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May 18, 2010
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Oil Rush to Hell ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718723/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175249/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_oil_rush_to_hell/ )
[TomDispatch Follow-Up: Three weeks ago, Noam Chomsky wrote a blistering piece at TomDispatch, “Eyeless in Gaza ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718724/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175239/noam_chomsky_eyeless_in_gaza ),” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It might be worth a reread or catch his TomCast audio interview here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718725/25612/goto:http://tomdispatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/noam-chomsky-speaks-with-timothy.html ). This week, the 81-year-old Chomsky got a firsthand taste of the situation there when Israel’s Interior Ministry refused ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718726/25612/goto:http://warincontext.org/2010/05/17/after-denied-entry-to-west-bank-chomsky-likens-israel-to-stalinist-regime/ ) his daughter and him entry into Israel and the West Bank. He was to give a talk at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah and his rejection ostensibly came, in part, because he
was not lecturing at an Israeli university as well (though he has done so many times in the past). By now, practically an international incident, it caught something of the depressingly extreme mood of the moment ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718727/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/middleeast/18chomsky.html ) in Israel.]
It took President Obama 24 days to finally get publicly angry ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718728/25612/goto:http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100514/NEWS03/5150341/Obama-rips-oil-drillers-oversight ) and “rip” into BP and its partners for the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. What was he waiting for? The pattern has been obvious enough: however bad you thought it was, or anyone said it was at any given moment, it’s worse (and will get worse yet ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718729/25612/goto:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jf8KgVCVcika0ZArKPqnF1Rrbheg )). Just take the numbers.
In the first days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20th, reports from the Coast Guard and BP indicated that no oil ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718730/25612/goto:http://www.oilonline.com/News/NewsArticles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/32629/Coast-Guard-no-oil-leak-at-BP-well.aspx ) was leaking into the Gulf from the damaged well. Then, the oil giant reported ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718731/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html ) that, actually, about 1,000 barrels a day were coming out of it. Almost immediately the federal government raised that figure to 5,000 barrels, which remained the generally accepted estimate until, under pressure, BP finally released a dramatic 30-second clip ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718732/25612/goto:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPPFcy-3Vo ) of the actual leak at the wellhead. By then, according to ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/2127187
33/25612/goto:http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/19829169 ) ABC News, both the company and the White House had had access to the video for three weeks and obviously knew that the gold-standard estimate was wrong by a country mile. Since then, estimates by scientists viewing the video clip (who have been prevented by BP from visiting the site itself, looking at more material, or taking more accurate measurements), run from 25,000 barrels ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718734/25612/goto:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051404526_pf.html ) to a staggering 70,000 barrels ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718735/25612/goto:http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/47534 ) a day or more ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718736/25612/goto:http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0516/Gulf-oil-spill-real-disaster-might-be-lurking-beneath-the-surface ) -- up to, that is, 3.4 million gallons of oil daily, which would me
an an Exxon Valdez-sized spill every few days.
The BP disaster in the Gulf may prove historic in the worst sense -- especially since much of its damage still remains out of sight, hidden below the surface of the Gulf’s waters in what already are gigantic plumes ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718737/25612/goto:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkizwl1juq5nw6XDJ9UTfq9bY0dwD9FOK1280 ) of oil in the water column going down 4,000 feet that threaten to rob Gulf waters of oxygen and create vast dead zones in areas previously rich in sea life. Simply put, this is scary stuff, environmental damage on a scale we don’t normally contemplate. And it’s probably just a start, given that whatever news story comes next only seems to have more of the same -- including the fact that the Obama administration’s Interior Department followed in the infamous footsteps of the Bush administration. In 2009, it “exempted ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718738/25612/goto:http://
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html ) BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis.” (And, of course, mere weeks before the explosion, the president was urging yet more deep-water off-shore drilling and reassuring Americans that it wasn’t terribly dangerous, while less than two weeks before its oil rig blew, BP was vigorously lobbying to expand its exemptions.)
At TomDispatch, Michael Klare, author of the invaluable Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718739/25612/goto:http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805089217/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20 ), has been warning for years that the easy oil and natural gas energy reserves on Planet Earth are quickly disappearing and that we’re entering a “tough oil” ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718740/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174829/klare_tough_oil_on_tap ) era. Thanks to the depletion ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718741/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175210/tomgram:_michael_klare,_another_planet_for_james_cameron/ ) of other crucial natural resources as well, the century to come is likely to prove more extreme in many ways, including the climate. BP has given us an unfortunate taste of that extremity. And that’s at only 5,000 feet below the waves. What
will happen when BP starts drilling down 35,000 feet ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718742/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175127/michael_klare_energy_xtremism ) under the Gulf for the giant oil reserves it’s dubbed Tiber, located some 250 miles southeast of Houston, and something goes wrong? Hold your hats. Simply put, this is the path to hell. When will an “angry” president really mobilize the government to deal with this disaster (and the others to come)? Tom
The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy
A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet
ByMichael T. Klare ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718743/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/michaelklare )
Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718744/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html ) could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil ( http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718745/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174829/klare_tough_oil_on_tap ), a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy sources. Make no mistake: we’re entering the danger zone. And brace yourself, the fate of the planet could be at stake.
