"Storm may spare oil-soaked gulf; But Alex still has potential to delay effort to stop spill" by Lisa Leff, Associated Press | June 28, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — A tropical storm slamming into parts of Mexico isn’t taking aim at the massive gulf oil spill — for now — though any system can quickly change course and halt cleanup efforts.
The logistics of containing the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico are mind-boggling even in ideal conditions. Things become even more complicated with the approach of a storm system like Alex, which has pelted Belize, northern Guatemala, and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with heavy rain....
Not what I was told: MSM Says Hurricanes Will Clean Oil Spill
Forecasters project a path that would take Alex to Mexico’s eastern coast around midweek. Its route last night was still well clear of the BP oil leak in the gulf, but officials were watching closely and said the storm could become a hurricane within 48 hours....
At the well, the two systems that have been capturing from 840,000 to 1.2 million gallons of oil a day would be unhooked in the event of a storm, leaving oil to gush freely into the gulf again. No one knows exactly how much is flowing, but worst-case estimates indicate....
Related: Why Would Anyone Believe BP?
Or Obomber's government?
Or the AmeriKan MSM for that matter?
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....
And it MAY NOT EVEN BE THAT!
See: BP's Relief Well Is Not a Slam Dunk
Yeah, it may be TOO LATE!
Nuke it?
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....
The spill — and the prospect of a hurricane whipping oily water into bayous and coastal communities — is also complicating the hurricane planning.
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"Tropical storm Alex’s path still far from BP’s cleanup; But high winds, seas could disrupt BP cleanup effort" by Tom Breen, Associated Press | June 29, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Tropical storm Alex steamed across the Gulf of Mexico yesterday on a path that could keep it away from BP’s broken well but could still stir up heavy winds, rain, and choppy seas that drive the oil deeper inland and bring much of the cleanup to a standstill.
By midweek, boats skimming the sludge from the water may have to return to port for their own safety, and the floating oil-containment booms could be rendered useless by waves slopping over them and may have to be pulled out of the water.
The upside is....
Pffft!
I'm NOT SEEING ONE, sorry, MSM!
Maybe if I turned over the TURD I might find it, huh?
I am SO SICK of the INSULT JOURNALISM!!
Still,
Oh, look, someone left some bullshit behind and I almost stepped in it.
Thanks for the sign, MSM!
Alex — expected to reach hurricane force by the time it hits land near the Mexico-Texas border, possibly Thursday — is giving new urgency to BP’s efforts....
Sigh.
In other developments, BP said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the catastrophe has cost it $2.65 billion so far. The oil giant has also said it would set up a $20 billion fund to compensate people and businesses for their losses. BP has lost more than $100 billion in market value since the deep-water drilling platform it was operating blew up April 20, killing 11 workers.
The company also strongly denied reports in the Russian media that the company’s CEO, Tony Hayward, is stepping down. Hayward has made a string of gaffes that have angered politicians and Gulf Coast residents.
Related: BP's Bills
Am I supposed to be feeling sorry for them or something?
Meanwhile, Alex was swirling through the Gulf with winds of 60 miles per hour. It was expected to become a hurricane today, and could have winds as high as 120 miles per hour by tomorrow.
While the storm center was not expected to approach the site of the spill, Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, said Alex’s outer winds could push oil farther inland.
Crews are also expecting up to 12-foot waves at the site of the gusher 50 miles off Louisiana, said Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the crisis....
“What boom they don’t pick up — and there’s miles and miles of it, so there’s no way they can pick it all up — will end up back in the marsh,’’ said Ivor van Heerden, former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center....
I edited that quote out of the previous day's article.
WTF is with the RERUNS, AP?
"Cleanup ships idled as Alex roils Gulf region; Hurricane not near spill but seas high" by Mary Foster and Tom Breen, Associated Press | June 30, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. — The crashing waves and gusting winds churned up by what is now Hurricane Alex put the Gulf oil spill largely in Mother Nature’s hands yesterday. Regardless of whether the storm makes things worse or better, it has turned many people fighting the spill into spectators....
I can't take anymore of this insulting crap, readers.
Anybody else have any ideas?
"Massive oil-skimmer latest weapon in fight; But hurricane forces a halt to gulf cleanup" by Tom Breen and Jay Reeves, Associated Press | July 1, 2010
Oily waves came ashore in Orange Beach, Ala., yesterday. Hurricane Alex, though far from the gushing leak site, left the state’s beaches splattered with oil and tar balls the size of apples. (Dave Martin/ Associated Press)
Related: Getting a Glass of Water From the Gulf of Mexico
Drink up, America!
NEW ORLEANS — With hurricane-whipped waves pushing more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico’s once-white beaches, the government pinned its latest cleanup hopes yesterday on a huge new piece of equipment: the world’s largest oil-skimming vessel.
So much for going swimming during this heat.
The Taiwanese-flagged former tanker named A Whale is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and stands 10 stories high. It just emerged from an extensive retrofitting to prepare it specifically for the gulf, where officials hope it will be able to suck up as much as 21 million gallons of oil-fouled water per day.
“It is absolutely gigantic. It’s unbelievable,’’ said Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor Ed Overton, who saw the ship last week in Norfolk, Va.
