BP Using Oil Dispersant to Cover Tracks? - Julia Whitty

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/14/Julia_Whitty_Deep_Blue_Home

Environmentalist and author Julia Whitty accuses BP of using oil dispersant and methanol to distort the data on how many barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. She's convinced BP is simply "working the angles" for their inevitable day in court.

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Julia Whitty talks about Deep Blue Home. Whitty presents a penetrating exploration of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. Whitty is the author of The Fragile Edge. - Book Passage

Julia Whitty is a writer and former documentary filmmaker. She is the author of Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean, due out July 2010, and of The Fragile Edge, a book on coral reefs, winner of a PEN USA Literary Award, the John Burroughs Medal, the Kiriyama Prize, and finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Her short story collection A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga won an O. Henry and was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award.

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[goog2k]

We can get off most fossil fuels within 20-30 years if we put a concerted effort into solar, wind, fuel cells, electric cars, algae biofuels, and new nuclear technologies.

We also need a new national smart power grid to move electricity.

We can use a carbon tax on fossil fuels to pay for it, and it'll provide millions of JOBS that can't be exported.

Europe & China are ALREADY doing this and America will lose out in future green energy technologies, if we don't.

We owe it to our grandchildren.

[goog2k]

Some new fuel cells & wind are ALREADY competitive. Solar will be economically competitive within 5 years. However, we need to build a SMART power grid to get wind power from Midwest farms to the cities, and so we can put solar panels on our roofs and sell unused power back to the grid.

New algae biofuels can suck up CO2 coming out of fossil fuel plants & I just read about a new nanotechnology battery made from PAPER.

Stop oil subsidies. We must wrest Congress from the oil, coal & gas lobbies!

[antidoteco]

@anikinippon dear dicksucker with no morals who wishes he was an Asian - you suck dick

[anikinippon]

@Viracocha711 I'm not saying they won't be punished, I'm sure they will, but the consequences are inevitable too.

[Viracocha711]

@anikinippon What happens to a drug company when they produce a product that kills people? What happens to a car company that makes cars that kill people? The same should happen to BP for what they have done...This is called responsible capitalism. Your point of view is much like those expressed on FOX "News" every night on almost every issue so I just assumed. Either way your point is not taken into consideration the whole story. Do you expect BP to walk with no punishment?

[19FLA69]

I think it's only around 40% methane ....41.8% ...as opposed to the common 5% from a normal "oil" reservoir extraction - get your HazMat gear ready!!! ...i'ze smellze tru'bbulz Bubblezzzz and it ain't yesterday's dinner.........

[GBS990]

Gee, I wonder who let the well run for weeks on end without accepting help from countries that knew how to clean it up, or even allowing BP to cap the well.

[anikinippon]

@Viracocha711 I didn't get my facts from Fox, what happens to a product when a company has to fork over a billion dollars in lawsuit damages? They lose money and the product prices go up, what does that have to do with Fox news? Nothing, it's objective reality, that's what happens.

[Viracocha711]

@anikinippon If you are looking for "FACTS" on FOX "News" then you will be waiting a long time...FOX "News" is 100% propaganda! Even when a story favors the Republicans FOX "News" will add on BS or spin it to make it look worse. They NEVER report the just the FACTS! NEVER!

[manfromregina]

@anikinippon you're not an ahole.

Eating a source of food is not a crime.

if the food is maintianed in a ethical / enviromental structure, all is good.

[MudHut67]

@anikinippon Mmmm naaahhh not gona work body :)