Gulf spew, why isnt headlies anymore

[1ofakind Profile]

It was not and has not been on any headline on the news/mainstream media or papers from what I saw in the UK. Every other oil spill I have seen is people helping animals covered in oil and how devestated the shoreline is. I think I saw this once about 10 weeks ago about the gulf, nothing since. Did the animals get better very quickly. Also I would like to say that every image or video I saw from it was exactly the same from the day after it happened

[Madgremlin Profile]

186 million is the accepted estimate and it is dispersed, and dispersing.

That is just an estimate, so at best its a guess. An educated one maybe, but a biased has just as much (if not more in my mind, due to overwhelming evidence of BP's corruption) legitimacy!

Harbin think for a moment. A giant oil corporation sells a bunch of it's stocks*1 weeks before the spill. This means they even had prior knowledge about it before it happened! That immediately makes me discredit almost any of their so called "estimations"*2 when they aren't even allowing scientists other than their own*3 to examine the spill. Which at this point is already thought to be bigger than the exxon one in the 90s! Then we start seeing shit like this:

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" Brown Pelicans, covered in oil, sit on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)"*7

What has humanity done? What more does the corrupt elite have to do before we wake up, and take these people out of power!
The blood of Earth has been spilled.

Mostly due to our apathy.
http://www.disclose.tv/members/action/viewvideo/48595/The_Real_Truth_About_BP_and_What_is_Happening_2/


1*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html

2*http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651624.stm

3*http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0723/bp-accused-silence-science-spill/

4-10*http://beforeitsnews.com/story/99/292/You_Are_Not_Authorized_to_See_These_Pictures_of_the_Oil_Spill,_Citizen_..._Do_Not_Look.html

[sockpuppet Profile]

Many in Gulf are outraged at reports of vanishing oil

Now that BP engineers have managed to place a cap on the company's bleeding well in the Gulf, the sprawling oil slicks seem to have retreated from the water's surface, claimed many media reports this week.

"Where is all the oil?" an AFP headline asked. Time magazine ran a piece suggesting that the environmental impact of the spill has been "exaggerated." The New York Times ran a story that said the "Gulf oil spill is vanishing fast." And this very news organization ran a story suggesting that oil-gobbling microbes are eating up a lot the oil.

These reports have angered many — particularly those close to the disaster who are still, well, seeing lots of oil.

"There was more oil at South Pass Tuesday than I've seen since this whole thing started; it was really discouraging," Louisiana charter boat captain Mike Frenette told the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Bob Marshall. "I don't know where everyone else is looking, but if they think there's no more oil out there, they should take a ride with me."

Don Sutton, another charter boat captain, concurred, telling Marshall that he followed a line of floating oil "that stretched from South Pass to Southwest Pass probably two to three miles off the shore," more than 15 miles. "And that wasn't all we saw. There were patches of oil in that chocolate mousse stuff, slicks, and patches of grass with oil on them. The Gulf might look clear, but we're still seeing oil coming ashore." Recent satellite photos showing large swaths of discolored water seem to back up the claims by Frenette and Sutton.

[The catastrophic Gulf oil spill in pictures]

Likewise, many coastal scientists and other experts insist that the oil hasn't gone anywhere. Millions of gallons of oil are still beneath the surface, they say, and all that crude probably won't rise to the surface for some time until it reaches the shallower waters closer to shore. The oil is appearing gradually, mostly because of the steady stream of dispersants that BP has used to break up the oil into tiny patches.

Doug Radar, the chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, told the Times Picayune that millions of gallons of oil remain unaccounted for.

"If you go back and look at the sheer amount of oil dumped -- 60,000 barrels a day for 87 days -- you get about 220 million gallons," Radar said. "Of that, 11 million gallons were burned and 30-some million were collected, meaning about 50 million gallons were eliminated. That leaves you about 175 million gallons of oil-based pollution loose in the Gulf. And when it degrades from the thick stuff you can see, that doesn't mean it's all gone. There's still an untold amount of toxins from that oil in the marine environment."

Scientists worry that the millions of gallons of dispersants have not curtailed the ecological impact of the spilled oil, but rather have effectively transferred the oil from one part of the ecosystem to another. Researchers recently discovered traces of oil/dispersant mixtures in microscopic blue-crab larvae in the Gulf, indicating that the oil spilled into the Gulf has dispersed into a volume small enough to be ingested at the lower ends of the marine food chain.

Nevertheless, BP announced Friday that it is scaling back its cleanup operations in the Gulf, with incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley reiterating a BP theme: "We are going to be here as long as it takes to make this right."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20 ... -vanishing

[Harbin Profile]

and the basin contains a volume of 2,434,000 cubic kilometers of water (6.43 * 1017 or 643 quadrillion gallons).

