Posted on 09/10/2010 9:16:13 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
WASHINGTON — Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive. Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and much-debated decision by BP and the government to use massive amounts of chemical dispersants deep underwater to break up the oil before it reached the surface.
Oxygen levels in some places where the BP oil spilled are down by 20 percent, but that is not nearly low enough to create dead zones, according to the 95-page report released Tuesday. In an unusual move, BP released 771,000 gallons of chemical dispersant about a mile deep, right at the spewing wellhead instead of on the surface, to break down the oil into tiny droplets ...
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We knew this when it happened. The Pres of BP told congress this was not the major event government tried to make it.
He was right and was beaten up for it by unknowing government hacks and un-educated media.
Bump.
So we’re not all going to die?
Pray for America
I sensed that it would not be nearly the oil disaster that many people were assuming it was going to be. The oil was natural oil as it had yet to be refined, and it was a mile deep in the ocean. Plus Bjorn Lomborg said in his Skeptical Environmentalist book that even the beaches up in Alaska cleared up much quicker than many people could have imagined during the Exxon Valdez spill. He also pointed out that clean up crews purposefully left alone a few areas to see what would happen. Those particular areas recovered much quicker than the areas they cleaned up.
We should be very hesitant to agree with Obama and say, "Yeah, that CEO: he's a scumbag."
Of course, he might be a bad guy, but my expectation is that if Obama doesn't like him, then the guy is probably OK.
“Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf...” and then they poop out the Swine Flu, so we are still all going to die..... unless Obama saves us with his magic oil sucking straw.
Send Obama more money, NOW.
Bring out your dead, oh never mind.
There were two companies back in the 1990’s pushing for cap and trade before Bill Clinton and Al Gore. The first was Enron and the second was BP. Both companies were pushing the green economy back then - http://the-classic-liberal.com/bp-enron-cap-trade/. Enron of course went belly up, but BP of course is now beyond petroleum.
Amazing how nature deals with it’s own product isn’t it?
It’s not like oil hasn’t been leaking out of the bottom of the Gulf for years, but the one has to make someone pay for his bad publicity.
Trust but verify. I wouldn’t take the admin’s word for diddle.
Everything today by government and media is simply to bash business. I really have a huge problem watching the news.
If they did 10% to the government we would be in an entirely different situation.
If the impact to fishing an tourism is limited to one summer, will the slush fund be depleted? No wonder BP didn’t want to fully fund it...once the money is in there, its as good as spent on something.
That’s the same stuff that the EPA told them not to use... right?
what are the long term effects of the corexit on fish and wildlife?
Just asking.
Yes.
Actually it seems that a large amount of oil has settled on the Gulf floor.
“Scientists on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico are finding a substantial layer of oily sediment stretching for dozens of miles in all directions. Their discovery suggests that a lot of oil from the Deepwater Horizon didn’t simply evaporate or dissipate into the water — it has settled to the seafloor.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129782098&ft=1&f=1001
If corexit itself degrades, are there any long-term effects?
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