Posted on 10/06/2010 12:46:36 PM PDT by MissesBush
WASHINGTON – The White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been, according to a panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
In documents released Wednesday, the national oil spill commission's staff reveals that in late April or early May the White House budget office denied a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make public the worst-case discharge from the blown-out well. The Unified Command — the government team in charge of the spill response — also was discussing the possibility of making the numbers public, the report says, citing interviews with government officials.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But Jerry Miller, head of the White House science office's ocean subcommittee, told The Associated Press in an interview at a St. Petersburg, Fla., conference on the oil's flow that he didn't think the budget office censored NOAA.
"I would very much doubt that anyone would put restrictions on NOAA's ability to articulate factual information," Miller said.
The April 20 blowout and explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, spewed 206 million gallons of oil from the damaged oil well, and sunk the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
BP's drilling permit for the Macondo well originally estimated the worst scenario to be a leak of 6.8 million gallons per day. In late April, the Coast Guard and NOAA received an updated estimate of 2.7 million to 4.6 million gallons per day.
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This is the kind of story the MSM would turn into a constitutional crisis if Dubya was president that will not be a blip on the screen for Obama. And the media has the ‘nards to deny there’s a double standard.
“Barry lied, pelicans died.”
-maybe the BP spill will disappear into history as even of less consequence than Ixtoc---
The list, ping
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Worse yet, the dearth of comments here.
I was actually shocked to hear this news at the top of a news update this afternoon (Wednesday, Oct 6) on WTIC AM 1080 radio out of Hartford, CT. I think I heard it around 5pm ET.
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I know... I'm surprised as well. I just pinged a whole bunch of FReepers here (see #7). I'll bet Rush will be talking about this on Thursday...
“Worse yet, the dearth of comments here.”
Yep...
It seems to me that this is worth a look-see.....
or, even better... a Republican majority led inquiry.
I replied, and thank you for the ping!
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