134 thoughts on “BP Protest at Belvidere and Grace Streets Noon Tomorrow”

  2. “…and sold off BP America…” Q: Who would have bought BP America’s assets? A: Other oil companies.

    In other energy news, advances have been made in hydraulic fracking. As a result, we’ll see even lower natural gas bills in the near futurue especially if the overburdensome EPA lets energy producers produce with minimal regulation.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576232582990089002.html?mod=ITP_review_0

    I hope to see oil from shale being cost effectively being extractracted, too.

  3. Well, of course other oil companies would buy their assets, but they in turn would be more careful in their operations, knowing that Uncle Sam was willing to exercise the ‘corporate death penalty’ as it had with BP. Too bad this has not happened and Uncle Sam is weakened fossil fuel junkie owned by the corporations.

    As for your fracking news, the irony is that I still own shares in a nanotech firm that owns shares of a company that has developed supposedly safer fracking material (so much for branding me as an anti-capitalist).

    But personally, I am very much in favor of increased regulation of fracking and natural gas extraction in order to enforce more safety. The documentary ‘Gasland’ has revealed just how much of a toll current fracking has taken on the environment and the threat to safe drinking water. I urge everyone to see it

  9. A long-awaited federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history is set to be released as early tomorrow, and could put BP back into the hot seat. Depositions by one of the company’s petrophysicists indicate that the company failed to divulge its knowledge of a large flammable gas deposit that could have played a role in the accident.

  11. http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/104071

    Even as BP and Halliburton (HAL) team up to block the use of government reports in civil suits against them, they remain at each others’ throats otherwise. In a filing today at a New Orleans court, BP accuses Halliburton of intentionally destroying test results and suppressing compute models that could reveal it to be partly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Halliburton filed suit against BP in September.

  12. Regulators from Norway order BP to increase safety protocols after finding “serious non-conformities” in its investigation of a North Sea platform fire that grounded the company’s operations at its Valhall oil and gas field for two months.

  17. Denny, I agree that the government should not be in the business of “picking winners” from the private sector, including the electric car industry.

    If you read what I have posted in the past, you know I am very skeptical of the overall economic and environmental sustainability of electric cars (but optimistic with electric bicycles and other electric vehicles)

    However, consider the huge subsidies given to the fossil fuel industry by both state and federal government. Let’s see an end to ALL corporate welfare, a true accounting of costs (including health and environmental) and see what works.

    http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/

    At the same time, the government should do more to support academic research and changes in energy policy which can make a huge difference in our economy.

  18. http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/bp-settlement-reached-gulf-coast-residents.html

    A settlement has been reached in the BP oil spill civil trial with the more than 100,000 victims pressing their claim. Claims by the US government for violations of the Clean Water Act have not been settled.

    NPR reports that there will be no cap on compensation for the plaintiffs, though BP says is expects to pay out roughly $7.8 billion, coming from a $20 billion compensation fund it created to cover such an eventuality. $2.3 billion of that is expected to go to help the seafood industry, LA Times reports.

    Individual plaintiffs can opt out of the settlement and sue BP directly, however.

    People not already included in the settlement are able to come forward at a future date and claim compensation.

    None of this addresses the possible $17 billion in fines facing BP for Clean Water Act violations, or claims filed against BP by the five Gulf Coast states.

  20. 2 yrs later Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists….”Signs of the impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp….”

    “Ladner, a 3rd generation seafood processor in Mississippi, is also disturbed by what he is seeing…. “The shrimp are immune compromised. We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads, and are seeing this everyday.’….”We’ve fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this,” he added.

    For full Article-April 18th, 2012–by Dahr Jamail http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html

  25. This whole article and the related comments needs to be completely deleted. None of it relates to Oregon Hill.

  27. And so the battle continues….

    Good news today from the International Energy Agency: In a mere 7 to 8 years, the United States will be the leader in oil production!

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/12/us-to-become-world-largest-oil-producer-by-2020/?test=latestnews

    This encouraging report shows that imported oil could be greatly reduced in the next few years. So if political turmoil continues in the Middle East, it will not matter so much as we will have a steady flow of petroleum here on our own continent.

    Sadly, Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy somehow tosses all carbon-based forms of energy sources to the curb in favor of technologies that have yet to be proven to be reliable and efficient sources of electricity. A prime example was Obama killing off the Keystone XL project where a pipeline was to be built from Canada to refineries in along Texas’ gulf coast.

    Cheaper fuel at the pump sure would help our lackluster economy. Maybe Obama will realize this, too, and allow entrepreneurs to tap these resources. Or maybe he will continue to allow the likes of the Sierra Club and other extremist greens to dictate the energy policies in this country at the expense of both consumers and businesses.

  28. AP reports BP to pay U.S. billions for Gulf spill; 2 to be charged- IMHO it should be trillions and losing their corporate charter.

    And now BP wants to drill off the East Coast…what happens when they criminally pollute the ocean there? Idiocy.

  30. I heard an oil slick from the Gulf of Mexico was making its way around Florida, into the mouth of the Chesapeake, and up in the James River to Hollywood Rapids!

  34. I mean seriously, you people are so distant and misinformed from what you think you’re cause is…it’s the same thing every time. You bitch about petroleum companies but do even realize the very keyboard you are typing on is a petrol product? The plastic cup your drinking out of? Your makeup? Shoes? Riding a bike to fight oil companies? How do you think bike tires are made?

    It’s easier to build an image than it is to build a better life.
    No President, Nation or Currency can build what we can with our own hands. Unfortunately the only hands at work these days are handouts, for cop outs.

