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no lnx many<div class="widgetbody clearfix sm-mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 25px 40px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.2;">A Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Offshore Drilling Is Still Unsafe</h1></div></div><div class="widgetbody clearfix sm-mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 25px 40px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2645687373" style="margin-top: -15px; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="body-description" style="clear: both;">Ten years ago, on April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 crew members and starting the <a href="https://darrp.noaa.gov/oil-spills/deepwater-horizon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">largest ocean oil spill in history</a>. Over the next three months, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03flow.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">between 4 million and 5 million barrels</a> of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.<div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-basename="particle-1" data-post-id="2645687373">I was a member of the <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-OILCOMMISSION/pdf/GPO-OILCOMMISSION.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">oil spill commission</a> appointed by President Obama to investigate the causes of the disaster. Later, I served as a courtroom witness for the government on the effects of the spill. While scientists now know more about these effects, risks of deepwater blowouts remain, and the energy industry and government responders still have only very limited ability to control where the oil goes once it's released from the well.The spill commission found that <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-OILCOMMISSION" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">multiple identifiable mistakes caused the blowout</a>. Our report cast doubt over how safety was addressed across the offshore oil industry and the government's ability to regulate it.As the oil spill commission's report showed, drilling ever deeper into the Gulf involved risks for which neither industry nor government was adequately prepared. The industry had felt so sure that a blowout would not happen that it lacked the capacity to contain it. Neither BP nor the government could do much to control or clean up the spill.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem2" data-id="2" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2" data-basename="safety-improvements-are-threatened" data-post-id="2645687373"><h3>Safety improvements are threatened</h3>The presidential commission recommended numerous reforms to reduce the risks and environmental damages from offshore oil and gas development. The industry developed <a href="https://www.noia.org/offshore-energy/safety/response-containment-systems/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">systems to contain blowouts</a> in deep water and has deployed them worldwide. Improvements in operational safety were made within companies and <a href="https://www.centerforoffshoresafety.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">across the industry</a>.The Department of the Interior acted quickly to reorganize its units. It created a <a href="https://www.bsee.gov/who-we-are/about-us" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement</a> to avoid conflicts of interests with its leasing, development and revenue collection responsibilities. After four years in development, the bureau issued <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/04/29/2016-08921/oil-and-gas-and-sulfur-operations-in-the-outer-continental-shelf-blowout-preventer-systems-and-well" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">new well control rules</a> in 2016 governing drilling safety.But despite progress on a number of fronts, Congress has not enacted legislation to improve safety or even raise energy companies' ridiculously low liability limits for oil spills – currently just <a href="https://www.boem.gov/newsroom/press-releases/boem-adjusts-limit-liability-oil-spills-offshore-facilities" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">US$134 million</a> for offshore facilities like the Deepwater Horizon. The Trump administration has <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/bsee-finalizes-improved-blowout-preventer-and-well-control-regulations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">reversed or relaxed safety reforms</a>. It has loosened the safe pressure margins allowed in a well, dispensed with independent inspections of blowout protectors and removed requirements for continuous onshore monitoring of offshore drilling.[vid]Some of these changes were <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/484837-political-appointees-urged-rollback-of-deepwater-horizon-inspired" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">ordered by political appointees</a> over the recommendations of the safety bureau's technical experts. While the bureau is charged with focusing singularly on <a href="https://www.bsee.gov/who-we-are/about-us" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">safety and the environment</a>, its director, <a href="https://www.bsee.gov/who-we-are/our-organization/leadership/director" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Scott Angelle</a>, has been a <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/05/investing/offshore-oil-drilling-safety-trump-bsee/index.html" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">prominent proponent</a> of the administration's aggressive <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-unleashing-american-energy-dominance/" target="blank" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">"energy dominance"</a> strategy, ordering expanded oil production and elimination of costly regulations. Imagine the message this sends about priorities to people in government and industry who are responsible for ensuring safety.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem7" data-id="7" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=7#rebelltitem7" data-basename="particle-7" data-post-id="2645687373"></div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem3" data-id="3" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3" data-basename="where-contamination-lingers" data-post-id="2645687373"><h3>Where contamination lingers</h3>Before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the deep Gulf of Mexico ecosystem was egregiously understudied in all respects, while a <a href="https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/files/oil-and-gas-energy-program/Leasing/Five-Year-Program/2019-2024/DPP/NP-Economic-Benefits.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">multi-billion-dollar industry</a> intruded into it. Now scientists know much more about what happens when large quantities of oil and gas are released in a seafloor blowout.Scientists learned much about the effects of the spill through monitoring the blowout, assessing damages to natural resources and investigating the fate and effects of escaping oil. More has been spent on these studies and more results published than for any previous oil spill.A substantial portion of oil released from the mile-deep well was entrained in a plume of droplets spreading out 3,000 feet below the Gulf's surface. Footprints of contamination and effects extended <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw8863" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">far beyond the area where oil slicks were observed</a>.