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BP a-t-il vraiment nettoyé la marée noire du golfe du Mexique?

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BP Oil Spill: From The Gulf Stream To The Bloodstream - THE VIDEO BP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!

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BP Oil Spil: Tests of rainwater showed "aluminum, magnesium, chloride, copper, nickel"

 

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Gulf Oil Spill: BP and Corexit Updates (video, 13') + Corexit Files

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BP Oil Spill: Flesh-eating bacteria in the Water causes Deaths(+ video)

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Marée noire de BP: des communautés entières vomissent du sang 

L’inhumanité de l’opération lancée dans le Golfe par le complexe pétrochimico-militaro-industriel (PMIC), la guerre contre les américains par l’utilisation de son dispersant, arme chimique de destruction massive fabriquée aux Etats-Unis, devient plus claire chaque jour. L’un des derniers rapports fait état de communautés entières atteintes d’hémorragies internes en Louisiane. Dans une interview de Dahr Jamail par Intel Hub Radio le 17 septembre 2010, […]

Scientists: Dispersants May Delay Recovery of the Gulf By Years or Decades + Toxic Dispersants Files

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L’incroyable arnaque de BP: le puits (B) qui n’a jamais été colmaté François Marginean

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Madames et messieurs, British Petroleum (BP) a menti à toute la population – encore une fois – à propos de ce qui se passe réellement dans le golfe du Mexique suite à l’explosion de la plateforme du Deepwater Horizon le 20 avril dernier, qu’elle louait de l’opérateur Transocean Ltd. Sauf que cette fois-ci, la manipulation de la réalité dépasse tout entendement. Suite aux efforts infructueux continuels durant tout l’été de colmater la plus importante fuite de pétrole de l’histoire des États-Unis, BP […]

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Marée noire de BP : que va devenir le "nuage" sous-marin ?

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Un long panache aux reflets brunâtre de 35 km de long, 2 km de large et 200 m d'épaisseur, à 900 m sous la surface de l'océan... Il n'existe pas encore d'images de ce "nuage", mais sa composition est bien connue. La nappe d'eau souillée par le pétrole du puits contient 50 microgrammes par litre d'hydrocarbures hautement toxiques. […]

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BP oil spill: scientists find giant plume of droplets 'missed' by official account

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US environment correspondent A 22-mile plume of droplets from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico undermines claim that oil has degraded Images taken during the descent of an underwater vehicle show oil droplets appearing at a depth of 1065-1300m. Providing the strongest evidence yet of the fate of the crude that spewed into the sea for months. […]

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Mega Gulf Oil Spil: The BP Cover-Up

BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come. By Julia Whitty WE'RE SWINGING ON ANCHOR this afternoon as powerful bursts of wind blow down through the Makua Valley and out to sea. The gales stop and start every 15 minutes, as abruptly as if a giant on the far side of the Hawaiian island of Oahu were switching a fan on and off. We sail at the gusts' mercy, listing hard to starboard, then snapping hard against the anchor chain […]

Oilgate! BP and Obama Seek to Contain Truth of Leak in the Gulf

By Riki Ott, marine toxicologist Animals 

BP Oil Spill: Deepwater spill will soon be invisible but could linger beneath the surface for decades

Related articles in english: Deepwater Horizon Alarm Was Disabled Prior To Explosion Rig alarm system partly disabled at time of blast Le Monde 24.07.10 Une alarme avait été volontairement désactivée sur la plate-forme Deepwater Horizon, propriété du groupe Transocean, dans le golfe du Mexique, a indiqué vendredi un ingénieur de forage aux enquêteurs américains cherchant les causes de la marée noire. Cette alarme aurait pu détecter la formation d'une poche de méthane dans la conduite montante, à l'origine de l'explosion du 20 avril qui a […]

Titre original: BP, les médias et Obama mentent: il est impossible de colmater le volcan de pétrole Par définition, les corporations sont des entités sans conscience. Elles ne connaissent pas de frontières, pas plus que les désastres qu’elles engendrent régulièrement. Les nouvelles images satellites montrent que la marée noire de BP atteint maintenant les côtes du Mexique, proche du Yucatan et de Cancun en plus de se propager vers la côte ouest des États-Unis. Ceci est désormais une crise internationale. […]

