"Signs that people were trying to get life.... back to normal.... swimmers bobbed in emerald green water virtually oil-free, save for a few small tar balls....
Then it isn't really oil-free, is it?
People also were fishing again.... the naked eye could spot improvements on the water. The crude appeared to be dissipating quickly"
Yeah, never mind all the chemicals BP dumped into it.
There is really nothing more to say about AmeriKa's MSM other than what a bunch of s***-shoveling liars.
"Another day passes without oil gushing, but tests go on; Residents try to resume their regular activities" by Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber, Associated Press | July 18, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast found itself in an odd moment of limbo yesterday: The oil has been stopped, but no one knows if it’s corked for good.
The clock expired on BP’s 48-hour observation period and the government added another day of critical monitoring. Scientists and engineers were optimistic that the well showed no obvious signs of leaks, but were still struggling to understand puzzling pressure readings emerging from the bottom of the sea.
Translation: The oil is still leaking.
It’s possible the past three days will be only a brief reprieve from the flow of oil bleeding into the gulf. Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the crisis, decided yesterday that after the testing was complete, the cap will be hooked up through pipes to ships on the surface that will collect the oil.
That probably means releasing crude back into the water temporarily to relieve pressure. It still would not be gushing at the rate it had been before BP’s latest fix.
It will take months, or possibly years, for the gulf to recover. But if the coast was on edge about the impending decision, it wasn’t apparent. In fact, there were signs that people were trying to get life — or at least a small part of it — back to normal.
In coastal Alabama, lounge chairs for rent outside of hotels were full and swimmers bobbed in emerald green water virtually oil-free, save for a few small tar balls....
I'm sorry, readers, but this is REALLY, REALLY INSULTING "journalism."
Also see: Water Tested – Toxic Levels of Oil – Sample Explodes!
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie....
People also were fishing again, off piers and in boats, after most of the recreational waters in Louisiana were reopened late last week. More than a third of federal waters are still closed and off-limits to commercial fishermen.
“I love to fish,’’ said Brittany Lawson, hanging her line off a pier beside the Grand Isle Bridge. “I love to come out here.’’
Lawson and her boyfriend’s family were catching redfish, mullet, and flounder, but mostly hard-head catfish, a throwback fish. They planned to keep the catches they could take home.
“It is encouraging. We’re getting bites. I mean, it’s catfish. But it’s bites,’’ she said.
I'll pass on the Louisiana fish fry, thanks.
And even though it was only days since the oil was turned off, the naked eye could spot improvements on the water. The crude appeared to be dissipating quickly on the surface of the gulf around the Deepwater Horizon site....
Pressure readings yesterday morning were 6,745 pounds per square inch and rising slowly, said Kent Wells, a BP vice president. The figure was below the 7,500 psi that would have reassured scientists the well was not leaking, but still high enough that it could be all right.
Yup, it COULD BE ALL RIGHT even as the SIGNS are it is STILL LEAKING!!
A low pressure reading, or a falling one, could mean the oil is escaping....
Yeah, WE KNOW -- and the God-damned MSM is LYING AGAIN just as they LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Related: BP at the Bottom of the Sea
Right next the the AmeriKan MSM and the Obama presidency.
"Test of well cap encouraging, officials say; BP, Obama warn disaster is not over" by Henry Fountain, New York Times | July 17, 2010
NEW YORK — A day after
Pressure in the well rose significantly in the 24 hours after the valves were closed on a cap at the top of the well, an indication that the well was in good shape. But officials voiced caution, saying that they had expected that the pressure might rise even higher, and that the possibility of damage from the April 20 blowout could not yet be ruled out.
Another possibility, they said, is that the reservoir has been depleted by three months of gushing oil.
Related: Geologist: Depletion of Oil Reservoir "Unlikely"
“This is generally good news,’’ Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who is overseeing the spill response, said yesterday afternoon, about 24 hours into what was expected to be at least a 48-hour test. “But we want to be careful not to do any harm or create a situation that could not be reversed.’’
Like blowout the sea floor.
He said that so far the test results were ambiguous, and that the possibility remained that the well had been breached and that oil and gas were escaping into the surrounding rock and perhaps even into the gulf.
