tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15619098927064178882024-02-20T09:39:35.922-08:00Documented DisasterOffering an alternative to burying our heads in the oil saturated sand - Knowledge, Analysis, Understanding, Legal Outrage and Wise ActionJN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-26766544636597147122010-12-30T06:02:00.000-08:002010-12-30T06:02:38.198-08:00Day 255 - Jesse Ventura Brings Gulf Oil Spill Theories To Mainstream America<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9J0qC1XCv_Q?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9J0qC1XCv_Q?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
Accompanying article from SOTT.net-<br />
<b>Jesse Ventura brings the truth about the Gulf oil spill to mainstream America</b><br />
<a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/220695-Jesse-Ventura-brings-the-truth-about-the-Gulf-oil-spill-to-mainstream-America">http://www.sott.net/articles/show/220695-Jesse-Ventura-brings-the-truth-about-the-Gulf-oil-spill-to-mainstream-America</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-74579459888868176602010-09-11T20:41:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:43:10.265-07:00Day 145 - Bottom kill - this weekendThe 'bottom kill' procedure, in which the well is filled with mud and cement, will start this weekend — closing for good the well that spewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100911,0,1431525.story">Oil spill: Final seal of BP well to begin - latimes.com</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-30889605316755200422010-09-04T03:30:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:43:59.622-07:00Day 137 - Failed blowout preventer removed from well<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs</td></tr>
</tbody></table><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I0RTBG1.htm">Story - BusinessWeek</a><br />
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BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.<br />
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The process of raising it to the surface was to be painstaking because engineers want to make sure not to damage or drop the contraption. The blowout preventer wasn't expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it.<br />
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The blowout preventer is considered a key piece of evidence in the spill investigation. Investigators will examine it and hope to gain insight into why the device failed to prevent the spill. Late Friday, the government said another blowout preventer had successfully been placed on the blown-out well.JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-2260672104220759462010-08-31T03:31:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:45:01.622-07:00Federal inquiry takes aim at BP's corporate culture on safetyTestimony... showed that five high-ranking BP officials supervising the well drilling by the Deepwater Horizon each had less than six months of experience in their jobs.<br />
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Source article: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-hearings-20100827,0,2224806.story">Deepwater Horizon, gulf oil spill: Federal inquiry takes aim at BP's corporate culture on safety - latimes.com</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-78379649976891939562010-08-31T03:01:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:45:35.635-07:00Evidence experts to oversee blowout preventer recoveryMcClatchy news from Friday, August 27, 2010<br />
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WASHINGTON — A criminal evidence recovery team from the Justice Department will be on hand Saturday as BP begins the multi-day task of disconnecting the failed blowout preventer from its Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and lifting it to the surface.<br />
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Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration's point man on the Gulf oil disaster, said the Justice Department team would be joined in supervising the recovery 48 miles off the Lousiana coast by representatives of a joint Coast Guard-Interior Department commission that is investigating the causes of the April 20 explosion that killed 11 oilrig workers and triggered the gusher that cost the Gulf coast economy billions of dollars in damage.<br />
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"They've been allowed unfettered access to observe and record the entire removal process and the recovery process as this takes places," Allen said Friday during a briefing for reporters.<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/27/99793/evidence-experts-to-oversee-blowout.html">Evidence experts to oversee blowout preventer recovery | McClatchy</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-81993089124601715272010-08-20T18:25:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:46:33.419-07:00NOAA Scientist: Release of Oil Spill Report done by White House, Not NOAADr. Bill Lehr, yesterday told a group of Congressional staff investigators on a conference call that a controversial National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report claiming that nearly three-quarters of the oil from the Gulf oil spill has already been addressed was released by White House officials and not scientists at NOAA.<br />
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The NOAA scientist told congressional investigators that the data backing up the assertions made in the report is still unavailable and that peer review of the report is still not complete. Officials at an August 4 White House press briefing had said that the report had been thoroughly peer reviewed.<br />
