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18th February 2013, 09:54 AM
Maybe the doomsday preppers have it right?
Meteors, nuclear melt-downs, permanant oil volcanos, wars, droughts/food shortages and financial collapse...all at the same time?
NBC: New fault on seafloor may have opened up from BP disaster in Gulf, says oceanographer — “Potential for an indefinite release of oil”?
Published: February 18th, 2013 at 10:17 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Mystery ‘oil sheen’ grows near site of BP Gulf disaster, says researcher
Source: NBC News
Author: John Roach
Date: Jan 31, 2013
A persistent, mysterious “oil sheen” in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster grew to more than seven-miles long and one-mile wide during a recent stretch of calm seas, based on aerial observations made by a former NASA physicist turned environmental activist. [...]
According to [Bonny Schumaker, the physicist who now runs the non-profit On Wings of Care], scientists who have sampled the sheen on several occasions “have consistently found the presence of alpha olefiens, which is a chemical bond signature of a man-made chemical you would not find in pure crude form.”
That suggests, she explained, that the source of the sheen is “residual material coming from the wreckage.” [...]
Ian MacDonald is an oceanographer and oil spill expert at Florida State University. Another possibility, he explained to NBC News, is that the sheen is from a “natural seep that somehow became more active than it was before because prior to 2011 or so we had not seen abundant oil slicks at that location.” [...]
The concern, he noted, is trying to sort out its source. “The chemical data are a bit ambiguous.” Some analyses he’s seen suggest the presence of drilling fluid, which is consistent with what Schumaker has heard. But other analyses, from other sources that he said he’s privy to, find no drilling fluid.
In that case, it’s possible that the wreckage in 2010 somehow opened up a new fault on the seafloor. That possibility is inconsistent with BP’s findings, but would nevertheless indicate potential for an indefinite release of oil. [...]
http://enenews.com/nbc-new-fault-on-seafloor-may-have-opened-up-after-bp-disaster-in-gulf-says-oceanographer-potential-for-an-indefinite-release-of-oil
Meteors, nuclear melt-downs, permanant oil volcanos, wars, droughts/food shortages and financial collapse...all at the same time?
NBC: New fault on seafloor may have opened up from BP disaster in Gulf, says oceanographer — “Potential for an indefinite release of oil”?
Published: February 18th, 2013 at 10:17 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Mystery ‘oil sheen’ grows near site of BP Gulf disaster, says researcher
Source: NBC News
Author: John Roach
Date: Jan 31, 2013
A persistent, mysterious “oil sheen” in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster grew to more than seven-miles long and one-mile wide during a recent stretch of calm seas, based on aerial observations made by a former NASA physicist turned environmental activist. [...]
According to [Bonny Schumaker, the physicist who now runs the non-profit On Wings of Care], scientists who have sampled the sheen on several occasions “have consistently found the presence of alpha olefiens, which is a chemical bond signature of a man-made chemical you would not find in pure crude form.”
That suggests, she explained, that the source of the sheen is “residual material coming from the wreckage.” [...]
Ian MacDonald is an oceanographer and oil spill expert at Florida State University. Another possibility, he explained to NBC News, is that the sheen is from a “natural seep that somehow became more active than it was before because prior to 2011 or so we had not seen abundant oil slicks at that location.” [...]
The concern, he noted, is trying to sort out its source. “The chemical data are a bit ambiguous.” Some analyses he’s seen suggest the presence of drilling fluid, which is consistent with what Schumaker has heard. But other analyses, from other sources that he said he’s privy to, find no drilling fluid.
In that case, it’s possible that the wreckage in 2010 somehow opened up a new fault on the seafloor. That possibility is inconsistent with BP’s findings, but would nevertheless indicate potential for an indefinite release of oil. [...]
http://enenews.com/nbc-new-fault-on-seafloor-may-have-opened-up-after-bp-disaster-in-gulf-says-oceanographer-potential-for-an-indefinite-release-of-oil