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IIEA and the

“Blume Protocol for a Better Planet”

are harnessing the horror of BP’s Deepwater Horizon tragedy to shine a light on a practical and proven solution for developing a truly sustainable energy future that will end this Oil Lust and give us all what we really want, safe, sustainable food, fuel and work.

Tell the world what you think BP REALLY means:

Bodacious Pollutery

Bad Publicity

Bloody Politics

Billionaire Pirates

IIEA has introduced the new ReName BP contest to allow the world to express its outrage and horror over BP’s total disregard for public safety, the government of the United States, and the environment.

IIEA invites everyone who cares to enter a submission (making them eligible to win one of our Fabulous Eco-Prizes) and to permanently brand one of the Earth’s most prominent polluters.

As David Blume put it, “The Gulf cataclysm is a Bitter Pill to swallow. Especially after the Bodacious Prevaricators told our government that Blowout Possibilities were too small to require Burdensome Permits, or Blowout Preventers that work.”

Here is how to submit your entries today!

New IIEA Newsletter subscribers:

Step 1: Fill in the data in the form below on the left.

Step 2: Add your names in the field labeled “ReName BP Contest Entry(s)”. Enter your original name(s) one or as many names as you want using a comma to separate each unique name.

Step 3: Click the submit button.

Step 4: You will be sent a subscription acknowledgement message to your email address.

Step 5: Click the automatic message to confirm your subscription to the IIEA eNewsletter.

Step 6: Congratulate yourself! You are now part of the renewable energy future and will be hearing from David Blume and the IIEA how you can help produce sustainable and abundant food, fuel and non-exportable lucrative jobs!

 

Enter Contest Here

(NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY)

 

Email address:
(optional) Your name:
City:
State or Province:
Postal Code:
Rename BP Contest Entrie(s):
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Current IIEA Newsletter Subscribers:

You will be notified of the contest by email. Just follow the link in the email and fill out the form to enter. You may re-use the link to enter more names as many times as you wish.

All entries must be posted via the following registration form for new subscribers, or for current subscribers, the form accessed through the email link. Simply fill in the data in the appropriate New or Current Subscriber Form, add your BP name entries in the “ReName BP Contest Entry(s)” field separating each name with a comma. Submit as many unique names as you like. If you return to add new BP name entries, please add them to the end of your existing list in the field labeled “ReName BP Contest Entry(s)”. IIEA will review and post all entries and track their popularity.

IIEA will post the top ten BP name nominations on Sept 5th and will announce the contest winners on Monday, Sept 10, 2010.

 

Help Us Dethrone the Tyrants:

A short explanation of why IIEA is hosting this important opportunity to permanently lable the biggest abuser of environmental and human rights in the Oil Industry today (and that is saying something). 

We encourage you to boycott BP in every way possible, and to educate yourself about alcohol fuel. Meanwhile, let’s definitively rename BP, with a moniker that will live with it in infamy. We want to hang an appropriate and permanent label of responsibility for the Gulf catastrophy on this corporate eco-Criminal. The more people get to know the real BP, the sooner we can stop its attack on our planet for the sake of profit at all cost.

BP’s Blood- and Oil-Stained Legacy

Along with murdering 15 refinery workers at its Texas City, TX plant in March 2005,(through the willful neglect of adequate safety precautions) BP has been a leading gusher of pollution, death, and destruction for years. Among all of the worldwide oil eco-abusers whose broad range of safety violations were investigated by OSHA, BP stands out as a geyser among drips.

OSHA began a nationwide refinery inspection program in June 2007 in response to a series of fires, explosions, and chemical releases throughout the oil industry. Its report findings state that BP’s Texas City and Toledo, Ohio refineries received a total of 862 citations between June 2007 and February 2010 for alleged violations of OSHA’s process safety management standard. (This number does not include the current Deepwater Horizon disaster.) This standard governs oil drilling and refinery processes ranging from flammable liquid storage to emergency shutdown system management. Looking closer at the 862 OSHA citations: 

  • 760 were classified as "egregious and willful violations.”
  • 69 were classified as simply "willful."
  • 30 were termed to be "serious."
  • 3 went unclassified (we can only assume that OSHA ran out of descriptives to cover all of the citings).

Does this sound like a corporation that should be allowed to Blunder and Plunder its way through some of our planet’s most challenging geographical and environmentally sensitive regions for oil drilling? Imagine how bad your performance has to be to stand out among all of the polluting Big Oil profiteers on the planet. BP is a supernova of bad practice mistakes. Among all the refiners OSHA tracked in the last three years, BP accounted for 829 of the total 851 willful violations cited. BP is the undisputed worst oil corporation worldwide for the last 5 years, and yet it is allowed to continue to operate unfettered… wrecking, ravaging, and ending life wherever they see the opportunity to reap profits. Imagine the impunity and indifference to life and the environment that the individuals who run this corporation feel. In spite of the OSHA citations, BP declined to correct the types of problems that led to the death of 15 workers in 2005, and though they made some changes in one part of their Toledo refinery, major concerns went unaddressed in another, with horrendous repercussions. This cavalier attitude led Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, to state "The only thing you can conclude is that BP has a serious, systemic safety problem in their company.” 