New York Times July 21, 2010 Original Title: Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety By IAN URBINA WASHINGTON — A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon in the weeks before the oil rig exploded showed that many of them were concerned about safety practices and feared reprisals if they reported mistakes or other problems. In the survey, commissioned by the rig’s owner, Transocean, workers said that company plans were not carried out properly and that they “often saw unsafe behaviors on the rig.” Some workers also voiced co […]

Huffington Post Posted: 07-19-10 In this video, WKRG News 5 investigates the toxicity levels of local public beaches that have been populated with people swimming and children playing in the water in Alabama. Their search ends with some explosive results. WKRG teams up with Bob Naman, an analytical chemist with almost 30 years in the field. Naman tested WKRG's various samples for petroleum, and said he expected to find no more than 5 parts per million (ppm). Instead, Naman finds results that far exceed his expectations: 16 ppm from waters at […]

BP Oil Spill Disaster - Methane Expert Dr. David Valentine, PhD Says Sea Water Flammable (video)

Dr David Valentine, PhD., Methane expert, explains what he learned while on a research ship in the Gulf this past month. The water can be coaxed to flame and methane levels 10,000 to 100,000 times the natural concentrations! 5%-35% Reduction of dissolved oxygen. 100-200 foot, six to seven mile-long clouds of methane in the ocean. Natural gas content - methane, propane - elevated 10,000-100,000 fold over background levels. Floating, dead pyrosomes. […]

L'impact du dispersant Corexit sur la santé/BP Corexit Effects on Life (video VOSTF + dossier dispersants)

C’est seulement le 12 juillet que les garde-côtes, qui travaillent en lien étroit avec BP, ont assoupli les règles d’accès aux zones touchées par la marée noire pour les journalistes (comme l’explique une dépêche de l’agence AP). Mais ils peuvent toujours être tenus à l’écart pour des raisons de sécurité, une excuse évoquée parfois de manière fallacieuse. Ainsi Mac McCleland de Mother Jones explique qu’on lui a interdit […]

 Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”, "Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System"

Méga-marée noire - Les tortues marines brûlées vives par BP (+ videos)

Face au désastre écologique qui menace les côtes de Louisiane, BP, en concertation avec le gouvernement américain, a recours à une technique rarement utilisée car extrêmement dangereuse, qui consiste à incendier des parcelles de la nappe de pétrole, entourées de barrages gonflables.

   Mega Oil Spill: 27,000 abandoned oil wells in Gulf of Mexico (+ videos)

First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico

As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime. CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, "A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, ... will prevent reporters and photographers from […]

John Wathen, A Voice for the World's Waters A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all around it's blow hole. BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales.mov(9' 55) July 1st: Gulf Spill Leaves Horror in its Wake(7' 41) Keith Olbermann talked to John Wathen from The Waterkeeper Alliance who has been photographing the disastrous environmental impact of the oil spill in the Gulf. […]

Le geyser de pétrole peut durer des années et ravager l'Europe par F. William Engdahl

Requiem pour le golfe du Mexique: le Katrina d'OBAMA, l'hypocrite corrompu financé par BP (+ vidéo, 4')

Teaser de Black Wave/Marée Noire - L'héritage de l'Exxon Valdez. Vingt ans après la catastrophe , la toxicologiste marine Riki Ott et des pêcheurs d'Alaska rappellent que les conséquences de cette catastrophe ont changé leur vie et celles de milliers d'autres personnes à tout jamais. Teaser of Black Wave, a documentary about the Exxon Valdez tragedy. In the early hours of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker runs aground in Alaska. It discharges millions of […]

Des photos de la marée noire de BP deux mois après/BP Gulf Oil Spill, two months later (pictures)

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 Empathie pour un dauphin/Empathy for a Dolphin: Life in the BP Gulf Oil Spill (3' video clip)

Méga-marée noire: Greenpeace en posture très minimaliste contre BP

On attendait une mobilisation générale de l’ONG Greenpeace Monde sur la plus grande catastrophe écologique depuis la catastrophe de Tchernobyl de 1986. Or pour l’instant, force est de constater qu’il n’en est rien. Comparée à la campagne que Greenpeace mena en 1995 contre Shell à propos du coulage de la plateforme Brent Spar, la réaction de Greenpeace contre la compagnie pétrolière BP est insignifiante. […]

BP Au-delà du pétrole... l’enfer !

