Massive underwater oil cloud may destroy life in Gulf of Mexico
Monday, May 17, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
"It's hard to say exactly what's going on in the Gulf right now, especially because
Now, barely one week later, it turns out thatthe oil slick is FAR worse than what we
USA Today now reports:
Researchers warned Sunday that miles-long underwater plumes of oil from the spill
That same article also explained:
"Researchers have found more underwater plumes of oil than they can count
The Christian Science Monitor also reports now that as much as 3.4 million gallons
"The oil that can be seen from the surface is apparently just a fraction of the oil that
The New York Times also chimed in on the topic over the weekend with some absolutely
"Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico,
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it
In other words, while the government has been telling us the leak is only 5,000 Wiping out the Gulf
It hardly needs to be stated that 80,000 barrels of oil a day leaking into the
Oxygen levels have already fallen by 30 percent in waters near the oil. When
With this volcano of oil still erupting through the ocean floor, we could be witnessing
And yet we're faced with a virtual blackout of truly accurate news on the event.
It's much like the media coverage of the War in Iraq, where all video footage had
The truth, as usual, is being suppressed. It's just too ugly for the public to see.
Of course, the truth has always been suppressed in the oil industry. Even the
It also turns out that the Obama administration actually gave the Deepwater Horizon Corruption in Washington leads to catastrophe
The oil industry, you see, is just like every other industry that's regulated by the federal
It's the same story with Big Pharma and the FDA, or the meat industry and the USDA.
The oil industry has been able to get away with so many exemptions and loopholes
So now the U.S. government is just as guilty as the oil industry in this
In a worst-case scenario, this could destroy some percentage of life in oceans
All for profit, of course. Let nothing stand in the way of another billion dollars in oil Collusion between government and industry always leads to disaster
I hope BP can find a way to suction some of that oil out of the ocean. If they
The fishing industries in and around the Gulf of Mexico could be devastated for decades.
I can only wonder what kind of hare-brained ideas these oil men are coming up with
But it begs the question: If we were so smart, why are we still running the
If we were really smart, we wouldn't be drilling holes in the ocean floor and
The smartest thing we could do right now -- after capping the volcano of oil, of
And so we plug along, handcuffed to an outdated fuel source and still running our
Humans are slow learners, it turns out. Our modern civilization isn't really that
The question remains: How much more damage can our planet handle from Man's
We're playing a global game of Russian Roulette right now with the future of human
Monday, 17 May 2010
(NaturalNews) Over a week ago, I published an article here on NaturalNews questioning
the media spin on the massive oil spill in the Gulf. That story, entitled Is Gulf oil rig disaster
far worse than we're being told?(http://www.naturalnews.com/028749_G...), stated the following:
there are so many conflicting reports and unanswered questions. But one thing's
for sure: if the situation is actually much worse than we're being led to believe,
there could be worldwide catastrophic consequences. If it's true that millions upon
millions of gallons of crude oil are flooding the Gulf with no end in sight, the massive
oil slicks being created could make their way into the Gulf Stream currents, which
would carry them not only up the East Coast but around the world where they could
absolutely destroy the global fishing industries."
were being told.
could poison and suffocate sea life across the food chain, with damage that could
endure for a decade or more. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation...)
from the blown-out well, said Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at
the University of Georgia. She said careful measurements taken of one plume
showed it stretching for 10 miles, with a 3-mile width."
of oilmay be leaking into the Gulf every day!
has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, according to an assessment the
National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology. Significant amounts of oil
are spreading at various levels throughout the water column... Scientists looking
at video of the leak, suggest that as many as 3.4 million gallons of oil could be
leaking into the Gulf every day – 16 times more than the current 210,000-gallon-a-day
estimate, according to the Times."(http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0...)
shocking (and disturbing) revelations:
including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots.
The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could
be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The latter figure
would be 3.4 million gallons a day. But the government, working from satellite
images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day
."(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/u...)
barrels a day, the true volume could be more like 80,000 barrels a day.
Gulf of Mexico could destroy virtually all marine life in the region.
water loses its oxygen content, it quickly becomes a so-called "dead zone" because
marine species simply can't live there anymore. (Fish and other aquatic creatures
need oxygen to live, obviously.)
the mass-murder of virtually all marine life in the Gulf of Mexico.
Both the oil industry and the Obama administration are desperately trying to limit
the videos, photos and stories about the spill, spinning everything to make it seem
like it's not really much of a problem at all.
to be vetted by the Pentagon before being released to the public. Remember the
uproar over the leaked photos of coffins draped in American flags? That's what
the Obama administration no doubt hopes to avoid by suppressing photos of dead
dolphins and sea birds in the Gulf of Mexico.
inspections on this particular oil rig were, well, rigged. It turns out the rig wasn't even
inspected on schedule (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516...).
an award for its history of safety! That was before the whole thing literally blew up in
their faces.
government: It has a cozy relationship with regulators.
Wall Street and the SEC. Every industry that's regulated eventually turns the tables on
its regulators and ends up rewriting the rules for its own benefit.
that the regulatory environment is now lenient at best. The Deepwater Horizon, for
example, was given all sorts of exemptions to engage in risky drilling operations
without following proper safety procedures. And who granted it these exemptions?
The U.S. federal government, of course!
mass-murder of life in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the government that allowed
the series of events that led to catastrophe in the first place. And now, this
catastrophe could lead to a near-total wipeout of marine life throughout the Gulf
(and possibly beyond).
all around the world. It could be the one final wound to Mother Earth who bleeds her
black blood into the oceans for ten thousand years, destroying life as we know it on
this planet.
company profits! (Regulators? Bah!)
can manage such a solution, they should then turn around and dump the entire slick
across the landscape of Washington D.C. to coat all the bureaucrats in the black
slimy shame they no doubt deserve. This isn't about some random accident, you see:
It's about a failure of federal regulators to enforce safe drilling practices.
The diversity of life in the marine ecosystems there may soon find itself on the verge of
collapse. And still there is no real solution for stopping the volcano of oil that continues
to gush out of this gaping wound in the Earth herself.
now to stop the flow. A nuke bomb expert has reportedly been sent to the area
by the Obama administration as part of some sort of "dream team" of super smart
people to find a solution.
world on fossil fuels in the first place? There's enough sunlight energy striking
the deserts of Arizona to power the entire nation indefinitely! Free energy
technology continues to be suppressed in large part by oil company interests
(and the arrogant scientific community), and renewable energy technology has
received virtually no government support whatsoever.
hoping we can cope with whatever comes gushing out. We'd be installing
Concentrated Solar Power(CSP) installations across the deserts of America
or building more wind power generators. We've be investing in electric cars and
alternative fuels rather than burning up our future with fossil fuels.
course -- would be to make a commitment to end our world's dependence on
fossils fuels forever. But that goes against the financial interests of the oil
companies who all want to keep us trapped in their system of fossil fuel dependence
no matter what the cost to the environment.
historical internal combustion engines which should have been phased out
decades ago and replaced with electric motors.
"modern," and it only seems to learn from catastrophe rather than intelligent planning.
arrogant pollution? At what point does all the chemical contamination, fertilizer
runoff, carbon emissions and runaway oil pollution of the ocean add up to a global
extinction event?
civilization... and the oil companies just can't stop pulling the trigger. There's little
question where we're all going to end up if we don't change our ways and find a cleaner
way to power our infantile civilization.
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