Posted on 05/02/2010 7:19:47 PM PDT by dalight
Gouget told the Registe that NOAA officials at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected. He also speculated that they may have been prevented from doing so by higher officials.
"It may have been a political issue. The burn would make a big big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late," Gouget told the Register. "This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn't leaking. It's unfortunate they didn't get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread."
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Thanks for that. I didn't recall the precise finding.
I was wondering that as well...they are ‘too’ quiet and I haven’t seen or heard anything about the people who were killed.
Usually we hear bios on them or at the very least, talk to the survivors about ‘what it was like’etc.
Complete news blackout as far as I can tell.
Heck-I’ve seen more pics and heard more stories about oily birds and rare eggs etc.!
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