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Retrospective Program Panel Billy Nungesser, President Plaquemines Parish Louisiana & Scientist Dr. Brian O'Leary
'A Cry for Help in the Aftermath
of the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Horizon Disaster'
Radio Streaming
Broadcast: February 8, 2012
Billy Nungesser - President
The Parish
Plaquemines Parish Louisiana is a World Class Fishing Destination. The mighty Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish is the Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, this area is fed by an abundance of water
making our fishing habitats some
of the best in the world. Plaquemines is also home to over 78 fresh and saltwater lakes and is spread out over hundreds of miles of coastline. You can fish anywhere, but you catch fish in Plaquemines Parish. The Plaquemines Tourist Board.
"The Gulf of Mexico Disaster" - The Deep Water
Horizon MACADO 252 Disaster
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the
BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the Macondo blowout) is a massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now
considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.Some estimates placed it by late May or early June as among the largest
oil spills in the world with tens of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor 10,000 foot deep
oil gusher (MC252) that followed the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform
workers and injured 17 others. The gusher, now estimated by the quasi-official Flow Rate Technical Group to be flowing at
20,000 to 40,000 barrels (840,000 to 1,700,000 US gallons; 3,200,000 to 6,400,000 litres) of crude oil per day, originates
from a deepwater wellhead 5,000 feet (1,500 m) below the ocean surface. The exact spill flow rate is uncertain in
part because BP has refused to allow independent scientists to perform accurate measurements and is a matter of ongoing debate.
The resulting oil slick covers a surface area of at least 2,500 square miles (6,500 km2), with the exact size and
location of the slick fluctuating from day to day depending on weather conditions.
Scientists have also reported immense underwater plumes of
oil not visible at the surface. Experts fear that the spill will result in an environmental disaster, with extensive impact
already on marine and wildlife habitats. The spill has also damaged the Gulf of Mexico fishing and tourism industries. There
have been a variety of ongoing efforts to stem the flow of oil at the wellhead. Crews have been working to protect hundreds
of miles of beaches, wetlands and estuaries along the northern Gulf coast, using skimmer ships, floating containment booms,
anchored barriers, and sand-filled barricades along shorelines. The U.S. Government has named BP as the responsible party
in the incident, and officials have said the company will be held accountable for all cleanup costs resulting from the oil
spill.
Guest:Dr. Brian O'Leary
Biography
Dr. O’Leary, Ph.D., is a scientist-philosopher with fifty years of experience in academic research,
teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy. He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the
Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and participated in unmanned planetary missions as an
Ivy League professor.
Over the past four decades,
Dr. O’Leary has been an international author, speaker, peace activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive
U.S. Congress members and presidential candidates.
Brian’s latest book, “The Energy Solution
Revolution”, describes the enormous potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, their suppression and their
logical necessity for our survival. Zero-point (vacuum) energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen and water chemistry
could provide us all an abundant future for all of humanity.
In 2004, he and his wife, the artist Meredith Miller,
moved to the Andes in Ecuador, where they co-created Montesuenos – an eco-retreat and educational center dedicated to
creativity and the rights of nature.
A passionate environmentalist
open to innovative solutions, Dr. O'Leary was special consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy
and the Environment, wrote speeches and was senior advisor to environmental presidential candidate Morris Udall. He also helped
presidential candidates George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Jesse Jackson on economic policies to convert from polluting and
military activities to green initiatives.He is currently on the faculty of the University of Philosophical Research in Los
Angeles, teaching in the Masters program in Transformational Psychology. He is co-founder of the New Energy Movement (no longer
President). He has recently completed the Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Course and lectures widely at their ashrams and
centers throughout the world. He is co-founder of the International Association of New Science and advisor to Dennis Weaver's
Institute of Ecolonomics.
Over the past decade, Dr. Oleary has spoken or led workshops at the Esalen Insitute, the Findhorn Foundation,
Oxford University, St. James Picadilly, State of the World Forum, the United Nations Youth Assembly, the International Conferences
on Science and Consciouness, the International Forums on New Science, the Philosophical Research Society, the International
Institute of Integral Human Sciences, Unity churches, Chuches of Religious Science, the Yuba Seminars and dozens of other
venues worldwide. With his artist-wife Meredith, Brian is founding Montesueños, a retreat center and botanical garden
in the Ecuadorian Andes dedicated to finding deep peaceful and sustainable solutions to humankind's war on nature and to implement
these at local, regional and global levels of action. They also plan to have many workshops and residences in the arts.
Many international groups will be coming during 2008 to launch this unique new facility, known for its great natural beauty.
During these times of global political change and fiscal
austerity, it seems that only one class of clean, renewable and sustainable energy sources can get us through these times:
new, breakthrough "free" energy. If properly understood and developed, these previously suppressed technologies
are the only path towards having affordable clean energy. The sources include vacuum energy, cold fusion and advanced hydrogen
chemistries.
The capital investment and environmental impact required to deploy free energy to replace hydrocarbons
and nuclear energy would be miniscule compared to the trillions needed to implement a pervasive economy of any other source,
even including conventional renewables such as solar, wind and biofuels. The Energy Solution Revolution is a social and political
mandate to create an awareness and a movement to develop these sources as soon as possible for the sake of all humanity and
the Earth.
Dr. O’Leary is passionate
about bringing new energy solutions into mainstream consciousness. "Embracing the possibility of a breakthrough energy
solution revolution should be our mandate, not an idle speculation to be ignored, ridiculed or feared. To thread the needle
of free energy, a critical mass of us will need to muster the courage to take this fire walk together. New energy offers the
world clean and abundant sources of power and represents a conscious choice we must make if humanity is to survive and prosper.”
