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Hi folks,
If I was in the States I would be asking some basic questions:

Why does the US coast guard want BP to start releasing oil into the Gulf of Mexico again? This is against BP's wishes for the newly capped well.

Why shoot golf balls and rubber tyres into the well if a new cap would have done the trick?

Why has it taken so long for a new cap to be fitted when all the president's horses and all the president's men were on the job?

My guess, perhaps, is, it took three months to make one cos they didn't have spare they could modify!

Perhaps there are very good reasons BP took so long and the coast guard wants to cause more pollution?

what are you thinking?

I can tell you the gist of the thinking here at the top of the world and it isn't really pretty But folks here are very concerned this administration has been dragging it's feet to have a solution to this problem for the simple reason if it is as bad as possible it works for the administrations desire to stop all oil drilling--it is felt they want to shut it all down and folks here are quite anxious and also furious. I know several families who had been Obama supporters and now can't imagine what they were thinking--

I do know this--Maine offered assistance with skimmers and hundreds of feet of boom with the capability to produce hundreds more each day to keep the oil from reaching shore and they were turned down. There was a big write up in the paper about the equipment sitting in storage in a harbor in southern maine as well as crew on stand by to head straight to the gulf--and it was a no go. That looks bad friends--even to me with my glass always at least half full :heartbeat:

by the way--the oil rigs sitting silent are beginning to move out of the gulf. One has gone to Africa and another announced today they are packing up also--and if he gets his 6 month moratorium they have said they will all leave and not return. Billions of dollars are involved here--so sad for these poor people and their lives...

its gonna be hard on a lot of foke to make a transition to a greener Earth, but it has to happen.
They didn't need the booms from Maine. They already have enough.

FYI,, they turned alot of help away. the dutch also volunteried to help with supposedly some of the biggest skimmers avalible.
I wouldn't be suprised if they had enough help to clean all the oil up from the start.

IT could be just dumb human tricks.

one never knows the real truth of anything unfortunately however the report we got was that they Did need much more than what they had and how they ended up handling it was to have thousands of people on the shores with shovels waiting for the oil to come in so they could scoop it out. I think of all those poor animals out there drowning in oil while it floats where it will instead of being sopped up with the skimmers or stopped. Maine was a tip of the iceburg when it came to them turning down assistance--at one count there were offers of over 44 different places and from all over the world. Some were saying it was all caught up in red tape others feel it is a deliberate slowdown of improving the situation. As far as ''needing to go green'' this is Not the way to do it if that is the case. Destroying the lives of thousands of people for the sake of one's political agenda is just evil in my opinion If and I emphasize IF that is the case.Seriously--they need a better plan than this and the technology isn't here yet to simply ''go green'' but the reports from all over are that the technology is there to have done a far better job than this at protecting the coast....it is sad really....

It's ALL ABOUT DA MONEY! (And eugenics!)

Gulf Spill: Disaster? Or a Well Organized Plan?

http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/18/gulf-s...ized-plan/

ASPHALT VOLCANO & BP, ILLUSION OF A FALSE SPILL

http://www.thegic.org/profiles/blogs/asp...ano-amp-bp

Citizens Share Their Thoughts On The BP Oil Spill.

http://unioneagle.com/index.php?option=c...&Itemid=30

Warm Christian Love
Bangalore

Wow! If even half of this is true, we're in big KaKa. Can we say, Great Tribulation!

[quote=Prodigal Son]
It's ALL ABOUT DA MONEY! (And eugenics!)

Gulf Spill: Disaster? Or a Well Organized Plan?

Should that link be renamed: Gulf Spill: Disaster? Or a Well Oiled Plan?

Remember WMD?

Hi E-magine,
According to our news the coastguard now feels the cap can stay. I think BP wants to keep it fixed until the two new wells are finished and the faulty well/well head is isolated.

The pressure in the cap cannot be any greater than in the oil reservoir, one would think? But if the methane ignited it would be a major event.
It was thought the cap pressure was too low...indicating a leak of gas into the rock or the spill had depleted the reservoir of oil.

Because the pressure was said to be lower than expected, gas was thought to be coming up from the sea bed.
Now, today, they think its all ok.

Methane and oil could possibly go into the adjacent strata, if the drilled well has adjacent faulting in the rock....perhaps this could, eventually, cause long term lower level pollution if it got up to the sea floor...that may be what the guy was worried about.

I think the delay on installing a new cap must have been due to engineering lead in time. They are obviously doing their best, it just surprises me, after all the promises, Obama didn't jolly the new cap along...since he said he had the best scientists working on leaking well problem.

I don't think much to more 'twin towers type' conspiracy theories.

The progress of the clean up is another problem altogether.

Best Regards
Derek

FYI brothers and sisters:

Altered BP photo comes into question

By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 20, 2010; A06

Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks.

A blogger has noticed that the oil giant altered a photograph of its Houston crisis room, cutting and pasting three underwater images into a wall of video feeds from remotely operated undersea vehicles. The altered photo is displayed prominently on the company's Web site.

An enlarged version of the photograph reveals flaws in the editing job. One of the 10 images sticks down into the head of one of the people sitting in front of the wall, while another piece of the image is separated from the other side of the head by jagged white space. The right side of the same image also hangs down below the area on which the video feeds were projected.

John Aravosis pointed out the alterations Monday evening on his Americablog.com and observed, "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center." The photo doctoring comes as BP has promised transparency in a bid to regain the public's trust.

(Photo gallery: Oil spill containment and cleanup) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...05256.html

Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP, said that there was nothing sinister in the photo alteration and provided the original unaltered version. He said that a photographer working for the company had inserted the three images in spots where the video screens were blank.

"Normally we only use Photoshop for the typical purposes of color correction and cropping," Dean said in an e-mail. "In this case they copied and pasted three ROV screen images in the original photo over three screens that were not running video feeds at the time."

Dean said BP usually has a couple remotely operated vehicles on the surface at any given time for maintenance.

"We will replace the Photoshopped version currently on bp.com with the original image tonight," he added. "We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future."


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