it dissolved like sugar in tea, according to one White House official said earlier this month.
They also came after Escambia County supplied the News Journal with two of BP's daily reports to the county about the cleanup.
On Wednesday, BP reported cleaning up 3,776 pounds of weathered oil from water near NAS.
• On Thursday, it reported collecting 2,207 pounds from water near NAS.
• The reports say oil was not recovered from water near Fort Pickens on those two days, though 3,255 pounds were collected from the Fort Pickens beach on Wednesday and 2,123 pounds was collected the next day.
• Piggott said 1,000 pounds were collected from underwater one day last week near Fort Pickens.
'We don't want BP out'
Keith Wilkins, Escambia County's point person on environmental issues, said last week he believes a breakdown in communications in the heavily bureaucratic BP cleanup organization led to the denials about the submerged oil. Officials from a number of government agencies rotate in and out every two weeks.
"We just don't want them to leave any stone unturned," Wilkins said about the submerged oil investigation. "We all need to keep our eyes open, and if oil is found, we don't want BP to get out of here until it's all cleaned up."
Wilkins said the oil isn't going to go away quickly.
"People feel like we were nearing the hump and nearing the close of this," he said. "But we're in the middle of this, ecologically. We'll see the residual effects for some time."
He's hopeful BP, the Incident Command and every scientist involved in the oil spill response remains open-minded and not dismiss reports that oil remains in the water.
"A lot of people speak in absolutes," he said. "I think they're wrong. There are no absolutes here. They're constantly being surprised by what they're finding and they're being surprised by what they're not finding."
'Messed up for a while'
A News Journal reporter went out on a boat last week with two fishermen who didn't want to be identified.
The fishermen proved it doesn't take long to come across oil in Pensacola Bay, Pensacola Pass or near shore in the Gulf.
They pointed out a wide swath of oily sheen floating on the surface of the water in the bay near the Pensacola Pass.
They also pointed out BP workers wading out in chest-deep water and hand-scooping oily matter from underneath the sand at Barrancas Beach.
Booms and oil-absorbent material also were being used to clean up orange-colored ribbons of oil — one a half-mile long — about a foot below the surface of the water near the beach.
The two fishermen easily found an abundance of large tar mats and tar balls of various sizes submerged under thin and thick layers of sand. When they randomly jumped into two to three feet of water in Pensacola Bay near Fort Pickens, Fort McRee and NAS and scooped up sand, they nearly always turned up some form of oily material.
They said they're not confident all the oil will be cleaned up.
"It's going to be messed up around here for awhile," one said.
Recreational fisherman Mark Fuqua, 47, of Pensacola, who has fished the waters from Destin to Pensacola most of his life, discovered just how big the mess is on the first day he struck out to drop a line in the water since the fishing ban was lifted two weeks ago.
After a day of fishing in several areas of the bay on Wednesday, his boat, anchor and cast net were covered in oil.
"I've never seen anything like it," he said. "I was fishing in front of Palafox Pier and pulled up my anchor, and it looked like it had black mud on it. I reached down to try to wipe it off and it was all greasy, like greasy sand."
The anchor was dropped in 20 feet of water.
Piggott said the reports from fishermen about finding oil often are not reliable.
"I've heard accounts of people who hold up their anchors that have this black stuff on it," he said. "I can't tell you how many times we've gotten reports from fishermen with sightings of sheen and oil. Ninety-nine percent of the time, these reports turn out to be organic material."
Fuqua said Piggott's statement "sounds typical."
"BP is really counting on that out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing. It's there and they know it," he said. "They need to be exposed and made to do something about it."
Frustration grows
Wilkins said the county supplied Incident Command with a map showing at least 15 spots in the bay suspected of having submerged or sunken oil, including the Greenshores Project along Bayfront Parkway, Big Lagoon, Old River to Perdido Bay and Santa Rosa Sound up to the Bob Sikes Bridge.
"We want them to look at those locations because that's where we saw oil during the worst impact," he said.
Piggott said the discussion about looking at those locations was informal.
"I don't know if we'll ever find that map," he said. "I have not seen it. I don't think it's been passed up to my boss in Mobile.
Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino said the map snafu is yet another example of the lack of communication among BP, the Coast Guard and county officials.
"It's a mess. It's a mess, I'm telling you," he said. "I'm frustrated. My frustration is they still have not addressed the submerged oil in the ocean. You can't convince me that the dispersants addressed 175,000 million gallons of oil — and some scientists say double that — that was released into the environment."
The county also wants investigators to look for submerged oil on the second sandbar and outside the sandbar in the Gulf, where reports have said oil may have sunk into the sand.
A big concern is the three deposits of white sand off the shores of Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island that the county uses for beach renourishment.
"We want to make sure they're not oily so we do have a source of sand," Wilkins said.