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem4" data-id="4" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4" data-basename="nasa-satellites-view-growing-gulf-oil-spill" data-post-id="2645687373"><h3>NASA | Satellites View Growing Gulf Oil Spill.</h3><h3>[vid]</h3><h3>Nearly all of the oil released has since degraded. Populations of most affected organisms have recovered. But contamination lingers in sediments in the deep Gulf, and in some marshes and beaches where oil came ashore. Populations of <a href="https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/Chapter-4_Injury_to_Natural_Resources_508.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">long-lived animals the oil killed </a>might not recover for decades. These include sea turtles, bottlenose dolphins, seabirds and <a href="https://theconversation.com/deepwater-corals-thrive-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-but-cant-escape-human-impacts-104211" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">deepwater corals</a>.</h3>And yet, as scientists synthesize results from this <a href="https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">10-year research initiative</a>, very little practical advice is emerging about what can be done to respond more effectively to future blowouts from ever-deeper drilling in the Gulf.Surely, we can more rapidly contain blowouts. The effectiveness of injecting chemical dispersants into the plume gushing from the well <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-12963-7_29" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">remains in debate</a>. How much oil do dispersants keep from reaching the surface, where it threatens those working to stanch the blowout, as well as birds, sea turtles and coastal ecosystems? But the research has not revealed more effective approaches in controlling released oil.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem5" data-id="5" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5" data-basename="safety-first-is-the-big-lesson" data-post-id="2645687373"><h3>Safety first is the big lesson</h3>As I see it, the essential lesson from Deepwater Horizon is that industry and government should be putting their greatest energies into preventing operational accidents, blowouts and releases. Yet the Trump administration emphasizes <a href="https://theconversation.com/trumps-offshore-oil-drilling-plans-ignore-the-lessons-of-bp-deepwater-horizon-89570" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">increasing production and reducing regulations</a>. This undermines safety improvements made over the past 10 years.Furthermore, the price of crude oil – already low because of high fracked oil production in the U.S. – has <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-oil-shock-of-2020-appears-to-be-here-and-the-pain-could-be-wide-and-deep-133293" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">declined drastically</a> since the beginning of 2020. Saudi and Russian oil had already glutted the market when the coronavirus pandemic reduced oil consumption.</div><div class="rebellt-item col1" id="rebelltitem6" data-id="6" data-reload-ads="false" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-drilling-deepwater-horizon-2645687373.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6" data-basename="particle-6" data-post-id="2645687373">The federal government's March 2020 oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico yielded the lowest response in four years – <a href="https://www.oedigital.com/news/476766-u-s-offshore-oil-lease-sale-weakest-since-2016" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">$93 million in high bids</a>, compared to $159 million in the previous round. To prop up the industry and maintain production, the Trump administration is seeking to <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/032020-interior-considers-lowering-us-federal-royalty-rates-for-next-gulf-lease-sale-sources" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">lower royalty rates</a> and store excess production in the <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/491111-oil-giants-meet-at-white-house-amid-talk-of-buying-strategic" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Strategic Petroleum Reserve</a>.But as industry acts to cut its expenditures and downsize staff, will safety costs be a priority?National energy policy was beyond the charge of the 2010 commission, but 10 years later, it is impossible to consider the future of offshore oil and gas without factoring in the need to <a href="https://www.agu.org/Share-and-Advocate/Share/Policymakers/Position-Statements/Position_Climate" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">eliminate net greenhouse gas emission within 30 years</a> to limit climate change. Why would the United States consider expanding offshore exploration and drilling that might yield fossil fuels only 20 years from now?Even in the historically developed Gulf of Mexico, rather than just "drill, baby, drill," I believe the U.S. should be developing a realistic transition plan for phasing out offshore fossil fuel production. Such a strategy should encompass not only ensuring high standards for safety and industry responsibility for abandoned infrastructure during the drawdown, but also an economic evolution for the region, including opportunities for carbon sequestration and renewable energy production. We need to ensure that there will be a vibrant and productive Gulf long after we cease removing its oil.</div>Donald Boesch is a Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Disclosure Statement: Donald Boesch served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, a bipartisan presidential commission that operated in 2010-2011. He also served as an expert witness for the U.S. government in its lawsuit against BP for natural resource damages as a result of the spill.Reposted with permission from <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-decade-after-the-deepwater-horizon-explosion-offshore-drilling-is-still-unsafe-132846" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Conversation</a>.</div></div></div>an 220<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/invisible-oil-from-deepwater-horizon-spill-may-have-reached-the-florida-keys/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘Invisible oil’ from Deepwater Horizon spill may have reached the Florida Keys</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/23/8-years-bp-oil-spill-sick-cleanup-workers-waiting-louisiana-court">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/23/8-years-bp-oil-spill-sick-cleanup-workers-waiting-louisiana-court</a><div class="views-field views-field-title-1" style="line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 800; margin-bottom: 1em;" open="open" sans="sans" sans-serif="sans-serif"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/23/8-years-bp-oil-spill-sick-cleanup-workers-waiting-louisiana-court" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;"> Years After BP Oil Spill, Sick Cleanup Workers Still Waiting for Day in Court</a></div><div class="views-field views-field-body" style="overflow: inherit;" open="open" sans="sans" sans-serif="sans-serif"><div class="field-content">On the eighth anniversary of the BP oil spill, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré stood in front of the New Orleans Federal Court House and called “bullshit” on the court’s handling of claims made by those who participated in the cleanup efforts. Thousands of workers BP hired to clean up the spill that polluted the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have claimed exposure to oil and the dispersant has made them sick and still have not had their day in court. “It’s a crying damn shame we’ve allowed this in America,” Honoré said.