Page added on July 4, 2010
“One issue that has been on the table and I believe is still on the table, which is the use of a thermal nuclear device down in the bedrock. You have to go and find the right place and you probably couldn’t. You can’t use a nuke in softer stone because all you’re going to do is just turn this boil into an open raging wound. The Russians have done this but in less deep water. They’ve done this three or four times, where you place a small nuclear device into the bore hole and much deeper into the granite or basaltic rock. And you can literally with those temperatures melt a plug that will work. I don’t know if that’s possible, but it’s clear that President Obama had sent nuclear experts down there right after the spill began. But I’m just aghast that the US government is not warning people. He is not telling pregnant women to get out of there. It’s very shortsighted now to even try to focus on a return to drilling so that these people can go back to work. This is much bigger than that.
In the meantime I think a million gallons of Corexit has been used. It’s a deadly substance banned in Europe. This dispersant when applied on the surface of warm water evaporates quickly into the atmosphere. It changes from a liquid into a gas, and we have many reports now and photographs showing up on the internet of unexplained crop damage. Leaves are wilting, turning colors all over the region as a result of the Corexit. So you have three separate toxins that are flooding into the Gulf. I and a few others were a month ahead of people saying this leak is not 5,000 barrels a day. It’s closer to 100,000, and of course we finally confirmed that. So now you have the oil at an unknown rate, let’s say 100,000 barrels which is safe at this point. You have methane. This is a very high volume methane well and methane at those depths deoxygenates the water. It reacts with the water and creates huge dead zones from seabed to sea surface killing all life because ocean life still needs oxygen to survive. And then you have the Corexit.”
One Comment on "Michael Rupert: BP Spill is More Toxic than We’re Told"
bondwooley on Sun, 4th Jul 2010 10:30 pm
Obama told America that if we can win WWII and put a man on the moon, we can plug this leak and solve our dependency on fossil fuels.
But there’s a missing piece: the soldiers in WWII had the Pentagon and Neil Armstrong had NASA. What’s the man on the street supposed to do to solve the fossil fuel problem? Is it time for an organized, funded effort?
The following link is to a satirical video, but it underscores this issue in real terms.
Link: You’re Soaking In It