“It’s premature to say this is catastrophic’’
Except.... the oil is still gushing out.
"Cleanup crews try fire to stop oil from spreading in Gulf; Leak from rig explosion could not be stopped" by Cain Burdeau and Brett Martel, Associated Press | April 29, 2010
OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO — It’s a hellish scene: Giant sheets of flame racing across the Gulf of Mexico as thick, black smoke billows high into sky.
This, though, is no Hollywood action movie. It’s the real-life plan to be deployed just 20 miles from the Gulf Coast in a last-ditch effort to burn up an oil spill before it could wash ashore and wreak environmental havoc.
The Coast Guard late yesterday afternoon started a test burn of an area about 30 miles east of the delta of the Mississippi River to see how the technique was working....
Crews turned to the plan after failing to stop a 1,000-barrel-a-day leak at the spot where a deepwater oil platform exploded and sank....
Yes, that is still happening and yet the agenda-pushing, opinion-forming media is presenting this as a case of industry and government solving this EPOCHAL CATASTROPHE!
About 42,000 gallons of oil a day are leaking into the Gulf from the blown-out well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead. The cause of the explosion has not been determined.
Greg Pollock, head of the oil spill division of the Texas General Land Office, which is providing equipment for crews in the Gulf, said he is not aware of a similar burn ever being done off the US coast. The last time crews with his agency used fire booms to burn oil was a 1995 spill on the San Jacinto River.
“When you can get oil ignited, it is an absolutely effective way of getting rid of a huge percentage of the oil,’’ he said. “I can’t overstate how important it is to get the oil off the surface of the water.’’
The oil has the consistency of thick roofing tar.
When the flames go out, Pollock said, the material that is left resembles a hardened ball of tar that can be removed from the water with nets or skimmers.
“I would say there is little threat to the environment because it won’t coat an animal, and because all the volatiles have been consumed if it gets on a shore it can be simply picked up,’’ he said.
Sigh. Yeah, an oil slick larger than Rhode Island is going to be torched and there is no threat to the environment!
Now, GLOBAL COOLING, er, CLIMATE CHANGE, now that is something that is a threat!
Can you see why I am sick of reading shit newspapers?
Authorities also said they expect minimal impact on sea turtles and marine mammals in the burn area.
No, there is just a lake of fire above them, that's all.
Sigh.
But it comes from "authority" and is in the "newspaper" so it MUST BE TRUE!!!
A graphic posted by the Coast Guard and the industry task force fighting the slick showed it covering an area about 100 miles long and 45 miles across at its widest point.
But THAT will not affect animals at all!!!
Sigh.
Readers.... (sob)?
“It’s premature to say this is catastrophic. I will say this is very serious,’’ said Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry.
Well, WHAT the F*** ELSE would you call it?
A DISASTER?
Readers, I CAN NOT READ GOVERNMENT and MSM SHIT ANYMORE, I'm sorry!!!
Earlier yesterday, Louisiana State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham told lawmakers that federal government projections show a “high probability’’ oil could reach the Pass a Loutre wildlife area tomorrow night, Breton Sound on Saturday, and the Chandeleur Islands on Sunday.
As the task force worked far offshore, local officials prepared for the worst in case the oil reaches land.
The decision to burn some of the oil came after crews operating submersible robots failed to activate a shut-off device that would halt the flow of oil on the sea bottom 5,000 feet below.
BP says work will begin as early as today to drill a relief well to relieve pressure at the blowout site, but that could take months.
And ALL the WHILE it will be GUSHING OIL!!
--more--"
Yeah, drill away (remember the month of May, because he may need an "excuse" the way this world is collapsing on his head), Obama!
Yeah, I guess it isn't a catastrophe at all if it didn't keep making the newspaper.
I'm kind of tired of reading the paper today, dear readers, so I do not know how much I will get to or what it will look like.
The fabulous lies page after page have finally worn me down. I have unread copies of newspapers stacking up -- the same stacks of Globes I see on the CVS newspaper stand -- and am in no real hurry to get to them.
