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Posted on 06/25/2010 11:22:19 PM PDT by Brugmansian
The Taiwanese-owned, Liberian-flagged ship dubbed the "A Whale" stands 10 stories high, stretches 1,115 feet in length and has a nearly 200-foot beam. It displaces more water than an aircraft carrier.
Built in South Korea as a supertanker for transporting oil and iron ore, the six-month-old vessel was refitted in the wake of the BP oil spill with 12, 16-foot-long intake vents on the sides of its bow designed to skim oil off surface waters.
The vessel's billionaire owner, Nobu Su, the CEO of Taiwanese shipping company TMT Group, said the ship would float across the Gulf "like a lawn mower cutting the grass," ingesting up to 500,000 barrels of oil-contaminated water a day.
But a number of hurdles stand in his way. TMT officials said the company does not yet have government approval to assist in the cleanup or a contract with BP to perform the work . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...
A better title would be: “Gulf held hostage by Cap’n Tax”
Can’t obama just have one of his czar’s issue some kind of ‘waiver’ ?
It’s not like there is no precedent from the president. A waiver is what started this whole thing.
I am very grateful to Mr. Nobu Su
Though this is downright sinful...
“But a number of hurdles stand in his way. TMT officials said the company does not yet have government approval to assist in the cleanup or a contract with BP to perform the work . . .”
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Why does it need “permission”...??
Can’t it just make a slow drive in the Gulf? Isn’t it considered international waters?
We don’t need it. 0baMao is going to suck the oil out of the gulf himself and then swim down and plug the well. Some day.
Yep, put that puppy to work and have a television crew on board. When the Feds come to stop it stream it live on national TV.
Yeah, no hurry Obama. The whole frickin’ area is ruined now.
Somebody has to pay...
Damn. That’s some major “intake.”
Some La. residents have boats and equipment...think they wanted just to go out on their own to try to do something, and they were hindered. Seems there was an article or clip about it.
How can BP control the entire Gulf? That should not be. I hope the La. residents just go out in the waters anyway.
This Taiwanese super skimmer is 500,000 barrels/day.”
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We need all the skimmers we can get!!!
I like the big one best,,,
At this stage of the game it just seems hopeless to me,,,
If that storm don't take a hard left turn the oil from that
blowout will cover every part of the coast from Galveston
to Key West with crude,,,
High surf will overwash all the booms,,,
They're still skroooin’ around with tryin’ to replace the
shelter islands that would help keep the crude out of the
marshes in Louisiana...
Oh I’m sure they get hindered. OSHA, FEMA, etc. doesn’t want the public getting in the way. And besides, there’s that $100 million foundation for the benefit of organized labor included in the shakedown package. Obama’s civilian corps will be busy this summer sitting on stinking beaches in nice federal T-shirts, while the people who know this water like the back of their hands will be told to get lost.
Wonder how far up the Mississippi River the oil would travel from a hurricane push?
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