=</div></div>3/18<div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/gulf-of-mexico-oil-leases-2550890044.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry</a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2550890044" data-authors="Center for Biological Diversity" data-headline="Trump Administration Offers 77 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico to Oil Industry" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><div class="widget__brief">The <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump</a> administration is holding the biggest <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/offshore-oil-drilling" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">offshore oil</a> and gas lease auction in U.S. history Wednesday, offering all 77 million acres of unleased, available federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico.The sale comes as administration officials seek to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">rescind drilling safety rules</a> approved after the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/bp" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">BP</a> Deepwater Horizon disaster, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-royalties/u-s-interior-panel-recommends-cutting-offshore-oil-and-gas-royalties-idUSKCN1GC3A1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">reduce royalties</a> paid by oil companies, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/01/04/trump-administration-plans-to-allow-drilling-off-all-u-s-waters/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">expand offshore drilling</a> into every <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/oceans" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">ocean</a> in the country....<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/gulf-of-mexico-oil-leases-2550890044.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/gulf-of-mexico-oil-leases-2550890044.html</a></div></div></div></div><div></div>ExxonMobil has engaged in a March advertising blitz, repeatedly airing a new commercial during national cable news channel breaks and prominently, during TV timeouts during the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball tournament, better known as March Madness.The commercial vaguely promotes what Exxon says is a new jobs initiative, which it claims will create 45,000 positions along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, without specifying details about the source of the jobs. Yet far from Madison Avenue advertising firms, a local battle has taken place the past several months in Gulf Coast communities over the prospective siting of and tax breaks for a proposed Exxon refinery co-owned by the Saudi Arabian state-owned company, SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation).<p style="margin: 1em 0px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" initial="initial" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">A mere three weeks into the ad blitz, two Texas entities <a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_dda03446-100e-11e7-a85d-9f6e9ca27ade.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">voted to give tax subsidies</a> to the proposed facility, dubbed <a href="http://www.gulfcoastgv.com/about-us" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Gulf Coast Growth Ventures</a>. Both representing San Patricio County, Texas, the San Patricio County Board of Commissioners and the Gregory-Portland Independent School District offered Growth Ventures over $1.4 billion in tax breaks for the <a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_dda03446-100e-11e7-a85d-9f6e9ca27ade.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">$9.4 billion Exxon-SABIC plant</a>. see hayward pr failJanuary 23, 2004: Subsidies Announced for Gas Drilling in Gulf of Mexico: Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton announces that the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) will provide an estimated $1 billion in subsidies to promote deep drilling for natural gas in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has reaffirmed its ruling that BP is liable for federal Clean Water Act damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the latest loss for the oil giant as it fights court decisions that could ultimately bring $18 billion in penalties.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments that there were errors in its June 4 ruling on BP's Clean Water Act liability. The ruling released Wednesday night is not the final say from the court. BP and its minority partner in the Macondo well, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., have a request pending for the full 15-member court to reconsider the issue.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The June order and Wednesday's follow-up were issued by Judges Fortunato Benavides, Carolyn Dineen King and James Dennis. They upheld U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier's ruling holding the well owners are liable.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BP and Anadarko had argued they were not liable because equipment failure on the leased rig Deepwater Horizon caused the April 2010 disaster. An explosion on the rig killed 11 workers and sent millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf in what became the nation's worst offshore oil disaster.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbier has also ruled that BP was "grossly negligent" in the disaster. BP has asked Barbier to reconsider that finding, which, if it stands, would be a factor in whether the water act penalties for the company reach an estimated $18 billion.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Under the Clean Water Act, a polluter can be forced to pay from $1,100 to $4,300 per barrel of spilled oil. The higher limit applies if the company is found grossly negligent — as BP was in Barbier's ruling. But penalties can be assessed at lower amounts.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Government experts estimated that 4.2 million barrels spilled into the Gulf. BP has urged Barbier to use an estimate of 2.45 million barrels in calculating any Clean Water Act penalties.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbier has scheduled a trial in January to help decide how much BP owes in federal Clean Water Act penalties.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BP declined comment on the latest ruling. Anadarko did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a June interview, Loyola University law professor Blaine LeCesne said he doubts Anadarko will have to pay much, if anything, in Clean Water Act fines because its partnership gave BP complete control over how the well was drilled and run.this town: huge PR hiring; 142 duberstein, tony podesta, anne womack-kolton, denny hastert, john feehery, steve mcmahon/castwellanos, alex; = purplse strat got 50m$ t do tv ads; via hilary rosen; brunswick gp UK

