Republicans are busy today with their attempts to dismantle the EPA because, after all, they stop businesses from doing so much business, right? No reason told businesses back, is there? Those paragons of job creation and responsibility are just drowning in EPA regulation. Meanwhile, dead dolphins, drowning in BP oil continue to wash ashore down here in Louisiana. Ask me why I haven’t eaten anything from the Gulf for months now. Aren’t you glad Transocean had the best safety year evah?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that eight months after the Deepwater Horizon oil well was capped, dolphins are washing ashore in east Louisiana with some oil from that spilled on their bodies.
Spokeswoman Kim Amendola says the dolphins had spots of weathered oil.
Blair Mase — NOAA’s Gulf Coast stranding coordinator — emphasizes there’s no way yet to know why the dolphins died. She says the most recent dolphin bearing BP oil was found two weeks ago.
Mase says 15 dolphins with confirmed or suspected oil on their bodies washed ashore since the spill began last April — and eight had oil from that well, which was capped July 15.
I thought we got told that little miracle microbes ate it all. Get the feeling NOAA is covering up stuff again?
Related News:
Feds forbid scientists probing Gulf dolphin deaths from speaking to media
Dolphins accidentally drowned by scientists trawling in Gulf
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says federal scientists trawling for fish to test for possible damage from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill accidentally caught and drowned three dolphins.
Spokeswoman Connie Barclay says the pantropical spotted dolphins were caught Wednesday by scientists on the NOAA research ship Pisces, which works out of Pascagoula, Miss.
She said Friday that NOAA is reviewing the incident and will conduct an enforcement investigation.
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28 responses to “Welcome to the Results of TransOcean’s Record Safety Year”
Did anyone really believe that the oil simply vanished though? Even if, these hypothetical microbes “ate” the oil up, it would either have to be converted into something like methane or be trapped in their little microbial bodies ready to be eaten by the rest of the food chain.
If you look at the now second worst oil spill in US waters you’ll see how much damage an oil spill does to an eco-system.
and all their clean up workers died early deaths too. They used so much dispersant here, I can only image how quickly that and the oil are going to start killing people here.
Nope. But they’re just trying to restart the drilling and convince people that eating Gulf Seafood is just fine. They must have the same PR group as TEPCO. The government only cares about economic interests. Everything else can just shrivel and die.
Don’t think I would be having a cup a gumbo anytime soon. 😛 And yes, profits before people is the way of things these days.
Kinda reminds me of your Tuesday post and wonder if you need a people’s revolution.
A people’s revolution for this and lots of other government B.S. would suit me just fine.
I’m still trying to figure out how the Xtian version of the taliban took over … I’ve never seen and heard from so many kooks in my lifetime
I wonder if the masses will rise up if this turns out to be true:
Winnebago County vote-count change alters Supreme Court race – JSOnline
More on this:
Conservative Waukesha County Clerk “Finds” 7,000 Votes For Prosser | Crooks and Liars
Believe me, they’d cheat because they think the angry sky god will be happy to keep their intolerant nasties around for the sake of fertilized eggs
Pelosi: There is a war on women
Hum, where was this kind of talk back when it could have really made a difference?
exactly what I thought … and Stupak wasn’t even a Republican and he’s one of the culture warriors too
I’m stunned too, talk about having an out of body experience, must be she didn’t notice the difference.
Now she notices. Too bad she didn’t notice all the woman hatred in 2008. Too bad she didn’t support the woman candidate.
Nancy Pelosi can go f**ck her self, as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah, what BB said!
Have you guys seen this?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/05/us-abortion-idaho-idUSTRE7347EL20110405
Idaho’s abortion bill, no exception for rape, because “the hand of the almighty was at work.”
I suppose that means a brain dead fetus or a dead one gets to hold a women hostage?
Can’t we, for once, consider the fact that not every one has angry sky gods for imaginary friends?
So rapists are now “the hand of the almighty”? Rape is an act of God? I think they’re very uncomfortable with the resemblance of women to what they call “the almighty” when we decide for ourselves whether or not we will complete a pregnancy. So instead “the almighty” is a rapist. Oh well, at least he’s male./snark
We’re going to have a civil war shortly if this keeps up and I want to move to the state with the lowest count of churches so I’ll not wind up a slave.
Here you go Dak…Mississippi most religious, Vermont least, survey says – USATODAY.com
I would like to tell these PLUBs where that can shove that almighty hand…
Dkat – Church attendance lowest in New England, highest in the South.
Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-attendance-lowest-new-england-highest-south.aspx
Not recent, done in April, 2006. Has a graph of all the states. LA is second highest – lucky Dkat.
Marketing and developing company for churches: http://www.geomarketsolutions.com/pdf/Church%20Membership%20Analysis.pdf
“We want to be your member analysis partner.”
…. after all, it’s big business these days.
I try to stay in New Orleans. They’re crazy every place else in this state.