Huh? That is a mouthful!
Well, on the one hand, if they have had a week’s window to top kill the well, and they had to use 6 days convincing the government to let them do it, then government was a real problem.
On the other hand, government IS supposed to be a watchdog for those who have already proven they cannot be trusted. So it’s hard to fault the caution with BP at this point. I think it’s a bad thing, and wish they’d just let BP get the job done, but still....
Worse though is the government’s second-guessing and shutting down state attempts to protect themselves. Letting oil kill the sealife because you are afraid that a sand berm MIGHT kill the sealife is exactly why government can’t legislate disaster relief. They are great at dangers they have known from decades ago, and lousy at writing laws that allow people to use common sense.
Our whole system of government is based on people being left to their common sense, with government acting when people fail. But now we want government to force common sense on people.
JamesRWhite on July 21, 2010 - 3:25pm
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"With another opening in Port St. Joe last week, the Florida Panhandle now has four branch offices dedicated to providing coordinated and rapid oil spill response efforts to nearshore and inland waterway areas."
Lemmie see . . . oil hasn't been flowing into the gulf for over a week now - and here we are 90-something days into the spill, and the Obama administration is just NOW opening a "rapid response" office?
Good think the response was rapid . . . geeze . . .
Heads up on the ROV feeds. Oly Rov 1 is on a smoker coming form the sea bed. Very difficult to see. Lighting is low. They are a distance away. Coming from upper center of image. Plumes or clouds traveling up to the top of screen. Need to view in low lighting.
beachmommy on July 21, 2010 - 11:35am
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LOL about the 1000 ft Tsunami, I like the 5-6 ft waves myself....I have been trying to inform and debunk, although Matt Simmons was just on bloomberg and I only caught part of the massive oil lake 10 miles away, but did find this one yesterday:
There has been a fluctuation in the sea floor for several days of over seven feet... It rises and falls like a pulse, indicating that there is "something" underneath trying to escape... I wonder if it will be another 3-4 weeks before we hear THAT on the MSM
I also found the short info on BP and posted yesterday on the open thread, not sure what percentage were naked shorts though.
Just letting you all know what happened during the night again. Oly 2 is currently showing what appear to be methane bubbles occasionally rising. They almost look like rockets, since they can leave a trail. They head in one direction and do not stop. Sometimes they become dark colored on the way up due to lighting effects. Normally silver white colored. They leave a trail that looks like gas shimmer in water. The shimmer persists for a few seconds. So I do not think they are those sediment mud creatures that we have seen rise out of the sediments before. The ROV is following them as they rise from various sea floor locations and travel upward. Trying to get good focus on them is difficult since they move fairly quick. Also looks like there is wreckage in the area so this may be where parts of the old drill rig fell. Location is NW of BOP. Depth is 4984 feet. Bubbles rising at the rate of one every 1 to 2 seconds per video display area. The bubbles do not appear to be increasing in size on the way up. Could be due to the trail left behind. Perhaps they are partially dissolving into the seawater ? The ground is also flashing white occasionally in spots and that could be where the bubble breaks through.