Yes, that is EXACTLY what is HAPPENING!
But there were no visible signs of a leak.
Of course, we depend on LYING BP for that!
The test ended — at least temporarily — what had been a three-month gusher....
The procedure will continue in six-hour increments, Allen said, and new data will be reviewed by scientists and engineers from the government, BP, and other companies. He said there would be “enhanced monitoring’’ of the seabed, including acoustic tests that could detect small amounts of methane bubbling into the water, which would be evidence of damage to the well.
At the White House earlier yesterday, President Obama cautioned against concluding that the corner had been turned in the oil disaster, which began with the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drill rig. He said it was still possible for there to be complications that “could be even more catastrophic’’ than the original leak.
Appearing in the Rose Garden before taking off for a short Maine vacation, Obama said all decisions about the fate of the well would be based on science, “not based on PR, not based on politics.’’
Yeah, BULLS***, 'bomber!!!!
Also see: It's Not the Vaca Per Se
Kent Wells, a senior vice president of BP, said, if the monitoring detects oil or gas coming up through the ocean floor, engineers could reopen the well immediately.
“At least initially that would involve some venting of oil into the gulf,’’ he said. “We’re hopeful that’s not going to be the case.’’
And I was hopeful my MSM wouldn't shovel s*** on this story in order to soak up the oil. How naive of me.
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I'm sorry for the colorful descriptions, readers; however, THIS CRAP COVERAGE and FEEL-GOOD FILLER has gotten the better of me.
At least you can still go to the beach up here:
"High bacteria count closes some beaches" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 17, 2010
HULL — The scene was the same in scattered areas along the Massachusetts coastline yesterday, and it had nothing to do with great white sharks.
Related: Beachgoers swim on
Yeah, you know what happens when you stay in MSM s*** too long.
From the North Shore to Plymouth and in some parts of Cape Cod, swimmers were warned to stay out of the water at more than two dozen beaches because of toxic levels of bacteria.
Making matters worse, the area is expected to suffer through a humid heat wave this weekend, so those “No Swimming’’ signs will only add insult to injury....
That's what newspapers are for.
The reason for beach closings varies, and bacteria at some could be attributed to combined sewage and storm water overflow, particularly in older communities that are still working to update their sewage infrastructure, state health and water resource officials said yesterday....
Not every beach was a concern....
No, no, YOU FIRST, Globe.
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More oil in the ocean:
"Fishing for pollution in the Atlantic; Plastics abundant, but answers elusive" by Marissa Lang, Globe Correspondent | July 14, 2010
Yeah, they are certain about the fart-mist fraud but anything else.... pfffffft!
Researchers from the Sea Education Association have removed tens of thousands of plastic fragments from the Atlantic Ocean over the past six weeks in what many believe is just a small part of a giant collection of debris in the middle of the ocean.
In their search for marine pollution, crew members of the expedition found more than 48,000 plastic fragments, most no larger than a pencil eraser, of the type of plastic used in bags, straws, bottle caps, and other household materials floating throughout the Sargasso Sea, a region in the middle of the North Atlantic extending south and east of Bermuda.
Some areas may contain up to 500,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer, said scientists from SEA, based in Woods Hole. Such a concentration, the researchers said, would rival that of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, whose alarming sighting last year highlighted the extent of oceanic pollution and its potential impact on aquatic life.
Most of the Atlantic debris is believed to come from land thousands of miles away. Kara Lavender Law, SEA’s principal investigator, said waste, including materials put in recycling bins, can end up in rivers that flow into the ocean.
“How on earth have we done this to the ocean so far away from where most people are living?’’ Law asked yesterday. “You see objects float by, and you feel like there must be another boat nearby that has dumped all this stuff into the water, but there isn’t. It comes from land.’’
Materials caught in the Sargasso Sea are not likely to make their way back to the East Coast any time soon, Law said, but plastic pollution is still very much a coastal problem....
Their size makes the particles, which are not biodegradable and may contain poisonous chemicals, easy for marine animals to ingest. Some creatures can die from the exposure, said Dennis Nixon, associate dean at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.