Those sites are expected to be investigated in a few weeks, he said.
There have been no reports of oil on the sunken aircraft carrier Oriskany, which is a popular diving attraction, or on any of the county's other artificial reefs in the Gulf, Wilkins said.
'I'm not going to sell anything'
Frank Patti Sr., owner of Joe Patti Seafood on Pensacola's Main Street, said oil in the bay is hurting his business and the livelihoods of local fishermen.
"It's a terrible situation," he said.
He said his fishermen knew oil was out there and thought BP would eventually get it.
"They kept checkin' on it and found out BP was not going to do anything about it," Patti said. "They're pulling our leg and trying to do a cover-up, and that is just not satisfactory to us."
Patti's family has been selling locally caught seafood to customers since 1930.
"As long as there's oil in the water," he said, "I'm not going to sell anything from here."
http://www.pnj.com/article/20100829/NEWS01/8290333/Oil-spill-BP-reverses-admits-there-s-oil-in-local-waters
It may come out in MOPN's Quarterly report.
"The second promise I made was that we would stick with our efforts, and stay on BP, until the damage to the Gulf and to the lives of the people in this region was reversed," Obama said. "And this, too, is a promise we will keep."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_katrina
BP warning clean-up crews that a 200-foot, 2-mile oil slick is about to hit Grand Isle
Submitted by eBoom Staff on August 27, 2010
http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bp-warning-clean-crews-200-foot-2-mile-oil-slick-about-hit-grand-isle
Shell tests method to reclaim oil sands waste
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P3Y520100826
BP warning clean-up crews that a 200-foot, 2-mile oil slick is about to hit Grand Isle
Submitted by eBoom Staff on August 27, 2010
http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bp-warning-clean-crews-200-foot-2-mile-oil-slick-about-hit-grand-isle
MOP Environmental wants to be in this announcement in a few weeks.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/after-the-leak-restoring-the-gulf-coast/
After the Leak, Restoring the Gulf Coast
August 26, 2010, 7:00 am
Back in June, with oil still spewing from BP’s blown-out well, President Obama charged Navy Secretary Ray Mabus with crafting a Gulf Coast restoration plan that would address the short-term impacts of the spill as well as the long-term environmental challenges facing the region. This week, Mr. Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, pledged that the first iteration of that plan would be unveiled soon.
“My task is to develop a road map for recovery once the oil spill is contained and cleaned up once and for all,” he wrote in an editorial for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on Tuesday. “On behalf of gulf residents, I will deliver that framework for our path forward to the president within the coming few weeks.”
The report is already the focus of intense interest, with Gulf Coast politicians and local and national nonprofit groups calling for billions of dollars in funds not just to repair the damage caused by the oil spill, but also to restore coastal wetlands degraded by decades of oil and gas development and the wide-scale engineering of the Mississippi River for flood control and navigation.
This week, a coalition of dozens of environmental and social justice groups, led by Oxfam America, released a report calling for billions in financing for ecosystem restoration, storm protection and community development along the Gulf Coast.
“On the five-year anniversary of Katrina and the devastating 2005 hurricane season, it’s well past time for the nation to commit to a true restoration vision and plan for the central gulf, long the nation’s energy sacrifice zone,” Aaron Viles, campaign director for the Gulf Restoration Network, which co-authored the report, said in a statement.
Politicians along the Gulf Coast are already jockeying for billions of dollars for coastal restoration projects. In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal recently requested that BP advance the state more than $9 billion so it could immediately begin projects to mitigate damages to its coast from the spill.
On the federal level, Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has proposed legislation that would return 80 percent of the fines levied against BP for the spill to gulf states for coastal restoration.
Under the Clean Water Act, BP faces fines of up to $21 billion for the oil that poured into the gulf, not including fines and penalties for the spill’s impact on wildlife and other violations.
So far, however, the Navy secretary has given little indication of his views on where funds for restoration will come from or how they will be spent. But he does acknowledge the rocky road that lies ahead.
“Without question, this is going to be tough,” Mr. Mabus wrote.
EcoSphere wants to be in this announcement in a few weeks.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/after-the-leak-restoring-the-gulf-coast/
After the Leak, Restoring the Gulf Coast
August 26, 2010, 7:00 am
Back in June, with oil still spewing from BP’s blown-out well, President Obama charged Navy Secretary Ray Mabus with crafting a Gulf Coast restoration plan that would address the short-term impacts of the spill as well as the long-term environmental challenges facing the region. This week, Mr. Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, pledged that the first iteration of that plan would be unveiled soon.
“My task is to develop a road map for recovery once the oil spill is contained and cleaned up once and for all,” he wrote in an editorial for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans on Tuesday. “On behalf of gulf residents, I will deliver that framework for our path forward to the president within the coming few weeks.”
