Oil in the bayou? Coast Guard says substance isn't from Deepwater Horizon

[Robbien]

Source: NW Daily News

Horn has been watching what appear to be oily globs flow in and out on the tide for weeks, but Tuesday when he went out to catch some bait for the afternoon fishing he had planned with Mike Meyerholz and his granddaughter, he was shocked.

“The puddles were as big as this porch,” Horn said, motioning to his large patio. “The best time to see it at its heaviest is one hour before and one hour after high tide.”

. . .

“A deputy showed up within seven minutes, got on the phone and confirmed it was oil,” Horn said. “Three other cars showed up 10 minutes later and within minutes each one of them were on their phones telling whoever they were talking to it was oil.”

. . .

After making a phone call, he said the Sheriff’s Office couldn’t confirm the presence of oil in the bayou. He said a sheriff’ office boat was en route to Horn’s property, but the “Coast Guard cut him off and took control.”

“But the Coast Guard said it was not the same consistency that was coming out of Deepwater Horizon,” he said, adding that the incident was being ruled “an illegal dumping.”

Read more: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/horn-31510-fishing-flow.html

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In short, the sheriff's office is claiming no knowledge and refers all questions to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard definitively determined the oil was not BP oil just by looking at it. Case closed.

The county Environmental Crimes Deputy told the Sun she had not “heard anything about it.” But after pulling up and reading something on her computer, she said “they didn’t feel it needed any follow up.”

BP is saying, nope, no oil there.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[earth mom]

1. So who the hell told the U.S. Military to LIE for BP?!

:grr:

[Doctor_J]

4. As was reported many times over the last few months,

BP is telling the entire US government what to do regarding the disaster.

[L0oniX]

8. The military is an expert at lies ...didn't you know?

[RedCloud]

2. A few things...

The containment cap is still allowing some oil to escape.

When the containment cap went on another oil rig nearest to that one, but abandoned, started leaking and the news is mum about that!

BP could not possibly get all the oil poisoned with dispersant.

But it could be some troglodyte taking advantage and dumping some motor oil, etc.

[IBEWVET]

3. Beach Report

I can't offer any insight on the oil dissolved in the water or dispersant's, as I am not a scientist. But I can offer a first hand report on the beach at Pensacola, Fl.

We were heavily oiled a couple of times in June, and I was sick at the thought of our beautiful beaches being destroyed. But by either nature or BP crews, by July 12th the beaches were clean again. We stayed at a beach hotel for three days watching the Blue Angel air show and was amazed at how good the beach looked. Since that time there has been no trace of oil in the water or on the beaches.

As I said, I can't speak for anything else about the spill, except what I have seen. As Walton county is east of us I think the likelihood of it being BP oil is low.

[ensho]

5. the oil was there, you just can't see it because it has been dispersed

made into tiny pieces.

the toxic oil and the toxic dispersment is there in the water and on the beach

[IBEWVET]

6. I agree that it has been dispersed

I do have a friend who works at the EPA station on the beach and he tells me they are not detecting any hydrocarbon in the waters near shore. Now on the beach I am sure oil is buried by tide action, and I don't know how that will be handled. My friend also thinks that bacteria have converted most of the dispersed droplets in the water, but he is concerned about low oxygen and the fact small droplets have already entered the food chain and what the long term effect will be.

[City Lights]

7. BP has also been accused of bringing in sand to cover the oil that washed up on the beach.

AK: Is it true that BP has been covering some of the oil on the beach with sand?

CM: Yeah. Yeah, this is interesting...We went down onto the beaches, and we started inspecting them. There were tar balls, tar residue, and there was some oil on the beach. Apparently, the day before there was a lot of tar balls, and BP was working in the area pretty heavily, and we started noticing there was a different consistency in the sand.

Closer to shore, there was this grainy, very rough shell-filled sand, and then you could see almost like a border where it just spilled over onto the beach sand, which is a very fine-grained sand. And it looked as if it was dumped. I mean, you could dig a few inches down, and you could see that it was a different type of sand beneath that, you know, without all the shell and grit, and what not. It looked very much like that. Our first assumption was, yeah, that they were dumping sand to cover up the tar balls.

You know, when I first said that...to me, it sounded conspiratorial - more so than I usually think. But then, soon after, we were stopped by some local sheriffs - actually, scratch that, they weren't local sheriff - they were working for the local sheriff, but these guys were bussed in from... (C.S. asks Judson if he remembers where they were bussed in from) ...from Jefferson Parish - from way up north - he was a city guy, and there were two of them that stopped us, and they weren't unpleasant about it - they weren't mean - but we could hear them talking on the radio, and their job was to run us off. So they told us, no more pictures - at least no more pictures of them. In fact, they stopped me from going out onto the beach a little bit further, and taking more pictures. But, you know, we got to talking with the guy, one of them, and he said, 'Yeah, they came here, and just dumped a bunch of sand on the beach.' They were just shoveling it on.

We could see the erosion and where the tar still was, and there was a total separate point from where the sand was dumped on.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/allegations-emerge-bp-is_b_632954.html

[armodem08]

10. Well, scientists have weighed in...

In the cliche words of local network news: (which ironically did this report) "Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it can't kill you..."


Watch the video at this link:

http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/gulf-water-explodes-in-lab-test.html


"The test results were much worse than the lab expected. Even worse, people are walking on these beaches and kids playing in this water."

Some of the water being tested actually exploded when exposed to a chemical separator.

And all of the beaches and water looked clean...

[ThomThom]

9. It would be nice to tell us what bayou this was.

Not everyone knows the counties of Fla. From your post I don't even know what state this is in. Someone says bayous the first place I think of is New Orleans and Louisiana. I have no idea where this happened.

[Scruffy1]

11. This is endemic here.

Who, what, where, when.

[Cetacea]

12. And why.

[The Flaming Red Head]

13. 500 million birds migrate to Louisiana annually

Let’s ask some of them