Posted on 06/30/2010 8:41:46 AM PDT by Nachum
The largest skimming ship in the world known as an A Whale is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, but will be prevented from contracting with BP to help clean up the oil spill until the federal government decides that the vessel is effective.
The Coast Guard will not clear the Taiwan-owned ship which is reportedly the length of 3 football fields and 10 stories high to join the clean-up until it undergoes a test.
The Coast Guard research and development center has a team of personnel that are ready to observe the tests to test the efficacy of the vessels systems, as well as its ability to safely operate in that area down there, Coast Guard spokesman Ron LaBrec told The Daily Caller.
LaBrec said that the Coast Guard does not have concerns about the environmental impact of the ships operations. Some reports have said that the Environmental Protection Agency is worried that some of the 500,000 barrels of oily water sucked up each day by the vessel may contain some traces of oil when placed back in the Gulf.
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I want all of you to consider at length what this means re: health care. Just think how monumentally screwed up thats going to be. Why on earth does the electorate continue giving power and control to an entity thats the defn of incompetent? If the oil spill is a disaster just think what your health care is going to look like. That should bring it all home right in your lap. You cant turn the channel off nor can you run and hide from it.
“Yes we can!” has turned into, “Like Hell we will!”
“Yes we can!” has turned into, “Like Hell we will!”
” Just my tin foil hat talking here, LOL!) “
With Obama in power, I’m not so sure there is such a thing as tin foil ;-)
” I think a future patriot’s tribunal convened by the upcoming American Revolutionary Republic Restoration (aka “ARRR!!!!!”) would be better suited for such a task. “
The Romanian Method comes to mind ;-)
Best way to find out is to get into the Gulf ASAP and see what it does!
Doing nothing is the biggest avenue of failure known to man.
And even after they can admit it, they refuse the several easy cure(s)..
Because America is ruled by MOB Rule by mobsters..
America is in a heck of a fix..
This administration would have us holding things up for ‘testing’ of the effectiveness of toilet paper if it could get by with such an action.
Who would build & sail such a large investment if it wasn’t effective?
More of the attitude: IF WE DIDN’T BUILD IT, IT ISN’T ANY GOOD.
That EPA standard for “oily water” is probably being violated every time someone slathers their kid with SPF 60 ++ & lets the kid into the water.
And as we learned from Chernobyl, no mosquitoes for 10,000 years.
Apparently there are quite a few of these skimmers. I doubt they were all recently retooled, and I doubt this Whale Ship was retooled in response to the BP Rig explosion.
ML/NJ
I only had read that this "Whale" was the largest skimmer. I inferred from this that there were others. So I googled oil skimmer ships and a link to this pdf of some ship built in 2000, complete with picture. I suggest you have a look.
ML/NJ
Rush nailed Team B-0 about the A-Whale today.
What on God’s Good Green Earth is going on? We have epa people, who probably have never worked on an oil rig telling people who’ve spent their lives in the oil fields, working oil clean up, which the epa, probably has little knowledge of telling what should and shouldn’t happen. HECK FIRE, get the darn stuff cleaned up. Are there any epa people out there on the shores with a shovel picking up the oil globs? I’ll bet not, they’re too important to bend over or do any real work.
No, they’re pushing their weight around. I’ve had to deal with these whimps when we were in the wood business. They knew little to nothing of what we were doing and didn’t know one bug from another, but wanted to make sure the powder post beetle was not passed to other states. The 2 individuals who came to our plant stood right in front of some bettles and didn’t know what they were. Doofs. I have little to no use for these people.
The oil rig is 50 miles off shore. The travelling oil probably didn’t come within the 3 mile limit for some days. So how can the US government stop ships from entering the Gulf of Mexicao over 3 miles away from our shores?
The most incompetent administration ever.
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