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It has been nearly four years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and neither the dirty energy industry nor politicians in Washington, D.C. have learned anything from that tragedy.  Even with new evidence showing that the entire ecosystem in the Gulf has been disrupted as a result of the oil spill, companies are about to receive a massive gift in the form of new oil drilling leases.

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Both the Interior Department and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">have agreed to lease 40 million acres</a> of water space in the Gulf of Mexico next month to support President Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy, which is quickly beginning to look more like a “drill, baby, drill” policy.  The leases will be good for five years’ worth of exploration in the Gulf.

<a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">PennEnergy explains</a> the President’s legacy so far with regards to energy production:

Domestic oil and gas production has grown each year President Obama has been in office, with domestic oil production currently higher than any time in two decades; natural gas production at its highest level ever; and renewable electricity generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources having doubled.

While PennEnergy says that renewable energy use has doubled under Obama, it<a href="http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/energy-overview/renewable-energy/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">currently stands at only 9%</a> of total energy consumption, a rather paltry amount when compared to dirty energy consumption.

As mentioned above, the Gulf of Mexico is still reeling from the effects of the 2010 BP oil disaster.  <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2014/02/fish-suffering-heart-failure-decreased-numbers-due-bp-oil-spill/" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The latest reports coming from the region</a> show that scientists are finding high levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chemicals that are found in crude oil.  These chemicals are now making their way up the food chain and <a href="http://www.epa.gov/waste/hazard/wastemin/minimize/factshts/pahs.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">causing disruption to cardiac rhythms</a> in marine life in addition to causing tumors and reproductive abnormalities.

Earlier this year, the BOEM <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">leased 72 million</a> acres in the Gulf for drilling, and the upcoming leases will bring that to a grand total of 112 million acres in just the first three months of this year.  The federal government has pulled in <a href="http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/02/boem-offers-40-million-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-acres-in-gulf-of-mexico.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">more than $1 billion</a> from Gulf drilling lease sales this year.

And even though they are responsible for the current disaster taking place beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, BP wants in on the leasing action.  BP's ability to bid on federal contracts in the Gulf was suspended in late 2012 after the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-ag-1369.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">company agreed to plead guilty to charges of manslaughter, environmental crime, and obstruction of Congress</a>.  But time heals all wounds, and BP America chairman John Minge <a href="http://www.wwltv.com/news/BP-America-prez-getting-closer-to-EPA-agreement-246211261.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">sa</a><a href="http://www.wwltv.com/news/BP-America-prez-getting-closer-to-EPA-agreement-246211261.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ys that his group is very close to making a deal with the EPA</a> that would once again allow them to buy new drilling leases in the Gulf. [done deal?]

The decision to lease tens of millions of acres in the Gulf next month — on top of the tens of millions that have already been sold this year — is proof that the Obama administration has abandoned its “all of the above” energy policies, and instead pursued policies which greatly benefit the dirty energy industry while leaving the American public and the environment at an unnecessary and severe risk.

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The aftermath of BP’s Deep Horizon oil spill provides a prime example. He writes “Washington becomes a determinedly bipartisan team when there is money to be made—sorry, I mean a hopeful exemplar of Americans pulling together in a time of crisis.” Here he shows the BoodleSphere springing into action; with the oil company “moving to secure every Republican and Democratic flack and lobbyist they could soak up to help with their ‘positioning’ problem.”

BP employed Ken Duberstein, Democratic superlobbyist Tony Podesta, a Dick Cheney spokesmammal, and a long-time spokesmammal for Dennis Hastert, former GOP speaker. Purple Strategies, a partnership of Democratic media mastermind Steve MacMahon and Republican media guru Alex Castellanos, spearheaded a $50 million TV campaign on the company’s behalf. Hilary Rosen, a devout Democrat and leading advocate of same-sex marriage, who runs the Washington office of the Brunswick Group, a London-based PR firm, recruited Purple Strategies for the BP team.

The name “Purple Strategies” is obviously meant advertise expertise in Red-Blue bipartisan lobbying and this is exactly what this distinguished member of the BoodleSphere worked at on behalf of BP. It fought for that “common ground” Olympia! Snowe champions and made a very good job of it. It’s worth mentioning that senators Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) and John Breaux (D-Louisiana) are repeatedly spoken of as exemplars of genial bipartisanship in Senator Snowe’s Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress. In This Town we learn that former senators Lott and Breaux now have a lobbying partnership which earned $11,000,000 in 2011.

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3 yrs after spill:

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/corexit-bp-oil-dispersant_n_3157080.html?view=print&comm_ref=false">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/corexit-bp-oil-dispersant_n_3157080.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</a>

<h1 class="title-news">Corexit, Oil Dispersant Used By BP, Is Destroying Gulf Marine Life, Scientists Say</h1>

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<h1 class="headline">The worst part about BP’s oil-spill cover-up: It worked</h1>

By <a href="http://grist.org/author/mark-hertsgaard/" title="Posts by Mark Hertsgaard">Mark Hertsgaard</a>

Cross-posted from <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/22/what-bp-doesn-t-want-you-to-know-about-the-2010-gulf-spill.html" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a><section class="article-body">

“It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Apparently, the workers were tracking the gunk inside on their boots. Griffin, as chief cook and maid, was trying to clean it. But even boiling water didn’t work.

“The BP representative said, ‘Jamie, just mop it like you’d mop any other dirty floor,’” Griffin recalls in her Louisiana drawl.

It was the opening weeks of what everyone, echoing President Barack Obama, was calling “the worst environmental disaster in American history.” At 9:45 p.m. local time on April 20, 2010, a fiery explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had killed 11 workers and injured 17. One mile underwater, the Macondo well had blown apart, unleashing a gusher of oil into the gulf. At risk were fishing areas that supplied one-third of the seafood consumed in the U.S., beaches from Texas to Florida that drew billions of dollars’ worth of tourism to local economies, and Obama’s chances of reelection. Republicans were blaming him for mishandling the disaster, his poll numbers were falling, even his 11-year-old daughter was demanding, “Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?”

Griffin did as she was told: “I tried Pine-Sol, bleach, I even tried Dawn on those floors.” As she scrubbed, the mix of cleanser and gunk occasionally splashed onto her arms and face.

