Posted on 06/05/2010 11:44:10 AM PDT by Welshman007
As the Gulf oil disaster closes in on the 50-day mark, the Obama Administration and BP refuse to use the most effective method of oil cleanup. The top oil barons of the world--the Saudis--have used this method to avoid a mammoth oil disaster.
And the result was swift, effective, and conclusive.
In 1993 and '94 the Saudis faced an oil spill of historic proportions in the Arabian Gulf as four leaking tankers and two oil gushers threatened to spur a catastrophic event that was 65 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.
An American engineer, Nick Pozzi, was part of a task force charged with developing a solution to the looming disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Thanks for all these links:-)
I guess you have never seen an electric car like the chevy volt, oil is used to produce electicity and much is burned as heating oil which could be replaced by electricity produced with nuclear power
I don't hear much from the ones who lost so much, yet never took a government dime in their lives. In fact those people probably had sufficient insurance and moved on.
Who got screwed because of Bush during Katrina?
I don't blindly follow anyone. I just refuse to lay any blame on Bush in regard to Katrina. This entire nation bent over backwards to help all of those people in every state affected. In fact, this government went too far in an attempt to appease people like you. Now look where it got him. Bush was a disaster for believers in small government. I remember saying to myself long before Katrina, “I guess I know what a compassionate conservative is now; A liberal in conservative clothing.”
You are acting the part of the follower. The media has convinced you that you should find something to hate Bush about, so you did. Too bad you are as misguided as the rest of the flock.
Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 Hurricane. Allen (1980), Alicia (1983), Rita (2005) and Bertha (2008) were also Category 3's.
Carmen (1974), Charley (2004) and Gustav (2008) were Category 4 Hurricanes. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is also estimated to have been a Category 4.
Carla (1961), Camile (1969), Gilbert (1989) and Andrew (1992) were all Category 5 Hurricanes.
Most of the Katrina damages were not caused by the Hurricane. They were caused by the democrat idiots in charge of Louisiana and New Orleans.
Shirley ewe jest. Please don't respond to me because you are clueless. Night night now....
you are a douche bag
the first solutions were not to stop the flow, but to put a bell over the leak and continue to bring the oil to the surface where it can be sold, if you think that keeping the oil and therefore the money flowing during the cleanup is not taken into consideration you are a fool.
Yea, well you are still and idiot. Clearly you do not know jack about running a business.
Looks like the call for skimming finally paid off. Has Obama’s approval speed been a stumbling block for BP?
Arg — my wording was terrible. Federal approval is what I’m wondering. Has BP been suffering from slow decisions by Team Obama?
The dispersant, as I understand it, makes skimming more difficult. Once the oil goes deeper, it can’t be skimmed. And skimming probably does a better job of cleaning the water. Not to mention, they were slow to skim. The dispersant was very profitable for CCX [and Obama’s cronies].
Another thing to consider was Goldman Sachs and the BP CEO dumping stocks before the spill happened.
mojitojoe — thank you.
Please note the Blago/Rezko connection to NALCO [dispersant].
You can call names all you want still doesn’t change that the ultimate goal of bp has not been to stop the flow but to contain the flow if they stop the flow they have to pay for the clean up and lose the revenue from the well if they keep the flow going they have the revenue from the well to help pay for the cleanup. Has nothing to do with how I run a business
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Memo: St. Jude in 2000
BOARD MEMBERS
The Commercial Appeal - Wednesday, June 21, 2000
JOYCE ABOUSSIE of St. Louis, a board member since 1983, is national political director for Rep. Richard Gephardt, House Democratic leader. Aboussie is president and owner of Telephone Contact Inc., a telemarketing and direct mail company.
THOMAS G. ABRAHAM of Miami has served on the board since 1988. He is a Chevrolet dealer in Tampa and Miami and president of U Star Video Productions.
DR. SUSAN AGUILLARD of Memphis, a pediatrician in private practice at Pediatrics East, has served on the board since 1994. She is past president of Memphis-Mid South Pediatric Society and has served on the board of Memphis-Shelby County Medical Society.
