Posted on 05/03/2010 10:37:39 AM PDT by Starman417
On April 29th, Ron Gouget, who once managed Gulf spill response teams, publicly pilloried the administration's response to the tragic oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Gouget is an expert when it comes to these matters: he helped create the 1994 plan that allowed expedited burning of oil as soon as a major spill had occurred -- without having to wait for permission or approvals...."They had pre-approval. The whole reason the plan was created was so we could pull the trigger right away instead of waiting ten days to get permission," Gouget said. "If you read the pre-approval plan, it speaks about Grand Isle, where the spill is. When the wind is blowing offshore out of the north, you have preapproval to burn in that region. If the wind is coming onshore, like it is now, you can't burn at Grand Isle. They waited to do the test burn until the wind started coming onshore."Asked why officials waited for a week before conducting even a test burn, Gouget said, "Good question. Maybe complacency was the biggest issue. They probably didn't have the materials on hand to conduct the burn, which is unconscionable."
He said the NOAA officials involved 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. Gouget said they may have been overruled... "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."
And where is the MSM?
They would be hanging Bush in effigy if this had happened during his Administration but nope....Obama's in and instead they give air time to him as he blames BP before all the facts are in....cough Cambridge cough...
Read more at floppingaces.net...
He really does not like anything British, does he?
I’ve heard that the dislike is because of what England did in Kenya long ago. Explains, sort of, the gift of CDs from Wal-Mart.
“Our job is to keep the boot on the neck of” BP Salazar said
Obama:”give me the money”...he could have sent tech help ...rounded up experts ...but he sent lawyers
I would like to see Sarah Palin come out to say she could have done a better job if she were in the administration. And I’ll bet she surely could do a much, much better job than zero. Even the msm would be hard pressed not to give grudging acknowledgement of Palin’s experience with the oil industry.
Zero is like the ems dispatcher that calls the ambulance chasing attorney before calling the ambulance to the scene of the accident. He wants to shake down BP as a pretext for oil company nationalization, that’s it.
Salazar is a worthless, self-important jerk.
Gibbs said that this morning. WTF is up with that? Admitting that deep down they are nothing more that thugs.
oops that = than
The real question is when is Obama going to pay?
He should be in jail.
I don’t get it, why doesn’t he just part the waters of the Gulf so they can go out an fix the leak?
The Israelis and the Brits have proof who the real Obama is. They need to publicly out him with the truth. End of Obama.
FUBO
Barry is where he is (an affirmative action appointment) because of the almost unimagineable money some are planning on raking in through the global cap and tax carbon scam. NOTHING will be allowed to stop his continued assistance to this criminal enterprise.
I don’t have a problem with 0bama saying that it is BP’s fault and they should pick up the bill.
This is what happens when power clouds their judgement. They really believe they are formulating a permanent majority in DC. They have escaped any condemnation of their actions so far and it has bloated their egos. It is a dangerous situation for this nation.
Oh how the mighty will fall...
The MOST he should have said is that a thorough investigation will identify the responsible parties and they will be held to account. It's just like him saying that we're going to convict and execute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before the trial has even begun. "Verdict first - trial afterwards!"
Contamination of the jury pool, anyone?
Plus the article linked to here notes evidence that the incident was allowed to become a major catastrophe because the feds didn't act in a timely fashion - that would tend to exonerate BP at least in the matter of causation of a lot of the damage.
That's why this is another "Cambridge moment".
The real problem, however, is that li'l Barry has absolutely no conception of the office of the Presidency or his responsibility to conduct himself in a proper manner. We just keep seeing that problem work itself out in different ways.
Great job, 'Bammy!
I can’t and won’t disagree with you.
Thank you.
Somehow I fear that what can't be blamed on BP will be blamed on Bobby Jindal.
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