The report is already the focus of intense interest, with Gulf Coast politicians and local and national nonprofit groups calling for billions of dollars in funds not just to repair the damage caused by the oil spill, but also to restore coastal wetlands degraded by decades of oil and gas development and the wide-scale engineering of the Mississippi River for flood control and navigation.
This week, a coalition of dozens of environmental and social justice groups, led by Oxfam America, released a report calling for billions in financing for ecosystem restoration, storm protection and community development along the Gulf Coast.
“On the five-year anniversary of Katrina and the devastating 2005 hurricane season, it’s well past time for the nation to commit to a true restoration vision and plan for the central gulf, long the nation’s energy sacrifice zone,” Aaron Viles, campaign director for the Gulf Restoration Network, which co-authored the report, said in a statement.
Politicians along the Gulf Coast are already jockeying for billions of dollars for coastal restoration projects. In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal recently requested that BP advance the state more than $9 billion so it could immediately begin projects to mitigate damages to its coast from the spill.
On the federal level, Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has proposed legislation that would return 80 percent of the fines levied against BP for the spill to gulf states for coastal restoration.
Under the Clean Water Act, BP faces fines of up to $21 billion for the oil that poured into the gulf, not including fines and penalties for the spill’s impact on wildlife and other violations.
So far, however, the Navy secretary has given little indication of his views on where funds for restoration will come from or how they will be spent. But he does acknowledge the rocky road that lies ahead.
“Without question, this is going to be tough,” Mr. Mabus wrote.
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6175 PLUMTREE LN, EDMOND, OK
ENVIRCO INC
3324 N CLASSEN BLVD, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
ENVIRYX LLC
6660 S SHERIDAN RD STE 205, TULSA, OK
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Soon we began to see why. A stream of oily sheen and bubbles mixed with a brown and white residue snaked along in the water, a long thin line that stretched out at far as the eye could see. Was it oil and dispersant? At first we couldn’t tell what it was. But as we examined it closer, the oily smell and sheen was undeniable. It definitely appeared to be some kind of petroleum product. Jellyfish clung to the film on the surface. What was below no one could tell......Except for the tar balls and black stains on the beach. Brown and black balls of petroleum were littered along the sand like tiny rocks on the moon. It was impossible to walk on the beach without stepping on them. Some were continuing to wash into the shore. No one else was on the beach. Only seabirds populated it now, oblivious to the brown crude balls that scattered in the sand like cluster bomblets. Zack got out his trusty bucket and scooped up some samples to send away for testing.
“It’s disgusting,” Carrigan said as he scanned the once pristine beach he loves to visit and vacation on with his family and friends. “Someone should be out here cleaning this up now.”
But no one was to be seen except us, photographing evidence of the world’s worst maritime oil disaster ever. In Washington and in state capitals around the Gulf, politicians continue to stick to their guns that most of the oil has been cleaned up or harmlessly dispersed.
That may be true, but many fishermen here don't believe it. The oil was still here and is not going away. And no one knows when life can start to return to normal again.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rkistner/oily_mix_and_tar_balls_pollute.html
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Scientist Accuses Obama Administration and BP of Underestimating Amount of Oil Left in Gulf of Mexico
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2010/8/23/scientist_accuses_obama_administration_and_bp
Portions of the Gulf are So Toxic that Dolphins, Fish, Crabs, Stingrays and Other Animals are "Trying to Crawl Out of the Water"
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52552
Little Lagoon Pass to find that the oil giant has plenty of oil sitting in plain view that needs to be collected.
http://oilspillaction.com/looking-for-oil-try-gulf-shores-west-beach-where-tarballs-have-sat-since-june
Ongoing Beach Cleanup of the BP Oil Spill – A Superficial Job, Literally.
Lot of pictures on oil buried on the beach.
http://usfweb3.usf.edu/absoluteNM/articlefiles/2566-PW%202nd%20Beach%20report.pdf
“We estimate that less than 25% of the overall oil contamination, including both surficial and buried oil was cleaned,” Wang and PhD student Tiffany Roberts wrote in a report documenting the research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
http://stevenjohnhibbs.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/usf-geologists-gulf-beaches-teeming-with-tar-balls-buried-oil/
Who makes this machine?
http://www.floridagulfresponse.com/go/doc/3059/860803/
Another machine (not EVXA's). http://www.cleanbeachtechnologies.com/Clean_Beach_Technologies.html
Yet another one (not EVXA).
"It's basically the biggest washing machine the world has ever seen," one M-I SWACO employee told us.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100720/bs_yblog_upshot/can-a-massive-sand-cleaning-machine-save-grand-isle
Another sand cleaning machine. Tim Temple is the Vice President of Hemphill Construction, Inc. out of Florence, MS.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12958201