Friday, May 14, 2010

New Oil Spill Video Released Revealing Depths Of Environmental Despair

New Oil Spill Video Released Revealing Depths Of Environmental Despair

 Just when you may have thought that the Gulf oil spill was falling out of the news spotlight, new video footage emerges that reminds us of the scale and enormous impact of this environmental (and potentially economic) disaster. First is a 30 second clip of the actual leak: crude oil spilling into the water which was taped via cameras mounted to robotic vehicles sent 5,000 feet into the ocean. The second is what appears to be a homemade video from Alabama resident John Wathen as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Both are incredibly effective.

The first video featured on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and reported by Ed Lavandera:


The second clip is a homemade video made by John Wathen, an environmentalist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama who narrates the 5 minute video clip shot from an airplane flying overhead. The plaintive voice and southern drawl transcends political opinion, particularly when Wathen claims that he has never used the word “hopeless” before to describe an environmental disaster. Until now.
The video is just beginning to go viral – expect to read and hear more about it in the coming days.











3 comments:

  1. i just want to say thank-you for taking the time to make these posts. This oil leak/volcano- is far far worse than anything that is being said publicly. thanx

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  2. Hurricane Keeper
    By Dwight Baker
    May 27, 2010
    Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

    Eagles Eye View Aiming at Issues for We the People Advocates

    The truth will set us Free, the video that you provided to us all should See. For truth is in seeing. Convoluted messages have come at us from almost every angle. The media hucksters and hypesters have been busy trying to spin this horrific man made crisis into something it is simply not. I believe in the annals of mans history this will go down as the worst of the worst event, you said decades of decadence yet it might be more like centuries, unless measures are taken right now to protect and persevere the wet lands.

    Your video is the best of the best and our President will see it tomorrow. It will help him and his staff immensely in their improved perspectives of getting down to the raw core of what must be done now STOP THE OIL. Hats off to this fine Blog for those that want to know the truth MUST come here. I will begin to reference this site on all material that I publish.

    Now my wife and I sat last night in a terrible fright after seeing CNN go back into the marsh lands and witness the real not the surreal of the disaster laying there so hard to get to, in shallow waters, that is the breeding ground of the Gulf Coast.

    Thus, this was our thought I would like to share with you.
    Fire the purifier can save the Gulf shallows WE Pray!
    By Dwight Baker
    May 27, 2010
    Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

    Eagles Eye View Aiming at Issues for We the People Advocates

    Building of dykes to protect against more oil from going ashore into ‘the marshes the breeding bed of the Gulf’ needs to get underway and that means today.

    Forget about sponging up the oil that is there now, using all efforts to get the dykes made NOW. Our people living around the Gulf are overworked frustrated to the bitter ends of human understanding and we the few must come to the needs of the people with ideas of how to bring about changes that will work.

    After the dykes are made and tested to make sure no more oil can come ashore in those places. Bring in Air force bombers loaded with napalm bombs to set the marshes ablaze. And keep repeating until all is fully ablaze. Fire will purge out all the oil and gases and also give the plant life a new breath of fresh air to again grow back to once again be the breeding bed of the Gulf.

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