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Read the rest here - <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26751">NOAA Scientist: Release of Oil Spill Report done by White House, Not NOAA</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-26162554326311746642010-08-20T03:32:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:47:19.412-07:00Deepwater Horizon oil plume more than twice all natural seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico<a href="http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/deepwater_horizon_oil_in_22-mi.html">NOLA.com</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #293546; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 2:00 PM Updated: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 8:42 PM</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/deepwater_horizon_oil_in_22-mi.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaniwT8j9eyzlGea2WfpAFkd8Fx66jI6UiiOxiaqnvWdy0vN0HjwumQk9GHyK-BmHjwm8A3ZrdFTgn28YNLvG-y4O-Zim4f1Xq8VHL3sr4Go3uQPbskH54-C8jyIN7T9xTisEXyxpK30U/s400/oil-water-columnjpg-7b0fa5337c62e4e4_large.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>In a peer-reviewed article published today in Sciencexpress, an online research magazine, the scientists say the concentration of toxic constituents of oil found in the plume indicate that twice as much oil was being supplied by the wellhead to that plume than was released by all natural petroleum seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico, which means the plume itself could not have been created by the seeps. <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/deepwater_horizon_oil_in_22-mi.html">NOLA.com</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-65863505903580978392010-08-20T03:26:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:47:31.518-07:00Major study charts long-lasting oil plume in Gulf<a href="http://www.sunherald.com/2010/08/19/2416632/scientists-map-invisible-oil-plume.html">Health and Science Wire - SunHerald.com</a><br />
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer<br />
WASHINGTON -- A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill.<br />
The most worrisome part is the slow pace at which the oil is breaking down in the cold, 40-degree water, making it a long-lasting but unseen threat to vulnerable marine life, experts said.<br />
Earlier this month, top federal officials declared the oil in the spill was mostly "gone," and it is gone in the sense you can't see it. But the chemical ingredients of the oil persist more than a half-mile beneath the surface, researchers found.<br />
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Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2010/08/19/2416632/scientists-map-invisible-oil-plume.html#ixzz0x8lizvR6JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-33166035506066587872010-08-06T18:56:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:47:46.286-07:00Gulf Coast beach closings, oil slick and fishing ban map<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/oil-spill-environment-recreation-map.htm">USATODAY.com</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-18827410175224520722010-08-03T02:18:00.000-07:002010-09-11T20:47:57.054-07:00Oil Spill Whoppers<div style="text-align: center;">Click the fish to view the story at <a href="http://factcheck.org/2010/07/oil-spill-whoppers/">FactCheck.org</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://factcheck.org/2010/07/oil-spill-whoppers/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1DWWblYvitZcXU00UoGk6UWAjijxIrDCU1lhF3C8r3arpPQ3SASJ5aUjMXXRIHMu7qUuhkX2F4bzds2EM5qr7l1EjcF5hCgIdwH4l47A6fXHp5rC5TTN4cn1hA9fQ87V39E1zFYJ9nE/s400/whoppers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo by </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whiskeytango/135731550/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BruceTurner</span></a></div>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-42085718599397762732010-08-02T17:41:00.000-07:002010-08-02T17:41:34.626-07:00It's been over 100 days since since the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded and caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico<a title="View Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/30705787/Deepwater-Horizon-Drilling-Rig" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; 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font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">The <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;" title="More articles about oil spills.">oil</a> slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected - </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/us/28spill.html?_r=2&hp=">NYTimes.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasxHYKEOqaqILe6WF7MF_IhaggW5wh6ILRl-gyQLWNdhbUqZlShEeOnqL3r957Cf9yDuG1wLgeMiaFKtaqZSbyOy13Xw_TV08t404ZbUqLWo-jOhGwa7_SWo0p5U0DqHzVtzwsZqBCw0/s1600/oil+map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasxHYKEOqaqILe6WF7MF_IhaggW5wh6ILRl-gyQLWNdhbUqZlShEeOnqL3r957Cf9yDuG1wLgeMiaFKtaqZSbyOy13Xw_TV08t404ZbUqLWo-jOhGwa7_SWo0p5U0DqHzVtzwsZqBCw0/s400/oil+map.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-8994255027278292022010-07-27T19:00:00.000-07:002010-07-28T01:44:33.949-07:00Relief Well Operations - Good Video<a href="http://marinepatriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/relief-well-operations.html">The Marine Patriot: Relief Well Operations</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-52170731910463291072010-07-27T03:10:00.000-07:002010-07-28T01:44:52.791-07:00Clean-Up Crews Can't Find Crude in the Gulf<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-crude-mother-nature-breaks-slick/story?id=11254252">Experts Say Oil is Breaking Up, Staying Below Surface - ABC News</a><br />