Within days, the 32-year-old single mother was coughing up blood and suffering constant headaches. She lost her voice. “My throat felt like I’d swallowed razor blades,” she says.

Then things got much worse.

Like hundreds, possibly thousands, of workers on the cleanup, Griffin soon fell ill with a cluster of excruciating, bizarre, grotesque ailments. By July, unstoppable muscle spasms were twisting her hands into immovable claws. In August, she began losing her short-term memory. After cooking professionally for 10 years, she couldn’t remember the recipe for vegetable soup; one morning, she got in the car to go to work, only to discover she hadn’t put on pants. The right side, but only the right side, of her body “started acting crazy. It felt like the nerves were coming out of my skin. It was so painful. My right leg swelled — my ankle would get as wide as my calf — and my skin got incredibly itchy.”

“These are the same symptoms experienced by soldiers who returned from the Persian Gulf War with Gulf War syndrome,” says Michael Robichaux, a Louisiana physician and former state senator, who treated Griffin and 113 other patients with similar complaints. As a general practitioner, Robichaux says he had “never seen this grouping of symptoms together: skin problems, neurological impairments, plus pulmonary problems.” Only months later, after Kaye H. Kilburn, a former professor of medicine at the University of Southern California and one of the nation’s leading environmental health experts, came to Louisiana and tested 14 of Robichaux’s patients did the two physicians make the connection with Gulf War syndrome, the malady that afflicted an estimated 250,000 veterans of that war with a mysterious combination of fatigue, skin inflammation, and cognitive problems.

Meanwhile, the well kept hemorrhaging oil. The world watched with bated breath as BP failed in one attempt after another to stop the leak. An agonizing 87 days passed before the well was finally plugged on July 15. By then, 210 million gallons of Louisiana sweet crude had escaped into the Gulf of Mexico, according to government estimates, making the BP disaster the largest accidental oil leak in world history.

Yet three years later, the BP disaster has been largely forgotten, both overseas and in the U.S. Popular anger has cooled. The media have moved on. Today, only the business press offers serious coverage of what the Financial Times calls “the trial of the century” — the trial now underway in New Orleans, where BP faces tens of billions of dollars in potential penalties for the disaster. As for Obama, the same president who early in the BP crisis blasted the “scandalously close relationship” between oil companies and government regulators two years later ran for reelection boasting about how much new oil and gas development his administration had approved.

Such collective amnesia may seem surprising, but there may be a good explanation for it: BP mounted a cover-up that concealed the full extent of its crimes from public view. This cover-up prevented the media and therefore the public from knowing — and above all, seeing — just how much oil was gushing into the gulf. The disaster appeared much less extensive and destructive than it actually was. BP declined to comment for this article.

That BP lied about the amount of oil it discharged into the gulf is already established. Lying to Congress about that was one of 14 felonies to which BP pleaded guilty last year in a legal settlement with the Justice Department that included a $4.5 billion fine, the largest fine ever levied against a corporation in the U.S.

What has not been revealed until now is how BP hid that massive amount of oil from TV cameras and the price that this “disappearing act” imposed on cleanup workers, coastal residents, and the ecosystem of the gulf. That story can now be told because an anonymous whistleblower has provided evidence that BP was warned in advance about the safety risks of attempting to cover up its leaking oil. Nevertheless, BP proceeded. Furthermore, BP appears to have withheld these safety warnings, as well as protective measures, both from the thousands of workers hired for the cleanup and from the millions of Gulf Coast residents who stood to be affected.

The financial implications are enormous. The trial now under way in New Orleans is wrestling with whether BP was guilty of “negligence” or “gross negligence” for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. If found guilty of “negligence,” BP would be fined, under the Clean Water Act, $1,100 for each barrel of oil that leaked. But if found guilty of “gross negligence”–which a cover-up would seem to imply — BP would be fined $4,300 per barrel, almost four times as much, for a total of $17.5 billion. That large a fine, combined with an additional $34 billion that the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida are seeking, could have a powerful effect on BP’s economic health.

Yet the most astonishing thing about BP’s cover-up? It was carried out in plain sight, right in front of the world’s uncomprehending news media (including, I regret to say, this reporter).

The chief instrument of BP’s cover-up was the same substance that apparently sickened Jamie Griffin and countless other cleanup workers and local residents. Its brand name is Corexit, but most news reports at the time referred to it simply as a “dispersant.” Its function was to attach itself to leaked oil, break it into droplets, and disperse them into the vast reaches of the gulf, thereby keeping the oil from reaching Gulf Coast shorelines. And the Corexit did largely achieve this goal.

But the 1.84 million gallons of Corexit that BP applied during the cleanup also served a public-relations purpose: They made the oil spill all but disappear, at least from TV screens. By late July 2010, the Associated Press and The New York Times were questioning whether the spill had been such a big deal after all. Time went so far as to assert that right-wing talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh “has a point” when he accused journalists and environmentalists of exaggerating the crisis.

But BP had a problem: It had lied about how safe Corexit is, and proof of its dishonesty would eventually fall into the hands of the Government Accountability Project, the premiere whistleblower-protection group in the U.S. The proof? A technical manual BP had received from NALCO, the firm that supplied the Corexit that BP used in the gulf.

