Posted on 06/14/2010 6:46:10 PM PDT by unspun
The video appears on a federal Web site.
The video appears to have been edited, and it was shot by a person carrying a camera from room to room.
In it, officials are discussing the search for survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. There is a hand-drawn map of the spill dated April 22. At one point, the video freezes on a sign next to a door that reads, "War Room."
In one scene, officials say that the estimate for the leak in a worst-case scenario is between 65,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. A dry erase board on the wall reads "Estim: 64,000 to 110,000 bbls/day. CNN reported 300,000 gal/day."
The high end of the estimate, 110,000 barrels, is about 4.6 million gallons. At that spill rate, 32 million gallons of oil would enter the Gulf every week. By comparison, the entire Exxon Valdez spill was about 11 million gallons.
Officials estimate current flow from the damaged well at 210,000 gallons a day.
It is unclear from the video what events would have to transpire to raise the flow rate higher.
A confidential NOAA report, dated April 28 and circulated among federal agencies, makes similar projections regarding spill size in a worst-case situation.
It describes newly discovered leaks in the tangle of riser pipe, attributing them to ongoing erosion of the pipe. The riser pipe, in this case about 5,000 feet long, connects the wellhead on the sea floor to the drilling rig on the surface.
"If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked," reads the report.
On Thursday, the day after the NOAA report was circulated, BP officials said they were worried about "erosion" of the piping.
Sand is an integral part of the formations that hold oil under the Gulf. The raw crude rising from the bottom of a well carries sand and other abrasive materials. In effect, the oil is sandblasting the piping as it rushes through with tremendous force, according to petroleum engineers.
"I think we need to be prepared for it to be the spill of the decade," Debbie Payton of NOAA, the meeting's coordinator, says during the NOAA video.
NOAA did not immediately respond to the Press-Register's request for comment on the video.
Let it run... shut down domestic oil... part of the plan.
Shut the hell up and get back in your gas line.
Interesting that this video was able to make it out of the facility.
He wanted this oil spill to reach catastrophic proportions to demonize big oil to the vast majority of Americans. This gives him the moral high ground as he "puts his boot on the neck" of yet another sector of the American economy. His foreign policy has worked to the benefit of just those countries and movements praised by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.
The anger the left has with him is just that he hasn't moved boldly or quickly enough.
Zero caught in yet another lie ping!
Louisiana, save yourself!
The people “saving” you right now couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.
Same goes for you, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida!!
I'll say! I wonder if anyone in that room will pull the trigger in getting this out to the MSM.
Updated:
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2010/06/video-shows-us-government-well-aware-in.html
The truth has been hiding in plain sight, since May Day, at AL.com. Visit the government at work, collecting data on what is apparently the 22nd, 23rd, or 24th of April — scientists for an United States government which refused clean-up help then and refuses help now — an U.S. government which, it would seem, has lied to us, all this time. Listen to the report.
At 6 minutes 35 seconds, the man on the phone says, “I’ve heard two different estimates on, some’n, far as uh, between sixty-five and a hundred thousand barrels a day.”
And see what is already written on the white board. Those are numbers much, much higher than the story they gave to the public — until perhaps yesterday or today.
Last Wednesday evening, 6/11, I interviewed a director level scientist of BP, Mark Proegler, working for Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. He recounted to me that the official report of the rate of the leak was 5,000 barrels per day, at first. Then, he said, the U.S. government put together two technical groups to assess the flow and they performed numerous tests. Their two results, according to the government, were between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels per day, from one group and between 12,000 to 25,000 barrels per day, from the other. Compare these numbers with the evidence shown here: 65,000 to 100,000 barrels per day. Look for the words used around those numbers. Do you see words such as “could become?” The white board says “reported.” That is corroborated by the man on the telephone.
I’ve held my tongue for a while on this BP “spill.”
IF it wasn’t spilled ON PURPOSE, then it is the most convenient “crisis” in human history.
HERE THEY COME WITH CAP ‘N TAX, FOLKS!
I know this is WAY outside the box for most people, but BP is just a company that can be manipulated by the world’s elite to help usher in the hard-left’s agenda and bring us ever closer to a one-world government.
They needed this event desperately after their problems with email a while back.
Prediction: The leak will continue until Cap ‘N Tax passes, or until it has become an historical environmental disaster.
Let me add: If they pass Cap ‘N Tax we do not have a chance in hell of saving the United States from a one-world hard left government.
Freepers, Americans, you had better get ready to work your *sses off to hault this agenda.
This is the final battle for the United States of America.
Pardon, that conversation with BP/Unified Command was Wednesday 6/9.
I want to know why the the bolts on the flang of the damaged riser wer not cut off and a piece put in place and bolted onto the open flange.
Why was that not done as soon as they realized the BOP was not working?
A picture to download, along with the rest of this.
he’s a schlub.
Heckuva job, Barry!
Add this information to what we know about NALCO and the rejection of help from other countries and what do you get?
Well, among other things....high treason.
Ping. Thought you’d want to see this.
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