I don’t normally get political on this blog, but as a citizen of the planet (yeah, I know it sounds wanky) I want to share my concern about the continued struggle to tap the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
See below for an article from the Wayne Madsen Reports, an online news program, which says that there may be a 200 mile radius dead zone around the BP oil spill, in which all life will be threatened and which may have to be evacuated in the area we live in. Wayne Madsen is a former National Security Agent, now an investigative reporter. Madsen scoops the mainstream media on many important stories because much of his info comes from current and former members of various intelligence operations, but these are usually anonymous sources.
June 23, 2010 -- Government insiders: Get ready for the Gulf "dead zone"
Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf.
A looming environmental and population displacement disaster is brewing in the Gulf. The oil dispersant used by BP, Corexit 9500, is seen by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf and absorbed by rain clouds producing toxic precipitation that threatens to kill all marine and land animals, plant life, and humans within a 200-mile radius of the Deepwater Horizon disaster site in the Gulf. Adding to the worries of FEMA and the Corps of Engineers is the large amounts of methane that are escaping from the cavernous grotto of oil underneath the Macondo drilling area of Gulf of Mexico.
On a recent visit to the Gulf coast, President Obama vowed that the Gulf coast will "return to normal." However, federal officials dealing with the short- and long-term impact of the oil disaster report that the "dead zone" created by a combination of methane gas and Corexit toxic rain will force the evacuation and long-term abandonment of cities and towns within the 200-mile radius of the oil volcano.
Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette, Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview, and Pascagoula.
The toxic rain from the Gulf is expected to poison fresh water reservoirs and lakes, streams, and rivers, which will also have a disastrous impact on agriculture and livestock, as well as drinking water, in the affected region.
FEMA officials also claim that the $20 billion compensation fund set aside by BP is not nearly enough to offset the costs of the disaster. The FEMA sources say the disaster will cost well in excess of $1 trillion, and likely closer to $2-3 trillion.
‘Nuff said.
It is scary, Michael. At the very least people should become more informed and proactive. Hopefully this will not come to pass but we should try to keep it from happening again.
ReplyDeleteAs a friend of mine said, thousands of years from now when we are in an intergalactic meeting with leaders of other inhabited planets, someone will ask, "So what did you think, you could just keep sucking all the oil out of the center of the earth and not pay the consequences?" What ever happened to solar, wind, electric, nuclear and all the other alternatives we should have had in place by now?
In Waiting for Godot, Estragon says 'People are bloody ignorant apes'. Plus ça change, eh? It's unforgivable and yet the selfishness and self-interest of corporate and political cultures still prevails. Sickening.
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