All that resulting soot should help to belay our demise from global warming.
and how long ago did BP request permission to burn the oil??
SMOKE PARTICLES + NORMAL COASTAL POP-UP AFTERNOON THUNDER STORMS = DELUGE..................
I hope their air pressure is set properly or this is going to anger Gaia.
If they can send it to a ship that burns it off, why can’t they send it to a ship(s) that collects it?
What, they can’t line up a few empty tankers?
They have clean-burning oil technology that is used throughout the world, but for months they didn’t even try to pursue this here because the Obama administration thought it would look bad politically to their environmentalist whacko supporters to allow BP to burn oil.
So instead, it’s been spoiling fisheries and beaches. But at least it isn’t being burned.
Finally, Obama agreed to the plan, so in the next day or two another 5-10 THOUSAND barrels a day of oil will stop leaking into the gulf.
They are hooking this up to an existing pipe on the original cut-off (one of the backfill pipes) — they probably could have hooked this up at any time. In fact, it is the pipe they used to try the top-kill, which was destined to fail but was one of those “Obama said we should plug the hole, so we’ll try to plug the hole” things.
By July 1st, they will have a much bigger production facility come online, and be able to handle even more oil, and by mid-july they might be doing 40,000 barrels a day.
Which hopefully is enough to lower the pressure to where the leaks are minimal, but it’s scary to think there’s 40,000 barrels a day to be processed (that’s 1.6 MILLION gallons a day of oil)
If BP wanted to start burning the oil right away and Obama told them not to, BP is going to have some great defenses to a lot of the costs for cleanup.
Best thing Obama could have told them was for BP to solve the problem and suspend all laws or policies that hindered their efforts.