What's Up with BP & Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

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The Wildlife

· Daily wildlife rescue reports

· What are the effects of Oil on Wildlife and their Habitat

· List of Species impacted by the spill

· Fact Sheets from US Fish & Wildlife Services

· Dawn’s Saves Wildlife: Their part, your part, my part

The BP Well: What's going on 5000 ft. down

· Well has weak points at 9,000 & 17,000 feet

· Sea Bed Leak: Rover footage during stress test

· Gulf seafloor crack leak shows oil coming from crack

Environmental Effects

Opening Pandora's Well

Risk of Global Climate Change by BP Oil Spill

Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Current has disconnected since Spill

Long term Effects on Canada

Rescue & Response Efforts

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Coastal Rescue Efforts
Oil Spill Response Efforts

The Families

· Search for 11 rig workers is called off

· Escape from a fire breathing dragon

· DWH rig explosion survivors events before the explosion

The truth about BP

· The Deepwater Horizon, site of a 2005 fire: Human error

· Deepwater Horizon’s History of error and malfunctions

· Time Cast: Inside the rig explosion

What's Up in the

Gulf of Mexico with the Oil Spill

Updated Day 95

Wildlife Rescue & Collection Report

Deepwater Horizon Response Consolidated report Updated July 23, 2010

	Oil Covered -Alive-	No Visible Oil -Alive-	Oil Covered -Dead-	No Visible Oil -Dead-	Cleaned, Rehabilitated, Released
Birds	1397	0	1091	1499	551
Sea Turtles	167	59	17	82	12
Mammals	1	4	3	53	1
Other Reptiles	1	0	0	0	1

Click to view all daily wildlife rescue reports from US Fish & Wildlife Service since the Gulf Oil Spill began

Collected fish and wildlife are given an initial examination to search for broken bones, external oil or other injuries.

As needed, this may be followed by a more thorough examination to search for less obvious injuries, such as oil in the mouth, throat or eyes. An additional step may include a partial or full necropsy (an autopsy for animals) to help determine the exact cause of death if possible.

Oil Spill Response Efforts

List of Species that potentially could be impacted

by the polluted Gulf shores & water

What are the effects of Oil on Wildlife and their Habitat

...More Fact Sheets from US Fish & Wildlife Services

Updated Day 85

Capped Again: Is there finally some relief in the Gulf?

For the first time since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20th the once crystal clear waters of the Gulf has received some mercy from the gushing oil well. The afternoon of July 15th with the world watching and fingers crossed, BP lowered an alternative containment cap onto the broken under water blowout preventer deep within the Gulf waters. At least for the time being the oil has stopped gushing, tests are being done and we are not in the clear just yet. The cap on the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is still holding in the oil. But there are mixed messages about the success and how long that cap will stay on. BP says it hopes to keep it there until they've plugged the well permanently. But yesterday, the government announced that at some point it would end the test and tell BP to open up the valves on that cap. That will temporarily send oil gushing back into the sea, but it will also reduce the risk of an undersea blowout deep inside the well. They are seeing some small bubbles coming out of a pipe near the wellhead. And there's an ROV down there this morning, one of these remotely operated vehicles, robotic submarines, sampling that. It looked to me like they were doing that. And so I think we'll get some more information about that But BP says from what they can tell so far, they suspect it's just biological material rotting in the mud and not gas from 13,000 feet down.

Keep informed with the latest details

See some interesting facts about the gusher in the Gulf,

Facts BP would rather not share

Click to visit whatreallyhappened.com

The announcement of the attempt to cap the well this last week was greeted with stunned amazement among experts

(not on BP's payroll). After all, BP had admitted back in May that the drill pipe and well casing had at least one

leak 1000 feet below the blowout preventer; the reason the Top Kill procedure had failed. CNN reported on two

other potential leaks at 9,000 feet and 17,000 feet. Back in June, video from the Remotely Operated Vehicles on the

ocean floor spotted oil leaking up from fissures in the sea floor near the well.

Check out these videos on Utube to see for yourself

Video rover spots leak on sea bed floor during stress test

Oil escaping from Gulf sea floor cracks (slow motion captured)

Well has weak points at 9000 ft. & 17,000, that BP is likely watching in the seismic

Who's Looking out for number 1?

Citations BP Received as compared to other

Oil Companies over a 2 1/2 year period.

Updated Day 83 We are now 83 days into this spill and the news continues to look grim. Feelings of helplessness and despair run deep for our earths environment, the families of the Gulf , and the marine & wildlife that call the water and shores of the Gulf of Mexico home. Containment for the broken riser pipe of the Deepwater Horizon 5000 ft below the oceans oil covered surface cannot come soon enough. April 20th the loss of the 11 rig workers during the explosion in the deep waters of the Gulf was just the beginning of one of the largest disasters in American History.

Distraught families get little consolation from the company which employed their loved ones and is responsible for the untimely and allegedly avoidable demise of the great 11. Short of vague PR spliffs airing on television the families suffer an unbearable loss in more ways than one.

Gulf Families searching for Loved ones from Deepwater Horizon explosion

These families of the Gulf sit with little hope that in their time of great greiving their bills will be paid without a fight. Legislation of over 90 years ago stipulates that loss of life off shore insurance policies are capped at loss of income with no punitive damages for the families left behind. The Death on the High Seas Act currently prevents the workers' families from suing BP, Transocean and the other companies involved in the drilling operation for compensation other than funeral expenses and a portion of the workers' lost wages. Unless the law is changed, these companies are immune from potentially costly lawsuits that Smith and others see as the best way to keep companies from recklessly risking workers' lives.

