Posted on 06/30/2010 1:24:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Update: Reader Tarpon has some excellent observations regarding EPA rules to oil spills, which someone should have been reading in the White House months ago:
Yep, Obowma should have read the EPA oil spill emergency plan — Contain the spill at the well, time is of the utmost urgency. And they further state, ‘at all costs keep the oil off the beaches and out of the estuaries’.
EPA and NOAA — First line of defense ‘fire booms; which the government was supposed to have on hand for just such an emergency — But had none, zip, zero, nada one fire boom.
And now the EPA is turning away skimmers that cannot meet the 15 ppm water discharge, as if the pelicans wouldn’t be happy with 99.9% filtration.
Yep, all there in black & white - end update
Our young and inexperienced President has failed America – and this planet. His community organizing skills are no match for a massive international business conglomerate (who was also one of his biggest campaign donators) and their tragic string of mistakes and cover ups in the now infamous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Harsh? Maybe – but factually accurate.
Mr. Obama let his ‘big oil’ donator try and cover up their mistake instead of pushing them aside and taking control of the disaster when it was manageable. And now there is a swath of ecosystem death in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and along its shores. Community after community is in financial ruin from a mess that now cannot be contained, nor corrected for years to come.
On day 71 of the spill, the bloated and lethargic Obama administration has finally got around to determining we need help from our international brethren in dealing with this catastrophe:
The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that’s been accepted.
The identities of all 12 countries and international organizations were not immediately announced. One country was cited in the State Department statement — Japan, which is providing two high-speed skimmers and fire containment boom.
More than 30 countries and international organizations have offered to help with the spill. The State Department hasn’t indicated why some offers have been accepted and others have not.
This should have happened 65 days ago, when the oil spill was still localized and much more manageable than it is today. Here are the latest pictures from NASA showing the extent of the oil’s travels in those 71 wasted days. The first picture is from June 7th and shows how far the oil had dispersed by that date, now three weeks past (click to enlarge).
The 2nd picture is from June 27th and shows the oil now attacking the barrier islands of Mississippi:
Once the oil dispersed hundreds of miles form the well site and began attacking the coastline the surface area required to address in attacking this beast became mind boggling enormous. Once the oil got into the marshes it was too late to save the life there.
It really never had to be this way. If not for the inaction of President Obama (except all his motion on the golf course) this oil spill should have been dealt with as many others like spills have been dealt with in the past (this example is from 1979!).
The 3rd picture shows how localized the problem was on April 29th, over a week after the spill, when a rapid response could have avoided much of the damage we now face.
NASA also has a film showing the growth of the oil spill while team Obama fiddled in DC.
It is criminal what has happened here. Why the US government did not take charge from BP and call in all available resources from around America and the world is just unconscionable. The imbeciles at EPA dawdled and debated whether burning the oil at the surface, or dispersing chemicals, or sand berms would be more of an ecological disaster than this reeking pool of death. The EPA has been stuck on stupid for months with their obsession over naturally occurring carbon dioxide and is potential for unlimited tax revenues. Too busy counting their gold to be bothered by the real damage of the oil spill.
The entire administration is lost in a liberal fantasy, completely unaware of the real life issues surrounding them.
If stupidity was a high crime and misdemeanor the entire lot of bloviating and pompous fools in DC would be standing in the unemployment line instead of millions of hard working, decent Americans. We now see what happens when the aging JDs (Juvenile Delinquents) of the liberal movement are put in charge of important matters.
Disaster on an epoch scale.
Michelle says, "Don't let them eat that cake!"
I read over at The Oil Drum that the dispersant being used Corexit 9500 was banned in the UK over 10 years ago and Spain has also banned it but unsure of when. It was banned due to both human and animal sicknesses.
LMAO
Anyone who does not insist that Obama produce valid birth records leans to Obama. Anyone who mocks those who insist that the Constitution is meaningful and should be applied in regards the “natural born citizen” clause is PRO-OBAMA.
AJSTRATA can go suck oil with his good buddy Obama.
