Things could get a lot worse. I might plan for marshall law if I were a southern gent.
“A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for
Prime Minister Putin by Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia’s Shirshov
Institute of Oceanology warns that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been
fractured “beyond all repair” and our World should begin preparing for
an ecological disaster “beyond comprehension” unless “extraordinary
measures” are undertaken to stop the massive flow of oil into our
Planet’s eleventh largest body of water.
Most important to note about Sagalevich’s warning is that he and his
fellow scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences are the only
human beings to have actually been to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak site
after their being called to the disaster scene by British oil giant BP
shortly after the April 22nd sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil
platform.
BP’s calling on Sagalevich after this catastrophe began is due to his
being the holder of the World’s record for the deepest freshwater dive
and his expertise with Russia’s two Deep Submergence Vehicles MIR 1 and
MIR 2 [photo below] which are able to take their crews to the depth of
6,000 meters (19,685 ft).
According to Sagalevich’s report, the oil leaking into the Gulf of
Mexico is not just coming from the 22 inch well bore site being shown on
American television, but from at least 18 other sites on the “fractured
seafloor” with the largest being nearly 11 kilometres (7 miles) from
where the Deepwater Horizon sank and is spewing into these precious
waters an estimated 2 million gallons of oil a day.
Interesting to note in this report is Sagalevich stating that he and the
other Russian scientists were required by the United States to sign
documents forbidding them to report their findings to either the
American public or media, and which they had to do in order to legally
operate in US territorial waters.
However, Sagalevich says that he and the other scientists gave nearly
hourly updates to both US government and BP officials about what they
were seeing on the sea floor, including the US Senator from their State
of Florida Bill Nelson who after one such briefing stated to the MSNBC
news service “Andrea we’re looking into something new right now, that
there’s reports of oil that’s seeping up from the seabed... which would
indicate, if that’s true, that the well casing itself is actually
pierced... underneath the seabed. So, you know, the problems could be
just enormous with what we’re facing.”
Though not directly stated in Sagalevich’s report, Russian scientists
findings on the true state of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster are beyond
doubt being leaked to his long-time friend, and former US President
George W. Bush’s top energy advisor Matthew Simmons, who US media
reports state has openly said: “Matthew Simmons is sticking by his story
that there’s another giant leak in the Gulf of Mexico blowing massive
amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. On CNBC’s Fast Money, he says
he’d be surprised if BP lasted this summer, saying this is disaster is
entirely BP’s fault.”
As a prominent oil-industry insider, and one of the World’s leading
experts on peak oil, Simmons further warns that the US has only two
options, “let the well run dry (taking 30 years, and probably ruining
the Atlantic ocean) or nuking the well.”
Obama’s government, on the other hand, has stated that a nuclear option
for ending this catastrophe is not being discussed, but which brings him
into conflict with both Russian and American experts advocating such an
extreme measure before all is lost, and as we can read as reported by
Britain’s Telegraph News Service:
“The former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) used nuclear weapons on five
separate occasions between 1966 and 1981 to successfully cap blown-out
gas and oil surface wells (there was also one attempt that failed),
which have been documented in a U..S. Department of Energy report on the
U.S.S.R.’s peaceful uses of nuclear explosions.
Russia is now urging the United States to consider doing the same.
Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily newspaper, asserts
that although based on Soviet experience there’s a one-in-five chance a
nuke might not seal the well, it’s “a gamble the Americans could
certainly risk.”
Reportedly, the U.S.S.R. developed special nuclear devices explicitly
for closing blown-out gas wells, theorizing that the blast from a
nuclear detonation would plug any hole within 25 to 50 meters, depending
on the device’s power. Much as I had idly imagined, massive explosions
can be employed to collapse a runaway well on itself, thus plugging, or
at least substantially stanching, the flow of oil..
“Seafloor nuclear detonation is starting to sound surprisingly feasible
and appropriate,” University of Texas at Austin mechanical engineer
Michael E. Webber is quoted observing, while Columbia University
visiting scholar on nuclear policy and former naval officer Christopher
Brownfield wrote in the Daily Beast: “We should have demolished this
well with explosives over a month ago. And yet we watch in excruciating
suspense while BP fumbles through plan after plan to recover its oil and
cover its asset.”
As to the reason for Obama’s government refusing to consider nuking this
oil well, Sagalevich states in this report that the American’s “main
concern” is not the environmental catastrophe this disaster is causing,
but rather what the impact of using a nuclear weapon to stop this leak
would have on the continued production of oil from the Gulf of Mexico,
and which in an energy starved World’s remains the Planet’s only oil
producing region able to increase its production.”
Source unknown and unconfirmed-
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There is no place on the floor of the ocean where a million gallons of oil would be coming up that we wouldn't all know about. It's "convenient" that these stories are always from "experts" who had to sign "confidentiality agreements", and that there is no proof because of some big conspiracy.
If there was a huge leak, they'd have dispersant ops on the leak. Further, they'd be expecting the relief well to fix them, and moreso, there'd be no reason for the government and BP and those involved to all hide this existance, while showing live shots of millions of gallons of oil coming out of the main well.
When evaluating a conspiracy, one qood question is "why would someone take the trouble?" BP is out billions of dollars and has pledged to pay for damage from every drop of oil. What possible reason would they have to hide that oil was coming up somewhere else. Worse for the conspiracy, a lot of people are upset that BP isn't sealing this well or trying to with the cap. Revealing these purported leaks would pretty much end that, as people would understand the uselessness of sealing the main well top if oil was just coming out elsewhere.
It also would do the government no good to hide this information. Everybody already expects a major ecological disaster from this oil, it's not like knowing that more oil is leaking would hurt people more, or make people think less of the effort, or panic more people.
My guess is that if you added up all the oil people claim are leaking from all the holes, and did your calculations based on the drill hole into the formation being about 10 inches max in diameter, you would discover that the pressure needed to get that much oil INTO the pipe would be in the millions of pounds per square inch (no, I haven't done the calculations, so I am speculating).