Coast Guard: Despite BP efforts, Gulf oil spill is getting worse

[CLANG]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- The massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill is growing despite British Petroleum's effort to siphon some of the spewing crude from its ruptured deepwater well, the U.S. Coast Guard official leading the cleanup warned Tuesday.

BP doubled its estimate of the amount of crude being captured by a mile-long recovery tube to 2,000 barrels per day - but what percentage of the spill that is remains uncertain. BP has said it thinks that 5,000 barrels of crude a day are leaking from the well, but a video made public Tuesday after the tube was placed inside the broken pipe showed clouds of crude oil still billowing into the sea.

Another video provided the first public view of a second leak much nearer the runaway well's failed blowout preventer spewing oil, too. A BP robot took that video on Saturday and Sunday.

The Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, said that despite the siphoning, the spilled oil is spreading and now stretches from western Louisiana to Florida's Key West. The extent of the spill was straining even the substantial resources deployed for one of the worst ecological disasters in recent history, he said.




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Well, lah-dee fucking-da! SURPRISE!!!

[golddigger]

1. No duh!

[ixion]

2. I wonder what their first clue was

and how many millions they spent reaching that conclusion. :eyes:

Talk about stating the obvious.

[florida08]

3. son of a bitch

damn oil whores

[salazarmms]

4. ...the spilled oil is spreading and now stretches from western Louisiana to Florida's Key West

the commandant said the oil is now stretching to Key West?????? Yet there are no tar balls there?

[daggahead]

16. There are tar balls there, but ...

... mysteriously, the claim is they're not linked to the oil volcano.

[florida08]

5. Omnidirectional refers to the notion of existing in every direction

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Here's what we should have done to get this well shut down as fast as possible.

On day 1 we should have taken the CEO's of the 3 companies involved and summarily executed them. Then tell their replacements to have it shut down in a week or they're next. I'm sorry to say it but it's the only way to insure these bastards are making an honest effort.

[hugo_from_TN]

8. Is Pol Pot still alive? Maybe we can put him in charge.

[florida08]

10. +100

[readmoreoften]

12. +1000

[CLANG]

25. Grind them up for a "junk shot".

(rim shot)

[Magleetis]

7. BP efforts?

To what? protect their image, deceive the public and keep the cost of cleanup to a minimum? Why is our government protecting BP?

[Igel]

9. Some answers, some articles, are just too silly for words. n/t

[metapunditedgy]

11. "what percentage of the spill that is remains uncertain..."

Well, according to BP's numbers you just quoted, BP is claiming that they're siphoning off 40% of the spill.

The numbers are right there. Call them on it. 40%.

I wonder how BP plans to keep these bogus estimates out of the bazillions of court cases that are springing up?

5000 bbl/day and 40% siphoned. Sez BP. Publicly.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, CLANG.

[JDPriestly]

14. BP is in denial. They think if they don't admit what has happened, nobody

will notice.

That may have worked with the Exxon Valdez. Alaska is not the vacationland of the South. Alaska is not a public beach near an important highway. You could hide the damage the Exxon Valdez made, at least from Americans in the lower 48 and Hawaii. But the damage to the Gulf Coast is going to be seen and felt by millions and millions of people.

You can't keep people off the shores of Dauphin Island, off the Bayou, off the beaches of Florida forever. Can't be done.

Liability caps, my eye. BP should be permitted to go under over this. This was criminal negligence.

[Lorien]

15. WHY IS BP THE ONLY ONE MAKING AN "EFFORT"?

Get the best team on the job and make BP pay for it. You can't trust a criminal to clean up after their own crime scene!

[Desertrose]

17. Amen to that! What the hell are we waiting for?

"We" meaning the world. This is going to affect the planet so why should these ....(I can't think of a name foul enough) bastards, get to call the shots when they are fucking up the planet.

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

[dipsydoodle]

18. There seems to be a paradox here on DU

because many don't seem to believe what your Coastguard say : http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4388303&mesg_id=4388303

Why believe them on some issues and not others ?

[salazarmms]

21. Examine the rules of evidence

The statement against interest exception to the hearsay rule is based on the premise that when a statement is made against the interest of the declarant, it will be made cautiously and truthfully.
Look it up.

[florida08]

26. I don't think it was

that they weren't believed as much as they were being censored. So doubt naturally occurs

[jtrockville]

19. Does it take Einstein to figure that one out?

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein

BP should be banned from operating ANYTHING related to drilling for oil until they prove they can do so safely.

[Bragi]

20. Let's cut BP some slack here

This is the first blowout of an ultra-deepwater oil extraction platform they have had.

I'm sure they will know better what to do in their next blowout. And the one after that.

[sakabatou]

22. And the one after that and so on.

[CLANG]

27. Cut them some slack? They said they could handle 12.6 million gallons a day!

They are destroying the planet! Yeah, let's give the poor chaps another chance. NOT!

ON EDIT: Maybe you just forgot the sarcasm smiley?

[Bragi]

28. Clang asks: "Maybe you just forgot the sarcasm smiley?"

Not again!

[intheflow]

23. That's b/c BP isn't interested in stopping the geyser.

They're only interested in capturing what oil they can so they can sell it.

[jfkraus]

24. Send the Tar Balls to BP!

People should collect tar balls from the beaches, put them in plastic baggies, box them, then send them to BP headquarters.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

29. rec