What the Globe will not tell you, dear readers:
Obama is biggest recipient of BP’s political action cash in the last 20 years
BP Fought Safety Measures at Deepwater Oil Rigs
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact stud
The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.
Aren't they the "green" oil company with the nice yellow and green flower?
"Obviously, those three reviews were flat-out wrong. Of course, the fact that BP was a major donor to Obama might have had something to do with the lenient treatment." -- Wake the Flock Up
Nooooo!
Not in Obomber's AmeriKa!!!!
Also see: Obama's KatrinaAs far as I am concerned, his presidency is done. Hard to believe, but he is a failure at a faster rate then Bush.
And now word comes that the spill could FOUL the ENTIRE WORLD'S WATERS if is not SHUT OFF SOON!!
What happy horse s*** the Globe is shoveling about:
"BP completes first of three containment domes; Firm says it will shoulder cost of Gulf cleanup" by Campbell Robertson, New York Times | May 4, 2010
NEW ORLEANS —
A LIE right off the TOP!
Don't you LOVE IT!?
Whether it is war or anything we get lies, lies, lies.
Yup, PROGRESS is BEING MADE so GO BACK TO SLEEP, AmeriKa, as the GULF TURNS to GOO!!!!!!!
Bill Salvin, a company spokesman, said that crews had finished building a containment dome, a 4-story, 70-ton structure that the company plans to lower into place over one of the three leaks to catch the escaping oil and allow it to be pumped to the surface.
Two more domes would be completed today, Salvin said, and crews hoped to install all three domes by the weekend.
“That will essentially eliminate most of the issues you have with oil in the water,’’ he said.
The company was also trying to install a shutoff valve at the site of one of the three leaks. But according to David Nicholas, a BP spokesman, after the stormy weather of the weekend, the seas at the site had still not calmed enough by midafternoon for the valve mechanism to be hoisted safely out of a support ship.
The efforts come as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the oil slick appeared to be drifting toward the Alabama and Florida coasts and the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana’s southern tip.
Miles of floating booms laid out on coastal waters in hopes of protecting the shoreline from the spreading oil slick were damaged over the weekend by the heavy winds and rough seas, the Coast Guard said. Roughly 80 percent of the booms protecting the Alabama coast were damaged....
Yesterday, BP said it would pay “all necessary and appropriate cleanup costs’’ from the disaster. Referring to the drilling rig that collapsed April 22 after a fire and explosion, causing the well it was drilling to leak, the company said: “BP takes responsibility for responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We will clean it up.’’
BP, which was leasing the Deepwater Horizon rig, has been working with government agencies and private companies but has been unable to stop the flow of crude from the well.
Bob Fryar, the company’s senior vice president for operations in Angola, who was brought to a command center in Houston for the engineering effort, said Sunday that BP hoped to install a shut-off valve on one of the three leaks yesterday to stop some of the oil flow there. But the leak that is spewing the most oil, at the end of the broken riser pipe that once connected the well with the rig, cannot be shut off that way, Fryar said.
A device known as a blowout preventer, a towering stack of heavy equipment at the wellhead, 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, was supposed to seal the well quickly in the event of a burst of pressure, but it did not work when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded.
Fryar and Charlie Holt, BP’s drilling operations manager for the Gulf, described an audacious plan to confront the blowout preventer problem....
The risk in such a maneuver — which would be performed by robotic submersibles tethered to ships 5,000 feet above — is that the pressure of the oil rising from the well could be overwhelming, and the well could gush oil at a far higher rate.
Translation: You are f***ed, Gulf Coasters.
But they are MAKING PROGRESS!!!!!!
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"Worries grow as oil spill continues to take toll on wallets; Cleanup crews get help from good weather" by Vicki Smith and Allen G. Breed, Associated Press | May 5, 2010
My printed paper's byline is Harry R. Weber and Ray Henry.
The point is the WEATHER IS BETTER so PUT ON a HAPPY FACE, American.
I don't feel like doing the censorship comparison today, folks.
I'm sick of that BG shtick.
GRAND ISLE, La. — People along the Gulf Coast have spent weeks living with uncertainty, wondering where and when a huge slick of oil might come ashore, ruining their beaches — and their livelihoods.
The anxiety is so acute that some are seeing and smelling oil where there is none.
Yeah, YOU ARE CRAZY the LYING, AGENDA-PUSHING AmeriKan MSM is telling you, American.
I guess it would be the SAME THING as seeing TERRORISTS where there ARE NONE!!
And even though the dead turtles and jellyfish washing ashore along the Gulf of Mexico are clean, and scientists have yet to determine what killed them, many are just sure the flow of crude unleashed by the explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon is the culprit....
