The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout are some of the names for the disaster that started April 20, 2010 spilling an estimated 210 million US gallons of crude oil (4.9 million barrels; 780,000 m3) into the Gulf of Mexico.
I have no reason to believe that any of this was accidental.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The disaster became the biggest oil spill in U.S. history because they simply kept the oil running for a massive 87 days (the well was only declared sealed on September 19, 2010). As of 2012, the Gulf was still polluted with oil.
On 20 April 2010, 9:45 pm CDT, high-pressure or methane gas rose from the well into the drilling rig, where it ignited and exploded, engulfing the platform. The initial explosion killed 11 people and injured 17 more. The oil leak was only discovered 2 days later on the afternoon of 22 April.
Over 8,000 animals (birds, turtles, mammals) were dead within 6 months after the spill. By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average.
In November 2012, BP and the United States Department of Justice settled federal criminal charges with BP pleading guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter, two misdemeanours, and a felony count of lying to Congress. BP and the Department of Justice agreed to a record-setting $4.525 billion in fines and other payments. As of February 2013, criminal and civil settlements and payments to a trust fund had cost the BP $42.2 billion.
In September 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that BP was primarily responsible for the oil spill because of gross negligence and reckless conduct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwa...izon_oil_spill
Here’s a picture of a brown pelican covered in oil near Grand Isle, Louisiana.
NO ACCIDENT - HALLIBURTON
Reasons to think that this wasn’t a accident: 1) Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks before; 2) Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion; 3) BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment; 4) Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk.
Halliburton admitted in testimony at a congressional hearing that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Deepwater Horizon went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that 4 Halliburton workers improperly capped the well. According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.
BP’s testimony briefing also notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified “without their knowledge” before the explosion.
The U.S. government’s reported in September 2011 that the defective cement on the well was one of the major causes, faulting mostly BP, but also contractor Halliburton. Three weeks before this “accident”; the Halliburton (connected to Bush/Dick Cheney) coincidentally purchased one of the world's largest oil-spill cleanup firms - Boots & Coots: http://www.prisonplanet.com/evidence...alse-flag.html
What is also highly suspicious is that the oil kept spilling for almost 3 months.
SELLING HIGH – BUYING CHEAP (GOLDMAN SACHS)
Making money on the stock market is very easy if you know when they will go down. Coincidentally Goldman Sachs (GS) sold a lot of stocks shortly before the disaster.
Goldman Sachs sold a whopping 44% of its share in BP (4,680,822 shares) in the first quarter of 2010. GS made an estimated $266 million by these transactions. If GS had sold these shares at the beginning of June 2010, their investment would have lost 36% of its value, or $96 million.
Wachovia, owned by Wells Fargo, sold 2,667,419 shares BP (98% of its stock); and UBS, the Swiss bank, sold 2,125,566 shares BP (97% of its stock) in the same period: http://www.rawstory.com/2010/06/mont...lion-bp-stock/
SELLING HIGH – BUYING CHEAP (BP)
Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, sold his shares BP for £1.4 million on March 17, 2010. He avoided losing more than £423,000 (before BP’s shares plunged with 30%) by this remarkable clairvoyant transaction.
BP lost about £40 billion in value. The fall has caused pain not just for unsuspecting BP shareholders, but also for millions of pension funds and small investors who have money in tracker funds: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...oil-spill.html
Keith Seihan was in charge of BP’s clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico and got charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Seihan sold his stocks when he already knew that the disaster was much larger than the public was aware of. He avoided about half a million dollars in losses by selling quickly. He later settled the charges for insider trading for $224,000. Let’s have cheer for our legal system...
When BP (including Seihan) already knew that the oil was leaking at a rate of some 62,000 barrels per day (9,900 m3/d) they made a public estimate of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day (160 to 790 m3/d). Internal emails released in 2013 confirmed that at least one BP employee already estimated the leak rate correctly, but BP continued with their lower number. On April 24, 2010, Unified Command released the first public estimate of 1,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). On April 28, Unified Command increased that estimate, "could be as much as 5,000“ bopd; and, on April 29 and 30 and May 4, BP repeated an estimated flow rate of "up to 5,000 barrels a day". BP itself pleaded guilty for making false statements and agreed to pay $525 million to the SEC.
By selling high and buying cheap Keith Seihan made some $150,000 in cash and ended up with more BP stock than he started with! See the following excerpts from the SEC complaint:
On April 26, 2010, Defendant received a NOAA memorandum and distributed it to other senior BP employees. In the memorandum, which was written at a time when the official, public flow rate estimate was 1,000 bopd, it was estimated (based on over-flight observations of the size and density of the oil slick) that the flow rate was 5,000 bopd. However, in discussing the methodologies by which the 5,000 bopd estimate was derived, the memorandum's authors made clear that the actual flow rate could be much higher and was not capped at 5,000 bopd. Among other things, the memorandum stated that the actual flow rate could be materially greater than the 5,000 bopd estimate, i.e., to "an order of magnitude."