Hmm, where did the oil go ?
Ooh...I know BP is HIDING it by using Corexit it. So, there is a MASSIVE slick just under the surface.
Yeah, that's it.

If you want to lay the "gulf is dead" rap, I'm gonna disagree.
However if you want to talk about how it was a planned, and who made money on it, and how they are covering it up, now we're talking.

[Boondox681 Profile]

Gulf spew, why isnt headlines anymore

because chelsea's getting married,duh

[Cia212 Profile]

Elections are coming up - most media groups don't want Republicans to win the House. It's pretty simple. Any news that makes Democrats look bad will be downplayed.

[Aragajag Profile]

I am not very well educated and there is a chance Harbin could be right but I think it is very fishy the way the whole thing played out I am concerned because of that.

[sockpuppet Profile]

Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good

NEW ORLEANS – The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.

Engineers are preparing to launch a so-called static kill as early as Monday evening, shoving mud and perhaps cement into the blown-out well to make it easier to plug the gusher up forever and end the Summer of the Spill.

The effort carries no certainty, and BP PLC engineers still plan to follow it up days later by sending a stream of mud and cement into the bottom of the mile-deep underground reservoir through a relief well they've been digging for months.

But the oil giant's engineers and petroleum experts say it's the clearest path yet to choke the blown-out well and make it even easier for the crews drilling the relief well to ensure oil can never again erupt from the deep-sea well, which has spewed as much as 184 million gallons since the rig connected to it blew up in April and killed 11 workers.

The developments have the makings for an interesting week.

"It could be the beginning of the end," said Darryl Bourgoyne, director of Petroleum Engineering Research Lab at Louisiana State University.

When it begins, crews will slowly pump heavy mud through lines installed last month straight down the throat of the leaky well. If the mud forces the oil back into the massive underground reservoir and scientists are confident the pressure remains stable, then engineers can pump in fresh cement to seal it.

"The only thing that separates the oil from the sea now is the valve. This puts thousands of feet of mud and cement in between," said Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute. "The idea is to have as many barriers as possible between the ocean and the reservoir. We're adding an extra level of safety."

Officials may then begin the process of choking the underground reservoir feeding the well by pumping mud and then cement down an 18,000-foot relief well. BP officials have long said the process is the only sure way to choke the well for good — plugging up the source of the oil, not just its route to the sea.

No oil has leaked from the busted well since engineers were able to fix a tightly fitting cap over its outlet two weeks ago, and boats skimming the oil and spraying subsea dispersant have been able to contain some of the spill.

But critics have raised questions about the long-term effects of the dispersant on sea life, and congressional investigators said Saturday that the Coast Guard routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of chemicals a day despite a federal directive to cut its use.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Sunday that federal regulators did not ignore environmental guidelines, but that some field commanders were given the authority to allow more dispersants to be used on a case-by-case basis.

BP's engineers, meanwhile, focus their time on their latest bid to stymie the oil for good. If the static kill attempt sounds familiar, that's because it is. The company tried a similar process, called a top kill, to choke the well with mud in May. It failed partly because the mud couldn't overcome the flow of the oil.

There's reason to hope this time will be different. For one, the oil is no longer freely flowing from the well, thanks to the temporary cap that has contained the out-of-control gusher for two weeks. That means that engineers won't have to pump in mud with as much force, said Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president.

There's always the risk that the pressure exerted by the mud will rupture the casing holding in the oil and potentially cause an even greater mess, but experts say it's very unlikely.

"I can't imagine it failing. It's holding pressure and there's no indication of any loss of fluid from the well," Smith said. "It's a vanishingly small risk of failure."

The whole procedure is still set to be completed by late August despite a brief evacuation for Tropical Storm Bonnie last week. And federal officials are downplaying its importance in case of a failure. Allen, the government's point man on the recovery effort, said Sunday that "static kill is not the end all, be all."

BP has had more than its share of failures experimenting with other ambitious efforts. So if the oil is already contained and the completion of the relief well appears to be just around the corner, why is the oil giant even bothering to attempt the complicated static kill?

One answer is that it should make it easier to finish the relief well, which BP and government officials have long said is the only permanent solution to the blown-out well. Crews are also drilling a second, backup relief well a few thousand feet behind the primary one, which is about 100 feet from its target.

If the static kill is successful, though, Smith said they likely wouldn't have to use as much mud to choke the oil. It's also a good way for BP to hedge its bets in case the relief well takes longer than expected to work, he said.

There's a third reason the company has embraced the static kill. Each day the temperature of Gulf of Mexico waters increases, so does the threat of another violent storm disrupting the cleanup process. Federal officials are hoping to end the oil threat once and for all before peak hurricane season, which typically lasts from mid-August to late October.

"If we can get this thing shut in permanently before the August hurricane season, we will have dodged a huge bullet," said Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, the government's on-scene coordinator.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100801/ap_ ... _oil_spill