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June 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/06/2010 11:46 PM Page 1 THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER Planet Earth’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper Vol. 15, No 06 ISSN - 1499-8599 (E-dition) / ISSN - 1499-8602 (CD-ROM) JUNE 2010 $4.95(US) BLACK GOLD Has Turned To BLACK DEATH Black Gold Horizon rig, valued at more thna $560,000,000. spill, suspends dividend payments to Has Turned To sank an a 5-mile oil slick started to form. shareholders and says it will pay $100 million to On April 29, President Obama pledged workers idled by the six-month moratorium on Black Death “every single available resource," including the deep-sea drilling. There are experts who are now U.S. military, to contain the spreading spill and says BP is responsible for the clean-up. forecasting that the BP oil spill may very well It is now June 28, 69 days since the fire last until December, while others are painting a and explosion on the Deep Horizon and still very grim and horrifying picture that the oil spill thousands and thousands of barrels of oil and in Gulf of Mexico could cause ‘dead zone’, other pollutants are spewing into the Gulf of further hitting sea life. Mexico. High concentrations of methane gas - in Now, the formation of a hurricane in the some cases approaching 1m times the normal Gulf is threatening the cleanup operations. level - have been found around the BP oil spill, The tropical storm plowing across the raising fears it could create an oxygen-depleted far side of the Gulf of Mexico could send oil “dead zone” where marine life cannot survive. skimmers back to port and make containment Dead zones are areas in the water where booms useless, even from some 500 miles away. algae blooms as it feeds on nutrients in high But the rough weather also might give nature a concentrations of foreign matter, such as By Rob McConnell hand in breaking down crude from the massive methane, in this case, or, more typically, the oil spill. components of farmland fertiliser runoff into Forecasters expect Alex to grow to the water. The algae gorge, reproduce quickly Hamilton, Ontario: It was on April 20, 2010 that hurricane strength later today, June 28, over the and then, in turn, are eaten by bacteria in a the wolrd learned about the explosion and fire southwestern Gulf on track for the Texas- process that depletes the immediate area of on Transoceans Limited’s drilling rig Deep Mexico border region and away from the oil oxygen. Fish and other sea life cannot survive in Horizon which was licensed to BP where 11 spill area off Louisiana. But it will blow waves these zones, leading scientists to call them workers were killed. The rig was drilling in and stormy winds all the way to the open Gulf, “dead”. BP’s Macondo project 42 miles southeast of where BP PLC is working to cap and contain the That the spill could cause a dead zone in Venice, Louisiana, beneath 5,000 feet of water oil, and the coastal waters tinged with crude. the Gulf would be yet another negative for the and 13,000 feet under the seabed. Even though BP has agreed to set up a environment, already suffering from the On April 22, 2010 the Deepwater $20 billion fund for damage claims from the (Continued on Page 2)