Crude oil from the spill washed ashore yesterday in Orange Beach, Ala. Large amounts of oil battered the Alabama coast, leaving deposits about half a foot thick in some parts. (Dave Martin/Associated Press)
Looks tasty, doesn't it?
Volunteers at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Louisiana cleaned a brown pelican yesterday. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
"Gulf oil leak estimate soaring; Precap figure now at 25,000 barrels" by Justin Gillis and Liz Robbins, New York Times | June 11, 2010
NEW YORK — A government panel roughly doubled its estimate yesterday of the amount of oil that had gushed for weeks from the out-of-control
Translation: They have been lying from the start and whatever they say it is now it must be more. The video from the ocean doesn't look good at all.
Also see: Obama's Asphalt Ocean
That's what it is turning into.
The new calculation suggested that an amount of oil equivalent to the
Scientists say the flow rate could actually be greater now because they believe that cutting the riser to position the cap pipe may have increased the flow of the oil and gas mixture.
Related: Cap Comes Off MSM Coverup of BP and Government Gulf Gusher
It SURE LOOKS WORSE!
The same governmental panel said that it would be another few days until it would be able to estimate the current flow rate....
What is certain, however, amid the graphic pictures of billowing oil flowing from the pipe a mile undersea, is that these new numbers will ratchet up the already intense political pressure on BP, which some politicians and scientists have accused of obstructing efforts to calculate a true rate of flow from the well.
Related: The Wonderful World of BP
From the beginning of the disaster, BP has provided estimates that were vastly lower than reality....Oh, it's a wonderful world!
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And why should we believe a MSM that looks to lying industry and government first, readers?
"New spill total is bad news for BP, wildlife; Could be up to 100m gallons; leak dwarfs 1989 disaster" by Brian Skoloff and Harry R. Weber, Associated Press | June 12, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. — The astonishing news that the oil leak at the bottom of the sea may be twice as big as previously thought could have major repercussions for both the environment and BP’s financial health, killing more marine life and dramatically increasing the amount the company must pay in fines and damages.
Depended on to whom you listened.
Scientists now say the blown-out well could have been spewing as much as 2 million gallons of crude before a cut-and-cap maneuver started capturing some of the flow, meaning more than 100 million gallons may have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since the start of the disaster in April.
And the CUT-and-CAP made it WORSE -- as the MSM COVERS IT UP AGAIN!
That is more than nine times the size of the 1989
A larger spill also could lead to increased environmental hazards, with shrimp, crabs, and fish such as marlin and swordfish especially hard hit....
Ya think?
Days after the spill began, government officials told the public that the ruptured well a mile below the Gulf was leaking 42,000 gallons a day.
Relayed nearly verbatim by the MSM as fact.
Then, officials said it was actually five times bigger. That estimate didn’t last long either. The new estimates are based on spillcam video as well as such things as satellite, sonar, and pressure readings....
Translation: When GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY and the MSM papers tell you something it is a LIE!
Maybe a little, maybe a lot, but it is a LIE nonetheless!!!!
Another part of the equation is how much more oil started to leak last week after the riser pipe was cut, a step that BP and government officials said could increase the flow by 20 percent....
Yeah, IT LOOKS LIKE IT, too!!!!!
If the higher-end estimates prove accurate, the leak amounts to an Exxon Valdez every five days or so.
What you do there is examine what side the government takes.
Do they try to hype the danger (terror, global warming) or are they trying to minimize it (this, economic collapse, the failing wars)?
That gives you the clue as to where the truth lies.
(Soccer update: second match just began)
At that rate, in just over three weeks from now it will eclipse the worst oil spill in peacetime history, the 1979 Ixtoc disaster in Mexico, which took 10 months to belch out 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
At least we will be able to get some roads paved, right?
And there’s more bad news.
What?
In my s***-shoveling paper?
The oil gushing from the Gulf contains large amounts of natural gas. Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia, said that can contribute significantly to oxygen levels plummeting in the water as microbes eat the methane clouds.
Related: The New Dead Zone
Chemical Dispersant Caused New Oil Leak in Gulf
Having confidence in the clean-up and its reporting, readers?
In addition to the potential for billions in fines, BP is responsible for paying all cleanup costs and up to $75 million for economic damages.