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On April 29, 2010, at 11:56 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. central time, Defendant caused to be sold a total of 87,512 units of the BP Stock Fund (in his and his family's retirement accounts) at $11.25 per unit, resulting in proceeds of $984,697.01.
Thereafter, on July 21, 2010, Defendant again traded in BP securities, selling all of his retirement account holdings in the S&P 500 index fund and reinvesting all of the proceeds therefrom back into the BP Stock Fund, purchasing 94,025 BP Stock Fund units at $7.80 per unit, for a total purchase price of $733,642.39.” - https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...lling-bp-stock
COREXIT – CHEMICAL WEAPON
When I spill something; I clean it up as fast as I can to prevent the mess from spreading. To be able to clean oil, you need to prevent it to spread (any fool knows that).
Making money of this environmental disaster was clearly not the only motive. To make matters even worse they decided to spray the highly toxic dispersant Corexit on the oil, to sink the oil to the bottom of the sea. So instead of having only the relatively benign oil it got mixed up with even more toxic poison, which could never be cleaned up. The other advantage (besides an environmental catastrophe) of having the oil sinking is that it isn’t seen anymore (swept under the (sea) carpet).
A 2015 study showed that the dispersants were more toxic than the oil. To make it even more efficient workers on the cleanup were literally sprayed with this chemical weapon, and refused protective gear. This led to symptoms comparable to the “Gulf War syndrome”. Maybe hundreds, or even thousands, of workers on the cleanup fell ill and also some locals got sick.
Altogether, 1.84 million US gallons (7,000 m3) of dispersants were used; of this 771,000 US gallons (2,920 m3) were released at the wellhead. Subsea injection had never previously been tried but due to the spill's unprecedented nature BP together with USCG and EPA decided to use it.
Jamie Griffin by July suffered from unstoppable muscle spasms and in August started losing her short-term memory.
This chemical weapon was even sprayed on the people. 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 stated: “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 (...) 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’”.
Accountability Project (a whistleblower group in the USA) found out that BP had received technical manuals that stated: Corexit 9527 is an “eye and skin irritant. Repeated or excessive exposure … may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver (...) Excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects”.
According to US law this kind of information must be distributed to any work site where hazardous materials are present. Instead BP told NALCO to stop including the manuals with the Corexit that was delivered to cleanup work sites. After many fell ill BP refused to provide medical treatment. Another great victory for our legal system.
As a result of Corexit’s “success” in helping this oil disaster (become even worse?), Corexit is the dispersant of choice in the USA to “clean up” oil spills. Maybe Europe isn’t as bad (as the USA) after all: in Britain and Sweden Corexit is already banned.
Lying to Congress was one of 14 felonies to which BP pleaded guilty in 2012, which was settled with the Justice Department, including a $4.5 billion fine. In July 2015 BP settled other law suits for $18.7 billion. But not to worry: no manager of BP will have to pay for any of these damages. The customers (and little share holders) will pay the bill: http://grist.org/business-technology...-mexico-spill/
Roughly 58% of the Corexit used was sprayed onto the gulf from C-130 airplanes.
BP – EXXON-VALDEZ
It wasn’t the first time that BP was involved in a major oil disaster. The following summary I’ve made after reading Greg Palast’s masterful book - The Best democracy money can buy (2002): http://www.chemtrails911.com/books/T...0Palast%20.pdf
On March 24, 1989, The Exxon Valdez covered 1,200 miles of Alaska’s shoreline in oil. British Petroleum’s role has been somewhat overlooked by the state media.
In 1969 Alyeska, the Exxon-BP oil pipeline consortium, bought the Valdez oil terminal land, from the Chugach Natives, for one dollar. The natives got “help” from attorney Clifford Groh, head of Alaska’s Republican Party, who only a few months later represented Alyeska. Alyeska created sham emergency teams, listing names of oil terminal workers that didn’t know how to use oil spill equipment.
Already before 1989 Theo Polasek had warned executives about an oil spill at the location of the later disaster and asked for millions of dollars for spill containment equipment. Although the law required it, this was rejected.
When James Woodle prepared a report for the government about an oil spill at Valdez, his supervisor forced him to take it back: “This was not an oil spill”. Woodle delivered his list of missing equipment and “phantom” personnel to George Nelson, BP’s president for Alaska. In September 1984, independent oil shipper Charles Hamel informed BP of falsification of reports.