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<span style="color:#962D00;font-style:italic;">May 18, 2010</span><br />
<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718687/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175249/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_oil_rush_to_hell/" style="font-size:16pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none; color:#000000" > Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Oil Rush to Hell</a>
<p style="font-size:11pt;">[<strong>TomDispatch Follow-Up:</strong> <em>Three weeks ago, Noam Chomsky wrote a blistering piece at TomDispatch, “<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718688/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175239/noam_chomsky_eyeless_in_gaza" target="_blank" >Eyeless in Gaza</a>,” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It might be worth a reread or catch his TomCast audio interview <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718689/25612/goto:http://tomdispatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/noam-chomsky-speaks-with-timothy.html" >here</a>. This week, the 81-year-old Chomsky got a firsthand taste of the situation there when Israel’s Interior Ministry <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718690/25612/goto:http://warincontext.org/2010/05/17/after-denied-entry-to-west-bank-chomsky-likens-israel-to-stalinist-regime/" target="_blank" >refused</a> his daughter and him entry into Israel and t
he West Bank. He was to give a talk at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah and his rejection ostensibly came, in part, because he was not lecturing at an Israeli university as well (though he has done so many times in the past). By now, practically an international incident, it caught something of the depressingly extreme <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718691/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/middleeast/18chomsky.html" target="_blank" >mood of the moment</a> in Israel.</em>]
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It took President Obama 24 days to finally get publicly <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718692/25612/goto:http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100514/NEWS03/5150341/Obama-rips-oil-drillers-oversight" >angry</a> and “rip” into BP and its partners for the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. What was he waiting for? The pattern has been obvious enough: however bad you thought it was, or anyone said it was at any given moment, it’s worse (and will get <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718693/25612/goto:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jf8KgVCVcika0ZArKPqnF1Rrbheg" >worse yet</a>). Just take the numbers.
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In the first days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20th, reports from the Coast Guard and BP indicated that <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718694/25612/goto:http://www.oilonline.com/News/NewsArticles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/32629/Coast-Guard-no-oil-leak-at-BP-well.aspx" >no oil</a> was leaking into the Gulf from the damaged well. Then, the oil giant <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718695/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html" >reported</a> that, actually, about 1,000 barrels a day were coming out of it. Almost immediately the federal government raised that figure to 5,000 barrels, which remained the generally accepted estimate until, under pressure, BP finally released a dramatic <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718696/25612/goto:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPPFcy-3Vo" >30-second clip</a> of the actual leak at the wellhead. By then, <a href=
"http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718697/25612/goto:http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/19829169" >according to</a> ABC News, both the company and the White House had had access to the video for three weeks and obviously knew that the gold-standard estimate was wrong by a country mile. Since then, estimates by scientists viewing the video clip (who have been prevented by BP from visiting the site itself, looking at more material, or taking more accurate measurements), run from <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718698/25612/goto:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051404526_pf.html" >25,000 barrels</a> to a staggering <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718699/25612/goto:http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/47534" >70,000 barrels</a> a day <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718700/25612/goto:http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0516/Gulf-oil-spill-real-disaster-might-be-
l
u rking-beneath-the-surface" >or more</a> -- up to, that is, 3.4
million gallons of oil daily, which would mean an Exxon Valdez-sized spill every few days.
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The BP disaster in the Gulf may prove historic in the worst sense -- especially since much of its damage still remains out of sight, hidden below the surface of the Gulf’s waters in what already are gigantic <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718701/25612/goto:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkizwl1juq5nw6XDJ9UTfq9bY0dwD9FOK1280" >plumes</a> of oil in the water column going down 4,000 feet that threaten to rob Gulf waters of oxygen and create vast dead zones in areas previously rich in sea life. Simply put, this is scary stuff, environmental damage on a scale we don’t normally contemplate. And it’s probably just a start, given that whatever news story comes next only seems to have more of the same -- including the fact that the Obama administration’s Interior Department followed in the infamous footsteps of the Bush administration. In 2009, it “<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/
212718702/25612/goto:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html" >exempted</a> BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis.” (And, of course, mere weeks before the explosion, the president was urging yet more deep-water off-shore drilling and reassuring Americans that it wasn’t terribly dangerous, while less than two weeks before its oil rig blew, BP was vigorously lobbying to expand its exemptions.)
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At TomDispatch, Michael Klare, author of the invaluable <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718703/25612/goto:http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805089217/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" >Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy</a>, has been warning for years that the easy oil and natural gas energy reserves on Planet Earth are quickly disappearing and that we’re entering a <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718704/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174829/klare_tough_oil_on_tap" >“tough oil”</a> era. Thanks to the <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718705/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175210/tomgram:_michael_klare,_another_planet_for_james_cameron/" >depletion</a> of other crucial natural resources as well, the century to come is likely to prove more extreme in many ways, including the climate. BP has given us an unfortunate taste of that extremity. And
that’s at only 5,000 feet below the waves. What will happen when BP starts drilling <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718706/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175127/michael_klare_energy_xtremism" >down 35,000 feet</a> under the Gulf for the giant oil reserves it’s dubbed Tiber, located some 250 miles southeast of Houston, and something goes wrong? Hold your hats. Simply put, this is the path to hell. When will an “angry” president really mobilize the government to deal with this disaster (and the others to come)? <em>Tom</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet</strong></span><br />
By <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718707/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/michaelklare" >Michael T. Klare</a></p>
<p>Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718708/25612/goto:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html" >staggering quantities</a> could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of<strong> </strong><a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6679910343/208199939/212718709/25612/goto:http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174829/klare_tough_oil_on_tap" >Tough Oil</a>, a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy sources. Make no mistake: we’re entering the danger zone. And brace yourself, the fate of the planet could be at stake.</p>
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