At its peak last month, the oil slick was the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-remain-capped-day-slick-shrinks/story?id=11200729&page=2">size of Kansas</a>, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-33809318634209263192010-07-20T03:29:00.000-07:002010-07-20T03:43:19.243-07:00FAILED PREVENTER OVERHAULED IN CHINA<i>The crucial piece of the rig's safety equipment, the blow-out preventer – the last line of defence against an out-of-control well – subsequently failed to activate and is at the center of investigations into what caused the disaster.</i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKF02hUxCzoNVQAmIMBt9E5B2KGApOBn1XEuqBB214Ro7ctH5yB3cQktHWb3IVTLRtz-3_MnLhIxbKdbDKiJJrOtzBu7YpY32dCAnTfpQmANYoqLNn6Twp0R9MBKvBqQLPjhk-bzDfo4/s1600/welding_wideweb__470x3340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKF02hUxCzoNVQAmIMBt9E5B2KGApOBn1XEuqBB214Ro7ctH5yB3cQktHWb3IVTLRtz-3_MnLhIxbKdbDKiJJrOtzBu7YpY32dCAnTfpQmANYoqLNn6Twp0R9MBKvBqQLPjhk-bzDfo4/s320/welding_wideweb__470x3340.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/18/deepwater-horizon-blow-out-preventer-china?">Guardian News is reporting</a> that this device was overhauled by a Chinese contractor in 2005.<br />
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<i>It is understood that lawyers for Cameron International, the manufacturer of the BOP, will argue the device was so significantly modified in China that it no longer resembled the original component, and that Cameron should therefore not be held liable. It would be almost impossible to secure damages in China, where international law is barely recognized.</i><br />
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<i>Experts say that the practice of having such engineering work carried out in China, rather than the US, saves money and is common in the industry.</i><br />
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Read the entire article at the source - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/18/deepwater-horizon-blow-out-preventer-china?">BP oil spill: failed safety device on Deepwater Horizon rig was modified in China | Environment | The Observer</a><br />
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<a href="http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=373001">Photo Source</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-24038088258870101982010-07-19T00:58:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:05:06.315-07:00Day 91, "Undetermined Anomalies" at the well head<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/38302949">BP Gulf Spill Disaster: Engineers Detect Seepage Near BP's Capped Oil Well - CNBC</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-9904420957093887822010-07-15T14:58:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:05:30.195-07:00Day 87, BP Reports - THE WELL IS CAPPED!!!<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AihedCr1bCoiZviZRpUAx8Cs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoY3JtbTFxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE1L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYnBub29pbGxlYWtp">BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well</a><br />
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="300" marginheight="5" marginwidth="5" scrolling="no" src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oil-ticker/" style="align: center;" width="310px"></iframe>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-60103712797322380152010-07-12T22:36:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:06:08.599-07:00BP Attaches New Sealing Cap to Leaking Well<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575362821280847274.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories">WSJ.com</a><br />
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<span id="fullpost"></span>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-14993714218642080352010-07-12T22:32:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:06:58.138-07:00Adm.Thad Allen Says BP 'Very Close' to Stopping Oil From Gushing Into the Gulf of Mexico<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-containment-cap-reaches-leak-anger/story?id=11145052">ABC News</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-51691633700260962302010-07-12T02:35:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:07:35.229-07:00New cap to take days to fit<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7810ec5c-8cfc-11df-bad7-00144feab49a.html">FT.com</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-75139198290350356382010-07-12T02:27:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:09:46.798-07:00Time for a little perspective on oil spills<a href="http://truthandcons.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-for-little-perspective-on-oil.html">Truth & Consequences</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-76138972739330078152010-07-11T04:56:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:08:49.981-07:00Oil Spill Timeline by RightChange<object height="347" width="520"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12933322&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12933322&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="520" height="347"></embed></object><br />
