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Help Restore the Gulf

Please ask your Senators to support the RESTORE Act (S. 1400) to ensure that fines collected from the BP oil spill are used to support ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

The BP disaster released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, causing devastating impacts to the region’s beaches, coastal marshes, barrier islands, and wildlife. Yet, unless Congress takes action, fines issued through the Clean Water Act will be used for unrelated federal spending instead of urgently needed environmental restoration.

Restoring the Gulf will provide major benefits to the natural environment, and will also help protect the region’s economy including tourism, recreation, and commercial fishing.

Click link to read more and Take Action.

Stunning images and video of Gulf oil spill. This was about a month ago as well. Very sad… (slow start…weird end)

eatsleepdraw:

Save the Gulf! Let’s have LESS oil drilling, and MORE investments in alternative fuels.

This is what an oil soaked wave looks like [Photo]

Perhaps the scariest picture yet is this AP photo of an oil-spotted wave crashing just off Orange Beach, Alabama.

Terrible! #ocean #oilspill

“Mr. President, BP, et al, don’t Deep Water Horizon my Vuvuzela! #oilspill”

Me

“a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan, political, presidential petulance [now say that 3xs fast!! You damn Yanks!]”

British Conservative, Norman Tebbit

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Oil spill humor! Funny but not…

“
… Russian scientists believe BP is pumping millions of gallons of Corexit 9500, a chemical dispersal agent, under the Gulf of Mexico waters to hide the full extent of the leak, now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.

Experts say Corexit 9500 is a solvent four times more toxic than oil.

The agent, scientists believe, has a 2.61 ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to “phase transition.”

This transition involves the change of the liquid into a gaseous state, which can be absorbed by clouds. The gas will then be released as “toxic rain” leading to “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top” …
”

Alan Perry Jr via Larry Lawhorn

Don’t know if this is true, but let’s face it, Russian Scientists are scary mofos!

OK. We’re Getting a Bicycle

newsweek:

Begley, on BP boycotting:

Go ahead, boycott BP. Not only do you get to send a message to the company that has proved incapable of stopping the undersea gusher unleashed on April 20, but (unless you live in a one-gas-station town) you can do it without much pain to yourself.

Drive right on by the BP station and pull up to the pumps from Exxon, the company responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 and, more recently, one of the biggest corporate funders of the movement to tar the science of climate change. Exxon also managed to reduce the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by an Anchorage jury for the Valdez disaster to $507.5 million; the Valdezfishermen and other victims have still not been made whole. (Fun fact: to protect itself in case the original judgment was affirmed, Exxon got a line of credit from JP Morgan, which the bank then parlayed into the first credit default swap, as recounted in the 2009 book Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett. These are the exotic financial instruments that helped trigger the Great Recession of 2008–09.)

Or roll into the Texaco or Chevron station (Chevron bought Texaco in 2001). Texaco is being sued by people in Ecuador for contaminating their groundwater, causing hundreds of residents to develop fatal cancers and causing other environmental damage near the Lago Agrio oilfield, where Texaco dumped oil-production waste (18.5 billion gallons into open, unlined pits) for almost 20 years.

Yours truly, BP (Some quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward about the disaster in the gulf.)

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