You know, the SCIENTISTS TELLING LIES is REALLY SAD, SAD, SAD!!!!
Yup, CAN'T BELIEVE in THOSE LIARS ANYMORE EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the LAWSUIT the WORKERS are filing for BEING AT SEA for 10 HOURS after the explosion is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!
"Worst-case scenario: 60,000 barrels a day" by Bloomberg News | May 5, 2010
WASHINGTON — Oil leaking from a
So it's a low-ball lie of a number.
“The amount of oil per day could actually rise from 5,000 to 60,000 barrels,’’ said Markey, who held a closed-door meeting with executives from BP and other oil companies and members of the House Energy and Environment subcommittee, which he chairs.
Representatives from
“They indicated to us that they do believe they have a possibility of being successful, but they are not guaranteed,’’ said Markey. “It’s pretty clear that there was not proper preparation for the worst-case scenario.’’
A BP spokesman said he didn’t have any worst-case data and couldn’t comment.--more--"
Related: Cleanup crews a step closer to sealing leak (By Joel Achenbach and David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post)
PFFFFFFFFTTTT!!!!!!!
My byline says Cain Burdeau and Harry R. Weber and RUNS COUNTER to that WaPo crapola!
"Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc" by Cain Burdeau and Harry R. Weber, Associated Press Writers | May 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS --The oil you can't see could be as bad as the oil you can.
While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threaten virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish that are on dinner tables everywhere.
That GETS BACK TO YOU, Amurkn!
FOOD COSTS will SKYROCKET as YOUR DOLLAR DECLINES!
"The threat to the deep-sea habitat is already a done deal -- it is happening now," said Paul Montagna, a marine scientist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
And IT AIN'T OVER YET! OIL is STILL GUSHING as I TYPE!
Hail-size gobs of oil the consistency of tar or asphalt will roll around the bottom, while other bits will get trapped hundreds of feet below the surface and move with the current, said Robert S. Carney, a Louisiana State University oceanographer.
Oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of at least 200,000 gallons a day since an offshore drilling rig exploded last month and killed 11 people. On Wednesday, workers loaded a 100-ton, concrete-and-steel box the size of a four-story building onto a boat and hope to lower it to the bottom of the sea by week's end to capture some of the oil. Crews also set fires at the worst spots on the surface Wednesday to burn off oil....
Scientists are watching carefully to see whether the slick will hitch a ride to the East Coast by way of a powerful eddy known as the "loop current," which could send the spill around Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean. If that happens, the oil could foul beaches and kill marine life on the East Coast.
And BEYOND!!!
"Once it's in the loop current, that's the worst case," said Steve DiMarco, an oceanographer with Texas A&M University-College Station. "Then that oil could wind up along the Keys and transported out to the Atlantic."
Good thing the paper ALWAYS FOCUSES on BEST CASE in these situations, huh?
Not like the "terrorist" threat!
Scientists say bacteria, plankton and other tiny, bottom-feeding creatures will consume oil, and will then be eaten by small fish, crabs and shrimp. They, in turn, will be eaten by bigger fish, such as red snapper, and marine mammals like dolphins.
The petroleum substances that concentrate in the sea creatures could kill them or render them unsafe for eating, scientists say.
"If the oil settles on the bottom, it will kill the smaller organisms like the copepods and small worms," Montagna said. "When we lose the forage, then you have an impact on the larger fish."
Making matters worse for the deep sea is the leaking well's location: It is near the continental shelf of the Gulf where a string of coral reefs flourishes. Coral is a living creature that excretes a hard calcium carbonate exoskeleton, and oil globs can kill it.
Yeah, and you are continually thrashed about how your global warming is killing coral, Americans.
But hey, what is one more lie when the blame is YOURS, 'eh, American citizen?
The reefs are colorful underwater metropolises of biodiversity, attracting sea sponges, crabs, fish, algae and octopus....
Yup, ALL THAT LIFE DEAD in a SEA of EVER-EXPANDING OIL!!!!!!!!!
Engineers are racing to stem the flow of oil before the disaster escalates, mainly by getting ready to place a giant structure on top of the spill to funnel the crude into a tanker. The boat carrying the contraption set sail late Wednesday....
The cause of the rig explosion is still not known, but investigators from multiple federal agencies are looking into the matter....
Oh, that just FILLS YOU with CONFIDENCE, huh?
The FEDS are LOOKING INTO the MATTER!
Did you SEE WHAT the GLOBE WOULDN'T TELL YOU?
Don't you LOVE the MSM GAME, readers?
