The True Disaster Emerging: Heavy Oil Reaches Louisiana Marshland

because the coast guard while out on the water with BP mucky mucks threatened to arrest reporters if they continued filming....now wtf is up with that?!?!? since when does the coast guard answer to BP?????

The designation was made on April 29th. Just short of a month ago.

It occurred on his watch, so yes, he will ultimately be held responsible by the American people. At least by the ones who think.

Are you high?

This pic is from today, it's JUST reached us.. just the tip..

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This is in the first MONTH.

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Fearmongering?

Remember during Katrina, there was a point when the press was run out too. It seems to come naturally with .gov involvment, they just did it first instead of last this time.

Makes alternative news sources and places like this more important.

Guess we are supposed to figure it out when our spiggots run black.

Tomorrow it will have been a month and what has our government done about this?

Nothing! Nada! Zilch!

Now that it is too late and acxtually coming ashore, will Obama get off his dead ass and order this given top priority?

All he seems to care about is illegal Mexicans!

Yep, anyone pooh poohing this and trying to mimilize it is either working for BP or the usa govemrent. Or they're just dang stupid.

No offense, but can you not read. History has worst stories.

This is not the first time it's happened. Remember the Ixtoc 1 oil rig that exploded in the Gulf in 1979 .

It leaked for 8 months, at a rate higher than the current spill - and despite being the second largest oil spill in history (behind the Gulf War), somehow managed to NOT kill all life in the oceans.

The current situation is bad enough without fearmongering.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"Approximately an average of ten thousand to thirty thousand barrels per day were discharged into the Gulf until it was finally capped on 23 March 1980."

Guess what we all lived!!!!!

Hahahaha.

Wake me up when it reaches London.


IT WILL.

Then never said the Mexican didn't tell you it would.



British land will be messed up by oil, exactly what they have stolen from the world,and TPTB have enslaved whole countries with.

God is GREAT!

not sure how dumb or stupid BP bootlicker employees are but we all know usa govenrment people are as stupid as it gets.

gotta de-wild before you re-wild

NO, what it will show is that he is not in control and therefore it keep in the people's minds that this President failed just like Bush did when Katrina hit, remember? He is NOT supposed to do anything about it. He has his orders just like everyone else does. I told you, America has been relegated to 3rd world status.

"dynamic kill" - Gotta love it.

This time, three months after, oil will continue to leak, plus gas, and the bottom of the sea will become unstable.

hahahaha. Watch it happen, because once it does, it will be more difficult to stop.

Hurricanes will let you know who Babylon is. It's coming.

Since even BP says they do not know the rate at which this is leaking, how do you know it?

Plus the leak you mention was not in such a heavily populated area.

And guess what?? Some of us are already dead--dolphins, fish, birds, etc.

This is the worst ecologocal disaster in the history of this country as time will tell.

Just a reminder. The administration is hosting a fiesta for the Mexican President tonight.

He doesn't care about the GoM.

NASA imagery of Oil Spill

[link to www.nasa.gov]

This is from yesterday... & should make everyone feel all-better!

BP CEO Hayward Predicts 'Very Modest' Impact From Oilpocalypse

OMFG!!!

Look at this...

Modis daily pictures
[link to rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov]

about time to start gun confiscation, isn't it??? they are waaaay overdue.

Just got online and read this... bad idea, pumping heavy mud at a high rate and it will blow back through the cracks in the pipe near the BOP and out the open of the pipe. In order to pump it in at 40 BPM they will have to pump in at a much higher pressure than the oil and gas comming out... Russian roulette.

Did I say I know the rate? Jesus, trying to push your point much? I was just giving a history lesson to the media and lib-tards who want to use this to their advantage. This is not the first time it's happened in the gulf. 8 months was a long time. Just a little history. Don't have a shit fit cause it doesn't match what you want to hear.

That's why this kill shot idea won't work. They are just buying time becuz they don't know how to stop this other than conventional explosives or nuke.

Which was completely different for a number of reasons & by nature bound to be far less damaging than this.

Since you're a GLP'r, you've read all of those reasons on various threads here already.

Last Edited by ScrumpTheTexan on 05/19/2010 10:57 PM

Even though it will affect Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, they usually vote Republican anyways so that won't hurt Obama in the election.

Florida is the big one in the South when it comes to Democratic politics.

If the Democrats lose Florida in 2012 due to the oil spill and Obama's failed response, they can kiss the White House goodbye. Remember what happened to Gore?

[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]

;)

uhh .. i dont think so. not after reading this latest report.

Gulf oil spill leak now pegged at 95,000 barrels a day
[link to www.mcclatchydc.com]

By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The latest video footage of the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico show that oil is escaping at the rate of 95,000 barrels — 4 million gallons — a day, nearly 20 times greater than the 5,000 barrel a day estimate BP and government scientists have been citing for nearly three weeks, an engineering professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
The figure of 5,000 barrels a day or 210,000 gallons that BP and the federal government have been using for weeks is based on satellite observations of the surface. But NASA’s best satellite-based instruments can’t see deep into the waters of the Gulf, where much of the oil from the gusher 5,000 feet below the surface seems to be floating.
Federal officials testified in hearings on Tuesday that they were putting together a crack team to get to the bottom of big the spill really is. That effort comes a month after the April 20 explosion that triggered the unprecedented oil spill in deep waters of the United States. Experts say knowing that amount is crucial for efforts to cap the broken wellhead and to monitor and clean up the oil.
Steve Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, earlier this month made simple calculations from a video BP released on May 12 and came up with a flow of 70,000 barrels a day, NPR reported last week. Werely on Wednesday told a House Commerce and Energy Committee subcommittee that his calculations of two leaks that show up on videos BP released on Tuesday showed 70,000 barrels from one leak and 25,000 from the other.
He said the calculation could be off by 20 percent — meaning the spill could range from between 76,000 to 104,000 barrels a day. But Wereley said he would need to see videos that were not compressed and showed the flow over a longer period so that it would be possible to get a better calculation of the mix of oil and gas from the wellhead.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who chaired the hearing, promised to get that information from BP and make it possible for other scientists to use other methods to get a more accurate calculation of the size of the spill.
“The true extent of this spill remains a mystery,� Markey said. He said the BP had said that the flow rate was not relevant to the cleanup effort. “This faulty logic that BP is using is … raising concerns that they are hiding the full extent of the damage of this leak.�

Read more: [link to www.mcclatchydc.com]

I just posted today's BP press release and Media Q&A ...
Pretty interesting what they WONT say...

Thread: Today's BP Status Report and Media Q&A for May 19th