Oil leak in Gulf of Mexico off coast of LA

[floridaorange]

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http://www.gnof.org/

[DancingQueen]

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^^^^Massive respect to you and anyone that goes to help. If anyone knows of any legitimate donation sites, please let me know and I will donate whatever I can to help

[floridaorange]

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If and when oil stained animals are in need of assistance in Florida, this board has my word that I will go and help and try and bring a friend or two.

And actually, if any MS members want to get organized and meet-up at the beach, let me know, I'm in.

[DancingQueen]

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so outraged that instead of flying down to NOLA like a few of my friends have done, they're spending their time bitching to the choir.

people like this piss me off sometimes.

May I ask what you have done to help? Why aren't you on a plane to NOLA or Florida?

I would love to take time off work, hop on a plane and do my part to help out, but that isn't an option for everyone. Some people can't afford to hop on a plane and go and help in NOLA and Florida. Instead they do what they can from where they are. They are doing their part by educating the public about the issue (surprisingly there are a lot of people out there living under rocks that have no idea what is going on right now). They are becoming the voices for the animals and plant life that cannot speak for themselves. If they can get just one more person to understand the severity of the situation, and move them to help out (in whatever way they can, big or small), they have done their part.

[runningman]

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I'm proud this board won't let this issue go away.. Very serious stuff here.

[chuckc]

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yeah go to the beach and help out with the cleanup. what good is standing on the corner with a sign going to do.

[trick12]

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as per idiot, those people are holding sticks, they are there to fight

[88Mariner]

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video http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...ted;photovideo

Photos taken from around the country, Chicago, Washington, New York, Tampa, etc...
















Anger over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is spilling into streets as protests are organized at BP’s offices and gas stations around the country.

A multi-group protest made up of environmental groups is planned for Friday in Washington D.C., for example, while a week of demonstrations in several cities was kicked off yesterday by a new campaign, Seize BP.

Besides the organized demonstrations, anti-BP Facebook accounts have popped up online. And in New York City, some one or several people have splattered what looks like brown paint on the logo of three different BP gas stations.

BP's inadequate response has left the public frustrated, said Allison Fisher, the energy organizer at Public Citizen, one of the groups organizing Friday's protest in Washington. “They’re looking for ways to express that.”

Friday’s protest organized by eight groups—Center for Biological Diversity, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Energy Action Coalition, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Hip Hop Caucus, Public Citizen and 350.org—will take place in front of BP’s headquarters.

It will include an inflatable oil barrel and an actor portraying BP CEO Tony Hayward in a prison jumpsuit.


Those organizations also hope their protest will bring attention to their foremost cause: reducing global warming and stopping offshore drilling.

“We’re hoping to capture that attention, get people engaged at this corporate level and channel it into climate work as well,” said Fisher.

After several protests in May, Seize BP kicked off a week of demonstrations on Thursday in Washington, New York and Chicago and has plans to continue into next week in 26 cities and towns across the country.

The group is pushing for the U.S. government to seize BP’s funds and place it in trusts now to help reimburse those affected by the oil spill, said Carl Messineo, spokesperson of Seize BP.

“We’re seeking urgent and immediate resolution,” said Messineo.

BP did not return a call for comment.

The lengthy time frame for the slowly unfolding disaster—the leak started on April 20—“is a long enough time for people to get angry,” said Juliet Huck, CEO of TheHUCKGroup, a communications firm. Besides not finding a fix to the leak, a lack of communication with the public is also to blame for festering frustration. “The silence is what is creating this anger,” said Huck.

Anger has also turned to rage. Aside from the protests, at least three BP gas stations in New York City were vandalized with what appears to be black or brown paint on their signs.

“I think somebody got mad or something,” said Lucky Singh, the manager of a gas station in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. He said that the splattered paint appeared on the stations highest signage two days ago, adding that someone was expected to stop by to clean it off on Thursday.

Despite the vandalism, Singh said business is still the same. “No one has complained or anything,” he said.

so outraged that instead of flying down to NOLA like a few of my friends have done, they're spending their time bitching to the choir.

people like this piss me off sometimes.

[jasonemrysss]

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Goldman Sucks sold almost half of their BP stock before the explosion?? This is a win/win for oil, all the way around. Preserves the status quo and won't hurt their revenues. Of course it was deliberate. That makes it terrorism. Obama is a DINO (democrat in name only.) He doesn't have a clue as to what to do, His priorities as of last night were Lebron James. I wouldn't be suprised if there weren't reprisals (counter terrorist attacks) against Big oil.