ALI D. ATA of Downers Grove, Ill., has served on the board since 1996. He is marketing manager of Nalco Chemical Co. of Napierville, Ill.
DR. MAHIR R. AWDEH of Memphis, a cardiologist, has served on the board since 1998.
JOSEPH S. AYOUB JR. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., is a lawyer and board member since 1989.
PAUL AYOUB of Boston, a lawyer and board member since 1992, has served as president of the Greater Boston chapter of ALSAC.
JAMES BARKATE of Gretna, La., has been on the board since 1997 and has been chairman of several New Orleans-area benefits for St. Jude. He is president of Southern Abstracts Inc. of Gretna, a real estate research company.
JACK BELZ of Memphis, president and chief executive officer of Belz Enterprises, is a land and commercial real estate developer who has been a board member since 1985. He is past president of Baron Hirsch Congregation and a trustee of Rhodes College. He is past president of Memphis Jewish Federation, a board member of First Tennessee National Corp. and former board member of Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce.
JOHN BOURISK JR. of Worcester, Mass., a businessman who has served on the board since 1992, has been active with ALSAC since 1957. He is owner of J & B Associates, a transportation services company.
DR. ROBERT A. BREIT of Chicago, a radiologist, has been on the board since 1996. He is medical director of Magnetic Resonance Institute of Lake County.
PRISCILLA H. DOUGLAS of Rochester, N.Y., was named to the board last year. She is principal of the Knowledge Sharing Competency for Xerox.
EDWARD M. EISSEY of North Palm Beach, Fla., president of Palm Beach Community College and a member of the Governor's Commission for Quality Education in Florida, has been a board member since 1974.
GEORGE ELIAS JR. of Coral Gables, Fla., an attorney formerly with the U.S. Department of Justice, has served on the board since 1971. He co-founded the Miracle Ball in Miami, which has raised almost $6 million for the hospital since 1962.
HASAN M. EL KHATIB of Elk Grove Village, Ill., founder and president of Dena Corp. and a board member since 1995. He also is a trustee of the International College in Beirut, Lebanon.
JOHN ENGQUIST of Ethel, La., joined the board last year. He is president and CEO of Head & Engquist Equipment in Baton Rouge, La., and a board member of The Business Bank of Baton Rouge and Cajun Constructors.
FRED P. GATTAS JR. of Memphis, president of The Wedding Band, has served on the board since 1989. His father, Fred P. Gattas, was a co-founder of St. Jude.
JUDY HABIB of Boston has been a board member since 1994. She is president and co-founder of KHJ Integrated Marketing and a member of Greater Boston Chapter of ALSAC.
JOSEPH M. HAGGAR JR., president of the clothing manufacturing firm Haggar Slacks, has been on the board since 1983. He is a former member of the Dallas City Council and is past president of the St. Paul Hospital Foundation, past vice chairman of Texas Turnpike Authority and a trustee for the University of Notre Dame.
PAUL K. HAJAR of Norwood, Mass., president of Hajar Associates Inc., was elected to the board in 1987. He is board chairman of ALSAC.
JOSEPH A. HANNAN of Los Angeles has been on the board since 1992. He is the president of an investment company that bears his name.
FRED R. HARRIS of Memphis, owner of Dehyco Co., a chemical processing plant, has been on the board since 1987.
THEODORE HAZER of Omaha, a real estate and banking executive, has been on the board since 1977 and served as chairman of the ALSAC board in 1990.
ROCHELLE JOSEPH of New York City, a writer and event planner, joined the board in 1993 and has served on the national public relations committee.
J. DAVID KARAM of Columbus, Ohio, a certified public accountant and businessman who owns Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger restaurants, has been on the board since 1998.
JOSEPH D. KARAM of Columbus, Ohio, an attorney and owner of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger franchises, served on the board 1968-1974 and returned in 1991.