NB: BP a pour slogan "Beyond Petroleum" (Au-delà du pétrole) Les sources de Wayne Madsen Report signalent que, sur la côte du Golfe, le personnel de sécurité de BP est complété par la police montée de l’État d’Alabama en dehors de ses heures de service et par les gardes d’une société de sécurité privée, G4S Wackenhut. Le personnel de sécurité de BP veille à ce qu’aucun observateur ne soit présent sur les plages de la côte pendant la nuit, au moment où les prestataires de BP nettoient les plages, ramassent et se débarrassent secrètement  […]

Something frightening is happening deep under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—something far worse than the BP oil gusher. Warnings were raised as long as a year before the Deepwater Horizon disaster that the area of seabed chosen by the BP geologists might be unstable, or worse, inherently dangerous. What makes the location that Transocean chose potentially far riskier than other potential oil deposits located at other regions of the Gulf? It can be summed up with two words: methane gas. […]

BP fait censurer un reportage australien/Oil Spill Video removed by BP Demand ! (videos)

60 minutes Australia documentary pulled from airing on request of British Petroleum (13 June 2010) Part 1 Part 2 

BP Gulf oil spill disaster: The effect on human health (video, 6 mn)

This video, the second in a series, explores the health consequences of the BP oil spill. It features interviews with Nathalie Walker, an attorney and co-director of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, as well as environmental chemist Wilma Subra. Related: BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators (+ video) North America faces years of toxic oil rain from BP oil spill chemical dispersants (+ videos) BP Oil Spill: Former Oil Worker Says Cleanup Just For Show (+video) […] 

Catastrophe de BP: vers l'évacuation de millions de personnes?

« Nous allons devoir évacuer les états du Golfe », a déclaré le fondateur de Simmons and Co., une banque d’investissement pétrolier et, depuis l’explosion du 20 avril dernier, la source indéfectible de prédictions apocalyptiques. « Pouvez-vous imaginer évacuer 20 millions de personnes?… Cette histoire est 80 fois pire que ce que j’imaginais. » Washington Post du 23 juin 2010 Les plans d’évacuation du Golfe commencent à tourner […]

Les rapports sur les mouvements des capitaux du 1er trimestre 2010 indiquent que la banque d’investissement Goldman Sachs aurait vendu 4,680 millions d’actions BP au 31 mars 2010, soit 44% de son portefeuille d’actions du groupe pétrolier britannique. Dans la même période, UBS et Wachovia Corporation ont respectivement liquidé 98% et 97% de leurs actifs BP.  […] 

BP Oil Well Blowout May Never End - It's Unstoppable ! (+ video)

As I have previously noted, it is now clear that there is damage to BP's well beneath the sea floor. Recently-retired Shell Oil President John Hofmeister told MSNBC yesterday: The question is whether there is enough mechanical structure left at the base of the reservoir to hold the cement when they start pouring cement in [from the relief well]. *** The more oil we some coming out, the more it tells you that the whole casing system is deteriorating.[…]

Former oil clean-up worker Candi Warren says she signed up to make a difference, but soon found out the work of cleaning the beaches was all cosmetic. Warren says she knew that when crews worked during the day, the tide and surf buried oil overnight. But they were forbidden to dig it up. She quit in disgust three weeks ago despite the $18 per hour pay. She said she was told to only clean the surface of the sand, that this is all cosmetic. […]

IT'S RAINING OIL MIXED WITH COREXIT, the most dangerous dispersant Added: BP Must Stop Using Toxic Dispersant Now, Says Environmental Engineer (Huffington Post) The Examiner June 17 2010 When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic chemical dispersants on top of an oil spill, it doesn’t just disappear. In this case, it moves to the atmosphere, where it will travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the site of the BP oil spill, in the form of toxic rain.  […]

