Oil response hurricane plans still lacking details

[highplainsdem]

Source: WWLTV.com

Oil response hurricane plans still lacking details
by Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News
wwltv.com
Posted on June 23, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Updated today at 6:26 PM


More than three weeks into hurricane season, there are still no firm plans from BP nor Unified Command, on how to handle the oil response should a storm threaten.

This comes as a weather disturbance in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to move into the Gulf early next week.

The situation is now worrying state and local officials, who wonder how BP will evacuate its assets stationed in some of Louisiana's most storm-vulnerable parishes

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One of the most important resources is time, which is needed to evacuate coastal parishes before a storm hits, under normal circumstances. Yet, the oil spill in Gulf is anything but normal and there are real concerns about whether evacuating workers and equipment could interfere with residents trying to get out at the same time.

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Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/Oil-Response-Hurricane-Plans-Still-Lacking-Details-97018794.html

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Link to the topic I posted in GD earlier today about Jeff Masters' blog post on 93L, which is likely to become a tropical storm or hurricane and make landfall along the northern Gulf coast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8619742

[Angry Dragon]

1. They have not known what they were doing up to this point

why should they know what to do about a hurricane??
The blind leading the inept and the ignorant

[truthisfreedom]

2. BP's plan? "Everybody put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye!

There can't be a plan. It's a disaster of biblical proportions. THE GULF IS FUCKED. And a bunch of the East coast as well. What's the real answer? Move away from the coast, find a job other than fishing, eliminate all dependence on oil.

[uppityperson]

3. When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout

k&r