An electronic copy of that manual is included in a new <a href="http://www.whistleblower.org/program-areas/public-health/corexit/" target="_blank">report GAP</a> has issued, “Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf.” On the basis of interviews with dozens of cleanup workers, scientists, and Gulf Coast residents, GAP concludes that the health impacts endured by Griffin were visited upon many other locals as well. What’s more, the combination of Corexit and crude oil also caused terrible damage to gulf wildlife and ecosystems, including an unprecedented number of seafood mutations; declines of up to 80 percent in seafood catch; and massive die-offs of the microscopic life-forms at the base of the marine food chain. GAP warns that BP and the U.S. government nevertheless appear poised to repeat the exercise after the next major oil spill: “As a result of Corexit’s perceived success, Corexit … has become the dispersant of choice in the U.S. to ‘clean up’ oil spills.”

BP’s cover-up was not planned in advance but devised in the heat of the moment as the oil giant scrambled to limit the PR and other damages of the disaster. Indeed, one of the chief scandals of the disaster is just how unprepared both BP and federal and state authorities were for an oil leak of this magnitude. U.S. law required that a response plan be in place before drilling began, but the plan was embarrassingly flawed.

“We weren’t managing for actual risk; we were checking a box,” says Mark Davis, director of the Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy at Tulane University. “That’s how we ended up with a response plan that included provisions for dealing with the impacts to walruses: because [BP] copied word for word the response plans that had been developed after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill [in Alaska, in 1989] instead of a plan tailored to the conditions in the gulf.”

As days turned into weeks and it became obvious that no one knew how to plug the gushing well, BP began insisting that Corexit be used to disperse the leaking oil. This triggered alarms from scientists and from a leading environmental NGO in Louisiana, the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN).

The group’s scientific adviser, Wilma Subra, a chemist whose work on environmental pollution had won her a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, told state and federal authorities that she was especially concerned about how dangerous the mixture of crude and Corexit was: “The short-term health symptoms include acute respiratory problems, skin rashes, cardiovascular impacts, gastrointestinal impacts, and short-term loss of memory,” she told GAP investigators. “Long-term impacts include cancer, decreased lung function, liver damage, and kidney damage.”

(Nineteen months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749112004344">a scientific study</a> published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution found that crude oil becomes 52 times more toxic when combined with Corexit.)

BP even rebuffed a direct request from the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, who wrote BP a letter on May 19, asking the company to deploy a less toxic dispersant in the cleanup. Jackson could only ask BP to do this; she could not legally require it. Why? Because use of Corexit had been authorized years before under the federal Oil Pollution Act.

In a recent interview, Jackson explains that she and other officials “had to determine, with less-than-perfect scientific testing and data, whether use of dispersants would, despite potential side effects, improve the overall situation in the gulf and coastal ecosystems. The tradeoff, as I have said many times, was potential damage in the deep water versus the potential for larger amounts of undispersed oil in the ecologically rich coastal shallows and estuaries.” She adds that the presidential commission that later studied the BP oil disaster did not fault the decision to use dispersants.

Knowing that EPA lacked the authority to stop it, BP wrote back to Jackson on May 20, declaring that Corexit was safe. What’s more, BP wrote, there was a ready supply of Corexit, which was not the case with alternative dispersants. (A NALCO plant was located just 30 miles west of New Orleans.)

But Corexit was decidedly not safe without taking proper precautions, as the manual BP got from NALCO spelled out in black and white. The “Vessel Captains Hazard Communication” resource manual, which GAP shared with me, looks innocuous enough. A three-ring binder with a black plastic cover, the manual contained 61 sheets, each wrapped in plastic, that detailed the scientific properties of the two types of Corexit that BP was buying, as well as their health hazards and recommended measures against those hazards.

BP applied two types of Corexit in the gulf. The first, Corexit 9527, was considerably more toxic. According to the NALCO manual, Corexit 9527 is an “eye and skin irritant. Repeated or excessive exposure … may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.” The manual adds: “Excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects.” It advises, “Do not get in eyes, on skin, on clothing,” and “Wear suitable protective clothing.”

When available supplies of Corexit 9527 were exhausted early in the cleanup, BP switched to the second type of dispersant, Corexit 9500. In its recommendations for dealing with Corexit 9500, the NALCO manual advised, “Do not get in eyes, on skin, on clothing,” “Avoid breathing vapor,” and “Wear suitable protective clothing.”

It’s standard procedure — and required by U.S. law — for companies to distribute this kind of information to any work site where hazardous materials are present so workers can know about the dangers they face and how to protect themselves. But interviews with numerous cleanup workers suggest that this legally required precaution was rarely if ever followed during the BP cleanup. Instead, it appears that BP told NALCO to stop including the manuals with the Corexit that NALCO was delivering to cleanup work sites.

“It’s my understanding that some manuals were sent out with the shipments of Corexit in the beginning [of the cleanup],” the anonymous source tells me. “Then, BP told NALCO to stop sending them. So NALCO was left with a roomful of unused binders.”

Roman Blahoski, NALCO’s director of global communications, says: “NALCO responded to requests for its pre-approved dispersants from those charged with protecting the gulf and mitigating the environmental, health, and economic impact of this event. NALCO was never involved in decisions relating to the use, volume, and application of its dispersant.”

