Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico

Response, Blame Game and Obama Administration Lies - Oil Spill Facts

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa Released Coast Guard Documents That Raise New Questions on the Obama Administration's Oil Spill Response
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Factoid - In your local supermarket seafood section be sure to look for the small print that tells you where the shrimp was caught. Note the difference between the Asian farm raised seafood prices that are much lower than shrimp from the Gulf. Farm raised shrimp is raised with steroids and antibiotics. Wild caught shrimp such as in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic is caught in the ocean, and is organic.
Farmed shellfish from overseas (Thailand, China and Viet Nam) is frequently contaminated with cadmium. Cadmium, and its compounds, are extremely toxic even in low concentrations, and will bioaccumulate in organisms and ecosystems. Compounds containing cadmium are also carcinogenic. The bones become soft (osteomalacia), lose bone mass and become weaker (osteoporosis). Also - Up to ten times more contaminants have been found in farmed fish when compared to wild fish. These contaminants include PCBs, dioxins, pesticides and PBDEs, which are used as fire retardants. Aquafarming also raises a number of environmental concerns. The very large number of fish kept long-term in a single location produces a significant amount of condensed feces,

Nov 2010 TAINTED SEAFOOD? - The residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana say they're still getting sick from the dispersant use in the Gulf of Mexico and fishermen won't eat the seafood that the government wants them to sell to the public. Obama continues to back the British Petroleum (BP) claim that the gulf is clean and safe but the people who live there disagree.

May 2010 - Obama claimed he responded at 100 percent starting Day One to the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
WASHINGTON - To hear Obama tell it, his administration has been fully engaged on the Gulf Coast oil spill since Day One, bringing every resource to bear and able to ensure without question that taxpayers will be protected.

Not quite.

Take President Barack Obama's repeated claims that BP will be responsible for all the costs associated with the devastating spill that began after an oil rig operated by the company exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and later sinking.

"Let me be clear: BP is responsible for this leak; BP will be paying the bill," Obama said while touring the area May 2nd.

While it's true that the federal Oil Pollution Act, enacted in 1990 in response to the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, makes BP responsible for cleanup costs, the law caps the company's liability for economic damages — such as lost wages, shortened fishing seasons or lagging tourism — at $75 million, a pittance compared to potential losses.

Administration officials insist BP will be held responsible anyway, noting that if the company is found negligent or criminally liable, the cap disappears. Claims also can potentially be made under other state or federal laws, officials said.

Yet the liability cap is problematic enough that a trio of Democratic senators introduced legislation Monday raising it to $10 billion, and the administration quickly announced its support. Sens. Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Bill Nelson of Florida voiced concerns that unless the cap is raised, BP would avoid paying for the mess and leave small businesses, local government and fishermen with the bill.

"They're not going to want to pay any more than what the law says they have to," Nelson said.

That's not quite the seemingly ironclad guarantee heard from the president.

Then there's the administration's rhetoric about anticipating the magnitude of the crisis and bringing all resources to bear on Day One.

"We had (Defense Department) resources there from Day One. This was a situation that was treated as a possible catastrophic failure from, from Day One," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

That sense of urgency was not so apparent when White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was questioned about the incident April 23, three days after it occurred. At the time he seemed to dismiss its severity and indicated it wouldn't affect Obama's plans to open up new areas of the coast to offshore drilling.

"I don't honestly think it opens up a whole new series of questions, because, you know, in all honesty I doubt this is the first accident that has happened and I doubt it will be the last," Gibbs said.

A week later, Obama was announcing plans for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to review whether new technologies were needed to safeguard against oil spills from deep-water drilling rigs. The president said no new offshore oil drilling leases would be issued without any such safeguards.

And Napolitano's comments over the weekend about the Pentagon's Day One role seemed a change from last Thursday, when she seemed to indicate the Defense Department was not yet involved in responding to the spill: "If and when they have something to add, we'll certainly make that known," she said.

A Homeland Security spokesman, Sean Smith, said Napolitano's more recent comments referred to the Navy's help with the Coast Guard's search and rescue mission early on, and that when she was discussing the Defense Department last Thursday she was alluding to any additional help they could bring to bear.

The administration's evolving rhetoric reflects not only the increasing seriousness of the spill itself, but its determination to be seen as responsive from the get-go and to squelch comparisons to the Bush administration's slow-footed response to Hurricane Katrina.

It's only natural that administration officials would adjust their response as the spill worsened and its seriousness became evident. But they invite judgment when claiming they responded at 100 percent starting Day One to an incident whose magnitude was not yet apparent, or when black-and-white assertions about taxpayer protections turn out to be tinged with gray.