[chunky]

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Compensation between $580 to $15,000 should sort them out. I wonder if any of them protestors know who Warren Anderson is!

[floridaorange]

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Deadliest Catch Captain: Spill Impact Could Be "Tenfold" Worse Than Valdez



Captain Keith Colburn is best know as captain of the Wizard on the Discovery Channel's hugely successful series, "Deadliest Catch." He's been a commercial fisherman for 25 years, and he's even participated in an oil spill cleanup in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Colburn also testified before Congress against off-shore drilling in Bristol Bay. Captain Keith spoke with the LKL Blog and gave a unique, fisherman's perspective on the oil spill.

LKL Blog: You're a fisherman. How have you reacted to the Gulf oil spill?

Colburn: Being an Alaska fisherman, there is grave concern about what is exactly going to happen to the food chain in the Gulf. The fish inside the Gulf, and also a lot of the predator fish outside, are all going to be impacted dramatically. Especially the oil down in the water column, down in the bottom where these species live. As a fisherman it's pretty dramatic, and it could have widespread implications.

When the Exxon Valdez hit the rocks in Prince William Sound, the biggest thing that impacted us in the Bearing Sea, and there wasn't a drop of oil in the Bearing Sea, was the public perception of anything Alaskan that was seafood. That dramatically impacted our pricing, and impacted all fisherman in the state of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The perception from the public was that all seafood coming out of Alaska was tainted, which was not the case.

Unfortunately, what I think we're starting to see now is consumers are concerned that anything coming out of the Gulf States is tainted seafood products. So it's unfairly hurting these fisherman in advance of their fishing grounds being tainted by oil. That could have lasting effects on the shellfish and the fishing industry throughout the US.

As an Alaska fisherman, I'm not concerned about my resource because it won't be impacted environmentally, but, especially the fisherman down there in the gulf - Florida, Texas, Mississippi - they're all going to be impacted because of the consumer misconception that it's all tainted seafood. Hopefully by the end of the day there will still be fishing grounds that will be open, productive, and able to sustain at least some of the resource that has been harvested previously, but we'll have to wait and see.

LKL Blog: Do we know yet how much the overall catch will be affected?

Colburn: My concern is some of the Gulf fisherman I've talked to think this may affect them one, two, three years. They need to realize that this could dramatically impact and affect their way of life permanently.

The herring stocks in Prince William Sound 20 years later have never recovered, never. They have basically almost been completely decimated, and so this spill, which I believe has tracked to be already larger than the Valdez spill, has the potential because its moving slower and moving in and spreading out over a wider area, to be two to three times as devastating to that marine ecosystem as the one that happened in Alaska 20 years ago.

LKL Blog: Do you feel a kinship to the Gulf fisherman?

Colburn: Without question. I was in New Orleans not even a year ago and did a function with the Louisiana Shrimpers Association in the Gulf. It was to basically help them out because the shrimpers were already struggling with the high price of diesel to actually make a living.

They were struggling already with diesel prices and with imported farm shrimp, so now you are going to double that up with decreased quotas, decreased areas to fish, public skepticism about the quality of the product. It could have lasting and detrimental effects to not only the guys that fish.

All fisherman feel a kinship to each other, whether its lobsterman back on the east coast, or sailors fishing for herring in the bay area in San Francisco, we all make our living from the sea, we are all a little different breed of guys and gals. At the end of the day we are all hard working guys to make a living off the sea without damaging it at the same time.

LKL Blog: After the Valdez spill, what did the fisherman do? Obviously your life, your economic well-being is turned upside down.

Colburn: You're right, your economic well-being is turned upside down, you have no idea what the future holds for you. Some fisherman will be impacted greater than others, but in the near-term the thing that is scary is that what occurred during the Valdez spill is that fisherman all of a sudden became spill response personnel.

They basically took their fishing vessel, because the fisheries were closed, and went right into working on spill response cleanup. So for a year they managed to see good returns and good revenue based on a changing lifestyle for one year. But after that one year, and after they decided "well we have done as much as we can for the cleanup, that’s the best we’re going to do," the next season reality set in and it was "well wait a second, what am I going to do now? My herring fishery is closed, my salmon run that I use to fish is now closed, what am I going to do to get by this year?"

Now that’s what these guys need to look at, how am I going to be impacted long-term? If I do get through this season working on the spill as opposed to working on my boat catching shrimp, what am I going to do in the future after that.

LKL Blog: What can the government do to help these guys?