Some scientists suspect chemicals ingested from the plastic may travel up the food chain and could eventually harm humans.
“This could severely impact the food web,’’ Nixon said....
After more than a month at sea, the team will end its research today but without many answers....
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Yeah, we seem to have bigger problems than the fraudulent global warming right now.
"THE GULF WELL IS STILL LEAKING
The announcement that the Deepwater Horizon Well Head has been capped is being blared all across ABCNNBBCBS with headlines "oil no longer gushing into gulf." Among the more naive, it may be understood if they have the impression the problem is over (except for the cleanup) because that is the impression being sold to the public.
But is it reality, or is it politics? There is no question that the Gulf Oil disaster is not going to help Democrats retain their hold on Congress come November. Senator David Vitter points out, correctly, that President Obama has a vested political interest in convincing the public that the problem is over, so that it will fade from public memory in the three months from now until the elections.
Yes, British Petroleum and Transocean screwed up, but it was Obama's administration which failed to get the problematic US Minerals Management Service to properly exercise their job of oversight and safety inspections on the Gulf drilling rigs. MMS had been scandalized going back to 2008 for doing favors for and accepting gifts (including sexual favors) from the oil companies they were supposed to be keeping an eye on. In some cases, MMS let the oil companies fill out their own safety reports! The US Government knew what was going on and even issued a report on the problems with MMS.
Obama had over 400 days in office to do his job os getting the government to do their job, but failed in his primary task of taking care of this country, apparently too distracted with his love of Israel to pay attention to what was going on closer to home.
Obama makes a good show of rushing down to the gulf to "kick ass" and act like he is taking care of the situation, but in truth his job was to prevent such disasters from happening, not pose like a firefighter standing heroically over the wreckage after-the-fact.
Obama needs the Gulf Oil disaster to go away because it will be an election loser for the Democrats if the public is still thinking about it in November. Obama himself may be untouchable in this election because he is not running, but the public thirst for vengeance will find easy targets in Democratic candidates.
The announcement of the attempt to cap the well this last week was greeted with stunned amazement among experts (not on BP's payroll). After all, BP had admitted back in May that the drill pipe and well casing had at least one leak 1000 feet below the blowout preventer; the reason the Top Kill procedure had failed.
CNN reported on two other potential leaks at 9,000 feet and 17,000 feet....
Back in June, video from the Remotely Operated Vehicles on the ocean floor spotted oil leaking up from fissures in the sea floor near the well....
That the drill pipe itself was destroyed in the initial methane "kick" that ignited the platform fire was underscored by the fact that two sections of the drill pipe had been jammed up inside the blowout preventer.
Common sense (and engineering) will tell you that if you have a pipe with leaks, putting a cap on one leak simply drives the oil out the other leaks. From an environmental perspective this makes no sense, because the oil is still leaking out of the well, just in a different place. Of greater concern is that the oil can flow out into the surrounding rocks the way the mud did during the failed Top Kill procedure, forming what is called a subsurface blowout. This is a huge bubble of oil inside the rock. The danger is if the bubble ruptures and the oil collected over 80 days of leakage rushed to the surface of the gulf all at once. Such a surge of oil could easily engulf and founder the surface ships.
Capping a well with known leaks below the surface really serves only one purpose, and that is to present to the media video images showing the well is capped, so that they can reassure the public the problem is over and please vote Democratic-or-you-are-just-being-a-racist.
But the hard reality being withheld from the public is that the problem is not fixed. The leak has not been stopped, it has just been moved out of sight. The camera feed of the capped well head will be shown constantly to assure Americans that all is well and lull us back to a useful torpor. No other views from around the well will be allowed.
Except that the cat is already out of the bag!
The following videos were captured from the live video feed of one of the BP ROVs. Recorded after the well cap test had begun, a test even the BP experts admit failed to generate the pressures that would signal "success" these videos clearly show what looks like oil seeping up through the ocean floor near the well head....
As you can see, while the well itself may be capped, and looks good for Obama's political purposes, the reality is that the oil leak is not fixed, only shifted away from the well head cameras and the light of the media, where it is hoped Americans will not notice it.
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This caps the complete and utter failure of the AmeriKan MSM, folks.