Lindsey Williams, qui a vécu longtemps avec en tant qu'aumonier sur des plate-formes pétrolières, est interrogé par téléphone par Alex Jones sur la catastrophe pétrolière de BP dans le Golfe du Mexique. Il révèle que des gaz hautement toxiques comme le sulfure d'hydrogène, le benzène, let chlorure de méthylène posent un risque plus grand pour la santé humaine que le pétrole. (Partie 2). Par exemple, le sulfure d'hydrogène est classé comme un gaz asphyxiant chimique, similaire au monoxyde de carbone et les gaz de cyanure. Il inhibe la respiration cellulaire et […]

BP is doing everything it can to prevent dramatic pictures or headlines regarding the oil spill." As I noted on May 19th, BP has been telling cleanup workers that they don't need to wear respirators or other protective gear. As Jerrold Nadler, the New York congressman whose district includes the World Trade Center, said today: We're repeating the same catastrophe in the Gulf. You see pictures of people wearing regular clothes who are wading in and scooping oil off the water. […]

La commission d'enquête parlementaire sur la marée noire a dévoilé des documents internes qui montrent que la société a bradé la sécurité de sa plate-forme pour des raisons de coût. A mesure qu'avance l'enquête parlementaire sur l'explosion de la plateforme Deepwater Horizon, la thèse de négligences coupables commises par BP ne fait que se renforcer. […] 

Vingt ans après, la toxicologiste marine Riki Ott et des pêcheurs d'Alaska montrent que les conséquences de cette catastrophe ont changé à tout jamais leur vie et celles de milliers d'autres personnes. Teaser of Black Wave, a documentary about the Exxon Valdez tragedy.  In the early hours of March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker runs aground in Alaska. It discharges millions of […]

Amid the comprehensive chaos that has blanketed the news cycle since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, there seems to be a scenario that makes sense, but has not been widely suggested. What if BP and the US government know exactly what’s going on, but have too much to lose by disclosing it? The scenario It is possible that the Deepwater Horizon explosion was not as much of a surprise as BP would have the public think. The 5,000 foot deep well was a rouge from the beginning, but the benefits of […]

BP Gulf Oil Spill "Could Go on for Years and Years" and reach Europe by F. William Engdahl

The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy. […]

North America faces years of toxic oil rain from BP oil spill chemical dispersants (+ video)

IT'S RAINING OIL MIXED WITH COREXIT, the most dangerous dispersant The Examiner June 17 2010 When you pour more than a million gallons of toxic chemical dispersants on top of an oil spill, it doesn’t just disappear. It moves to the atmosphere, where it will travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the site of the BP oil spill, in the form of toxic rain. BP’s oil spill-fighting dispersant of choice is Corexit 9500. It has been banned in Europe for good reason. […]

Obama’s Oval Office speech: A cowardly cover-up of BP’s crimes + video

BP Gulf oil spill map: Oil spill rate increases to 2.7 million gallons a day (The Examiner) June 16 Why the BP Deepwater Horizon failed and why it is so hard to stop the oil leak Internationalnews WSWS NB: On the high-end estimate, the BP spill is producing every four days the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez. By Barry Grey 16 June 2010 President Obama’s Oval Office speech Tuesday night on the Gulf oil disaster was a cowardly exercise in evasion and cover-up that could have been written by the publicity department of BP. The 18-minute speech, […]

Les plans anti-marée noire de BP étaient truffés d'erreurs, selon une enquête AP

No comment - Wildlife Apocalypse: Gulf birds, fish caught in BP oil spill Deux videos sans commentaires nocommenttv — 7 juin 2010 — The toll of dead and injured birds and marine animals from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is climbing.... N

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster threatening to wipe out tourism and fishing industries and countless numbers of marine wildlife habitats along the entire US southeast coast could be just the prelude to a much greater transatlantic pollution catastrophe. The furthest eastern state of Florida – 600 miles from the Deepwater Horizon spill site off Louisiana – is next at risk to devastating pollution as a result of giant undersea oil plumes being swept up by fast-moving Caribbean currents known as the […]

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Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before Oil Spill

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Related: BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment The brokerage firm that's faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: the stock of British oil giant BP. According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the […] 

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Gulf - Fears Grow over Oil Spill's Long-Term Effects on Food Chain