Related: Obama Lets BP Off Hook For Oil Spill
Hey, it is the LAW (not that this government obeys it).
But it could face far heavier expenses if gross negligence is found or if it is determined that there was a violation of a federal safety, construction or operating regulation, Schaeffer said.
GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM WAVERS!!!!
BP just got stabbed in the back!
“You bet the trial lawyers are sharpening their swords around that language,’’ he said.
Yeah, right, the evil trial lawyers.
Also see: BP's Payout Pump Broken
Well, someone has to get it pumping again.
And that’s not including the tens of billions of dollars in shareholder wealth that has already evaporated with the plunge of BP’s stock since the disaster.
New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, became a lonely defender of BP, declaring the world should not rush to point fingers at the British oil giant. The billionaire tycoon often sides with CEOs and businesses entangled in public relations disasters.
Glad he is yours, not mine, NYC.
That the BP oil spill may be twice as bad as earlier estimates was hard news to hear but no surprise to Christian Delos Reyes, a 39-year-old oyster dredger.
“Crabs start real small. You know they’re all going to die. It’ll kill all the oysters. In my opinion, I don’t think it’ll ever be all right,’’ Reyes said. “I think it’s destroyed.’’YUP!
The area will NEVER BE the SAME AGAIN -- even if they do manage to stop the gushing.
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Don't worry; Globe will take care of it:
Heading to the Gulf to help
See?
"Coast Guard pressures BP to step up containment effort; Ala. beaches take hit as waves of brown surf roll in" by Jay Reeves and Ray Henry, Associated Press | June 13, 2010
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The Coast Guard has demanded that
With NO END in SIGHT!
Related: BP Oil Spill 2010 an Ongoing Disaster if Hurricanes Enter Gulf
Goes without saying.
Also see: MSM Says Hurricanes Will Clean Oil Spill
Pffft!
The Coast Guard sent a testy letter to BP’s chief operating officer that said the company urgently needs to pick up the pace and present a better plan to contain the spill by the time President Obama arrives tomorrow for his fourth visit to the beleaguered coast.
Yeah, OBAMA is FEELING the PRESSURE!!!
The letter reflects the growing frustration over the company’s inability to stop the largest environmental disaster in US history.
The dispute escalated on the same day that ominous new signs of the tragedy emerged on Alabama beaches. Waves of unsightly brown surf hit the shores in Orange Beach, leaving stinking, dark piles of oil that dried in the hot sun and extended up to 12 feet from the water’s edge for as far as the eye could see.
Drink up, Americans.
It was the worst hit yet to Alabama beaches. Tar-like globs have washed up periodically throughout the disaster, but yesterday’s pollution was significantly worse....
And it will get WORSE and WORSE and WORSE all summer long!!!!
Say goodbye to the presidency, Mr. Onetermer.
Not even an Israeli nuke of an American city will save you now. If that happens, this nation comes for you and your abject failure of a government.
On a Florida beach about 190 miles from the rig explosion, a stainless steel tank with markings that identified it as having come from the Deepwater Horizon rig washed up on shore. Ray Maulbeck, a Bay County deputy sheriff, was patrolling the beach yesterday when he came upon the wreckage. The Coast Guard and state environmental officials took the piece away....
Oh, the GOVERNMENT TOOK the EVIDENCE AWAY, huh?
That sounds SO FAMILIAR here in AmeriKa!!
Check is in the mail....
"In La., anger mounts over BP claims process; Business owners cite long delays, small payments" by Brian Skoloff and Ray Henry, Associated Press | June 10, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. —Out in the Gulf of Mexico, meanwhile, the oil company yesterday captured an ever-larger share of the crude gushing from the bottom of the sea and began bringing in more heavy equipment to handle it....
God, I am sick of the MSM lying.
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sea.....
You can find Obomber's presidency.
Crews working at the site toiled under oppressive conditions as the heat index soared to 110 degrees and toxic vapors emanated from the depths.
But we don't know why the workers are getting sick!!!
Fireboats were on hand to pour water on the surface to ease the fumes....
Let's see the BP and government pukes serve a shift!!!
The environmental toll of the disaster grows by the day.....
And as it does it envelopes the failure that is the Obama presidency.
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I'm thirsty, readers.
