Biggest coverup in the life of the world — Oil Everywhere

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Flashpoints, KPFA, October 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. EDT

Times-Picuyune:

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.

The oil was sighted in West Bay, which covers approximately 35 square miles of open water between Southwest Pass, the main shipping channel of the river, and Tiger Pass near Venice. Boat captains working the BP clean-up effort said they have been reporting large areas of surface oil off the delta for more than a week but have seen little response from BP or the Coast Guard, which is in charge of the clean-up. The captains said most of their sightings have occurred during stretches of calm weather, similar to what the area has experienced most of this week.

On Friday reports included accounts of strips of the heavily weathered orange oil that became a signature image of the spill during the summer. One captain said some strips were as much as 400 feet wide and a mile long.

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NOAA reopens 7,000 more square miles for fishing in the Gulf

The federal government has reopened an additional 7,000 square miles of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico to commercial and recreational fishing.

That means 96 percent of all federal waters are now open, after a series of closures this summer as oil gushed into the Gulf following the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the reopening of waters 60 miles east of the Macondo well site, off the coast Florida between the Florida-Alabama state line and Cape San Blas, Fla.
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Today marks the tenth reopening of fishing areas in the Gulf since July 22. The decision came after NOAA and the federal Food and Drug Administration sampled numerous finfish in the area and conducted smell tests and a chemical analysis for oil.

Expert trained sensory analysts for NOAA sampled 155 samples of finfish from the area, and the agency sent 156 fish samples done in 22 separate composite tests for analysis in NOAA's labs. The smell testing indicated no oil or dispersant taint, and the chemical analysis found that no levels of hydrocarbons anywhere near the level of concern for humans.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/10/noaa_reopens_7000_more_square.html

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This newspaper prints these two articles in one day and not one reporter says WTF? That is cognitive dissonance if I ever saw it!!!

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1. We're already number one in the world for cancer ...just wait until people eat Gulf fish and crab.

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2. Thank you for posting a link to Flashpoints, one of the best investigative journalism radio shows

around: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/30

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3. It has become harder and harder to find trustworthy sources

so I appreciate hearing this is a good one!

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5. Sure is.

hard to find and one of the best! KPFA has some excellent radio shows, Letters to Washington, Living Room and Against the Grain are my favorites for news. And the nice thing is they have mp3s for download!

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4. The main stream news media appears to be ignoring this story ...

I wonder why.

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6. They are trying to save tourism and seafood industry

and BP's ass. They were trying to squelch the stories big time before the moratorium on drilling was lifted last week. Now they may not care so much. What do you want to bet we see fewer BP "We live here and we will clean the Gulf" ads from now on. They will shift to drilling fulltime and burying all memory of their actions. They want it forgotten yesterday!!

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7. It looks like saving BP's ass is top priority...

and kissing it is essential.

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8. If they had spent the advertising budget on goodfaith clean-up

I'd be happy. Not letting their workers dig because they'll hit oil is nonsense. Cynical and disgusting.

Just scratch the surface. Like BP's response to their crimes thus far!

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9. Breaking news from Coast Guard who flew over site by helecopter

Coast Guard says substance found floating in Gulf is algae, not oil

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Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil said a Coast Guard pollution investigator has collected samples near the mouth of Tiger Pass and, while those samples need to be tested in a lab, "based on his observation and what he sees in the sample jars, he believes that to be an algal bloom."

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"I've never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent," said one captain, who like the others wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing their BP contracts. "I'll wait for the lab reports. In fact, we're also sending some samples off."

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the New Orleans Sector of the Coast Guard had conducted a helicopter overflight of the area Wednesday and the pollution investigator on board concluded the substance was an algae bloom. A Coast Guard boat was dispatched to the area to collect samples, he said, but it had to turn back due to rough seas.

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