An action thriller by Jock Miller


Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died.


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The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.

As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.

The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.

The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.

Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator--until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.

Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?

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Gulf deepwater coral shows damage after BP spill

Use of chemical dispersants may need re-evaluation, researchers say

By Max Paris, Environment Unit, CBC News



The submersible Alvin works at a coral site affected by oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. researchers used chemical-analysis techniques to link the damage to oil from the 2010 spill.
The submersible Alvin works at a coral site affected by oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. researchers used chemical-analysis techniques to link the damage to oil from the 2010 spill. (Chuck Fisher/Penn State University/Timothy Shank/WHOI)


Underwater investigations near the site of British Petroleum's Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010 show lasting damage to deepsea coral, suggesting that oil may have been dispersed, but did not simply disappear.

The research was conducted by University of Pennsylvania biologist Charles Fisher using the U.S. navy's Alvin submersible. The corals his team studied were at a depth of 1,300 metres and 11 kilometres from BP's Macondo well, site of the spill.
During the days oil gushed from the well into the ocean, chemical dispersants were used extensively to keep oil slicks from washing up on the Gulf Coast and despoiling beaches, barrier islands and coastal swamps.

"I believe we have found that a good bit of the oil did end up in the deep sea," said Fisher. Despite the lack of light deepwater corals receive, they tend to be quite colourful, often exhibiting pinks and bright reds. The ones his team found on their first expedition in October 2010 were covered in a brown gunk. Normally, a coral would protect itself with a mucous.

"What we found out later, when we went back in December, we collected some of those corals and the tissue underneath the parts that were heavily covered were either dead, dying or gone," said Fisher.

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