Russia prepares to drill for oil off Cuban coast -
By drilling off the Cuban coast, Russia is said to be establishing a new presence in the Western Hemisphere as it recently concluded four contracts securing oil-exploration rights in Cuba’s economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Russian-Cuban joint partnership being established will exploit oil found in the Gulf. Cuba as it has the rights to the area under an agreement the Carter administration recognized.
An ominous report by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources warned of the impending disaster resulting from the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history, the European Union Times reported.
Russian scientists believe BP is pumping millions of gallons of Corexit 9500, a chemical dispersal agent, under the Gulf of Mexico waters to hide the full extent of the leak, now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.
Experts say Corexit 9500 is a solvent four times more toxic than oil.
The agent, scientists believe, has a 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to “phase transition.”
This transition involves the change of the liquid into a gaseous state, which can be absorbed by clouds. The gas will then be released as “toxic rain” leading to “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top,” the report said.
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