DONALD GENE MACK of Shreveport, La., has been on the board since 1983. He is a former Air Force physician who practices pediatrics in Shreveport.
PAUL J. MARCUS of Boston and Beijing, has been on the board since 1998. Marcus is president of an investment management company and a trustee for nonprofit organizations.
JOHN MOSES of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has been on the board since 1989 and has served as vice chairman of the hospital and chairman of the ALSAC board of directors. He is an attorney who represents government and civic organizations in his home state.
JAMES O. NAIFEH of Covington, Tenn., speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, has served on the board since 1985. Naifeh is president of Covington Wholesale Co. Inc. and a director of First State Bank of Covington.
TALAT M. OTHMAN of Long Grove, Ill., has been on the board since 1990. He is president and CEO of Grove Financial and serves on the boards of a number of bank and business firms. He also is a member of the Dean's Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
THOMAS QUICK of New York City has served on the board since 1991. He is president of the stock brokerage firm, Quick & Reilly/Fleet Securities Inc.
DR. EDWARD W. REED of Memphis has served on the board since 1978. He is clinical assistant professor of surgery at University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences.
ANTOIN S. REZKO of Glenview, Ill., joined the board last year. Rezko is president and CEO of a real estate development company in Chicago that bears his name.
CAMILLE F. SARROUF of Boston has been a board member since 1985. Sarrouf, a lawyer, has served as chairman of the ALSAC board of directors for two terms and as chairman of the St. Jude Board of Governors, 1994-1998.
ANTHONY SHAKER of Chicago, an attorney, real estate investor and vice president of a recruitment and advertising agency in Chicago, has served on the board since 1988.
JOSEPH SHAKER of River Forest, Ill., president and CEO of Shaker Advertising Agency, has served on the board since 1991, and is board vice chairman.
GEORGE A. SIMON II of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., has been on the board since 1990. He owns U. W. Equipment Co. in Detroit.
PAUL J. SIMON of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., has served on the board since 1986 and was chairman 1993-94. He is president of U.S. Group Inc. in Detroit.
DR. EDWARD D. SOMA of Kensington, Md., has been a board member since 1966. A radiologist, he has served in several leadership roles with the St. Jude board.
ROSE MARIE THOMAS of Beverly Hills, Calif., joined the board in 1991 after the death of her husband, Danny Thomas. She helps raise more than $1 million each year for the hospital, and serves as honorary chairman of the St. Jude Endowment Campaign.
TERRE THOMAS of Beverly Hills, daughter of Danny Thomas, has been a board member since 1980. She is a homemaker and country music songwriter.
PAT KERR TIGRETT of Memphis, a fashion designer, has been on the board since 1993.
RICHARD UNES of Peoria, Ill., has worked with ALSAC for more than 38 years. He is involved in the construction and real estate business in Peoria.
PAUL H. WEIN of Guilderland, N.Y., is a lawyer. He has been on the board since 1993.
DR. ROBERT P. YOUNES of Potomac, Md., has been on the board since 1995. He is board certified as a pediatrician and medical administrator and is president of a consulting firm in Washington that bears his name.
TAMA ZAYDON of Coral Gables, Fla., has been on the board since 1998. She is a financial planner and certified investment manager analyst.
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Ex-official tied to Rezko case - Former state finance authority chief is indicted
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Friday, June 1, 2007
Author: Jeff Coen and John Chase, Tribune staff reporters
Federal authorities on Thursday accused a former executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority of misusing his post to take part in a crooked business deal with indicted businessman and political fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko .
Ali D. Ata, who left the finance authority in 2005, was indicted on charges he helped Rezko carry out the bogus sale of Rezko ‘s pizza restaurants in Illinois and Wisconsin by putting together false information that was shown to a lender.
The indictment charged Ata with aiding and abetting the wire fraud, alleging that while still in his public post, he knew of Rezko ‘s self-dealing and prepared a false letter on finance authority letterhead. Ata was nominated by Gov. Rod Blagojevich and appointed to the $127,000-a-year job in January 2004 and stepped down a little more than a year later amid a critical audit.
