British Petroleum Part 3 of 3
By Jason L.G.
In an unlikely scenario, a Hollywood actor is putting his money where his mouth is. Rather, Keven Costner has been putting his money where his mouth is since the early 1990's after he and his brother decided to start investing in researching ways to cleanup oil spills. It was shortly after the Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska, and so, it set Costner and his brother on a mission. Twenty years later, it seems another tragedy is opportunity.
British Petroleum has agreed to purchase some of Costner's machines that use centrifugal force to separate oil from water inside a canister. Each machine can process up to 200 gallons per minute. Due to the massive amount of oil already in the ocean, which is continuing to spill in the ocean, these machines may slow the mess at best. I commend Kevin Costner for stepping up, investing, testifying before Congress, and saying the Coast Guard blocked him from heading out to the spill-site to start putting the machines to work.(1)(2)
At least someone is taking action, although he has been stopped by the Coast Guard. However, there are more questions to be asked here. Why isn't BP stopping this leak now? Why do they believe it is worth polluting the ocean for months and months on end, to salvage this offshore oil-well? Why are they willing to go so far?
Why is the Coast Guard blocking cleanup efforts? Why can't companies willing to go cleanup get out there? What is hindering this?
Why was the well platform altered from it's original blueprint? Why is there no record of these changes?
Lastly, if BP does follow through and purchase these machines, will they actually deploy them?
...to be continued...
(1)http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/09/bp-oil-spill-kevin-costner-tells-congress-he-can-help/ (Wall Street Journal Online)
(2)http://www.wwl.com/Kevin-Costner-s-anti-oil-machines-to-be-deployed/7441867 (The Big 870 WWL-am)
Costner Industries Nevada Corporation
http://www.cincmfg.com/
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
PART 2: BP, TransOcean, Halliburton, Boots & Coots
British Petroleum Part 2 of 3.
By Jason L.G.
An odd coincidence is becoming apparent. On April 12, 2010, Halliburton acquired well maintenance and oil clean-up company Boots and Coots.(1)(2)
On April 19, 2010, a date riddled in History with acts of war (also Earth Day in 2010), 20 hours before the well in the Gulf of Mexico blew up on April 20 (Hitler's birthday), Halliburton finished working on that exact well (platform).(3)(4)
This off-shore platform was owned by TransOcean, a company that has contracted with Shell, Texaco, ExxonMobile, Chevron, and the Central Intelligence Agency, and drilled wells in, or off-the-coast of--California, Louisiana, Australia, the Netherlands, Trinidad, Brunei, and Venezuela.(5)
It is common knowledge Dick Cheney is associated with Halliburton, and that Halliburton acquired no-bid contracts in Iraq and elsewhere. In Part 1, it was revealed the British Government was a 51% shareholder in BP until 1987. Clearly oil corporations, although they are not alone, are willing and able to piggy-back the war machine and exploit resources anywhere, at any cost. These alliances of governments with corporations are crushing the economy, destroying the environment, usurping sovereignty from the people, skewing any and all relative-morality, and causing massive destruction on this planet.
(1)http://www.boots-coots.com (Boots and Coots Official)
(2)http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0910476620100410 (Reuters Official)
(3)http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-06/bp-halliburton-transocean-told-to-keep-rig-evidence-update1-.html (BusinessWeek)
(4)http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10605603 (American Broadcasting Company)
(5)http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Our-History-3.html (TransOcean Official)
By Jason L.G.
An odd coincidence is becoming apparent. On April 12, 2010, Halliburton acquired well maintenance and oil clean-up company Boots and Coots.(1)(2)
On April 19, 2010, a date riddled in History with acts of war (also Earth Day in 2010), 20 hours before the well in the Gulf of Mexico blew up on April 20 (Hitler's birthday), Halliburton finished working on that exact well (platform).(3)(4)
This off-shore platform was owned by TransOcean, a company that has contracted with Shell, Texaco, ExxonMobile, Chevron, and the Central Intelligence Agency, and drilled wells in, or off-the-coast of--California, Louisiana, Australia, the Netherlands, Trinidad, Brunei, and Venezuela.(5)
It is common knowledge Dick Cheney is associated with Halliburton, and that Halliburton acquired no-bid contracts in Iraq and elsewhere. In Part 1, it was revealed the British Government was a 51% shareholder in BP until 1987. Clearly oil corporations, although they are not alone, are willing and able to piggy-back the war machine and exploit resources anywhere, at any cost. These alliances of governments with corporations are crushing the economy, destroying the environment, usurping sovereignty from the people, skewing any and all relative-morality, and causing massive destruction on this planet.
(1)http://www.boots-coots.com (Boots and Coots Official)
(2)http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0910476620100410 (Reuters Official)
(3)http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-06/bp-halliburton-transocean-told-to-keep-rig-evidence-update1-.html (BusinessWeek)
(4)http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10605603 (American Broadcasting Company)
(5)http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Our-History-3.html (TransOcean Official)
PART 1: Anglo-Persian Oil, British Petroleum, Standard Oil, AMOCO
British Petroleum Part 1 of 3.