Colburn: Well you know, I don’t know. What I would like to see, to this point we are 36 days into this and it seems to me, and I'm not talking about the government, I'm talking about the oil industry - Halliburton, and Transocean - just keep this revolving door passing the buck and assessing blame. Instead of assessing blame lets find a realistic way to get this thing capped.

That’s that most disappointing thing. You've got these billions of dollars that go into research and development to tap wells and to pump. It's a thousand times greater than the amount of research and development to goes into capping these things. I mean, the oil industry is great at tapping wells, let's learn how to cap them as well in the event that we have something like that in the future.

LKL Blog: From what we know now, would you assess this as having a far greater impact than Valdez?

Colburn: With the information that is coming out now I think this will have an impact that could be tenfold what Valdez was. You are looking at heavily populated areas, ports and everything from tourism to sport into commercial fishing to transportation. All kinds of things could be impacted on the entire Gulf region and down the coast of Florida. This stuff might even make it up the east coast to the Atlantic coast.

We’re talking about heavily populated areas with lots of infrastructure, lots of jobs that are related in one way or the other to the ocean, to the beaches. Whether its tourism or guys fishing for little restaurants and mom-and-pop chains, it’s going to have a domino effect through the entire high depths of financial infrastructure of the southeast region of the U.S.

[floridaorange]

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I'd be shocked if BP isn't done as a company after this... there's just no way they'll be able to continue under the "BP" name once the mess is cleaned up.

It is truly difficult for me to personally fathom the amount of damage this has done and will do in weeks, months and years ahead.

Who else wants their next car to be a hybrid? I know my wife and I are set on it and I'm looking to sell my car asap so that I can buy one.

[floridaorange]

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video http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...ted;photovideo

Photos taken from around the country, Chicago, Washington, New York, Tampa, etc...
















Anger over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is spilling into streets as protests are organized at BP’s offices and gas stations around the country.

A multi-group protest made up of environmental groups is planned for Friday in Washington D.C., for example, while a week of demonstrations in several cities was kicked off yesterday by a new campaign, Seize BP.

Besides the organized demonstrations, anti-BP Facebook accounts have popped up online. And in New York City, some one or several people have splattered what looks like brown paint on the logo of three different BP gas stations.

BP's inadequate response has left the public frustrated, said Allison Fisher, the energy organizer at Public Citizen, one of the groups organizing Friday's protest in Washington. “They’re looking for ways to express that.”

Friday’s protest organized by eight groups—Center for Biological Diversity, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Energy Action Coalition, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Hip Hop Caucus, Public Citizen and 350.org—will take place in front of BP’s headquarters.

It will include an inflatable oil barrel and an actor portraying BP CEO Tony Hayward in a prison jumpsuit.


Those organizations also hope their protest will bring attention to their foremost cause: reducing global warming and stopping offshore drilling.

“We’re hoping to capture that attention, get people engaged at this corporate level and channel it into climate work as well,” said Fisher.

After several protests in May, Seize BP kicked off a week of demonstrations on Thursday in Washington, New York and Chicago and has plans to continue into next week in 26 cities and towns across the country.

The group is pushing for the U.S. government to seize BP’s funds and place it in trusts now to help reimburse those affected by the oil spill, said Carl Messineo, spokesperson of Seize BP.

“We’re seeking urgent and immediate resolution,” said Messineo.

BP did not return a call for comment.

The lengthy time frame for the slowly unfolding disaster—the leak started on April 20—“is a long enough time for people to get angry,” said Juliet Huck, CEO of TheHUCKGroup, a communications firm. Besides not finding a fix to the leak, a lack of communication with the public is also to blame for festering frustration. “The silence is what is creating this anger,” said Huck.

Anger has also turned to rage. Aside from the protests, at least three BP gas stations in New York City were vandalized with what appears to be black or brown paint on their signs.

“I think somebody got mad or something,” said Lucky Singh, the manager of a gas station in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. He said that the splattered paint appeared on the stations highest signage two days ago, adding that someone was expected to stop by to clean it off on Thursday.

Despite the vandalism, Singh said business is still the same. “No one has complained or anything,” he said.

[clintlove]

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Obama is scheduled to make yet another appearance down here. Why? All he is doing is spending taxpayers money for his fucking entourage to travel with him. Gulf Coast folks are not liking him right now. Hell, I never liked him in the first place.

[chuckc]

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hey to all the Pcola folks. i unfortunaly am hearing that the oil is only a few miles from the beach and tar balls are poppin up. so awful.

do u see a massive effort to protect the shorlines. its seems to me the govt has so far ignored florida.