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24th January 2011, 05:54 AM
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January 23rd, 2011 4:04 pm ET
Gulf sniff test defies science
Politifake Note: This report is not satyr
NPR has interviewed authorities about Gulf of Mexico safety. The authorities tell a story that is opposite in most regards to what non-BP affiliated professionals are telling. NPR continues to refer to the "Macondo" oil "spill" and used past tense, as though the crime of the millennium is over, unlike scientists, including the late Matt Simmons and Dr. Tom Termotto, evidencing that oil is still gushing and filling the Gulf from a different source never revealed to the public in choreographed TV shows of the "spill."
Sniff of a scandal
Only days before Simmons death, a land surveyor demonstrated using public documents that there were two exploratory wells, and major TV networks continually showed the public one that was not actually gushing, as Simmons had repeatedly explained, only to be discredited by mainstream media. (See: Dupre, D. Breaking Gulf news: Land Surveyor proves Simmons right. TV well sham (videos), Examiner, August 6, 2010)
Dr. Boeche, professor, marine science, president, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Md, stated, "About 4.9 million barrels came from the well. Not all of it reached the ocean. About 800,000 barrels were captured at the well head, in various attempts to try to cap the well. So that's a little over four million barrels.
"And the - what happened to that oil is that most of it is effectively gone. It has either been degraded, decomposed by microorganisms or diluted in the vast Gulf of Mexico to concentrations which are undetectable.
"The oil that remains in the Gulf is primarily found in near-shore deposits, along beaches where it got rolled in with sand grains and the like, and in marshes, where it's been just unable - we're not able to remove it from the marshes. "
When Ira Flatow, the NPR program host, replied, "It's better to leave it there... ", Dr. Boesch completed the statement saying, "To leave it there because you'll do more damage. Or there is evidence now that there's some deposits of oil near the well site, in the deepwater environment, on the seabed. Some of it seemed to potentially have, in fact, impacted deepwater coral communities, but it is not a layer, a thick layer of oil. It's very small quantities of oil mixed in with bottom sediments in the deep Gulf."
"So about a quarter of the oil is somewhere in the ocean," Flatow said.
Boesch stated, "It's actually less than that."
Non-BP paid research reports indicate up to 90% of the oil that is gushing is on the Gulf floor.
It's safe - just sniff it and see
Dr. D'elia, professor and dean, School of The Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La added that we are lucky.
"Yeah, we are very lucky in some respects, with this. The first thing to point out is the Gulf of Mexico is a large body of water, unlike Prince William Sound. So the situation in the Gulf benefits from that...."
Flatow asked, "Well, we talk about the restoration of the Gulf. Well, whenever you talk to citizens, folks out there, one of the first things they want to know, Tracy Collier, is how safe is the food that's coming out of the Gulf, the fish. And you folks are involved in testing it, correct? Or talking about the standards for testing."
Dr. Collier agreed, "Yeah. NOAA is responsible for testing, along with FDA and other agencies, the seafood coming out of federal waters more than three miles off-shore so..."
Flatow asked, "What can you - what do you tell them?"
Contradicting what every independent scientific study has proven, Dr. Coliier said, "It's safe."
Flatlow questioned, "It's safe?"
"It's safe. It's now - this seafood coming out of the Gulf is more tested than any other seafood supply that you can get your hands on. And the levels that are being found are essentially background levels," Collier stated.
Scientific Sniffing?
When Flatlow asked how the food is tested, Dr. Collier explained, "The process is to - first, if an area is oiled, it's off limits. You don't take seafood from an oiled area. Once the oil clears after a certain period of time, then you take fish and shellfish from that site, you run them through a series of tests.
"First, is what we call organileptic or call it the sniff test. Basically, people are trained..."
Flatow asked, "What do you call the technical word for sniffing?"
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/seafood-s-safe-step-right-along-everything-s-ok?CID=examiner_alerts_articl
January 23rd, 2011 4:04 pm ET
Gulf sniff test defies science
Politifake Note: This report is not satyr
NPR has interviewed authorities about Gulf of Mexico safety. The authorities tell a story that is opposite in most regards to what non-BP affiliated professionals are telling. NPR continues to refer to the "Macondo" oil "spill" and used past tense, as though the crime of the millennium is over, unlike scientists, including the late Matt Simmons and Dr. Tom Termotto, evidencing that oil is still gushing and filling the Gulf from a different source never revealed to the public in choreographed TV shows of the "spill."
Sniff of a scandal
Only days before Simmons death, a land surveyor demonstrated using public documents that there were two exploratory wells, and major TV networks continually showed the public one that was not actually gushing, as Simmons had repeatedly explained, only to be discredited by mainstream media. (See: Dupre, D. Breaking Gulf news: Land Surveyor proves Simmons right. TV well sham (videos), Examiner, August 6, 2010)
Dr. Boeche, professor, marine science, president, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Md, stated, "About 4.9 million barrels came from the well. Not all of it reached the ocean. About 800,000 barrels were captured at the well head, in various attempts to try to cap the well. So that's a little over four million barrels.
"And the - what happened to that oil is that most of it is effectively gone. It has either been degraded, decomposed by microorganisms or diluted in the vast Gulf of Mexico to concentrations which are undetectable.
"The oil that remains in the Gulf is primarily found in near-shore deposits, along beaches where it got rolled in with sand grains and the like, and in marshes, where it's been just unable - we're not able to remove it from the marshes. "
When Ira Flatow, the NPR program host, replied, "It's better to leave it there... ", Dr. Boesch completed the statement saying, "To leave it there because you'll do more damage. Or there is evidence now that there's some deposits of oil near the well site, in the deepwater environment, on the seabed. Some of it seemed to potentially have, in fact, impacted deepwater coral communities, but it is not a layer, a thick layer of oil. It's very small quantities of oil mixed in with bottom sediments in the deep Gulf."
"So about a quarter of the oil is somewhere in the ocean," Flatow said.
Boesch stated, "It's actually less than that."
Non-BP paid research reports indicate up to 90% of the oil that is gushing is on the Gulf floor.
It's safe - just sniff it and see
Dr. D'elia, professor and dean, School of The Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La added that we are lucky.
"Yeah, we are very lucky in some respects, with this. The first thing to point out is the Gulf of Mexico is a large body of water, unlike Prince William Sound. So the situation in the Gulf benefits from that...."
Flatow asked, "Well, we talk about the restoration of the Gulf. Well, whenever you talk to citizens, folks out there, one of the first things they want to know, Tracy Collier, is how safe is the food that's coming out of the Gulf, the fish. And you folks are involved in testing it, correct? Or talking about the standards for testing."
Dr. Collier agreed, "Yeah. NOAA is responsible for testing, along with FDA and other agencies, the seafood coming out of federal waters more than three miles off-shore so..."
Flatow asked, "What can you - what do you tell them?"
Contradicting what every independent scientific study has proven, Dr. Coliier said, "It's safe."
Flatlow questioned, "It's safe?"
"It's safe. It's now - this seafood coming out of the Gulf is more tested than any other seafood supply that you can get your hands on. And the levels that are being found are essentially background levels," Collier stated.
Scientific Sniffing?
When Flatlow asked how the food is tested, Dr. Collier explained, "The process is to - first, if an area is oiled, it's off limits. You don't take seafood from an oiled area. Once the oil clears after a certain period of time, then you take fish and shellfish from that site, you run them through a series of tests.
"First, is what we call organileptic or call it the sniff test. Basically, people are trained..."
Flatow asked, "What do you call the technical word for sniffing?"
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/seafood-s-safe-step-right-along-everything-s-ok?CID=examiner_alerts_articl