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http://vimeo.com/12933322</a> Thanks for the link C.D.JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-92159357991802463422010-07-10T08:53:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:08:05.665-07:00Top Hat Number 10 to be installed this weekend.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">NEW ORLEANS – Undersea robots manipulated by engineers a mile above were expected to begin work Saturday removing the <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(230, 123, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; right: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">containment</span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">cap </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">over </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">the </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">gushing</span></span></a> well head in the Gulf of Mexico to replace it with a tighter-fitting cap that could funnel all the oil to tankers at the surface.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the tankers could keep <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 2px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(230, 123, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; right: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">all </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">the </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">oil</span></span></a> from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But it would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe unleashed by a drilling rig explosion nearly 12 weeks ago. It won't plug the busted well and it remains uncertain that it will succeed.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When the cap is removed, oil will flow mostly unabated into the water for about 48 hours — long enough for as much as 5 million gallons to gush out — until the new cap is installed.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The hope for a permanent solution remains with two relief wells intended to plug it completely far beneath the seafloor.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I use the word 'contained,'" said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. "'Stop' is when we put the <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill#" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(230, 123, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; 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border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">plug </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">in </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">down </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">below</span></span></a>."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If all goes well, it could still be a week before they really know if the cap is containing most of the spill, Coast Guard Capt. James McPherson said Saturday. Testing has to be done on the new cap if and when it's in place to make sure it can withstand the pressure of the gushing oil.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Crews using remote-controlled submarines plan to swap out the cap over the weekend, taking advantage of a window of good weather following weeks of delays caused by choppy seas.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The cap now in use was installed June 4, but because it had to be fitted over a jagged cut in the <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill#" id="KonaLink3" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 2px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(230, 123, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; right: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">well </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: #366388; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">pipe</span></span></a>, it allows some crude to escape. The new cap — dubbed "Top Hat Number 10" — follows 80 days of failures to contain or plug the leak.</div></span></div><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill">Feds cautious on timing for new cap in Gulf leak - Yahoo! News</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-77010984396776204392010-07-08T16:46:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:10:50.109-07:00Infowars - Toxic Gulf: Citizen Journos Do What Corporate Media Will NotThe Gulf is being poisoned by BP’s usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May.<br />
Read the article <a href="http://www.infowars.com/toxic-gulf-citizen-journos-do-what-corporate-media-will-not/">HERE</a>.JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1561909892706417888.post-31423638111568464632010-07-08T16:42:00.000-07:002010-07-19T01:11:56.308-07:00Federal government continues to block local efforts to protect local land"We don't have time for meetings, we don't have time for red tape," Jindal has said. "Get in the game to win."<br />
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Jindal has used similar highly critical language to poke at the Obama administration for more than a month.<br />
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"No is not a plan," the governor said at a press conference today.<br />
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-louisiana-governor-bobby-jindal-plan/story?id=11111136">BP Oil Spill: Plan Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Supports Draws Criticism from Federal Government and Scientists - ABC News</a>JN Kishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985914272390847213noreply@blogger.com0