BP Oil spill shambles

[hooked_on_trout]

Unmotivated but smart enough to smell an ulterior motive.

No wonder your supporting BP, you work for Bio fuel research.

They practically pay your wages.

cheers

[yoyo]

Gents just to put this whole matter (of the oil spill, not you clowns in netball skirts having a handbag fight over lentils and biodegradable panties), i've just returned from a trip to the USA and also spent some time down in the caribbean.

The profile of this spill over there is something you dont get a true sense of with its coverage over here. It's big news here, sure, but over there it is practically all-consuming.

every single day there are live broadcasts of statements from various agencies involved in the different facets of the whole operation, from the head of the disaster team (coastguard is in control), to FEMA, a few different government agencies, BP themselves...this is for a couple of hours live EVERY SINGLE DAY...

Obama is on TV every day over there for various things as well, but at the moment a good deal of time is spent discussing this disaster.

BP is copping a raping over there for this, it's true boggo road style stuff, everyone HATES that smug prick of a CEO they have, that smarmy pom is really giving the yanks the sh*ts and not really doing his shareholders any favours, the US government is going to take BP to the wall over this. there's pussyfooting going on at the moment, the feeling over there is this is until the leak is capped, it's been 46 days now and the latest as of yesterday was that even if the latest attempts were to be what they would call a success, the well would actually still be leaking for another few months at least.

Hurricane season is about to start, yes, but the concern is that the majority of the oil bloom is not on the surface but is hanging a bit lower where you cant really see it, and te hurricanes are going to sling it all up onto shore rather than stir it all up and disperse it a bit as it would if it were on the surface.

The oil spill and the sh*t going on in Jamaica with the druglord the US want to extradite are the big stories over there at the moment.

Oh...and britney spears went to starbucks the other day without any knickers on.......

[fishingnut]

yoyo wrote:

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Oh...and britney spears went to starbucks the other day without any knickers on.......

any pics? lol

[crazywalrus]

Thanks for that. Over here we get the feeling that there is not enough being done. It is great to get this insight. cheers ted

[ellicat]

ellicat wrote:

crazywalrus wrote:

....... more interested in saving the oil rather than capturing and cleaning it up IMO. This has the potential to permanently change the gulf coast forever and who knows what the flow on effect in the environment will be.

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Cheers Ted

Poppyc0ck. Sensationalist. As much as this may upset a few, oil is natural. The concentration isn't, however over time it will dissipate with negligible (if any) longer term effects.

How is Moreton Island now ? There was a lot of sensationalist ranting and raving going on when the oil came ashore then. Apart from a couple of crook birds and a bit of an eyesore at the time the damage was nothing too serious. Have a look at the history of oil spills - you'll find a lot of hellabalu about it at the time but the recovery is what you'd expect from resilient mother nature. What will be harder to find is a greeny doing a song and dance about how wrong they were.

Well, seeing as the greenies didn't want to bring it up, I thought I'd let you know things seem to be on the mend already. Still work in progress....but the World is still turning.

/>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/15/2983215.htm

Obama declares Gulf beaches open for business

Updated 11 hours 7 minutes ago

US president Barack Obama has gone swimming off the coast of Florida and declared the Gulf area's beaches "open for business", trying to show by example that a region hit by the BP oil spill was safe for tourists to enjoy.

Mr Obama, on his fifth visit to the region since BP's deep-sea well in the Gulf of Mexico ruptured in April, pledged to restore the economy and the environment in the aftermath of the world's worst offshore oil spill.

"Oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf and it has not been flowing for a month," he told reporters after holding talks with local business owners.

"But I'm here to tell you that our job is not finished, and we are not going anywhere until it is.

"That is a commitment my administration is going to keep."

No oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since July 15, when BP placed a tight-fitting cap over the broken Macondo well which has spewed about 4.9 million barrels of oil since April 20.

The British company has injected cement into the top of the well to seal it.

But officials say they will not declare victory until completion of a relief well being drilled four kilometres beneath the seabed that is now just feet away from its target.

More cement is due to be pumped in via the well.

The president and his family are on a weekend trip to Panama City as part of an effort to encourage more tourists to visit Florida's famous white sand beaches, which have suffered only minor damage from the spill, mostly in the form of scattered tar balls and small oil patches.

"I also want to point out that as a result of the clean-up effort, beaches all along the Gulf Coast are clean and safe and open for business," Mr Obama said.

"That's one of the reasons Michelle, Sasha, and I are here," he said, referring to his wife and youngest daughter.

The White House later released a picture of Mr Obama immersed in the Gulf waters, playing with nine-year-old Sasha.

Mr Obama's public approval ratings have been dented by public discontent, especially in Gulf Coast communities, over his administration's response to the spill.

The administration came under fire during the crisis for appearing to cede too much responsibility for management of the spill to BP.

While Florida escaped largely unscathed, other states such as Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were hard hit and are the focus of BP's clean-up operations.

- Reuters