"Deal reached on $20b fund from BP for oil spill victims; Former judge, law school dean named trustees" by Pete Yost, Associated Press | August 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — Although BP has succeeded in stopping the leak, several key issues remain, including how to carry out the cleanup and determine BP’s liability.
BP engineers have begun drilling the last 100 feet of a relief well designed to make sure oil never again spills from the plugged well.
Why would they need to finish relief wells if the cap has worked and the well is no longer leaking?
During the operation, one man is guiding a drill more than 2 miles beneath the sea floor and 3 miles from the surface, trying to hit a target less than half the size of a dartboard.
If the drill operator, John Wright, misses the target, BP engineers will pull the drill bit up, pour concrete in the off-track hole, and then try again. Wright is 40-for-40, though, having helped cap wells across the world in four decades of work.
If the target is hit, engineers will perform a “bottom kill’’ by pouring in mud and cement to permanently seal the blown-out well that’s spewed an estimated 207 million gallons since April....
Is that the final number they are settling on?
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Also see: Gulf Gusher Coverage Entering Agenda-Pushing Phase
You know what makes thing grow, right?
"Signs of regrowth seen in oiled Louisiana marshland; Key life support for fauna, flora in Gulf of Mexico" by Cain Burdeau and Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press | August 12, 2010
BARATARIA BAY, La. — Shoots of marsh grass and bushes of mangrove trees are starting to grow back in the bay where just months ago photographers shot startling images of dying pelicans coated in oil from the massive gulf oil spill.
More than a dozen scientists interviewed said the marsh here and across the Louisiana coast is healing itself, giving them hope delicate wetlands might weather the worst offshore spill in US history better than they had feared.
Those last to are the yo-yo ride the newspaper gives you every day.
Some marshland could be lost, but the amount appears to be small compared with what the coast loses every year through human development.
You are just a WRECKING MACHINE, human!!
I'm sorry, readers, but I AM SICK of this INSULTING GARBAGE!
Yeah, the WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER in AmeriKan history REALLY WASN'T ALL THAT BAD!!!!
On Tuesday, a cruise through the Barataria Bay marsh revealed thin shoots growing up out of the oiled mass of grass. Elsewhere, there were still gray, dead mangrove shrubs, probably killed by the oil, but even there new green growth was coming up....
Like the GREEN SHOOTS of the economy that SUDDENLY DIED?!!
Yup, EVERYTHING is BACK to NORMAL in the GULF!!
Of course, NOTHING about the TOXIC CHEMICALS making people sick or killing plants through rainwater.
In fact, there was NOT EVEN a BRIEF on the spill in my Globe today so the oil must be all gone.
Also see: Friday the 13th Part II: Even larger plumes seeping from seafloor
Dead Fish Washing Up Everywhere Due to BP Oil Spill and Dispersants
BP OIL SPILL ...WE FOUND THEIR MISSING OIL & COREXIT FILLED BLUE CRABS! MIRROR THIS & PASS ON.....
Days After Tar Balls Hit New York Beach Massive Fish Kills Stretch From New Jersey to Massachusetts
Fish Fry in Fairhaven
Readers, the oil spill story is truly sad.
It was a CHANCE for the MSM to REDEEM ITSELF for ALL the LIES they have told and have been telling -- and they FAILED to "scoop" up the oil!!!
It has ONCE AGAIN been GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA that they have called "reporting" and it has BROKEN MY HEART!!
AmeriKa's newspapes suck!