What my paper cut:
The Gulf ecosystem is already stressed by fertilizer and other farm runoff from the Mississippi River and the loss of wetlands to erosion and development. About 2,100 square miles of wetlands have disappeared since the 1930s in the southern Louisiana.
Every summer, algae caused by fertilizer runoff sucks up the oxygen in a large patch of the Gulf, creating a "dead zone" from which all sorts of sea creatures must escape. This year, they will be swimming into waters fouled by the oil spill.
Now it will be TRULY DEAD!
"We're always wondering when we may reach the point where straw breaks the camel's back," Montagna said. "At some point you have to wonder if we will see catastrophic losses."
He is sagging on the ground now.
But BP is on the case, don't worry!
Got all sorts of ideas.
"BP brings in containment vessel for spill; Risky, untested plan undertaken with caution" by Harry R. Weber and Tamara Lush, Associated Press | May 7, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Workers started lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea last night in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environmental disaster....
“We haven’t done this before,’’ BP spokesman David Nicholas warned. “It’s very complex, and we can’t guarantee it.’’
The 100-ton containment vessel is designed to collect as much as 85 percent of the oil spewing into the Gulf and funnel it up to a tanker. It could take several hours to lower it into place by crane, after which a steel pipe will be installed between the top of the box and the tanker. The whole structure could be operating by Sunday....
The technology has been used a few times in shallow waters, but never at such extreme depths — 5,000 feet down, where the water pressure is enough to crush a submarine.
The box — which looks a lot like a peaked, 40-foot-high outhouse, especially on the inside, with its rough timber framing — must be accurately positioned over the well, or it could damage the leaking pipe and make the problem worse....
Other risks include ice clogs in the pipes — a problem that crews will try to prevent by continuously pumping in warm water and methanol — and the danger of explosion when separating the mix of oil, gas, and water that is brought to the surface....
I thought PROGRESS was BEING MADE?
The dropping of the box is just one of many strategies being pursued to stave off a widespread environmental disaster. BP is drilling sideways into the blown-out well in hopes of plugging it from the bottom. Oil company engineers are also examining whether the leak could be shut off by sealing it from the top.
The technique, called a “top kill,’’ would use a tube to shoot mud and concrete directly into the well’s blowout preventer, BP spokesman Bill Salvin said. The process would take two to three weeks, compared with the two to three months needed to drill a relief well.
Oil reached several barrier islands off the Louisiana coast yesterday, many of them fragile animal habitats. Several birds were spotted diving into the oily, pinkish-brown water, and dead jellyfish washed up on the uninhabited islands.
“It’s all over the place,’’ said Dustin Chauvin, a 20-year-old shrimp boat captain from Terrebonne Parish, La. “We hope to get it cleaned up before it moves up the west side of the river. That’s our whole fishing ground. That’s our livelihood.’’
Yup, a WAY OF LIFE DESTROYED so BP could FATTEN THEIR PROFITS and PAYCHECKS!!!
And HOW MANY OTHER PROJECTS like this are JUST OUT THERE WAITING, huh?
The mission took on added urgency as oil started washing up on delicate barrier islands.
The lowering of the box was delayed because of fumes rising from the oily water in the windless night, the captain of the supply boat hauling the box said. A spark caused by the scrape of metal on metal could cause a fire, Captain Demi Shaffer said. Deckhands wore respirators while workers on surrounding vessels took air-quality readings....
Again NOTHING about the LAWSUITS!
Another CENSORED CUT from the PRINT PAPER, yaaay!
Related: BP vows ultimate effort (By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff)
PFFFFFFFFFTTT!!!!
Did you blow him, too, Globe?
"Vault to contain spill lowered to Gulf floor; Box to funnel oil to tanker; gas bubble led to blasts" by Harry R. Weber, Associated Press | May 8, 2010
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A
The task became increasingly urgent as toxic oil crept deeper into the bays and marshes of the Mississippi Delta. A sheen of oil began arriving on land last week, and crews have been putting out floating barriers, spraying chemical dispersants, and setting fire to the slick to try to keep it from coming ashore. But now the thicker, stickier goo — arrayed in vivid, brick-colored ribbons — is drawing ever closer to Louisiana’s coastal communities.
There are still untold risks and unknowns....
And you won't be finding any answers in the newspaper, folks.
Any other great ideas?
"Ala. hopes makeshift locks will aid bay; Strategy used to keep Mobile seaport oil-free" by Jay Reeves, Associated Press | May 10, 2010
MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile Bay resembles a big, shallow bathtub. The nation’s ninth-busiest seaport lies on one side, multimillion-dollar homes stand on the other, and a broad pass at the bay’s mouth leads directly to the Gulf of Mexico, where a massive oil spill is slowly spreading.