In charging Rezko last fall, federal prosecutors alleged he used the false information to obtain loans totaling $10 million from General Electric Capital Corp. Authorities accused him of selling the businesses at inflated prices to a straw buyer, all while secretly keeping his ownership and the loan money.
In an attempt to help Rezko secure a loan, Ata created a letter that falsely indicated an investor had applied for funding with the finance authority in connection with the purchase of Rezko ‘s pizza restaurants, authorities said.
Ata’s lawyer, Thomas McQueen, said his client would plead not guilty.
Ata, 55, of Lemont is a close friend and investor in numerous business deals with Rezko . A former marketing executive with Nalco Chemical Co. in Naperville, he has been a longtime supporter of Blagojevich, donating $65,000 to Blagojevich's campaign since 2000, state records show.
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Gambling foes wary of bill that would ease raffle curbs
State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Sunday, April 25, 2004
EXCERPT
RICHARD PHELAN of Lake Forest, the former Cook County Board chairman who ran in the 1994 Democratic primary for governor, is on the professional advisory board of St. Jude's and said he sought the legislation. The House sponsor is Rep. JAY HOFFMAN, D-Collinsville, a close ally of Blagojevich.
“Jay and I are old buddies,” Phelan said. As for Hoffman's good relationship with the governor, Phelan added, “That probably wouldn't hurt, would it?”
Phelan said he agrees that other charities should be included in the bill. But he hopes the legislation is passed and signed into law in time for a fund-raising dinner for St. Jude's May 4 at the Hilton Chicago. The dinner is expected to raise about $500,000 - about what the house raffle raises. Other houses are being raffled off for St. Jude's in other states.
St. Jude's has other backers who have close relationships with Blagojevich. Both TONY REZKO, a fund-raiser for Blagojevich, and ALI ATA , the executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority and the donor of $25,000 to Blagojevich's campaign, are on the St. Jude board. Blagojevich spoke at the annual St. Jude's dinner in Chicago last year.
Oil is $70 pb x 20,000 barrels a day = $1.4 million per day of gross. The equipment sitting over the wellhead costs that.
BP had revenues of $24 BILLION last year. Yea they are going to keep this mess going for less than $500 million a year. The cost of clean-up is five-ten times the price per barrel.
Please get a grip.
Go back to my link. Skimmers were used from the very first week.
Yesterday's update included:
More than 2,600 vessels are now involved in the response effort, including skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery vessels. Operations to skim oil from the surface of the water now have recovered, in total, approximately 368,000 barrels (15.5 million gallons) of oily liquid.
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7062670
The problem is this spill isn't in one big pile like the Kuwait/Saddam mess. After the oil rises a mile through the water it is scattered all over.
BP to Donate Net Revenue from MC252 Well Leak to Protect and Rehabilitate Wildlife in Gulf States
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7062799
As part of its commitment to restore the environment and habitats in the Gulf Coast region, BP today announced that it will donate the net revenue from oil recovered from the MC252 spill to create a new wildlife fund to create, restore, improve and protect wildlife habitat along the coastline of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The creation of this fund is over and above BP’s obligations under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
BP’s net revenue from the sale of oil recovered from skimming operations and the well containment systems will be deposited into this newly-created fund. At this point, BP cannot predict the total of amount of net revenue that will be deposited into the wildlife fund. The amount of funding will be contingent upon the amount of oil collected during operations and the price at which the oil is sold. BP will provide regular updates on the amount of proceeds being deposited into the fund.
“We’ve already launched the largest environmental response in history, and BP is committed to protecting the ecosystems and wildlife on the Gulf Coast. Proceeds from the sale of oil recovered from the MC252 well will be used to further this commitment,” said Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive officer. “We believe these funds will have a significant positive impact on the environment in this region.”
Now I know what HELL looks like.
Great reseach!
That is one of the most important things to remember. This fact has only been whispered.
Thank you, Maggie.
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