{"id":1373759,"date":"2022-03-13T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373759"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T12:17:14","slug":"humberto-fontova-putin-isnt-the-one-who-banned-u-s-offshore-oil-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humberto-fontova-putin-isnt-the-one-who-banned-u-s-offshore-oil-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Humberto Fontova: Putin Isn\u2019t the One Who Banned U.S. Offshore Oil Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhumberto-fontova-putin-isnt-the-one-who-banned-u-s-offshore-oil-drilling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. \u00a0No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.&#8221; (Candidate Joe Biden, Democratic Presidential debates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_M_kMDSdISQ\">March 15, 2020.<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well, whatever else we might say about Biden, we can\u2019t say he fudged on that campaign pledge. One consequential calamity stares us in the face every time we pump gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One calamity Greenies often trumpet in support of Biden\u2019s Green New Deal is the BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast in April, 2010. For those who only remember the hysterical headlines of the time, perhaps some follow-up clarifications are in order:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere\u2019s just no data to suggest this is an environmental disaster,\u201d said marine scientist and former Louisiana State University professor Ivor van Heerden, who also worked as a BP spill-response contractor. \u201cI have no interest in making BP look good &#8211; I think they lied about the size of the spill &#8211; but we\u2019re not seeing catastrophic impacts. There\u2019s a lot of hype, but no evidence to justify it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These observations came on the very heels of the spill\u2014a mere three months afterward, making them all the more blasphemous at the time. Within one short year they\u2019d been completely vindicated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I grew up in southern Louisiana and spend most weekends along the Louisiana coast hooking, spearing, gaffing, blasting and otherwise assassinating the raw ingredients of family meals. So I had more than a casual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-87131-936-4\">concern with the BP oil spill.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The reasons this \u201cdisaster\u201d fizzled out are many, and were apparent to non-hack scientists from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cPeople don\u2019t comprehend how so much oil could break down in such a short time period,\u201d explained LuAnn White, a toxicologist with the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine who also served as director of the Center for Applied Environmental Health. \u201cBut we have natural oil seeps in the Gulf, and over 200 genera of microbes that break down oil already exist there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt cannot be repeated often enough,\u201d said Louisiana marine biologist Jerald Horst. Crude oil is a natural substance; it\u2019s biodegradable. It\u2019s a feast for microbes. And these consumed most of it from the BP spill.\u201d The horrid black goo that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP spill was certainly toxic &#8211; but so are broccoli, beer and salt \u2014 it all depends on the dosage. In fact, that horrid black goo has spilled naturally into the Gulf for millenniums &#8211; at the rate of two Exxon Valdez spills annually.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A study by the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&#038;M University found 600 \u201coil spills\u201d into the Gulf, all ancient if not prehistoric, all antiseptically \u201cnatural\u201d and all courtesy of earth goddess Gaia. In fact, these \u201cspills\u201d probably saved the survivors of Hernando De Soto\u2019s plucky band of explorers, who record caulking their boats in 1542 with the abundant tar balls found along an eastern Texas beach. The study also reports that in 1909, a genuine gusher was spotted in the same area, shooting crude oil high into the air from the Gulf floor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Not all these gushers lie below the Gulf, however. In fact, one of Mother Earth\u2019s biggest \u201cspills\u201d is off Southern California\u2019s coast at Coal Oil Point, not far from the homes of \u201cenvironmental activists\u201d Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, Brad Pitt, Ed Begley Jr. and many, many others of their ilk. This spill gushes an estimated 3,000 gallons of crude oil daily into the waters off Malibu beach. Yet none of the above \u201cactivists\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/seeps.geol.ucsb.edu\/pages\/emissionestimates.html\">appears overly agitated over this \u201cdisaster.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nothing normally soothes the savage beast of an environmentalist like the notion of a substance being \u201cbiodegradable.\u201d Indeed, the term \u201cenvironmentally friendly\u201d has become almost its synonym. Well, crude oil is about as biodegradable as substances come, especially when spewed into warm, microbe-filled waters like those in the Gulf of Mexico. Hence the stratospheric dunce caps crowning so many \u201cenvironmentalist\u201d heads a mere year after \u201cthe worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe damaging effects of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be felt all the way to Europe and the Arctic!\u201d a \u201ctop scientist\u201d told a congressional panel shortly after the spill, reported by CNN.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In fact, the damaging effects were hardly visible in Louisiana a few months later. Mr. van Heerden, who spent most of his days inspecting the Louisiana coast, found that less than 1 square mile of coastal marsh had been severely oiled, mostly around Timbalier Bay. That\u2019s out of 5,300 square miles of Louisiana coastal marsh and swamp, by the way.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And by July, 2010 the \u201cseverely oiled\u201d areas were already bouncing back. \u201cVan Heerden\u2019s assessment team showed me around Casse-tete Island in Timbalier Bay,\u201d Time magazine\u2019s Michael Grunwald wrote back then, \u201cwhere new shoots of Spartina [marsh] grasses were sprouting in oiled marshes and new leaves were already growing on the first black mangroves I\u2019ve ever seen that were actually black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAh,\u201d you ask, \u201cbut what about that poisonous chemical used as a dispersant for the oil?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You probably ingested traces of this poisonous chemical compound with last night\u2019s dinner, and other traces probably coat your pots, pans, cups, spoons and forks right now. Some people call the dispersant Corexit 9500 &#8211; and some call it soap. Essentially, it\u2019s Dawn dishwashing detergent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDispersants are not very toxic,\u201d explains Robert Dickey, director of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory. \u201cThey are detergents and solvents, and they become rapidly diluted. One square mile of seawater one foot deep is 200 million gallons. We added 1.8 million gallons in the whole Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Point is: You add much higher concentration to your kitchen sink to make your dishes \u201csafe\u201d for your family.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After the spill, the FDA\u2019s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s National Seafood Inspection Laboratory, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and similar agencies from neighboring Gulf Coast states have methodically and repeatedly tested Gulf seafood for cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNot a single sample [for oil or dispersant] has come anywhere close to levels of concern,\u201d reported Olivia Watkins, executive media adviser for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAll of the samples have been 100-fold or even 1,000-fold below all of these levels,\u201d reports Mr. Dickey, the seafood laboratory director. \u201cNothing ever came close to these levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An earlier study by Dr. Charles Wilson of LSU&#8217;s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science put the scientific touche\u2019 to something fishermen had known for decades: &#8220;The fish biomass around an offshore oil platform is ten times greater per unit area than for natural coral reefs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In brief, &#8220;villainous&#8221; Big Oil produces marine life at rates that puts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Helldivers-Rodeo-Scuba-Diving-Adventure-Oil-Platforms\/dp\/0871319365\">to shame the Greenies\u2019 &#8220;wondrous&#8221; Earth Goddess Gaia.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry. \u00a0No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. 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