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shueman
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Posted: June 03 2010,8:50 pm |
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Can't believe that they have not capped it yet...  Â Hope they go BK 'cus we the taxpayers will be footin' the clean-up bill for many years to come... 
Edited by shueman on June 03 2010,8:51 pm
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Posted: June 04 2010,8:57 pm |
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| Quote (GlassMan @ June 04 2010,7:04 am) | Call me stupid, but    if they go BK, we will surely get stuck with the bill.
If they stay afloat then they can pay for the clean-up and it ain't going to be cheap!
I mean c'mon, they make billions in profit every year, so we just keep them alive long enough to suck all that profit up and pay for what they have done.
And they shouldn't be allowed to hold it up in court for years and years like Exxon did! Â  |
They're getting ready to pay out some $10B in dividends to shareholders...
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Posted: June 05 2010,1:29 pm |
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Obama Calls Spill 'Brutally Unfair' as Oil Still Gushes
Updated: 49 minutes ago
AOL News (June 5) -- Oil is still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico but at a slightly lower rate, as Americans hold their breath to see if BP's new containment cap can stop the country's worst-ever oil spill from growing -- a situation that President Barack Obama today called "brutally unfair."
BP engineers guiding underwater robots have clamped a containment dome over the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well a mile underwater. The company said Saturday that the containment cap had collected about 252,000 gallons of crude in the first 24 hours. That's less than a third of what officials say is the daily spillage.
Live video of the operation still shows oil spewing from vents in the cap, designed to prevent ice crystals from forming, which BP says it'll try to close one after another.
The flow rate of 798,000 gallons per day made the BP spill America's worst-ever, surpassing the volume of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. It began with an explosion April 20, which blasted apart an oil rig and killed 11 workers. Obama has invited those workers' families to the White House next week to offer his condolences.
BP hopes its containment cap can eventually capture as much as 90 percent of the leaking oil. But a surefire method for stopping the flow completely won't be ready until August, when two nearby relief wells tap into the same underground pocket of oil and relieve pressure from the blown-out rig.
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Posted: June 07 2010,1:44 pm |
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NEW ORLEANS -- As officials reported a gradual increase in the amount of oil being captured from the spewing wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC said Monday that it plans next month to replace the cap collecting the crude with a slightly bigger device.
The newer cap will "provide a better, tighter fit" than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press. But it will also allow the oil now being collected to again spew out into the Gulf during the changeover.
The oil began gushing after a BP oil rig explosion April 20 and recently increased in volume after officials sheared off the top of the damaged outflow pipe as part of the latest containment effort. BP believes the bigger cap will fit over more of the pipe than the current cap.
The current device is collecting about 466,200 gallons of oil per day, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil spill response, said earlier Monday at the White House. He also elaborated on comments made over the weekend that the spill cleanup would last into fall, acknowledging the full process would take much longer.
"Dealing with the oil spill on the surface will take a couple of months," he said Monday, but the process of getting oil out of marshlands and other habitats "will be years."
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Posted: June 08 2010,7:03 am |
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| Quote (Ziggy @ June 07 2010,6:24 pm) | | Considering they are doing this capping underwater at the depth of the Grand Canyon, its amazing they can do anything at all with any type of precision. |
Very true.
What a shame this entire mess is and will continue to be.
My oldest Son is Coast Guard, and several from his unit, Coast Guard Station, Alameda, CA, have been sent over to do their clean-up thing. 
"It seemed like a hell of an idea at the time".
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Before they set it on there that wide open 12 inch pipe was pumping out some crude. One thing for sure they know how till hit the honey pot with their drill 