By Jason L.G.
As oil and natural gas gush into the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum rests on it's 18.3 billion barrel-reserve and it's $239 billion ('09) sales and operating revenue.(1) Despite this being one of the largest oil spills we know of to date, spilling potentially millions of gallons everyday, BP is still making money hand-over-fist.
On May 21, 1901 William Knox D'Arcy, a British-born, Australian Gold tycoon (Mt. Morgan), became an oil tycoon. With a little help from the Queen, he was able to offer the Shah of Persia an offer that was too good to pass up, and D'Arcy secured the rights to over 480,000 square miles of Persia for oil exploration, for 60 years. The deal became known as the D'Arcy Concession.(2) Upon hard-times and years of searching, funds were dwindling and D'Arcy began negotiations with the French branch of the Rothschild's Banking Dynasty, before finally settling on a deal with Burmah Oil, creating Anglo-Persian Oil.(3)
The precursor to this was the Anglo-Persian War in 1856, and dealings of the East India Company, in what is now modern-day Iran. Following the discovery of oil, and the first-ever oil-well in the Middle East, came World War I and II. Winston Churchhill advocated the use of oil over coal, and Anglo-Persian Oil became the number one supplier of crude to the Royal Navy. The British Government also became majority shareholder and backer of further oil exploration and expansion, although this is no longer the case, as the government sold off all it's shares in 1987.(1)(5)
In the United States, Standard Oil of Indiana (A Rockefeller Subsidy) had been in business for over 25 years and had the market cornered.(4) Standard Oil of Indiana eventually became American Oil Company, AMOCO, which later merged with British Petroleum in 1998.(5)
The oil industry began well over 100 years ago, yet we still, by the millions, wake each morning and jump in our cars without question, driving off to work, filling our gas tanks full of gasoline, robbing the Earth of her precious resources, and then polluting ourselves and the environment to boot. British Petroleum, among the handful of others, continue to reap billions upon billions of our hard-earned money, as they show without flinching, as long as the money is rolling in, they will run public relations campaigns, 24/7/365, and exercise "perception management" and "deep-pockets" and continue on like as though nothing of significance is happening. It's just another day in the office...
(1)http://www.bp.com (British Petroleum Official)
(2)http://turtlebunbury.com/darcy/ (The D'Arcy Family-A Family History by Turtle Bunbury)
(3)http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080230b.htm (Australian Dictionary of Biography Online)
(4)http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2863.html (Encyclopedia of Chicago)
(5)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/149259.stm (British Broadcasting Company)
By Jason L.G.
As oil and natural gas gush into the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum rests on it's 18.3 billion barrel-reserve and it's $239 billion ('09) sales and operating revenue.(1) Despite this being one of the largest oil spills we know of to date, spilling potentially millions of gallons everyday, BP is still making money hand-over-fist.
On May 21, 1901 William Knox D'Arcy, a British-born, Australian Gold tycoon (Mt. Morgan), became an oil tycoon. With a little help from the Queen, he was able to offer the Shah of Persia an offer that was too good to pass up, and D'Arcy secured the rights to over 480,000 square miles of Persia for oil exploration, for 60 years. The deal became known as the D'Arcy Concession.(2) Upon hard-times and years of searching, funds were dwindling and D'Arcy began negotiations with the French branch of the Rothschild's Banking Dynasty, before finally settling on a deal with Burmah Oil, creating Anglo-Persian Oil.(3)
The precursor to this was the Anglo-Persian War in 1856, and dealings of the East India Company, in what is now modern-day Iran. Following the discovery of oil, and the first-ever oil-well in the Middle East, came World War I and II. Winston Churchhill advocated the use of oil over coal, and Anglo-Persian Oil became the number one supplier of crude to the Royal Navy. The British Government also became majority shareholder and backer of further oil exploration and expansion, although this is no longer the case, as the government sold off all it's shares in 1987.(1)(5)
In the United States, Standard Oil of Indiana (A Rockefeller Subsidy) had been in business for over 25 years and had the market cornered.(4) Standard Oil of Indiana eventually became American Oil Company, AMOCO, which later merged with British Petroleum in 1998.(5)
The oil industry began well over 100 years ago, yet we still, by the millions, wake each morning and jump in our cars without question, driving off to work, filling our gas tanks full of gasoline, robbing the Earth of her precious resources, and then polluting ourselves and the environment to boot. British Petroleum, among the handful of others, continue to reap billions upon billions of our hard-earned money, as they show without flinching, as long as the money is rolling in, they will run public relations campaigns, 24/7/365, and exercise "perception management" and "deep-pockets" and continue on like as though nothing of significance is happening. It's just another day in the office...
(1)http://www.bp.com (British Petroleum Official)
(2)http://turtlebunbury.com/darcy/ (The D'Arcy Family-A Family History by Turtle Bunbury)
(3)http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080230b.htm (Australian Dictionary of Biography Online)
(4)http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2863.html (Encyclopedia of Chicago)
(5)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/149259.stm (British Broadcasting Company)
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