Posted on 06/15/2010 5:50:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler
It definitely shows "how BP operates" ... :-)
His post is Post #183 ...
The following information comes from recent measurements from the EPS and NOAA:
The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deep well, meaning that the well itself drilled down to as far as 18, to 25,000 feet, nearly throw the Earths crust, we could every well have hit a strata of oil or a Bathetic of oil. Oil at those depths can reach levels of pressure of 70,000lbs psi. There is no technology known that can handle that pressure. Normal psi for a well is 1,500psi.
What this is doing is eroding the pipe and the surrounding area and digging a bigger fissure, much like if you stick a high-pressure hose in the ground, only in this case from the bottom up. This is causing other streams to open up, hence why we're seeing plumbs appearing miles away from the original rupture.
But that isn't the worst part. As bad as the oil is it is biodegradable. Along with the oil, deadly gases are escaping at the following unprecedented levels (from resent EPA measurements).
Hydrogen Sulfide - safe level = 5-10 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion.Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion.Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion.
These gases can cause massive health effects ranging from shortness of breath to cancer to death. In fact, we've seen some surface workers hospitalized.
Insiders are now saying that there now may be only one way to stop this monster: Nuke it. However there is no guarantee that this wouldn't make matters even worse by opening up even a bigger rupture or creating multiple fissures in the sea floor.
If nothing at all is done, there is reason to believe this rupture will go on for years, possibly decades.
And if this isn't bad enough, Corexit 9500, the dispersant being used, is many times more damaging than the oil itself. Its highly toxic. At the temperatures in the Gulf waters this toxicity is magnified and turns into a gas that can be picked up by clouds and return to Earth as a toxic rain. This "death from above" precipitation may have the ability to destroy life from micro organisms up through the entire entire ecosystem. So the chemical "solution" to the hydrocarbon Extinction Level Event may turn out to be a localized environmental holocaust.
I really wish I had been wrong about this.
Formatted a slight bit differently than in the post, itself ...
The speech was a disaster. He is politically finished.
It was the limpest of limp wrists.
No wonder they bought a chunk of the Obama regime.
Dumbest speach from a President I’ve ever heard..
Dream on. I wish you were right. You know the media and the ignorance of the sheeple will allow this puke to continue on his agenda of turning this country into a third world communist state.
I don’t know how anyone could bear to watch him. I come close to stroking out just thinking about that ant-American, Israel hating, radical marxist, muslim, incompetant bastard sitting in the Oval Office!
He is a liar the Saudi’s had a deep well do this more than a decade ago.
The man exists in another world.
Lies. There were a half-dozen doozies in that speech.
First thoughts: I seem to recall reading just recently that under the Obama administration, BP was just granted several safety waivers for the Deepwater Horizons and other rigs. So that would put the lie to his desire to know how it was that BP experienced this failure.
Also, is he taking credit for the LA barrier islands? I thought Jindal got tired of waiting while the fedgov sat on its collective (pun intended) ass and started building them on his own.
I don’t ever remember a speech so full of lies as this one.
REGARDLESS, focus should remain on the idiots now running our government...
Demonizing BP is but diversion by the leftists...
When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency. But it’s now clear that the problems there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow.
So Salazar wasn’t up to the job.....FIRE him!
But Noooooooo, Obama will bring ANOTHER lawyer on board
who knows nothing about the industry and conditions to
bring about “change”. Well, change is washing up on our
beaches while we “Hope” it gets cleaned up.
Obama should resign and let Biden take over, could it
be any worse?
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