My trophy bride made a couple of interesting comments yesterday after a brief Fox New update:
1. The leak must be pretty well under control since very little hysteria is being aired.
2. Is the “escaped” oil and the Gulf Salt Watere, doing what salt water has done with escaping oil for centuries, ie, handling the problem.
3. Has/Did BP buy out the envirals before, during and after as they certainly have been quiet versus if this had been Exxon or an American oil company.
1...
The Well is currently "Stabilized"....I think that is the term they are using....
It is not leaking...but portions of the BOP structure are however.
justa-hairyape; has been spending a lot of time watching what is going on around the top of the well head.
2.
There is an enormous amount of discussion at TOD on Plumes,.corexit, microbes , where did the oil go ...who did what to whom....etc.
The itty bitty critters seem to have been busy!
3.
Interesting observations....maybe since BP was trying to bill itself as THE Green company it was supplying funds to a lot of the Greenies....and they didn't want to risk impacting the money flow....but I don't really know.
Thinking of carry_okie here....he might have some ideas.
This is turning out to be what I had initially thought, a disaster no doubt, 11 good folks lost their lives, numbers injured and a huge leak at around 65,000 BOD. But like I told my children, the rivers flowing into the Gulf alone probably deliver 65 million barrels of water a day.
Oil is a naturally occurring substance, gets eaten by bacteria, evaporated by the sun and dispersed into Gulf water to the point of near insignificance. I think the enviros are shutting up because the "evidence" is not appearing as they have screamed and warned about.