SPIN METER : There since Day One? Maybe not By ERICA WERNER (AP)

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Obama said he had dispatched inspectors to the Gulf of Mexico to examine all deepwater oil rigs and platforms for possible violations.
Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico oozing ashore, threatening birds, river otters and mink along Louisiana's fragile islands and barrier marshes. The 210,000 gallons a day oil leak comes from a well which exploded in flames April 20. The Obama Administration took 9 days to respond.
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If U.S. officials had followed up on a response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, the spill could have been kept under control and far from land by responding with the immediate use of fire booms. The federal government did not have a single fire boom on hand. A single fire boom can burn up to 1,800 barrels of oil an hour or 75,000 gallons an hour, raising the possibility that the spill could have been contained at the accident scene 100 miles from shore. Speculation is that burning could have captured 95 percent of the oil as it spilled from the well.

It's claimed that the National Response Center had one in storage. Each boom costs a few hundred thousand dollars. Made of flame-retardant fabric, each boom has two pumps that push water through its 500-foot length. Two boats tow the U-shaped boom through an oil slick, gathering up about 75,000 gallons of oil at a time. That oil is dragged away from the larger spill, ignited and burns within an hour.
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May 4- 2010 - The 11 who died came from three states: Louisiana, Mississippi and even Texas, commuting long distances to work.

Gordon Jones, 28, was among the 11 who died when an oil rig exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly two weeks after the tragedy, relatives of the dead have held memorial services, sued rig operator BP-PLC and grappled with waves of grief as the catastrophe plays out on a worldwide stage -- with barely a mention of their loved ones' names. "It seems like people have forgotten," said Michelle Jones, who, at nine months pregnant, will give birth any day.

Adam Weise, 24, lived in Yorktown, Texas, and drove 10 hours to Louisiana every three weeks to work on the rig. During his three weeks off, the former high school football star spent time with his girlfriend, hunted deer and fished from his boat. "We celebrated his life on Saturday," said his grandmother, Nelda Winslette. "At the Lutheran church, it was standing room only. That should tell you a little bit about him."

Jason Anderson, a father of two who died during the explosion, was also from Texas.

Four men were from Mississippi: Karl Kleppinger Jr., 38, of Natchez; Dewey Revette, 48, of State Line; Shane Roshto, 22, of Liberty and Burkeen, 37, of Philadelphia.

Kleppinger was a 38-year-old Gulf War vet and a married father of one.

Revette's family declined to comment on Sunday and Roshto's family couldn't be reached. Natalie Roshto, Shane's wife, filed a lawsuit in Louisiana federal court on April 21, saying that she has been suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety since her husband went missing in the explosion.

Burkeen, whose family called him "Bubba," had a wife and two kids. His favorite TV show was Man vs. Wild, said Woodson, his sister.
"We'd joke around. I'd say, 'Bubba, when are you going to be somewhere where you need to survive?'" said Woodson. "And he'd say, 'Anything ever happens to me on that rig, I will make it. I'll float to an island somewhere. Y'all don't give up on me, 'cuz I will make it.'
"We was hoping that we were going to find him, on an island somewhere."

The other men were from Louisiana.

Donald Clark of Newellton was 49. His family is still planning his memorial service.

Stephen Curtis was 40, married and had two teenagers. He taught his son to hunt and play baseball and was active in his church.

Blair Manuel was a 56-year-old engineer from Gonzalez with three daughters. He had season tickets to Louisiana State University baseball and football games, said his mother, Geneva Manuel.

Gordon Jones of Baton Rouge was also an engineer. He was 29, and had gotten off the phone with his wife Michelle just 10 minutes before the explosion. "He was the glue that bound the family together," said Michelle Jones. He died just three days before their sixth anniversary.

Newly widowed on the brink of new motherhood, Michelle Jones is relying on those who love her. "I've got a lot of good family and support," she said, taking a deep breath. "It'll be okay someday." The day her husband left to work for a two week shift, she said she gave him lots of extra hugs and kisses. He got up early and she followed him around the house and to the garage, hugging him. She thought she was just being emotional because she's pregnant. "I watched him drive away, from the window," she said. She thinks it was God's way of allowing her to say goodbye.

All the families are learning that while the unfathomable tragedy of the oil spill unfolds in the Gulf -- and in their hearts -- life must go on.

Courtney Kemp, the widow of 27-year-old Roy Wyatt Kemp of Jonesville who died on the rig, answered the phone on Sunday. The happy squeals of children could be heard in the background. She told a reporter that she couldn't answer questions about her husband right then. "We're having a party today," she said, crying. "Our oldest daughter just turned three."

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Response, Blame Game and Obama Administration Lies - Oil Spill Facts