Of course, if they dug deeper (no pun intended)....
"Volatile tropical weather adds new worry in gulf; Hurricane season could delay efforts to stop flow of oil" by Lisa Leff, Associated Press | June 27, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — The logistics of containing the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico are mind-boggling even in ideal conditions. Add a tropical storm like the one swirling in the Caribbean and things get even more complicated....
A few items that will make you think (and that the paper won't really touch upon until the very end):
The Future of the Gulf of Mexico
Containment Cap Comes Off Gulf Gusher
Gulf Coast Could Literally Go Up in Flames This Summer
You can do your own thinking, your own research, and decide for yourself what is happening. I don't even care, I just want whatever is happening stopped. If it's a methane gas bubble then may God preserve us all.
Nearly 39,000 people and more than 6,000 boats are working there, in other parts of the gulf and on land to skim and corral the oil, protect hundreds of miles of coastline, and clean fouled beaches. All of those efforts would have to be suspended if a storm threatened....
Work would also stop on the two relief wells being drilled to take the pressure off the blown-out well, considered the only permanent solution. The first is on target for completion by mid-August, but there could be a significant delay if people and ships come ashore to ride out a storm....
If the storms come roaring in this year wouldn't that be the final signal to knock off the wars -- provided we haven't attacked Iran by then, which would mean.... are you even awake, America?
Out in the gulf, there is also concern about the thousands of feet of protective boom ringing numerous islands and beachfronts. Winds and waves could hurl the material, much of it soaked with oil, deep into marshes and woodlands....
In frightening ways, but the AmeriKan MSM can't see underneath the industry and government sheen.
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The spill, and the prospect of a hurricane whipping oily water into bayous and coastal communities, is also complicating the already complex hurricane planning that takes place each summer.
Well, I don't know: MSM Says Hurricanes Will Clean Oil Spill
Other people above and below are not so sure.
An oilcane?
BP, the Coast Guard, and the state of Louisiana have already been talking about how to coordinate evacuations so workers and equipment involved in the oil spill response don’t clog highway escape routes.
Actually, I heard it was all Louisiana's fault from the top dog of the U.S. press corp.
Officials in coastal St. Bernard Parish gave local agencies a deadline for outlining evacuation plans, said parish spokeswoman Jennifer Belsom. She acknowledged uncertainties posed by the spill could flummox even the best laid plans.
So the worst fears of many people seem to be confirmed in the most opaque way by the obfuscating AmeriKan MSM.
“There are all kinds of what ifs,’’ she said.
Like what if the highly-toxic chemical dispersants are killing and sickening more than just wildlife at sea?
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Well, not really; that's where the article ended.
And just below it (but not too deep):
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deep-sea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.
Specialists say the massive gulf spill has exposed a failure by the industry and the federal government to commit adequate resources to oil cleanup and response technology.
Nothing like stating the obvious and calling it news.
Feel free to lump yourselves in the mix, MSM megaphonies.
“Why they didn’t start working on it after the [Ixtoc 1] Mexican spill in 1979 is beyond me,’’ said Gerald Graham, president of Worldocean Consulting, an oil spill prevention and response planning firm in British Columbia....
Hey, the road-pavers will be happy.
Salvaging asphalt reefs for global highways.
Only a fraction of the estimated 69 million to 131.5 million gallons of oil that have spewed into the gulf have been recovered. About 10 million gallons of oil have been burned off, and 25 million gallons of oil-water mix have been mopped up....
Yeah, I'm sure the torch job did great things for the air and environment.
Yeah, just "mopping-up," as if it were that easy.
That's MSM code for we are going to start dropping this story.
Five companies —
Those are your FUTURE GAS & OIL CONGLOMERATES in your GLOBAL ECONOMY, folks.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement — which was known as the Minerals Management Service until this month — collects $13 billion a year in oil drilling royalties. But the agency has been spending between $6 million to $7 million a year since 1995 on oil spill research.
See: Gulf Oil Overseer Sees Smoke From Pipe
Why leave that out, MSM?
Related:
"inspections usually consist of helicopter visits to offshore rigs to sift through company reports of self-administered tests.... inspectors spent two hours or less each time they visited the massive rig"
Don't want government looking too bad since they are "protecting us," pffft?
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Yeah, what'$ in a name, anyhow?
"Obama move to reinstate Superfund tax is resisted" by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post | June 27, 2010
WASHINGTON — There is no question that the Superfund program, first established 30 years ago to clean up sites around the country contaminated with hazardous waste, is facing a budget crunch.
Well, when you.... sigh.
For 15 years, the government imposed taxes on oil and chemical companies and certain other corporations. The money went into a cleanup trust fund, which reached its peak of $3.8 billion in 1996. But the taxes expired in 1995, and because Congress refused to renew them, the fund ran out of money.
No, no, they need to put a carbon tax on you.
Unreal!!!
Now the Obama administration will push to reinstate the Superfund tax. The Environmental Protection Agency will send a letter to Congress calling for legislation to reimpose the tax.
The move will spark an intense battle on Capitol Hill, with Democrats and the administration lining up against oil companies and chemical manufacturers.
I'm tired of the political theater.
The measure’s proponents say it will ease the burden on taxpayers, who are currently funding the cleanup of “orphaned’’ sites, where no one has accepted responsibility for the contamination. Opponents suggest that it amounts to an unfair penalty.
Just about everything, including wasteful wars benefiting war-looters and billions in aid to protect a war-criminal nation.
Related: Senate Working on BP Bailout
Yeah, them, too.
“This is really about who should pay for the cleanup,’’ said Mathy Stanislaus of the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. “Should it be the taxpayer, who has no responsibility for contaminating the sites, or should it be those individuals who create hazardous substances that contaminate the site?’’
Somehow, you always do, poor souls.
Has the $$$ been worth it all these years?
Since the fund ran out of money at the end of fiscal 2003, the federal government has appropriated public dollars each year to pay for orphaned sites, which account for 606 of the 1,279 sites across the nation. But that has slowed the rate of cleanup. The program completed 19 sites last year, compared with 89 in 1999, the EPA says.
“It’s clearly slowed down as the money’s dried up,’’ said Mike Charles, senior manager for government relations at the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Also see: Protesters join ‘Hands Across the Sand’ to oppose offshore drilling
It isn't that I do not agree; however, I'm tired of the selective coverage given protests by the agenda-pushing papers. It's there for you if you want it, readers.