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As oil continues gushing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, with no sign of stopping until a new well is finished this August, scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality of a massive annihilation of sea creatures and wildlife. Dead animals are already washing up on shores. Birds have been found dying in pools of oil and dispersant, which have taken over their marshland habitats. Several species in the Gulf of Mexico are […]

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Scientist: BP Well Could Be Leaking 100,000 Barrels of Oil a Day (Democracy Now ! video and transcript, 8')

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Tony Hayward has said he is hopeful the new measures would soon contain a major portion of the oil gushing out of the ruptured well, but scientist Ira Leifer says the oil may be gushing out at a rate of more than 100,000 barrels a day, a number that BP once called its worst-case scenario.  […]

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 Scuba Diving in the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (videos)

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A rare and different perspective at the oil spill from beneath the surface. The AP's Rich Matthews got an exclusive look at the spill by joining a dive team who explored how the oil is impacting the Gulf of Mexico. (June 9) 28 mai 2010 — WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE - Original Broadcast 5/24/10: Exploring the toxic plumes of dispersed oil floating beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico. It is MUCH MUCH worse than what you are being told, so see for yourselves. And worse, it is only going to spread... Dossier marées noires […]

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La marée noire pourrait atteindre l’océan Atlantique en juillet (+ animation vidéo)

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132 jours après le début de la fuite, soit le 30 août. [NCAR] Voici la modélisation animée publiée par le National Center for Atmospheric Research de Boulder (Colorado) le 3 juin. D’après le modèle, le pétrole devrait franchir la pointe de la Floride 75 jours après le début fuite, c’est-à-dire le 4-Juillet, jour de la fête nationale aux Etats-Unis. La marée noire devrait ensuite s’étendre rapidement le long de la côte est des Etats-Unis, “si le courant circulaire est dans une configuration habituelle” […]

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Effects On Wildlife (+ video, 5' 08)

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What are and will be the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the wildlife in the area? Scientists to study impact of gulf oil spill on marine food webs Shells from oysters, clams, and periwinkles hold clues about the ways and rates at which harmful compounds from the spill are being incorporated into the Gulf's marine food web.  […]

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Les marées noires oubliées du delta du Niger

Depuis cinquante ans et dans le plus grand silence, le pétrole brut se déverse en flots continus et pollue cette région. 

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Even as BP’s blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip past the Everglades and on up the East Coast, the company is demanding that Canada lift its tight rules for drilling in the icy Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean. In an incredible display of corporate arrogance, BP is claiming  […]

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Marée noire: BP et Obama (dont la campagne a été en partie financée par BP) s’enlisent dans la crise

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NB: Obama est le candidat à la présidentielle qui a été le plus financé par BP selon le Center for Responsive Politics (IN). Le groupe pétrolier BP n’est toujours pas parvenu à colmater la fuite sous-marine et toutes les tentatives se sont soldées par des échecs. (...) L’administration Obama est, elle aussi, de plus en plus critiquée pour sa gestion de la crise. On lui reproche de ne pas intervenir techniquement face à la marée noire et de laisser la totalité des initiatives à la multinationale BP. Il est vrai que, pour l’instant, le président Obama n’intervient que pour faire la leçon à BP et ne demande pas à son administration de prendre en charge la résolution du problème.

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Oil Spill Has No End In Sight ! (May 23 video, 6' 29)

Three top Obama administration officials are returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the massive oil spill that seems to have no end in sight, as BP PLC officials said Sunday that one of their efforts to slow the leak wasn't working as effectively as before. BP spokesman John Curry told The Associated Press on Sunday that a mile-long tube inserted into the leaking well siphoned some 57,120 gallons of oil within the past 24 hours, a sharp drop from the 92,400 gallons of oil a day that the device was sucking up on Friday. […] 

The warm, soft winds coming in off the gulf have lost their power to soothe. Anxiety is king now — all along the coast. “You can’t sleep no more; that’s how bad it is,” said John Blanchard, an oyster fisherman whose life has been upended by the monstrous oil spill fouling an enormous swath of the Gulf of Mexico. He shook his head. “My wife and I have got two kids, 2 and 7. We could lose everything we’ve been working all of our lives for.” […]

Deepwater Horizon, le « Tchernobyl américain » des pétrolières Par François Marginean + video

