LIARS
Posted on 06/15/2010 3:59:02 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Government officials Tuesday increased the estimate of oil flowing into the Gulf to between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels (1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons) per day, up to 50 percent more than previously estimated.
The government's previous estimate, issued last week, was 20,000 to 40,000 barrels per day. The change was "based on updated information and scientific assessments," and was reached by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group Marcia McNutt, the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
This is another 50% increase from where it was.
It definitely shows "how they operate" ... :-)
His post is Post #183 ...
The following information comes from recent measurements from the EPS and NOAA:
The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deep well, meaning that the well itself drilled down to as far as 18, to 25,000 feet, nearly throw the Earths crust, we could every well have hit a strata of oil or a Bathetic of oil. Oil at those depths can reach levels of pressure of 70,000lbs psi. There is no technology known that can handle that pressure. Normal psi for a well is 1,500psi.
What this is doing is eroding the pipe and the surrounding area and digging a bigger fissure, much like if you stick a high-pressure hose in the ground, only in this case from the bottom up. This is causing other streams to open up, hence why we're seeing plumbs appearing miles away from the original rupture.
But that isn't the worst part. As bad as the oil is it is biodegradable. Along with the oil, deadly gases are escaping at the following unprecedented levels (from resent EPA measurements).
Hydrogen Sulfide - safe level = 5-10 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion.Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion.Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion.
These gases can cause massive health effects ranging from shortness of breath to cancer to death. In fact, we've seen some surface workers hospitalized.
Insiders are now saying that there now may be only one way to stop this monster: Nuke it. However there is no guarantee that this wouldn't make matters even worse by opening up even a bigger rupture or creating multiple fissures in the sea floor.
If nothing at all is done, there is reason to believe this rupture will go on for years, possibly decades.
And if this isn't bad enough, Corexit 9500, the dispersant being used, is many times more damaging than the oil itself. Its highly toxic. At the temperatures in the Gulf waters this toxicity is magnified and turns into a gas that can be picked up by clouds and return to Earth as a toxic rain. This "death from above" precipitation may have the ability to destroy life from micro organisms up through the entire entire ecosystem. So the chemical "solution" to the hydrocarbon Extinction Level Event may turn out to be a localized environmental holocaust.
I really wish I had been wrong about this.
Formatted a slight bit differently than in the post, itself ...
BS.
This story is total BS, they knew from day one and the video that proves it was posted last night on FR.
Bush’s fault. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Big Ears plays golf eats shaved ice has concerts in the White Hut and drinks Bushwhackers.
Just in time for Mr. Miracle Boy president obama’s speech tonight! How coincidental...how fortuitous.
Yep, and Bammy also knew it, one big cover up in a string of many.
Hussein, start kicking your own miserable ass!
THE OIL POLLUTION ACT OF 1990 CHARGES THE WHITE HOUSE WITH CLEANING UP THE MESS. SO YOU HAVE FAILED BIG TIME, HUSSEIN!
OPA, among other things, amended Section 311 of the federal Clean Water Act. Section 311 now provides in part that: (A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States),
the President shall
(notice the word SHALL; not "MAY" not "CAN" not "PERHAPS", but SHALL!)
direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.
(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government–
(i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and
(ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.
P.S.: CNN reports that on the day of the memorial for the victims (a month after the explosion), HUSSEIN ATTENDED A FUNDRAISER. Nice move there, jerkoff. Real caring.
Heckuva job, Barry!
Who needs experience to be president?
$4 620 000 worth of crude spitting away PER DAY.
man, there is a lot of oil in the gulf. LET’S TURN IT ALL OFF !
Weren’t they saying 100,000 barrels a day just a few days ago?
They have some interesting views on the ROV webcams.
Most of the cool stuff goes on at night. During the day, most of the ROV’s are on the surface getting cleaned and checked.
It starts getting busy about this time of evening and last night they were busy as bees.
Today, one cam is on the PRESSURE MONITOR.
LINK for you or anyone else that wants to watch.
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