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Julia Whitty: BP Spill Merely Tip of 'Oilberg'

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Former wildlife filmmaker and author Julia Whitty discusses the impact of the BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico and beyond, calling surface damage merely "the tip of the 'oilberg.'" The majority of the damage, says Whitty, will be to the ocean's deep scattering layer.
Julia Whitty Says BP Using Oil Dispersant to Cover Tracks

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Environmentalist and author Julia Whitty accuses BP of using oil dispersant and methanol to distort the data on how many barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. She's convinced BP is simply "working the angles" for their inevitable day in court.
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Posted: 07.23.10, 05:52 PM

In the Gulf oil blowout it's been found BP was definitely overriding normal safety practice and disregarding Transocean's standard practice of packing the well with mud before sealing it. BP also KNEW the "Annular gasket" was broken and wouldn't provide correct pressure readings but disregarded it. This was revealed in "60 Minutes" expose' on the blowout. My bet is BP will hang for this because they deliberately chose to disregard safety precautions We can get off most fossil fuels within 20-30 years if we put a concerted effort into solar, wind, fuel cells, electric cars, algae biofuels, and new nuclear technologies. We also need a new national smart power grid to move electricity. We can use a carbon tax on fossil fuels to pay for it, and it'll provide millions of JOBS that can't be exported. Europe & China are ALREADY doing this and America will lose out in future green energy technologies, if we don't. We owe it to our grandchildren.