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Independence Day Spillover: No Cause to Shoot Off Collective Mouths

No stars-spangled mantra for 2010.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This July 4th the flares are faltering into the vast expanse of the sea. The fallout is everywhere: pure pessimism on extracting ourselves from the BP-generated oil spill engulfing our very national psyches.

FEMA Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Area In Place?

FEMA has plans for the evacuation of the Tampa Bay area, according to the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner.

(TAMPA, Fla.) - FEMA has plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay area in the event of a controlled burn of surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or if wind or other conditions are expected to take toxic fumes through Tampa Bay, according to a report by Maryann Tobin in the Hernando County Political Buzz Examiner.

Tobin has been a freelance writer for more than twenty years, writing for local publications in New York and Florida.

Gulf Oil `Hot Zone`

More detailed and transparent monitoring of the air, water and personal exposure is needed.

(GRAND ISLE, Louisiana) - Thousands of unemployed workers hired by BP for Gulf oil clean-up duties are housed in a tent city on Grand Isle, LA.

According to a report from Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit environmental health and justice organization, BP requires that all serious medical issues must be sent to the BP EMS.

Florida Could be in Serious Danger of Methane Gas Explosion

Expert says this could be the beginning of a catastrophe; information people should know.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Richard C Hoagland gave an interview on Coast to Coast a couple of days ago; it has been uploaded to YouTube and is available below in two parts.

The pressure at the depth of the gulf well is 100,000 pounds per square inch. If you believe the experts, there are few answers but there are ideas that might be able to arrest the situation.

Colonialism, the Gift That Keeps on Giving

In today’s world, the extraction of resources is carried out by corporations owned by an investor class that knows no national boundaries nor is accountable for any liability as a result of their company’s actions.

(PATAGONIA, Argentina) - Britain is preparing to defend once again its colonial interest in the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic.

According to the UK’s Telegraph, since February, “Royal Navy ships have already been put on standby to protect commercial shipping heading to the region” in anticipation of conflict with Argentina over offshore oil drilling.

Oil and the Falklands

In the long run, I would seriously doubt BP would do a risky deep sea drilling after the recent disaster that has been swarming all over news.

(SALEM, Ore.) - BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. As a multinational oil company, BP is Great Britain’s largest corporation.

BP and Falklands Oil Row

When the Sea Lion well blows, BP will tell all, as they did after deepwater horizon, that it wasn’t their well...

(PATAGONIA, Argentina) - If you haven’t heard enough of BP executives proclaiming innocence over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, get ready for act two.

Missing Pieces Identified In That Oil Spill Puzzle

While the scientific side of the calamity remains in search of a solution, let us call on other resources to address the human side--before that becomes overwhelming.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oil, oil, great turmoil! That's the mega dilemma facing our President and Congress as the BP oil spill begun April 20 continues to gush out and infiltrate our precious Gulf Coast to say nothing of its deleterious impact on the economy.

Striving Toward Survival

Untapped Strategies Urged to Ease Gulf's Oil Turmoil.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This humongous oil spill spurting forth in the Gulf may well prove to be the No. 1 unnatural disaster of this 21st Century.

Clean Water Whenever

Dispersants Create Unabated Toxic Soup Everywhere, America’s Streams, Lakes and Coasts Under Stress.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - America and the rest of the literate world is getting up to speed regarding the potential long-term negative impacts of oil dispersion compounds. If ignorance is bliss, we’re no longer happy-idiot, blind petroleum idolaters.

In fact, ALL of our fragile watery ecosystems are going going gone, and the basic health of the people who are trying to clean up the Gulf mess is becoming a point of contention and distress.