Posted on 06/27/2010 11:58:29 AM PDT by kara2008
And even then, only in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. I believe IXTOC 1 was a bigger spill than Deepwater Horizon, and it happened 30 years ago, when cleaning technologies weren't as advanced.
Via AP: Huge oil-skimming ship makes Virginia stop en route to Gulf of Mexico
“and won’t be allowed to join the cleanup effort until the Coast Guard and the EPA figure out whether it meets their standards...”
Arrrggghhhhhhhhhh
Why isn’t the A-Whale in the Gulf yet?
Because of the lazy A-Hole in the White House?
WRONG...he knows exactly what he is doing...he is destroying America to rebuild it with his own Stalinist style purges....you don't give this slimbag enough credit....never underestimate the enemy.
Engineering analysis shows Packgen boom “superior”
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posted at 1:36 pm on June 16, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
After the federal bureaucracy finally got notified by Jake Tapper of an untapped inventory of boom that could be put to good use in the Gulf disaster, the Joint Command insisted that Packgen’s boom didn’t meet its quality standards. Packgen responded by having an outside analyst inspect its product. As Jake Tapper reports in his follow-up, it not only meets the standards but is actually superior to its competition:
[Ian] Durham was recently hired by Packgen – the Maine packaging company that manufactured roughly 80,000 feet of boom that the US Coast Guard says failed an initial BP quality control test. Packgen president John Lapoint III has expressed frustration at BP/Coast Guard bureaucracy, insisting that the boom he’s making will work well in the Gulf, where boom is desperately needed.
Durham would not say how much he was paid, but he says he’s generally paid $100 an hour for consulting, and his analysis of Packgen boom took rougly 40-45 hours.
You can read Durham’s report HERE.
He says Packgen’s boom is superior to other boom. Its woven polypropelene is “practically indestructible,” he says. “Packgen uses it to make toxic waste disposal containers.”
Does Durham believe that the government and BP should be acquiring Packgen’s product? “Absolutely,” Durham tells Tapper.
The excuse prior to this has been that Packgen’s product didn’t meet quality control standards and didn’t come with universal connectors. Packgen has already agreed to change connectors, even though the boom already being deployed doesn’t have them. This report demolishes the quality-control argument as well. These now appear to have been nothing but an excuse to distract people from the fact that the Obama administration’s team knew nothing of Packgen’s inventory despite media coverage of their production in anticipation of the demand in the Gulf.
So what’s the next excuse? The color clashes with battleship haze gray?
I'm a big fan of the Byzantine way of discharging corrupt Feds. (Blinding and castrating...)
Finally...maybe the other media will be forced to pick up on this. NPR mentioned it but the coverage has been local. Unlike that Hollywood nitwit and his little machines no one wanted to buy and are probably good for nothing but using around lagoons (or on the deck of The Whale), this ship is not a cause of the Obama media wants to discuss.
But I want the EPA and the Coast Guard to be held accountable for the additional environmental damage that has been caused as a result of their bureaucratic indecision and procrastination.
I want jail-time for bureaucrats. These people are evil
See Letter:
See the Packgen story just above.
Maybe it doesn’t have enough life vests.
You have a point. I’m sure the old Choom Gang activities have ratcheted up a few notches in the past year.
I for one am tired of kid glove treatment for evil.
Btw- "the homo must go" new chant for next march of District of Criminals.
Call up every shrimper, tug, pleasure boat or airboat, form a flotilla protecting the A-Whale, get it past the CG.
Its the right tool for the job, but someone feels that would be not the right solution.
It is so openly apparent Obama absolutely wants to throw a monkey wrench in every national plan or crisis.
The feds won’t allow it out in the open sea until they use up the stock of the super toxic dispersant, of which certain people are making millions in profit from.
Wake-up Ameerica and see what Obama is doing to the Gulf on purpose!
GAK, I wonder how many other potential emergencies America is woefully unprepared for, not because of equipment issues, but because of obstructive bureaucrats.
You mean The Obama Dead Sea?
Follow the $$$.
Instead of being held accountable, the government bureaucrats and politicians persist in lock-step adherence to the “never let a crisis go to waste” motto in order to: ram down cap and trade, destroy the U.S. oil industry, build up Soros via Petrobras, create more government regulations, spit on the Constitution and subvert the Rule of Law and enlarge dependency on the federal government by driving up unemployment in the Gulf states.
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