Because of that geography and the bay’s slow-moving currents, protecting it from being inundated with oil is trickier than keeping the Gulf spill away from New Orleans....
It’s a mission that took on extra urgency Saturday when oily blobs started arriving at Dauphin Island, which guards the entrance to the bay.
Yet
But, still, etc, etc, etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alabama officials believe they’ve found a solution as simple as a barn gate to guard the crucial passage, scene of one of the Civil War’s most famous battles.
And HOW MUCH is that GATE GOING to COST, huh?
Drawing on a concept that goes back to the early days of river navigation, Alabama officials are using oil-blocking booms to construct what amounts to a lock system at the bay’s mouth, which is 4 miles across.
Pilings are being driven into the bay’s squishy bottom, and two gates will be attached once they’re in place. If oil gets to the mouth of the bay — and officials believe it will if the spill isn’t plugged off Louisiana’s coast — ships will enter through the first gate, get a scrubbing, and exit through the second.
Separately, on the western side of the bay, booms are supposed to keep oil from entering the bay from the Mississippi Sound. Previous barriers in the same area were swamped by rough seas, but officials hope securing them to the pilings of a 3-mile bridge to Dauphin Island will make a difference.
Yup, it ALL RESTS on HOPE, dear Americans!!
Nicole Reed hopes the work pays off. She’s already nervous about the water quality in Mobile Bay, and the sight of dead catfish rotting on the shore as oil swirled miles away was enough to convince her to keep her two preschool daughters out of the bay near their home in Fairhope, on the high-dollar eastern shore....
Hey, it is an elite MSM; who do you expect them to talk to?
The stakes are just as high for Jimmy Lyons. As director and CEO of the Alabama State Port Authority in Mobile, he runs the nation’s ninth-busiest port based on shipping volume. He thinks most anything is worth a try at this point.
“You can get some dicey conditions at the mouth of the bay with winds and currents and swells. Maybe the pilings they are putting up will hold it together,’’ he said. The gating and cleaning process should take about two hours, Lyons said, which isn’t much compared with the cost of shutting down a port or cleaning up oil.
George Crozier, who runs the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, hasn’t heard of a better idea than the gates for protecting today’s Mobile Bay, which has more than 80 miles of coast lined with wetlands and marshes that provide homes for birds, fish, shrimp, and other wildlife.
“If they build what is essentially a wall across the bay and put a gate in it, that’s the first thing I’ve heard of that even has a chance to work,’’ Crozier said.
We ARE BECOMING MORE and MORE like ISRAEL every day!!!!
Yeah, PUT UP a WALL!!!
That will KEEP THEM OUT unless it is the SOUTHERN LAND BORDER!!!!
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La. may build up islands to keep oil offshore (By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post)
My May 10 article has the byline of Harry R. Weber and is titled "BP may try smaller containment box to stop leak"
Related: Weather conditions challenge oil leak spraying
Oil spill swells to 4M gallons with fixes days off
I don't know if they are rewrites, reedits, or what they are -- and I'm done with the games, readers.
As oil spreads, a call for industry’s ‘Plan B’ (By James C. McKinley and Leslie Kaufman, New York Times)
My May 11 article has the byline of Harry. R. Weber and is titled "BP sprays more oil dispersants into Gulf leak"
Related: US oil spill: fishermen raise alarm over chemical dispersants
Sick of the s*** shoveling yet, readers, because I sure as hell am.
And the OIL KEEPS on a GUSHING!?
More: Oil leak is 5 times greater than reported by officials
The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
8 Reasons Why The Pain From The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Is Going To Be Felt For Decades
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The truth is that this has the potential to be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the United States. The following are 8 of the reasons why the pain from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is going to be felt for decades to come....
#1) The Fishing, Shrimping And Oyster Industries In The Gulf Are Being Destroyed
#2) The Damage To The Environment And Wildlife In the Gulf Is Going To Be Unprecedented#3) The Natural Beauty Of The Gulf Coast Region Will Never Be The Same
#4) Tourism Along The Gulf Coast Is Now Dead
#5) The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Is Going To Greatly Contribute To The Ongoing Poisoning Of The World's Water Supply
#6) This Oil Spill Is Going To Have A Dramatic Chilling Effect On Oil Exploration
#7) Oil Prices Around The Globe Are Going To Rise
#8) The Economy Of The Gulf Coast Region Is Going To Be Devastated
--MORE--"Thanks, Obama.
That's your legacy.
Not any wars or Kagan, but this.
