Well that’s comforting to know. I mean, the clean-up is going so well...
:eyes roll:
So the questions is are there enough skimmers out there doing the job or do we need more. I would think we need all we can get.
So, it’s just because the present administration itself won’t allow/accept the expertise and equipment offered.
That doesn’t mean the Zer0 admin didn’t use the act as an excuse...
The American Maritime Industry has nothing to do with the situation - O-Dumb-oh refused to waive the Jones Act; it’s up to him, not the farging American Maritime Industry. As a consequence of the Messiah’s divine guidance, European countries which have skimmers were prevented from providing aid.
There oughta be a filter against shills on FR. There are way too many dumbocrats out plying the internet waters!
I thought the Dutch had specialty ships that we don’t have.
Anyway thanks for the info.
Since US ships are getting up every drop of the spill.....
If you want to buy into the union thug story, be my guest. These a-holes are lying.
As the Gulf Coast shores continue to be coated with crude, the Obama Administration has only accepted assistance from 5 countries out of 28 who offered to assist the US with the cleanup.
And there’s lots of skimmers and boom on that list that are “under consideration”
We should be using, or negotiating to use, every capable vessel to contain and control the spill regardless of the flag it flies under.
The idea that there are sufficient US flag vessels to contain the spill is ludicrous on the face of it because if that were true, there would be no oil washing up on American shores.
I am not sure exactly what is going on here, but I am sure that this article is more self-serving than not.
http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/2hist.html
A long history.
Some here are saying that because there is some union connection this is all automatically suspect, but it seems to me the point of the piece you posted is that the Jones Act ISN'T preventing the use of foreign vessels.
If that's true, I don't see how this is some "CYA" article for "The Unions". What it seems to be saying is that Obama has no excuse for using any foreign vessels.
If this is the case, this is good information to know, and thanks for posting it.
So then the Commander in Chief is an idiot!
Well, no.
Read all their words: They never said it was waived - only that there is a procedure to waive the act. They never mentioned that the three mile rule affects port entry to dump the collected oil.
The OMSA (union and owners) is covering up for NOT waiving he Jones Act.
The EPA forbids the Seawater from being dumped back overboard if ANY Oil is present, thus requiring all the liquid being skimmed to be stored on board the vessel to be processed back in port.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Bullshit.
Whew, what a relief. Here I was waiting for a disaster to happen om the Gulf Coast shores and all the time the OMSA had things under control. I’m relieved at their explanation.......er, BS.
This is a cover-your-ass statement by the trade organization which benefits from keeping foreign ships out of US waters. Therefore, it is also an apologist for Obama’s failure here to do what George Bush did promptly during Katrina, WAIVE the Jones Act.
Even this apology has the insane statement that “no one has asked for a waiver.” Any administrator, even a President, should have noticed from Day One that we would need thousands of skimmers, and that Holland and many other places had offered theirs for use.
Now, sixty days after the original explosion, this Administration is “considering whether to use the Dutch skimmers,” while the oil is now arriving in the wetlands and on the beaches where it is killing the fishing and tourism industries respectively.
This is a biased statement from a biased source, designed to provide cover for Obama’s errors.
John / Billybob
So....why are there not enough skimmers then? Or is the cleanup pretty much over?