Here we are today, with our Gulf waters, beaches, shorelines, coastal wetland areas, and inland waterways across the entire southeast coast beginning to bear the brunt of a longterm environmental terrorist attack. The Deepwater Horizon surprise attack (which included the loss of 11 lives on the drill ship) has uncorked a deadly cocktail of millions of gallons of oil and toxic chemical dispersants that are now forming a confluence with the Gulf current to seek out and destroy clean habitat and waterways through out the Gulf and Eastern seaboard. The saddest thing is this disaster should have and could have been prevented.

The Deepwater Horizon gusher blew the whistle on the imminent dangers related to offshore drilling and yet, in less than a week from the day it was reported, 27 similarly illconceived deep-water drill projects were approved. That is right! 27 new permits have been approved, and not one requires an environmental impact report… the foxes are guarding the henhouse, and our planet is paying an unfathomably dear price. 

We can stop this insanity.

While you participate in our contest (and become eligible for our prize giveaway), we want to share the vitally important message that permaculturally driven small and midscale alcohol fuel production offers a safe, practical, and ecologically sound solution to America’s food, energy, and employment needs now and for the foreseeable future. BP’s most recent catastrophe underscores the potential risks and myriad disasters associated with the evermore-challenging pursuit of earth’s rapidly extinguishing petroleum supply.

As David Blume points out, “Even if there were an easy way to reach new sources of oil, science and common sense tell us this is not the right solution”. David’s work points out far more sensible options for producing cooking, heating and transportation energy solutions as well as ways we can create a wealth of related new industries locally and across the globe. 

A Safer, Saner Energy Future Is Available TODAY…

As ever-increasing numbers of IIEA members are becoming aware, appropriately produced alcohol fuel can provide communities with vibrant local economic opportunities as well as solutions for developing truly sustainable living, as outlined in David Blume’s comprehensive 600-page treatise, Alcohol Can Be a Gas! 

World-renowned environmentalist L. Hunter Lovins, founder & president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, put it this way:

The book that David Blume has written ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about the future. Ethanol has a critical role to play and this is the definitive book. David Blume shows us how to create permanent jobs, jumpstart our economy, fight global warming, clean up our air and water, and increase our food supply.

It is no surprise that uncontrolled Big Oil interests led by BP and its accomplices endeavor to keep alcohol fuel in the background as a minor player, instead of supporting its use as a primary means to economic and environmental recovery. Their relentless and unabashed lobbying efforts for the right to continue pursuing finite and toxic fossil fuel use for our energy needs is serving as an alarm bell for billions of people across the globe that NOW IS THE TIME FOR CHANGE!

Now is the time to demand that our business and political leaders agree to support alcohol fuel as the renewable energy option of choice and to adopt Earth-regenerative energy policies that will supplant the ruinous status quo and render fossil fuels obsolete.


“Humanity has used up roughly half of the world's oil and topsoil. Just in time, David Blume has given us Alcohol Can Be A Gas! It's a practical road map for supplying all of our energy needs without drilling, strip-mining, and/or depleting the soil. In fact, following Blume's model, soil fertility would actually increase worldwide; energy production would be not only sustainable, but democratic—and highly profitable on the small scale. This is a brilliant visionary work.” — L arry Korn, Soil Scientist, Translator, and Editor of The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Click HERE to learn more!

Guidelines for IIEA’s Rename BP Contest IIEA is currently accepting submissions for inclusion in its Rename BP Contest. Only U.S.residents who provide the following identifying information are eligible for our prize giveaway:

 

  • Email address
  • First name and last initial
  • City and state of residence
  • ZipCode

As you register for IIEA’s Rename BP contest you will note a number of fields for data entry. These fields are required and once you have provided your entry data (all data is kept private and secure by IIEA’s web mail service) you will be able to submit your name entries along with any Logo ideas.

For the name submissions, IIEA will accept all two-word submissions that begin with the letters B and P. If your submission includes expletives, please use asterisk symbols to convey the spelling (e.g., Bull***t). There is no limit to the number of submissions you may enter (each must include the identifying information outlined in the bullets above). IIEA staff are not eligible to participate in the contest.  

All correctly submitted Rename BP entries will be added to this page and shared through media outreach and social networking around the world. On Sept 10th, we will post our favorite ten names (chosen by IIEA staff) for a final member vote. 

IIEA will award all ten finalists with a range of prizes, including books, DVDs, alcohol fuel conversion kits, and one Grand Prize — a 55-gallon-drum E-85 pump station delivered to your home.

Please spread the word about this contest, and help us emblazon the oil-stained scarlet letters across the chests of those who have made this disaster our problem.

 

The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture
… “Real Environmentalists Don’t Burn Dinosaurs!”

 

 

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