Global Sustainable Energy Initiative
The Arabian Desert Solar Energy Consortium Planed to produce Electricity and hydrogen to export to Europe The Global Hydrogen Initiative The Arabian deserts build the basis for a global grid joining India, China Australia and North America.The Arabian technology will secure its leadership on the future global energy market. | NEWS 04.07.2010: Dependence on oil, natural gas and coal and uranium alters geologic formations aged million years 21.06.2010: The German Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophe 17.06.2010: BP deal with Obama reminds the Bhopal tragedy of Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals. 05.06.2010: Solar power may reduce pollution in Kuwait 04.06.2010: Weak regulations of the US Government caused the oil spill of deepwater Horizon rig. |
| OBAMA MUST ABANDONE THE DESTRUCTIVE POLITICS OF OIL, COAL AND GAS. HE MUST EMBRACE THE HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY The American government is guilty of these catastrophes because it continues to follow a wrong obsolete energy politics. IT IS TIME TO PHASE OUT OIL |
17.06.2010: Obama's deal with BP 2010 revives the gas tragedy of Bhopal in 1984. [1]
BP agreed on June 17 2010 to President Barack Obama's demand to place about $20 billion in a special fund to pay damage claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [2]. It seems to be a PR exit strategy of Obama an BP as well.
It is unclear how BP will pay for the escrow account, a first sum of two billion are expected. Residents complain that the claims process is too long and complicated and that BP is paying out too little money. Kenneth Feinberg will administer the BP escrow fund. He also oversaw a compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack . Many relatives of the victims, in special the members of the NY fire department, were discontent.
Deals of a government with enterprises always result in protecting the industry. The most prominent case was the methyl isocyanate gas tragedy of Bhopal/India when Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals was found liable for the disaster, but has denied responsibility. Dow says the legal case was resolved in 1989 claiming that Union Carbide paid $470 million as settlement. Most of deaths and disabilities were not compensated. Today poisonous chemicals released by Union Carbide/Dow Chemicals still threatens the whole region. The gulf oil spill will also poison the whole region for decades contaminating marine life and seafood.
Reasonable claims ?: The British Prime Minister David Cameron is backing BP saying the company was eager to face claims arising from the spill but it should not have to pay any that are too far removed from the disaster. Questions will arise about how damage on people an on the environment will ever be compensated under such requirements.
Meanwhile the oil spill is expected to go on until August, when a relief drilling is expected to halt up more than 60,000 barrels per day of crude oil flowing from the well. The water of the Gulf of Mexico will be poisoned for half a century. The hydrogen alternative to oil can be installed within three month. However neither President Obama, his Energy Ministry Steven Chu, nor the Congress of the United States have the guts to change the "Bhopal misery of the Gulf of Mexico".
The US government is nothing more than a plaything of the almighty lobby of the energy giants which will use the claim fund to play down the water poisoning and maintain the status quo.
[1] Bhopal: A long road: the 26 year timeline of the criminal case.
http://bhopal.net/2010dharna/blog/
[2] BP Establishes $20 Billion Claims Fund for Deepwater Horizon Spill and Outlines Dividend Decisions. BP 16 June 20101.
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7062966
Who is guilty of the environmental catastrophe?
BP is not to be blamed for this. Obama, his Secretary Steven Chu, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the President of the EU Commission José Manuel Barroso and the German Chancellor Merkel are responsible for the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon rig. These politicians received the proposition of a global hydrogen initiative. They failed to adopt the new clean solar energy and wind turbines to produce hydrogen. In spite of growing uncertainty in the production of fossil fuels, growing environmental disruption these politicians continued to rely on oil, coal and natural gas.
Obama's Last Exit of the misery
Obama has only one last exit out of this misery. He must gather car producers, bank CEOs, electricity and oil giants in his Oval Office and declare them the initiation of a hydrogen initiative of the government, with the participation of willing industry. He must declare that unwilling companies will be left out of the new economy. The Global Hydrogen Initiative
Oil spill of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon
| The Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank after an explosion on 23 of april 2010. The resulting oil spill endangers the whole wild life of the Mexican Gulf. Nature has to pay for the rampant consume desire of USA. Chaotic energy politics of USA poisons ocean food chain The oil spill threatens the biology of the Atlantic Ocean. To reduce the oil at the surface chemical dispersants are used in enormous quantities. The dispersed oil will travel all over the Atlantic, driven by the Gulf Stream which splits in the north and south stream. This is the price for the obstinacy of politicians handling energy matters, clearly demonstrated at Copenhagen climate conference. Picture source: US Coast Guard -100421 |  |
Obama and his Secretary of Energy Steven Chu continue the disastrous politics of George W. Bush expanding deepwater oil exploration of the US. Offshore drilling is planed to increase crude oil production to cope with rising demand, instead of supporting solar and wind energy with hydrogen as fuel for transportation and also as an energy storage.
Obama and Steven Chu cringe before the mighty energy corporation, instead of supporting Solar and wind energy together with hydrogen as fuel and energy storage.