BP disaster was obama’s 3 A.M. emergency phone call discussed in the campaign. How’s he doing? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2544468/posts?page=42
Now Obama changes his mind but will not allow the big equipment to be brought here by ship. An article states that the equipment has made it to America(dismantled and being retrofitted on US ships).
Obama also wants the Netherland company to train US peoples how to use the equipment and build the sand berms. The Netherlands company originally said they could do all of the above within THREE WEEKS if THEY were only allowed to do it themselves. So see Obama really cares, he is postponing the stopping of the well as well as the cleanup because he wants to create jobs at the expense of thousands of displaced Americans that SHOULD be making a living off the very waters that he is mucking up for decades with his shenanigans.
LOL... Good job. I wish I had thought of that.
Oil intrusion reaches Long Beach Harbor (MS)
The Long Beach Harbor is surrounded with hundreds of yards of orange, protective boom. But that boom is virtually useless in the strong winds and stirred-up surf. "Five thousand feet wrapped around the harbor. And it either went over the top or underneath, but somehow it made it through it," said White.
"We knew it was coming. It's just sad to see it come. There's nothing you can do. You know, I don't know how you can stop it. But we tried. And we saw what happened," said White.
HARD DAYS ahead for struggling BP in Gulf of Mexico as the hurricane Alex is making it tough for then to continue clean up work. The hurricane Alex pushed more oil to beaches on Wednesday as cleanup vessels were sidelined for safety reasons.
Weather department forecasted 6-foot high waves and 25 mph winds through Thursday just offshore from the Mississippi Delta in Louisianan to Florida Panhandle.
Storm pushed tar ball as big as apples toward Grand Isle and uninhabited Elmer's Island on Louisiana. Pouring rain and lightning disrupted the cleanup work, boom lining the beach had been tossed about.
Hurricane Alex left Alabama beaches sprayed with oil and tar balls Wednesday, even with Alex more than 500 miles away as it approached the Texas-Mexico coast.
Tar balls the size of dinner plates filled a large swath of beach east of Pensacola after. Wind and rain kept crews from cleaning the crude.
Sorry, but simply NOT TRUE. Look up the proven science studies on the recovery of other oil spills, especially the Ixtoc spill. The ecology will recover in 3-5 years. The Ixtoc spill put out more oil, for a longer time, and affected much more shoreline area. A study done by the Texas "Bureau of Land Management" found NO identifiable damage to the ecology after three years.
PDF file is here.....
http://invertebrates.si.edu/mms/reports/IXTOC_exec.pdf
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill
"Despite over 3.3 million barrels of oil ending up in the environment after the cleanup, the beach fauna or beach populations were back to where they were before the spill within two to three years. [11] After 6 years, it was difficult to find any evidence of oil.[12] Today, after more than 30 years, there is little sign of the oil spill.[13]"
Similar studies exist for the Exxon-Valdez spill, and for the FAR larger Persian Gulf (Gulf War I) release, with similar results. The recover time for the EV and PG spills were slightly longer than for Ixtoc, because of the colder climate for the EV, and the far larger size of the PG, but in general, the ecology recovers FAR more quickly than is spoken of in the popular media.
Zero isn’t ready for his closeup, Mister DeMille.
Never has been.
Never will be.
Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach!
Update: Reader Tarpon has some excellent observations regarding EPA rules to oil spills, which someone should have been reading in the White House months ago:
Oh, yikes. Please read this article.
[Thanks, Ernest_at_the_Beach.]
WRONG. Rules are for the little people /s
PS. Besides...they are too busy working on immigration
Wait a minute!
I distinctly heard Diane Sawyer last night claim BP was a heavy Repub contributor. /s
Check out that collection cap moving from the hurricane driven waves at the surface. Looks like it might even be bumping into the BOP.
We need to get rid of him and every last one of his running dogs. They consitute the gravest internal threat to America that it has ever known, or so far in this case 'unknown' as yet, but for a few.
The GOP keeps acting like Barry Soetoro is any typical politician. He is not, He is a treasonous fascist whose government needs to be terminated, with prejudice if necessary.
It could appear the author is a bit angry with the socialist commie muslim.
Do they designate which dispersant was from NALCO?
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