How Many Oil Plumes are in the Gulf? - Ask The U.S. Government

Investigating Obama ^ | 6/8/2010 | Arlen Williams

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Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, June 9th) I intend to ask the U.S. federal government, this question:

How many oil plumes are there in the Gulf of Mexico - how many leaks?

I ask you to do the same. I will report my results. Please report yours, in the comments to this post. This is not about how many plumes that private sources have found. It is about how many leaks does the United States government know exist. They have had since April 20, to discover this. They should be able to tell us, should they not? And if they can tell us that, perhaps they can give us their coordinates on the globe. How close or far are they, from each other? And if they can tell us that, perhaps they can tell us what they are coordinating, to stop them. Right?

Here is the contact information for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):

Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460 Telephone (202) 272-0167 - TTY (speech- and hearing-impaired) (202) 272-0165

Here is contact information for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):

500 C Street S.W., Washington, D.C. 20472 FEMA Office of External Affairs – 202-646-4600 FEMA Newsdesk – 202-646-3272 E-mail: (FEMA-News-Desk@dhs.gov)

Here is the contact information for the FEMA National Incident Management System (NIMS):

Questions regarding NIMS should be directed to FEMA-NIMS@dhs.gov or 202-646-3850.

This is I.O's US Government, Gulf Challenge The first one to report the answer gets the Official I.O. Kudos.

Lisa Perez Jackson, Administrator EPA; Janet Napolitano, Secretary DHS; William Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator

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1. "Have You Seen This Man? - The Hunt for William Craig Fugate" (FEMA Administrator) - 6/1/2010
2. "RICO Investigation Needed NOW About Gulf, Energy & CCX"
3. I.O. tag: "Gulf Gusher"
4. EPA page, "Learn what Lisa's up do"

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[Gondring]

Silly question, as stated.

If he isn’t going to do enough homework to ask a specific enough question, why should they take him seriously?

Define “plume”
Do you mean separate seafloor seeps, or plumes coming off the main riser, or multiple flows from the riser, or what?
Etc.

[Cvengr]

Indicative our Gulf Coast oil reserves need to be harvested to protect the environment.

All the more reason to identify the BP spill as a Spindletop, begging to bless the US energy policy, instead of wasting more resources attempting to hoard too many reserves without their development.

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Silly question, as stated. If he isn’t going to do enough homework to ask a specific enough question, why should they take him seriously? Define “plume” Do you mean separate seafloor seeps, or plumes coming off the main riser, or multiple flows from the riser, or what? Etc.

Thanks for your concern, but read the question, please:

How many oil plumes are there in the Gulf of Mexico - how many leaks?

[Mike Darancette]

Considering that 500,000 bbl of oil naturally seeps into the Gulf every year I wouldn’t be surprised.

[Gondring]

Again, “leaks” of what? Formation? Casing? Riser? Containment cap?

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Thanks for the bump, even if it was just noise.

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You really can’t read, can you.

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Dialing the EPA now: 202-272-0165. How many oil plumes/leaks are there in the Gulf of Mexico? Employee didn’t know, gave me another number to call.
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Given better phone number: media line 985-902-5231 That give me “Unified Command.” A recording suggests we go to http://www.DeepWaterHorizonResponse.com.

Will look at that site and call again, because I did not reach a human being.

June 9, 2010 9:38 AM

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UPDATE

6/9 1022pm CT - I just got off the phone with Lt. Budaio of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. He stated that the U.S. Geological Survey had confirmed that there are numerous oil plumes off the coast of Texas, also Florida. These have been investigated and they are identified as naturally occurring. One of them is quite large, three feet in diameter.

These fissures tend to increase after earthquakes, explained the Lieutenant. There may be as many as twenty or thirty plumes of oil, of various sizes, but none are approaching the volume of the Deepwater Horizon disaster’s gusher.

Asked if this number of fissures is unusual, he said it was not.

At the Deepwater site: Lt. Budaio stated that he knows of no significant oil leads outside the one barrel-shaped leak which has been partially capped. This is the one in the videos.

My name, telephone number, and email address have been given to BP by Lt. Budaio, with the request that they reply immediately, to confirm information about the leaks. He would not give a separate number for BP and did not pass me through at that moment, telling me there was a change-over of personnel at the time.

If I do not get an immediate response from BP, which, frankly, I do not expect, I will try to contact them, through the telephone number I last listed in this article’s comments. I will be available to do this only sporadically though the middle of the day, but intend to pursue and to ask other questions when and if I speak with a representative of British Petroleum plc.

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-many-oil-plumes-are-in-gulf-us.html

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Further updates, TWIMC, on an ongoing bases, preliminary to an at least one article.

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-many-oil-plumes-are-in-gulf-us.html

[Cold Heat]

What is a plume?

Define it..............

Secondly, if we are talking about this underwater business, that is not a underwater oil slick, It is bio degraded oil particles which are not at all concentrated and according to their own measurements are at about 5 parts per million.

As the bacteria attack the oil, it loses buoyancy and sinks, breaks up and disperses giving off water and CO2. All the hydrocarbons are consumed.

This did not happen in Alaskan waters naturally and the bacteria had to be trucked in. There is not as many because of the cold, and the strains are not as active as they are in the gulf.

It's a bathtub!

Anyway, a plume is something that only occurs in the air, not water. Like plume of smoke.

These underwater reflections they are getting on their instruments are highly dispersed bacteria gorging on remnants of oil related compounds reproducing. growing, dying or being eaten by other organisms that the gulf is loaded with..

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There may be as many as twenty or thirty plumes of oil, of various sizes, but none are approaching the volume of the Deepwater Horizon disaster’s gusher.

Has anyone ever asked why there are so many shrimp and other crustaceans in the Gulf?

Food!

They feed on the bacteria! Oil is bacteria food.

And we eat the shrimps.

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Underwater Oil Plume: burst of an underwater stream of oil.

Enough from you, please. If you had a point, you should have made it.

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Food! They feed on the bacteria! Oil is bacteria food.

Fine. Milk is the original food. Milk is wonderful. Jump into a vat of milk and stay there and see how good it is for you.

Good night, Gracie.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

William Craig Fugate

Thank you, I have been wondering who was in charge of FEMA. I haven’t seen his name anywhere. I’ve been watching milk cartons to see if I could see his picture.

[Cold Heat]

Only liberal ass-hats attack others who question their assertions.

If it fits wear it where everyone can see it besides me.

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Don’t try to call my apples oranges and we’ll be fine.

[Cold Heat]

Sorta got off on the wrong foot, as they say.

I understand your discovery of multiple oil leaks in the Gulf. I just don't understand where you are going with this.

Sea floor leaks are called seeps and there are hundreds of known seeps and likely thousands more we don't know about that are located around the world. They are most common in oil producing regions and are constantly being erroneously linked to oil rigs. But not always.

I wish folks would not go off half cocked about these oil spills, especially in warm water.

Hydrocarbons are as natural to the earth as we are. They are part of the life cycle and food chains in many water environments. This is not so on land where they get in our way.

I find it ironic that our government has made CO2 a pollutant as they exhale it in abundance explaining why.

I see oil with as much irony because we are carbon based life, and if our carcasses were piled up at the ocean floor, our carbon and hydrogen would eventually contribute to the creation of hydrocarbons as we mixed with the algae and settled down through the silt until we joined the oil.

In a sense, just as we are born from destruction of stars, we and oil are closely related. Oil is just the end result of cellular degradation. It is not poison or the worst catastrophic event to happen in the gulf.

Actually, the Mississippi river has that prize all wrapped up.