This is an attorney who makes his living suing oil companies. Not the most objective or reliable source.

I'd like something approaching "evidence" on this one.

Well there was this: http://onwingsofcare.org/protection-a-pr....

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To summarize: We found significant amounts of oil in globule form still at the Deepwater Horizon (DH) site and at the Taylor Energy site, and we saw miles-long surface rainbow sheens from two different leaking platforms between DH and the Chandeleur Islands. Eight shrimp boats with their nets in the water were within one mile of these two leaking platforms. In the 'blue waters' out toward the DH site we were puzzled by some long, wide, unnatural-looking dark-green colored stripes. Finally, dark brownish-red subsurface plumes like what we had previously documented around Breton Island (Mar 2011) spanned miles in width and length, right up to the coastlines, beginning where the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet ("MR-GO") meets the Gulf south to Breton Sound.

Though I think a number of people significantly under-estimate the amount of oil that has always leaked into the Gulf from rigs and such. They're just paying attention now.

The stuff linked toward the bottom is what actually got my attention. Particularly:

Hiring 40+ boats to lay booms around the site is really the most telling though, isn't it?

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I thought i read something last week on MSNBC about the spill, "reappearing"..
I thought I was right, here is a related Artical..
Aug 19..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424....

LONDON—BP PLC said Thursday it and other oil companies were investigating the potential source of a "sheen" observed in the Gulf of Mexico by the U.S. Coast Guard last week but added there was no immediate indication it was the result of a new oil spill.

BP said it was asked late last week by the Coast Guard to investigate possible sources for the sheen, along with other oil and gas operators in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico, but said the sheen was observed in a location that wasn't near any existing BP operations.

It said the sheen is in an area about 180 miles southwest of its Macondo well, where an explosion in April 2010 explosion killed 11 people and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

BP didn't say which other operators have also been asked to investigate the source of the sheen. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement wouldn't name specific companies asked to investigate the sheen. BP said it didn't know the size of the sheen as reported by the Coast Guard, but said the sheen has since dissipated.

A sheen is a shiny coating that floats on the surface of the water and could come from leaked or spilled oil.

BP said it does have two abandoned exploration-well sites in the area and sent an unmanned submarine last weekend to explore lease blocks GC 461 and GC 463, which are the locations of the abandoned well sites.

BP said it observed cloudy water around well site GC 463 but that drilling records suggest the presence of a naturally occurring shallow-water flow that may be the source of the cloudy water.

"We will confirm the contents of the material and report back to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement," BP said. "At this time we don't believe it to be hydrocarbon, but silt kicked up from the shallow water flow. We don't believe the cloudy water is the source or contributed to the sheen."

The bureau , known as BOEMRE, said it will try to determine whether the sheen is associated with abandoned wells in the area.

"We will continue to investigate the situation and coordinate with the Coast Guard as needed," said Melissa Schwartz, the bureau's deputy chief of staff.

BP said the incident was unrelated to a separate silvery sheen identified emanating from its Thunderhorse platform in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday.

A two-foot-wide band of sheen stretching 30 feet from the platform, which is located in deep water south of the Mississippi-Alabama state line, was reported to the National Response Center on Tuesday.

BP told federal pollution regulators that the unspecified substance came from a discharge pipe and that it was adjusting waste-treatment chemicals on the platform to remedy the problem, according to a government filing.

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No oil is leaking from the capped Macondo well that blew out last year, destroying the Deepwater Horizon floating platform and killing 11 workers, a BP spokesman said Thursday.

BP also has not hired any vessels to clean up any oil in that area of the Gulf of Mexico, said spokesman Daren Beaudo.

Note the carefully worded highly specific denial.

As per the Coast Guard,



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/2....

On ZH G.W. quoted Ed Overton say the oil was a match for Macondo. Here is a little more of what Ed had to say.

Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University chemist leading efforts to analyze the BP spill, said samples from sheens found earlier in the week near the site of the disaster matched the fingerprint of the crude that spewed from BP's well.

"It is essentially identical," Overton told The Associated Press when reached by telephone Friday. "It means that it is oil that came from that general area."

He said the amount of oil found was very small and that the sheen — reported by the Press-Register newspaper in Mobile, Ala., this week.— may have amounted to as little as a gallon of oil. "This is a leak of a real small amount of oil," he said. "We're not looking at a repeat of last summer."

Because the sheen was so small, he said it might be coming from a leak that would be hard to find, perhaps from a "fissure in source rock or from somewhere else."

Overton said it was possible the oil could be from the mile-long pipe called a riser that extended between the Deepwater Horizon and the well when the blowout occurred. The riser, along with the Deepwater Horizon, sank to the bottom of the Gulf. He said oil may have been trapped in the riser and is only now dribbling out. He said the small sheens documented this week resembled leaks in the past found escaping from sunken damaged vessels.

I think G.W. is a panic monkey. Makes me question the veracity of his other posts.