La marée noire dans le golfe du Mexique constitue une catastrophe environnementale sans précédent "Barack Obama "venait d’approuver une expansion de l’exploitation pétrolière dans le Golfe du Mexique... Depuis le déversement, Obama, qui est le plus grand récipiendaire de l’argent électoral distribué par BP avec $77,051 récolté durant la dernière campagne électorale, a accordé 27 exemptions à des sociétés pétrolières  […]

Marée noire: Les bayous de Louisiane, un milieu particulièrement fragile (+ videos)

Une gigantesque nappe de pétrole menace la Louisiane. Avec 800 000 litres de pétrole s'échappant chaque jour du puits de pétrole qu'exploitait la plate-forme qui a sombré le 22 avril, la catastrophe pourrait dépasser en ampleur celle de l'Exxon Valdez, la pire de l'histoire américaine, en 1989 au large de l'Alaska. …] 

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Gulf Coast Oil Spill Puts Birds at Risk (HQ video, 2' 45)

DiscoveryNetworks — 30 avril 2010 — The next victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be the birds that depend on the region's fertile shorelines, bayous and marshes. American Bird Conservancy's Michael Fry talks to Jorge Ribas about the situation. Since that video has been taken, the situation turned worse...

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BP Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe + videos + Dossier (Oil Spill/Marées noires)

 

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Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion

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In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, according to a group involved in the court case. A Washington DC Appeals Court ruled in April 2009 that the Bush administration’s five-year plan for offshore oil and gas drilling […]

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Million gallons of oil a day gush into Gulf of Mexico - The world's worst oil spill ? (+video)

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Interviews with surviving Deepwater Horizon rig workers show how explosions led to what may be the world's worst oil spill By David Randall An extraordinary account of how the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred emerged yesterday in leaked interviews with surviving workers from the rig. They said that a methane gas bubble had formed, rocketed to the surface and caused a series of fires and explosions which destroyed the rig and began the gushing of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening wildlife […]

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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill/La catastrophe de l'Exxon Valdez (short videos)

 The Exxon Valdez incident is one of the worst environmental disasters in recent times. It is also a classic case of how a massive crisis was poorly handled. The name Exxon, to this day, is still synonymous to the concept of man-made disaster. 

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Erika, mystères autour d'une cargaison (documentaire, 1h39)

Procès de l'Erika" : une victoire à la Pyrrhus" ? (+ dossier marées noires)

Oil Spill in Lebanon related to 2006 Agression/Marée Noire au Liban (Three short videos)

  

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EXXON VALDEZ Oil Spill (1989): "A Sea of Trouble" (4'36)

Crude: The Real Price of Oil trailer (Amazon Watch)

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of ...

La marée noire du Prestige, video documentaire (17'20)

Marée noire (reportage de la Ligue française des oiseaux - LPO, 6'32)

Indigenous Peoples: 'We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity'

Oil giant total faulted in tanker spill (1'18)

Marées noires: le jugement du procès de l'erika (videos)

 Photo: chezplume.blog

 Rappel des grandes marées noires dans le monde :

- 18 mars 1967 - GB/FRANCE - Torrey Canyon

- 16 mars 1978 - FRANCE

- 3 juin 1979 - GOLFE DU MEXIQUE

- 24 mars 1989 - USA - Exxon Valdez

- Janvier 1991 - GOLFE

- 3 décembre 1992 - ESPAGNE - Aegean Sea

- Août-octobre 1994 - RUSSIE

- 16 février 1996 - ROYAUME-UNI Sea Empress -

- 12 décembre 1999 - FRANCE - Erika

- 19 novembre 2002 - ESPA

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Blogs Le Monde 15 avril 2011

BBC 'Blue Planet - Deep Trouble' team explain the environmental dangers facing the world's shallow waters. With high demands for rare species of fish, coral reefs are in danger of being fished out and deserted. Brilliant natural world video.

VIDÉO - Un film probablement tourné par un vidéaste amateur montre l'inexorable montée des eaux dans une ville du nord du pays. En près de six minutes, une partie de la localité est littéralement submergée.