Then WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG for the U.S. to ACCEPT the HELP?
Oh. Had to wait until the cover-up sank in.
As the monstrous vessel made its way toward the Gulf Coast, large waves churned up by distant Hurricane Alex left Alabama beaches splattered with oil and tar balls the size of apples. The rough seas forced most smaller skimming boats into port for a second consecutive day, putting many cleanup crews at a standstill....
The giant oil-skimming ship, which was expected to arrive by today, looks like a typical tanker, but it takes in contaminated water through 12 vents. The oil is then supposed to be separated from the water and transferred to another vessel. The water is channeled back into the sea.
But the ship has never been tested, and many questions remain about how it will operate.
Questions from who?
This s*** government.
For instance, the seawater retains trace amounts of oil even after getting filtered, so the Environmental Protection Agency will have to sign off on allowing the treated water back into the gulf.
Related: Obama's EPA Executing the American Economy
I doubt this ship will see any action at all.
The vessel, owned by the Taiwanese shipping firm TMT Group, was completed as a tanker earlier this year in South Korea. But after the gulf spill, the company’s chief executive and founder, Nobu Su, ordered it changed into a giant skimmer.
TMT officials, who hoped to see the ship in Louisiana coastal waters yesterday, planned to meet with the Coast Guard to plan a tryout of the ship. The Coast Guard will have the final say in whether the vessel can operate in the gulf. TMT will have to come to separate terms with
Oh, are they?
Related: Senate Working on BP Bailout
Yeah, one way (bailout) or another (pump) you will pay, America!
Yesterday, along parts of the gulf, red flags snapped in strong gusts, warning people to stay out of the water, and long stretches of beach were stained brown from tar balls and crude oil that had been pushed as far as 60 yards up on shore.
And then BP comes along and dumps sand over it.
Oil deposits appeared worse than in past days, and local officials feared the temporary halt to skimming operations near the coast would only make matters worse ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend....
Although skimming operations and the laying of oil-corralling booms were suspended across the gulf, vessels that collect and burn oil and gas at the site of the explosion were still operating. Efforts to drill relief wells that specialists hope will stop the leak also continued unabated.
Yup, everything is not as bad as it seems, 'murka!
You can go back to sleep now.
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"Volunteers say offers to clean oil are ignored; Coast Guard says 44 nations seeking to help" by Tom Breen, Associated Press | July 3, 2010
Cleanup workers picked up some of the globs of oil that had washed ashore yesterday in Pascagoula, Miss. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS —
The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted. The vast majority are still under review, according to a list kept by the State Department.
And the OIL KEEPS on GUSHING!!!
And in recent days and weeks, for reasons BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup have done a lot of waiting around.
A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for US Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, detailed one case in which the Dutch government offered on April 30 to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the United States to approve the offer....
I'm starting to wonder if they want this stopped at all!
The help is needed....
Meanwhile, BP and the Coast Guard have reached an agreement to seek an end to the inadvertent killing of endangered sea turtles trapped inside containment booms during controlled burns of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lawyers said.
Only because BLOGS BROUGHT IT to the PUBLIC'S ATTENTION!!!!!
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I wonder how that WHALE is working out.
"Rough gulf seas dock some oil skimmers, but drilling goes on" by Tom Breen, Associated Press | July 5, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Cleanup crews across the Gulf of Mexico surveyed damage done by last week’s hurricane while contending yesterday with choppy seas that idled many of the boats dedicated to keeping oil from hitting vulnerable beaches and marshes.
Offshore skimming vessels were able to operate in Louisiana waters, but not off the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, officials said....
The offshore skimming in those states has essentially been curtailed for nearly a week, as a result of weather generated earlier by Hurricane Alex, even though it was never closer than 500 miles or so to the spill.
And here the MSM was making it seem like it was far away, blah, blah, blah, blah!
Boy, AM I EVER SICK of their LYING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huge barges used yesterday to collect oil from skimming vessels were parked at the mouth of Mobile Bay, waiting for choppy conditions to subside as waves miles offshore rose to about 5 feet high.
Along the Louisiana coast, skimmers that were able to operate included the giant converted oil tanker known as A Whale.
Taiwanese shipping firm TMT, which owns the vessel, calls it the world’s largest oil skimmer. Yesterday was the second day of testing the ship’s abilities for US Coast Guard and
So HOW LONG is the DECISION going to take this time?
On the shore, beach cleanup crews were making progress on new oil that washed up with the high tides generated by last week’s bad weather....
I'm sorry, but the WARS RUINED THAT TERM FOREVER and using it here is NOT HELPING, government and mouthpiece MSM!!!
So far, weather has not slowed drilling on two relief wells that could be the best hope of finally plugging what has become the worst oil leak in gulf history.
Which may be NO HOPE at ALL!
But they HAVE TO HOLD SOMETHING OUT THERE in front of you, America.
Otherwise, you might get REAL MAD and REVOLT!!!
BP officials have said they are running slightly ahead of schedule on the drilling, but expect delays from weather or other factors....
Really?
Related: Why Would Anyone Believe BP?
So is that just ONE MORE LIE, BP?
Why stop there, readers?
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