Posted on 06/30/2010 3:19:43 PM PDT by Qbert
If Louisianians were hoping to get a clearer picture of the federal government's strategy for fixing their battered coast in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, they didn't get much help Tuesday from the Obama administration's new point man for Gulf Coast restoration, who made his first visit to the area since taking the post.
Hours after a flyover of the oil-stained Louisiana shoreline Tuesday, former Mississippi Gov. and current Navy Secretary Ray Mabus delivered this sobering message: Don't look for specifics anytime soon.
With a White House game plan for fixing the economic and ecological damage from the BP oil spill still in the formative stages, Mabus -- who has said very little publicly since being named to the new position two weeks ago -- asked for patience from residents of the four states reeling from the catastrophe.
"I understand that people are very, very concerned about today - about the here and now - and that it's hard to focus on something that may happen a month from now or two months from now or even years from now," Mabus said during a news conference at New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
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Why are we letting this a-hole and his administation get away with this B.S.
I can’t understand we we aren’t protesting in the streets about this oil spill, this should be job one for everyone in this country, why aren’t we making these people do the right thing.
This is astounding, we have the technology at our disposal to mitigate most of the impact of the oil and virtually nothing is being done and it’s just Ho Hum just another day.
I’m outraged.
Hurricanes make a large dome of water, the storm surge. Hurricanes also disturb and churn waters at deep levels. Perhaps a large pool of methane gas would be scattered harmlessly within a hurricane. Perhaps not.
I certainly hope you are right, but I’m not going to be here to find out first hand.
That is not necessarily the case, aruanan. From my understanding, storm surge is caused by both wind and low atmospheric pressure. Underneath the hurricane, the level of seawater is actually raised up. While the hurricane is in deeper waters, wind is able to blow some of this water away, but as it approaches shallow waters, the mountain of water builds up as it cannot escape, and then comes ashore as a rapidly rising tide.
But it is the rising sea out in the open that concerns me, because that water is sucked upwards. It is here that I am worried deep pools of escaped methane could come into play. Maybe it will not happen. I certainly hope that this is the case, I don’t want to see anything like this.
Mabus is a political hack. He don’t know nuffin from oil spills.
a gutless weasel
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