Misrepresenting the safety of Corexit went hand in hand with BP’s previously noted lie about how much oil was leaking from the Macondo well. As reported by John Rudolf in The Huffington Post, internal BP emails show that BP privately estimated that “the runaway well could be leaking from 62,000 barrels a day to 146,000 barrels a day.” Meanwhile, BP officials were telling the government and the media that only 5,000 barrels a day were leaking.

In short, applying Corexit enabled BP to mask the fact that a much larger amount of oil was actually leaking into the gulf. “Like any good magician, the oil industry has learned that if you can’t see something that was there, it must have ‘disappeared,’” Scott Porter, a scientist and deep-sea diver who consults for oil companies and oystermen, says in the GAP report. “Oil companies have also learned that, in the public mind, ‘out of sight equals out of mind.’ Therefore, they have chosen crude oil dispersants as the primary tool for handling large marine oil spills.”

BP also had a more direct financial interest in using Corexit, argues Clint Guidry, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, whose members include not only shrimpers but fishermen of all sorts. As it happens, local fishermen constituted a significant portion of BP’s cleanup force (which numbered as many as 47,000 workers at the height of the cleanup). Because the spill caused the closure of their fishing grounds, BP and state and federal authorities established the Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program, in which BP paid fishermen to take their boats out and skim, burn, and otherwise get rid of leaked oil. Applying dispersants, Guidry points out, reduced the total volume of oil that could be traced back to BP.

“The next phase of this trial [against BP] is going to turn on how much oil was leaked,” Guidry tells me. [If found guilty, BP will be fined a certain amount for each barrel of oil judged to have leaked.] “So hiding the oil with Corexit worked not only to hide the size of the spill but also to lower the amount of oil that BP may get charged for releasing.”

<a title="image credit" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28650594@N03/4636122181">Not only did BP fail to inform workers of the potential hazards of Corexit and to provide them with safety training and protective gear, according to interviews with dozens of cleanup workers, the company also allegedly threatened to fire workers who complained about the lack of respirators and protective clothing.</a>

“I worked with probably a couple hundred different fishermen on the [cleanup],” Acy Cooper, Guidry’s second in command, tells me in Venice, the coastal town from which many VoO vessels departed. “Not one of them got any safety information or training concerning the toxic materials they encountered.” Cooper says that BP did provide workers with body suits and gloves designed for handling hazardous materials. “But when I’d talk with [the BP representative] about getting my guys respirators and air monitors, I’d never get any response.”

Roughly 58 percent of the 1.84 million gallons of Corexit used in the cleanup was sprayed onto the gulf from C-130 airplanes. The spray sometimes ended up hitting cleanup workers in the face.

“Our boat was sprayed four times,” says Jorey Danos, a 32-year-old father of three who suffered racking coughing fits, severe fatigue, and memory loss after working on the BP cleanup. “I could see the stuff coming out of the plane — like a shower of mist, a smoky color. I could see [it] coming at me, but there was nothing I could do.”

“The next day,” Danos continues, “when the BP rep came around on his speed boat, I asked, ‘Hey, what’s the deal with that stuff that was coming out of those planes yesterday?’ He told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ I said, ‘Man, that s–t was burning my face — it ain’t right.’ He said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ I said, ‘Well, could we get some respirators or something, because that s–t is bad.’ He said, ‘No, that wouldn’t look good to the media. You got two choices: You can either be relieved of your duties or you can deal with it.’”

Perhaps the single most hazardous chemical compound found in Corexit 9527 is 2-Butoxyethanol, a substance that had been linked to cancers and other health impacts among cleanup workers on the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska. According to BP’s own data, 20 percent of offshore workers in the gulf had levels of 2-Butoxyethanol two times higher than the level certified as safe by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Cleanup workers were not the only victims; coastal residents also suffered. “My 2-year-old grandson and I would play out in the yard,” says Shirley Tillman of the Mississippi coastal town Pass Christian. “You could smell oil and stuff in the air, but on the news they were saying it’s fine, don’t worry. Well, by October, he was one sick little fellow. All of a sudden, this very active little 2-year-old was constantly sick. He was having headaches, upper respiratory infections, earaches. The night of his birthday party, his parents had to rush him to the emergency room. He went to nine different doctors, but they treated just the symptoms; they’re not toxicologists.”

“It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” Ever since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, that’s been the mantra. Cover-ups don’t work, goes the argument. They only dig a deeper hole, because the truth eventually comes out.

But does it?

GAP investigators were hopeful that obtaining the NALCO manual might persuade BP to meet with them, and it did. On July 10, 2012, BP hosted a private meeting at its Houston offices. Presiding over the meeting, which is described here publicly for the first time, was BP’s public ombudsman, Stanley Sporkin, joining by telephone from Washington. Ironically, Sporkin had made his professional reputation during the Watergate scandal. As a lawyer with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sporkin investigated illegal corporate payments to the slush fund that President Nixon used to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars.

Also attending the meeting were two senior BP attorneys; BP Vice President Luke Keller; other BP officials; Thomas Devine, GAP’s senior attorney on the BP case; Shanna Devine, GAP’s investigator on the case; Michael Robichaux; Wilma Subra; and Marylee Orr, the executive director of LEAN. The following account is based on my interviews with Thomas Devine, Robichaux, Subra, and Orr. BP declined to comment.

