News even news junkies don’t know about — huge plumes of oil have reappeared?

News Even News Junkies Don’t Know About

by digby

I’ve been focusing quite a bit on the election and so I’ve missed quite a few big stories on other topics, but I would have thought I would hear something about this:

The reappearance of huge plumes of oil is making it hard to pretend that it has all gone away. Here’s a roundup of some of the Gulf oil headlines from just the last 4 days:

• More Independent Scientists Report “Vast Volumes of Oil Present on Seafloor”; Independent Research AGAIN Directly Contradicts NOAA/Coast Guard Findings

• EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Confirmed Fish Kill on Grand Isle; “Overpowering Stench of Death and Decay” Coming From BP “Death Mounds”

• Coast Guard Claims That Miles-Long Expanse of Oil on Gulf Surface Is Algae; Boat Captain: “I’ve never seen algae that looked orange, that was sticky, smelled like oil and that stuck to the boat and had to be cleaned off with solvent”

• “They are dying” says registered nurse working in Florida — I’m seeing “people who have been chemically poisoned”

• Valdez Toxicologist: “People are dropping dead now” — “I don’t think we’ll have to wait years to see the effects like we did in Alaska”

• State officials admit: “Worried about FISHERY COLLAPSES, based on the collapse of the herring fishery” after the Exxon Valdez

• “I’m scared of what I’m finding” says chemist — Corexit combines with oil to generate new compounds, many with “double bonds”

• Fishermen Report Louisiana Bays Filled With Oil

• NEW TEST RESULTS: 8 out of 8 Blood Samples from BP Cleanup Workers Test Positive For Toxic Chemicals Found in BP Oil

• Feds Are Allowing BP to Leave Oil on Gulf Beaches

• Chemist: Women more at risk — “Bleeding from their vagina and anus. Small kids are bleeding from their ears. This stuff is busting red blood cells”

• Submerged oil surfaces: Fishermen say 10 MILE patch of brown foam “5 INCHES THICK with red swirls of oil”

• “They are literally shrimping in oil” says eyewitness — “It’s criminal” that officials keep waters open

• Catfish in lagoon “suffering burns across their heads and bodies” (VIDEO)

• Researchers discover oil plume drifting 300 miles from Macondo well (VIDEO)

• “May spark a whole new debate”: Scientist “astonished” that he found so much crude — Questions whether NOAA “dramatically understated” amount of oil in Gulf (VIDEO)

• “It’s Raining Bacteria”: Rain can spread flesh-eating microbes via “bio-aerosols” — “Also led to skin allergies and rashes”

• British Parliament report says Corexit 9500A “among the MOST CYTOTOXIC” dispersants studied — “Major concerns by lead scientists”

• Federal Government Intimidates More Independent Researchers

• 46% of BP Oil Spill wildlife cleanup workers reported RASHES, itchy skin, or red skin — 35% with headaches

• COREXIT appears to STILL be inside blue crab larvae says Tulane researchers in Gulf

• Engineer confirms: “Toxic Corexit 9500A in MS Sound” after well capped

• Senior NRDC Scientist: Still NO testing for heavy metals OR dispersant (VIDEO)

• Researchers find “VAST VOLUMES” of oil on seafloor — Includes “Thick Raw Crude”

• Scientists find “long plumes” of oxygen-depleted water “emanating” from BP’s Macondo well site

• Fishermen sprayed while sleeping in group of 20 boats tied together – Now under doctors’ care (VIDEO)

• Oil Spill Commission Co-Chair Startled By Federal Rig Inspectors’ Lack of Formal Training and Lack of Knowledge of Underwater Drilling Operations

• “We have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally.” — BP dispersants are causing sickness (this is published by Al Jazeera, but is written by award-winning American reporter Dahr Jamail and quotes American scientists)

• Chemist: Chemicals from dispersed oil “coming down as rain”

Who knew?

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