La vidéo tourne en boucle sur Internet. Tournée juste après le séisme qui a frappé le nord-est du Japon le 11 mars dernier, elle montre pendant près de six minutes, l'inexorable avancée des eaux dans les terres, charriant tout sur son passage. L'auteur de ce film, probablement un vidéaste amateur posté en haut d'un immeuble, n'a pas été identifié. Il aurait été tourné dans la ville côtière deKesennuma, au nord de la préfecture de Miyagi, la plus touchée par la catastrophe. La ville de Kesennuma compte 75.000 habitants. Elle est située à environ 150 kilomètres de Fukushima. Plusieurs médias, parmi lesquels la chaîne d'information américaine CNN, l'ont diffusé.

On assiste à la très rapide montée des eaux depuis un bâtiment situé à quelques dizaines de mètres de la mer. Des sirènes résonnent et une voix se fait entendre, probablement par haut-parleur. Les flots emportent d'abord les premiers véhicules garés en bord de mer avant de s'enfoncer vers les terres. Au large, un bateau dérive et fonce vers ce qu'il reste du rivage. Des bâtiments entiers cèdent, libérant dans l'eau des objets en tout genre. La ville n'est plus qu'une rivière. 

 

 

 

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(NaturalNews) In the last week, nearly 100,000 fish washed up on the shores of the Arkansas River, dead. Also in Arkansas, thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky and plummeted to the ground where they were also found dead. The scene repeated itself in Southern Louisiana where 500 red-winged blackbirds recently plunged out of the sky, dead on arrival, and in Chesapeake Bay, thousands of dead fish have begun washing up onto bay shores.

It is common sense to be concerned when the animals around us start dying suddenly and in large numbers.

So far, scientists are dismissing these scenes as common phenomena. They say the fish in Arkansas were killed by "disease" and dismiss any possibility of chemicals being involved. The red-winged blackbirds, after autopsies were performed yesterday, appear to have been killed by "blunttrauma," but it's not clear whether that trauma was the act of slamming into the ground or if it was caused by something else beforehand.

Coincidence? Or is there another cause?

While there are many documented cases ofbirds(and even frogs) falling out of the sky throughout world history, the seeming coincidence of having thousands of birds fall out of the skywhile, at the same time, 100,000 fish wash up as dead in the same geographic regiondemands greater scrutiny. What's happening in Arkansas that's killing these animals?

The question becomes even more important when you consider that other animal die-offs are occurring with alarming frequency across North America. Not only are honeybees dying off in record numbers, but nowbatsare being wiped out, too (http://www.naturalnews.com/022989_b...).

What's the root cause behind the mass die-offs?

Conventional scientists say it's all due to "disease," but they neglect to ask the obvious question: What makes these animals suddenly so susceptible to disease?

Because that answer may be a uncomfortable to the established industries that sell pesticides, or build cell phone towers, or grow genetically modified crops.

For all we know, these 100,000 dead fish are downstream from a field of GMO corn that mutated into something even more deadly than the GMOs we already know. This may not be so far-fetched, actually:Monsanto has a corporate office in Arkansas(in Stuttgart, Arkansas) that's not too many miles from the Arkansas River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A...).

This isn't proof of anything, of course, but the idea that a whole lot of birds and fish are suddenly dying near Monsanto's corporate offices should at least get intelligent people asking some serious questions.

Are secret experiments the cause?

The PrisonPlanet.com websites suggests that these deathsmay be due to secret government experiments (http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-mass...). This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. NaturalNews has documented the long history of U.S. government experiments on human beings, too (http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html). Just last year, Obama was forced to apologize to Guatemala for the U.S. medical experiments conducted on prisoners there (http://www.naturalnews.com/029924_m...).

So the idea that the government might be conducting experiments on the weather or on wild animal populations is in no way bizarre. It's routine, in fact.

Still, more mundane explanations may be valid, too. For the birds, the most likely explanation is that they were somehow struck by afreak hail storm. But if hail struck the birds, that same hail should have also appeared on the ground (birds don't fly at super-high altitude), and no hail was reported. So the hail theory doesn't pan out.

