What BP knew and when they knew it

[pokerfan]

BP knew where it would go, that ecology would never recover, "No toxicity studies" on dispersants.

Xeni Jardin at 2:56 PM Friday, Jun 4, 2010



Karen Dalton Beninato at neworleans.com writes,

I have obtained a copy of the almost-600-page BP Regional Oil Spill Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico as of June, 2009, thanks to an insider. Some material has been redacted, but these are the three main takeaways from an initial read. The name of the well has been redacted, but if it's not Deepwater Horizon, then there's another rig still out there pumping oil and aimed at Plaquemines Parish.

The three big takeaways, excerpted from Beninato's blog post:

1) In the worst case discharge scenario (on chart below), an oil leak was expected to come ashore with highest probability in Plaquemines Parish within 30 days

2) Spokespersons were advised never to assure the public that an ecosystem would be back to normal after the worst case scenario, which we are now living through.

3) Corexit oil dispersant toxicity has not been tested on ecosystems, according to the Oil Spill Response Plan. "Ecotoxilogical effects: No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product."

Link to 583-page, 17 megabyte PDF (publicintelligence.net)

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/04/bps-spill-plan-leaks.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. BP has 2 missions..

1. Make money
2. Lie about anything that will interfere with #1.

[glinda]

2. One more mission: Destroy eco areas so as to drill baby drill some more.

[JuniperLea]

4. Good thought...

What's to lose now that those areas are useless for any other purpose?

[glinda]

10. Certainly. You make swiss cheese with so many holes it just falls apart.

[glitch]

11. Win-win for the Death Cult. They despise anything living anyway so it's all good. nt

[JuniperLea]

3. Bing-effing-o

Simple; effective.

I'm sure they knew well in advance that all of these "fixes" weren't going to work... they are buying time for some reason...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. If they knew they wouldn't work, why spend so much money trying to get them to work?

There's that logic problem popping up again.

[JuniperLea]

6. I don't have all the answer... neither do you...

How much money has AIG and other insurers paid out on this? How much money being spent is actually from BP? You don't know any more than I do.
There are zero deep ocean oil drilling experts on DU... I wouldn't be so quick to shut down discussion. THAT isn't logical at all.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. No, I don't have an answer to your false premise.

False premise if false.

[JuniperLea]

8. You don't know that... eom

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I don't know if Santa Clause told you to reply that way.

But there's this thing called logic that says no, no he probably didn't.