BP officials had previously confirmed the authenticity of the NALCO manual, says Thomas Devine, but now they refused to discuss it, even though this had been one of the stated purposes for the meeting. Nor would BP address the allegation, made by the whistleblower who had given the manual to GAP, that BP had ordered the manual withheld from cleanup work sites, perhaps to maintain the fiction that Corexit was safe.

“They opened the meeting with this upbeat presentation about how seriously they took their responsibilities for the spill and all the wonderful things they were doing to make things right,” says Devine. “When it was my turn to speak, I said that the manual our whistleblower had provided contradicted what they just said. I asked whether they had ordered the manual withdrawn from work sites. Their attorneys said that was a matter they would not discuss because of the pending litigation on the spill.” [Disclosure: Thomas Devine is a friend of this reporter.]

The visitors’ top priority was to get BP to agree not to use Corexit in the future. Keller said that Corexit was still authorized for use by the U.S. government and BP would indeed feel free to use it against any future oil spills.

A second priority was to get BP to provide medical treatment for Jamie Griffin and the many other apparent victims of Corexit-and-crude poisoning. This request too was refused by BP.

Robichaux doubts his patients will receive proper compensation from the $7.8 billion settlement BP reached in 2012 with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, 19 court-appointed attorneys who represent the hundreds of individuals and entities that have sued BP for damages related to the gulf disaster. “Nine of the most common symptoms of my patients do not appear on the list of illnesses that settlement says can be compensated, including memory loss, fatigue, and joint and muscular pain,” says Robichaux. “So how are the attorneys going to file suits on behalf of those victims?”

At one level, BP’s cover-up of the gulf oil disaster speaks to the enormous power that giant corporations exercise in modern society, and how unable, or unwilling, governments are to limit that power. To be sure, BP has not entirely escaped censure for its actions; depending on the outcome of the trial now under way in New Orleans, the company could end up paying tens of billions of dollars in fines and damages over and above the $4.5 billion imposed by the Justice Department in the settlement last year. But BP’s reputation appears to have survived: Its market value as this article went to press was a tidy $132 billion, and few, if any, BP officials appear likely to face any legal repercussions. “If I would have killed 11 people, I’d be hanging from a noose,” says Jorey Danos. “Not BP. It’s the golden rule: The man with the gold makes the rules.”

As unchastened as anyone at BP is Bob Dudley, the American who was catapulted into the CEO job a few weeks into the gulf disaster to replace Tony Hayward, whose propensity for imprudent comments — “I want my life back,” the multimillionaire had pouted while thousands of gulf workers and residents were suffering — had made him a globally derided figure. Dudley told the annual BP shareholders meeting in London last week that Corexit “is effectively … dishwashing soap,” no more toxic than that, as all scientific studies supposedly showed. What’s more, Dudley added, he himself had grown up in Mississippi and knows that the Gulf of Mexico is “an ecosystem that is used to oil.”

Nor has the BP oil disaster triggered the kind of changes in law and public priorities one might have expected. “Not much has actually changed,” says Mark Davis of Tulane. “It reflects just how wedded our country is to keeping the Gulf of Mexico producing oil and bringing it to our shores as cheaply as possible. Going forward, no one should assume that just because something really bad happened we’re going to manage oil and gas production with greater sensitivity and wisdom. That will only happen if people get involved and compel both the industry and the government to be more diligent.”

And so the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history has been whitewashed — its true dimensions obscured, its victims forgotten, its lessons ignored. Who says cover-ups never work?

<section class="author-bio clear margin-bottom-x4"><a title="image credit" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28650594@N03/4636122181"> </a><a href="http://www.markhertsgaard.com/">Mark Hertsgaard</a> is the environment correspondent for The Nation, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and a cofounder of <a href="http://www.climateparents.org/">Climate Parents</a>. His six books include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Living-Through-Fifty-Years/dp/0618826122/gristmagazine">"HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth."</a></section>

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BP got leases when opened up after spill (kpfa on earth day11/22 sunday 9 am) The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari

sotu 2012 bo opens up 75% of offshore

no study of dispersants after: does not get rid of oil, just sacrfices ocean for shore

Toni <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=rdr_ext_aut?_encoding=UTF8&index=books&field-author=Antonia%20Juhasz">Juhasz</a> author Black Tide

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Tide-Devastating-Impact-Spill/dp/0470943378#reader_0470943378">http://www.amazon.com/Black-Tide-Devastating-Impact-Spill/dp/0470943378#reader_0470943378</a>

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To talk more about this and the knowledge we have of the settlement so far, we’re joined by Antonia Juhasz, reporting on the BP Gulf oil spill trial for The Nation magazine on a grant from the Nation Investigative Fund. Her <a wrc-processed="pending" target="_blank" href="http://www.progressive.org/bp_oil_still_tars_the_gulf.html">cover story</a> in the April issue of The Progressive magazine is called "BP Oil Still Tars the Gulf." And she’s author of the book Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill.

Here in New York, we’re joined by Greg Palast, investigative reporter with the BBC. His latest <a wrc-processed="pending" target="_blank" href="http://www.truth-out.org/bp-settlement-sells-out-victims/1330883960">piece</a> at Truth-Out.org; it’s "BP Settlement Sells Out Victims: Deal Buries Evidence of Oil Company Willful Negligence." Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Palast, with cameraman Rick Rowley, investigated BP oil company over four continents for British television. In 1989, he led an investigation of fraud charges in the grounding of the Exxon Valdez. His new book about his investigation of BP is called Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores.

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