/ Oil Spills

• Alabama State Troopers Moonlighting as BP Security Guards

  WMR's sources on the Gulf coast report that BP Security personnel are being augmented by off-duty Alabama state troopers and G4S Wackenhut private security guards. The BP Security personnel ensure that no observers are present on Gulf coast beaches during night time hours when BP contractors scour the beaches and pick up and covertly dispose of dead dolphins, turtles, birds, and other sea animals that wash ashore covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. BP is secretly disposing of the dead animals in order to avoid paying fines and compensation for killing endangered and protected species like turtles, dolphins,…

• The First OilCane? What Happens if a Hurricane Rides over the Oil Spill

  The gulf oil spill is bad but it could become much, much worse and soon. The threat is a hurricane moving over the spill. If a hurricane’s violent winds track over the spill, we could witness a natural and economic calamity that history has never recorded anywhere or anytime. We will literally be in oil-soaked waters. We will have witnessed the first oilicane. A category one hurricane (on a scale of 1 to 5) has maximum sustained winds of 74 to 95 miles per hour near the eye. A category five hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 156 to 200…

• Government Insiders: Get Ready for the Gulf "Dead Zone"

  Bad news concerning the Gulf oil disaster continues to come from WMR's federal government sources in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Emergency planners are dealing with a prospective "dead zone" within a 200 mile radius from the Deepwater Horizon disaster datum in the Gulf. A looming environmental and population displacement disaster is brewing in the Gulf. The oil dispersant used by BP, Corexit 9500, is seen by FEMA sources as mixing with evaporated water from the Gulf and absorbed by rain clouds producing toxic precipitation that threatens to continue killling marine and…

• Secret Footage from the BP Boardroom of Devastating Coffee Spill

  Our inside sources have provided us with secret footage that was filmed in the BP boardroom when a new spill broke out.We cannot reveal our sources, but can let you know that what you are about to see is both disturbing and shocking. Please see below for the video - This is obviously not a professional recording, but you will get the gist of what is taking place. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="425" height="350"> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AAa0gd7ClM" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AAa0gd7ClM"></embed> </object>  Oil Prices

• Obama Attempt to Push Climate Bill with Oil Spill Outrage Appears to Fail

  President Barack Obama’s effort to channel outrage over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico into political momentum for climate change legislation appears to have failed, according to news agency reports. Obama made his first nationally televised speech from the Oval Office Tuesday on the subject of the oil spill, saying the environmental catastrophe makes it clear the U.S. must transition to a future less dependent on fossil fuels. “The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now,” he said.  “Now is the…

• 16 Questions About the Gulf Oil Spill that Need Answering

  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a national nightmare that seems to have no ending.  Every day new details come out that are even more shocking than what we learned the day before. The truth is that life will never be the same in the Gulf of Mexico or for those who live along the Gulf coast. Now Barack Obama has made a big Oval Office speech and has tried to convince all of us that he is in charge of the crisis. Well, perhaps if he had tried to take decisive action a month ago the American people…

• 9 Important Points about the BP Blowout – Part 1

  Here is what a couple of offshore drilling engineers told me about the BP Blowout… However, everything is consistent with a well way over budget, company men taking heat from the home office to finish the job, and a series of decisions, none catastrophic by themselves, that eventually accumulated to cause this disaster.   I have worked with several majors in my career, and the BP/Amoco E&P guys were as good as they come.  I can't comment first hand on their drilling engineering practices in general, because I don't know.  Here are a few items on THIS well that are notable.…

• Winners and Losers from The Gulf Oil Spill

  The oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico provides a near-perfect onshore platform for political demagoguery. That demagoguery was evident last week during just a few minutes of channel surfing. Rachel Maddow was on MSNBC denouncing BP and all things oil while Laura Ingraham was on Fox laying waste to all things Obama and the president’s inability to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama declared that he was trying to figure out “whose ass to kick” for the blowout. But amidst all of the headlines about ass kicking, top kills, flow…

• The Gulf Oil Spill and Efforts to Cap the Well

  Below is a Q and A Interview with Frank Verrastro, senior vice president and director of the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) here in Washington, D.C.Frank discusses the latest issues BP is having with capping the well, potential policy implications for the industry in general and scalable alternatives of renewable energy technologies. Q1: What is the status of BP's latest attempt to cap the Gulf oil well? A1: After pumping a total of over 30,000 barrels of heavy muds (achieving rates of up to 80,000 barrels of fluid/minute), BP abandoned its…

• Will a Tactical Nuclear Weapon be Used to stop the Gulf Oil Spill?

  I have never been able to use my talents both as a securities analyst and a nuclear weapons designer simultaneously, but British Petroleum (BP) has at last enabled me to rise to the call. Back before personal computers, the Internet, and hedge funds were invented, most mathematicians, like myself, ended up working for the Defense Department in some form or another. In my case, that involved a summer with the Atomic Energy Agency working on the neutron bomb at the nuclear test site in Nevada in the early seventies.  There, yields meant millions killed, not interest paid. After BP's serial…