The shores and flowing waters of one of the most beautiful and largest fishing agriculture areas in the United States now sits tarnished and poisoned by over 2 million gallons of crude oil and poisonous dispersents (less the unknown amount that has been vacuumed up + the unknown amounts apparently spewing from cracks on the oceans floor).

Ribbons of red oil tarnish the once beautiful waters of the Gulf of Mexico

Each and every day we look and wait for a miracle and each and every single one of these past 3 months have proven to be more heartbreaking and disappointing than the last.

Thousands upon thousands of ideas have been submitted to British Petroleum (BP) since even before they began their submission request online, it's hard to believe that not a simple 1% of any of the ideas have held even a small amount of merit enough to investigate the possible use of even a combination of any of those ideas in order to contain the broken riser pipe and its seemingly never ending flow of poison.

A few weeks back in June the first commercial of a mass PR Campaign put together by BP, costing in the area of 50 Million dollars aired publicly. Appearing in the spiff CEO of BP, Tony Hayward spoke words that infuriated millions, rather than aid in the replenshimnet of a tarnished reputation. The CEO intended on smoothing the waters, so to speak between the residents of the Gulf, British Petroleum and himself of course. ....."We will make this Right!" ........... Make this right? .......................

....... How can you ever make this right? Who writes this stuff ?#!? They are highly overpaid!

Drenched in layers of crude oil, amazingly this little guy survived was cleaned, rehabilitated and released. These are BP's quietest Victims

Heartwrenching pictures of oil drenched birds and wildlife is something BP can never make ok. The few birds that ever do make it to shore, sit stuck in sticky mounds of oil simply gasping to take a breath, sadly when a breath can be taken the toxins further invade their respratory system. The tar and oil creates an invasive barrier clinging to every inch of the animals body and further collect like a snowball, prohibiting their feathers from being used for their intended purposes of flight or insulation from the brisk waters of the ocean. Soon the Birds develop hypothermia and freeze to death or sink from the weight of the oil and tar. Those which may make it to shore, will sit like this. Waiting scared and not knowing what has happened. Some will be found by someone and turned in for treatment and rehabilitation. If the stress of it all doesn't finish them, they face the struggle of fighting the toxins that may very well compromise their entire immune system and invade their organs which then begin to fail. These are BP's Quietest Victims.

They can't speak for themselves, they can't fight for the clean up of their habitat, and they can't clean themselves or eachother from this bath of horror. The little guy (above, right) amazingly was one of the lucky ones. He was rescued by workers along the coast of Louisianna in late May, he was transported to a rescue facility. Treated and sucessfully rehabilitated, he was tagged and released off the coast of California in mid June. Most of the wildlife caught in the spill are not so lucky, sadly this sea turtle (below, left) is just one of thousands of endangered species lost to the alleged negligence and Another one of BP's quietest victims. A sea turtle approximately 8 years old lays dead on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico covered in oil. Sadly for this little guy it was too late by the time rescuers arrived to retrieve him.

Another one of BP's quietest victims. A sea turtle approximately 8 years old lays dead on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico covered in oil. Sadly for this little guy it was too late by the time rescuers arrived to retrieve him.

greed of a company looking out for number 1.

As of July 10, 2010 the BP Oil Spill has taken the lives of 11 humans, ruined countless miles of habitat and shoreland, caused irrevocable devestation, death and suffering to thousands of birds & pelicans, sea turtles, possibly countless other species such as dolphins, whales, crabs, eels, sharks. Another longterm effect of the poison in the waters is the third party effects. The bottom feeding marine life that are potentially at the bottom of the food chain, may become contaminated and either poison the marine life who depend on them for their survival or die leaving a shortage of food for those creatures. No matter what scenerio plays out, it is quite obvious the food chain will be affected all the way to the top. We will never know for ourselves and can never count on an honest answer about how many have died from the plumes of oil and poison deep in the waters off the coast that continue to drift away from the gulf in the currents.

The devestation is irreversible. What are we doing to our Planet?

Hey BP would you be moving a little quicker if the gusher was flowing in your own backyard?

Day 3 Search for 11 missing rig workers is called off

Response boats clean up oil

where the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico. BP says it has "activated an extensive oil spill response."

Oil gushes into the Gulf of Mexico, little is known about the amount of oil spewing from British Petroleum's damaged well 5000 feet below the Gulf's surface.

The night the oil rig exploded:

Escape from a fire-breathing monster

Events of the hours leading up to what would soon become a historical nightmare and environmental catastrophe, from Deepwater Horizon rig explosion survivors Doug Brown and Mathew Jacobs. Follow their recollections of events leading up to the explosion of April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico.

"It was hissing so loudly, it was almost sounding like the beginning roars of a creature..."

Doug Brown

"...I just remember looking back at the rig. I couldn't watch it knowing that we had left those 11 guys."

Mathew Jacobs View Full Story and stay up to date on CNN News

Deepwater Horizon’s History of error and malfunctions

The rig which drilled the world’s deepest offshore well, also collided with a towing vessel in 2003 and sustained $95,000 in damage to its hull, which, if not properly repaired could have compromised its structural integrity or weakened the structure supporting its drilling apparatus. Take me to this story

Opening Pandora’s Well

Time Cast: Inside the rig explosion

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