The fish deaths are also a mystery: While the scientists say that disease is the most likely cause -- because only one fish species washed up dead -- that explanation doesn't hold water. Here's why:

Animals deaths don't resemble infectious disease pattern

A virus, bacteria or fungus doesn't magically and suddenly spread across 100,000 members of one species all on the same day. It takes time for such infectious agents to spread. If disease were the cause, you should have seen a few fish showing up dead on one day, followed by a few more some days later, then a lot more after that, and then finally a much larger mass over the subsequent days or weeks as the infectious agent spread through the population.

Yet that's not what we saw. Instead, we saw100,000 fish dying all at once(or very nearly all at once). This is not indicative of infectious disease. Even the CDC will tell you that. Infections don't time themselves to kill large populations simultaneously. The pattern ofdeathall butrules out infectious diseaseas the cause.

This pattern is, however, indicative ofa poisonor some other radical change such as a sharp temperature change in the river. Something changed in the environment -- perhaps a rapid depletion of oxygen, or the interference with fish physiology through electromagnetic means. And this points to something other than disease: Perhaps the behavior of a corporation or the actions of a government experiment.

In either of those cases, the truth will almost certainly be hidden from public view. Scientists will be paid off to say it was caused by disease, and the corporate-controlled press will buy it, too. And that's what people will be told.

But I'm suspicious. When I see animals dying 100,000 at a time and birds falling out of the sky, I begin to suspect much more than just normal in-the-wild infectious disease.

I suspect something far more nefarious is afoot, and whatever it is, you have to ask the inescapable question: Is this a trial run of a much larger experiment involving other species? Perhaps even humans?

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Univers-Nature, 8 décembre 2010

Parue dans la revue Nature, une nouvelle étude anglo-américaine a démontré que la perte de biodiversité, notamment les mammifères et les bactéries bénéfiques, entraîne une augmentation de pathogènes, les organismes responsables des maladies, et favorise leur transmission.

Comme l’explique le professeur Andrew Dobson de l'université de Princeton, aux Etats-Unis : « Lorsque la diversité biologique est en déclin et que les contacts entre les hommes augmentent, vous obtenez la recette magique pour l'apparition de maladies infectieuses ».

Les scientifiques ont, en effet, mis en avant des cas de déclin de biodiversité où l’incidence des maladies augmente. Selon Felicia Keesing, écologiste du Bard College de New York, la perte de biodiversité augmente la transmission de pathogènes pour une variété significative de systèmes de maladies infectieuses.

Cela se vérifie pour certains types de pathogènes, incluant les virus, les bactéries et les champignons, et pour de nombreux hôtes, tout à la fois humains, animaux et végétaux.

Ainsi, dans le cas de la maladie de Lyme (1), les espèces-tampons telles que l’opossum sont menacées par la fragmentation des forêts alors que la souris à pattes blanches prospère. Or, cette dernière favorise l’augmentation du nombre de tiques à pattes noires, lesquels sont vecteurs et pathogènes de la maladie.

Pour l’heure, les scientifiques reconnaissent ne pas être en mesure d’expliquer pourquoi les espèces « survivantes » sont celles qui amplifient les pathogènes. Soulignant la complexité d’identifier les variables impliqués dans l’émergence des maladies infectieuses, le professeur Dobson reconnaît que si la biodiversité est un facteur important, il en est de même pour les changements d’utilisation des sols, la croissance de la population humaine et le comportement. De fait, la croissance de la population humaine accroît les contacts avec de nouveaux pathogènes via de nombreuses activités telles que le défrichement au profit de l'agriculture et la chasse des animaux sauvages.

Afin de réduire les probabilités que d’autres maladies infectieuses se propagent des animaux sauvages aux animaux d'élevage et à l'homme, les auteurs de l’étude appellent à la surveillance minutieuse des régions possédant de nombreuses espèces animales domestiquées. Cette vigilance vaut également pour les zones abritant des élevages de poissons.

Depuis les années 1950, la biodiversité mondiale connaît un fort déclin. Les taux d'extinction sont de 100 à 1000 fois plus rapides que dans le passé. Les experts s'attendent à ce que ces taux augmentent à plus de 1000 fois dans les 50 années à venir.

1- La maladie de Lyme est une maladie bactérienne, due à des bactéries du genre Borrelia, et transmise par des piqûres de tiques.