    Have fun touting liberal society as a thing to cherish, if you can even figure out what liberal even means these days.

  35. Actually I consider myself more conservative than liberal because I do think principles and conservation matter.

    But hey, as I have stated many times, the whole liberal/conservative, left/right thing has been so distorted in American media that the terms have become meaningless.

    I think it is unacceptably liberal and radical the way the government gives subsidies to the petroleum companies.

    http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/20191-1

  36. , the whole liberal/conservative, left/right thing has been so distorted in American media that the terms have become meaningless.

    On this we do agree.

  37. Yeah, well while conservative/liberal/eft/right meanings may be lost, there is still right and wrong. I believe it is wrong for BP America to still be allowed to be a going enterprise after what they have done in the Gulf of Mexico. I don’t claim to always be right, but I do believe in right/wrong and am sad to see this country do so much wrong.

  38. I’m very happy to see Lisa Jackson (the EPA chief) finally stepping down. She is much to blame for our lackluster economy by creating unnecessarily restrictive rules over traditional forms of electricity generation (ie, coal, oil).

  40. Saturday was the third anniversary of the BP Deep Water Horizon oil disaster.

    Three years ago the Macondo well blew, killing 11, devastating the Gulf Coast and its inhabitants. The flow continued unabated for 87 days, letting loose 4.9 million barrels of crude into the gulf, along with 1.8 million gallons of toxic oil dispersant. The victims of the disaster are still experiencing the effects on their current and future health and wonder if the coast, along with their livelihoods, can be fully restored.

    Gulf residents are not alone — residents of Mayflower, Arkansas spent Easter Sunday watching a river of sludge run down the streets of their suburban neighborhood, and folks in Michigan are still trying to clean up a 2010 tar sands spill in the Kalamazoo River.

  42. Why didn’t the Sierra Club buy these top spots for the words “oil spill”? This extremist environmental group has plenty of money. But as the link below notes, “the Sierra Club has made a strategic decision to focus more on litigation than on lobbying” and other duties. Further, members of and donors to the Sierra Club need to realize the leaders of this organization throw temper tantrums like children and get themselves arrested. Reasonable people shouldn’t give their hard earned money to groups such as this where they foolishly waste it.

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/05/green-groups-have-plenty-of-green/

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/sierra-club-president-arrested-during-keystone-xl-protest/

  43. Denny, the Sierra Club cannot possibly compete in terms of money with the likes of BP or Dominion Power.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always agree with the decisions by the Sierra Club’s leadership, but I am glad to see the protests and litigation.

  44. http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/1034751

    Texas on Friday became the latest state to sue BP, Halliburton (HAL) and others tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, alleging the parties “engaged in willful and wanton misconduct.” The Texas lawsuit asks for money for various reasons including sales and hotel occupancy taxes the state says it didn’t receive because visitors didn’t go to its Gulf Coast communities due to the spill.

  47. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-buchanan/bps-missteps-delayed-its_b_4051053.html

    http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-bp-oil-spill

    The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (aka BP Oil Spill) was one of the worst oil disasters in history. How much damage was done? How is BP making up for it? This is what we discovered:

    In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
    16,000 total miles of coastline have been affected, including the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
    Even though the gushing well was capped in July 2010, oil is still washing up on shores, which might cause long-term damages to people living in the area.
    The initial oil rig explosion killed 11 people and injured 17 others.
    President Obama announced that his administration would create a $20 billion spill response fund.
    Responders used 5.5 million feet of boom, a barrier placed in water, to collect and absorb oil.
    Of the 400 miles of Louisiana coast, approximately 125 miles have been polluted by the oil spill.
    One method of treating the oil spill is “in-situ burning” or burning oil in a contained area on the surface of the water, which has negative effects on the environment.
    Over 8,000 animals (birds, turtles, mammals) were reported dead just 6 months after the spill, including many that are already on the endangered species list. Immediate impact on the wildlife includes oil-coated birds and sea turtles, mammal ingestion of oil, and dead or dying deep sea coral.
    BP is responsible for close to $40 billion in fines, cleanup costs, and settlements as a result of the oil spill in 2010, with an additional $16 billion due to the Clean Water Act.
    Over 30,000 people responded to the spill in the Gulf Coast working to collect oil, clean up beaches, take care of animals and perform various other duties. As of 2012, the Gulf was still polluted with oil.

  49. In four year’s time, the energy landscape has been dramatically transformed by the technological advances in hydraulic fracking. Millions of barrels of oil can now be economically released from the oil sands in the Dakotas and parts of Canada and used for energy. Railroads have increased the capacity to move this oil from these areas to refineries in Texas. There have been some accidents, unfortunately, by moving oil on rail. The better and safer way to get the product to Texas is to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. However, President Obama continues to drag his feet as he caters and bends to the political wills of the 1% (in this case, the Sierra Club, et al). Obama said he supports an “all of the above” energy policy. The past five years Obama’s presidency have proven he prefers using other people’s money to support uneconomical and unsustainable businesses (remember Solyndra?). Today’s ruling by a Nebraska judge further delaying this necessary pipeline only makes for a case of continued drilling in the Gulf of Mexico until our country gets a leader who understands how market forces work and isn’t choosing winners and losers on power generation.

  50. http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/03/24/scientists-gulf-oil-spill-hurt-fish-hearts/

    Scientists are still assessing how the 2010 oil spill affected marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, from tiny plankton and microscopic amoeba to big dolphins — a process that could take years.

    It took eight years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground for Pacific herring to die off in Prince William Sound.

    “The trickle-down impacts of this oil spill do take a long time to manifest among a population at a level one can see,” Block said.

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