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>Breaking: Coast guard logs show gov't knew oil spill was devastating within hours

June 4, 9:10 PM

http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m6d4-Breaking-Coast-guard-logs-show-govt-knew-oil-spill-was-devastating-within-hours


Contrary to early reports from the Obama Administration that it was not aware of the catastrophic nature of the Gulf oil spill, newly-released Coast Guard logs show that the government knew within hours that the spill would be devastating.

According to Public Integrity, the government almost immediately assessed that the gusher would emit at least 8000 barrels of oil into the Gulf per day. By April 23 it had revised that estimate significantly upward.
(A lightly oiled Brown Pelican stands on a post near Cat Island off the coast of Louisiana Friday, June 4, 2010. The bird was impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)).

And what did Barack Obama know, and when did he know it? The bombshell answer is from the Public Integrity report:

Over the first three days of the crisis — long before the public heard of a leak — the minimum estimate for a total well blowout ballooned eight-fold and the president was warned by his top aides that a major spill larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez might be coming, according to the documents and interviews.

This fact, plus the Coast Guard's original assessment of the looming threat, were curiously omitted from official White House briefings on the spill.

But that's not all. On the very first day of the disaster the Coast Guard had informed the Obama Administration that the safety valve was not working and that underwater devices could not repair it:

Officials also learned within the first day of the disaster that the blowout preventer — an oil rig safety device that is supposed to cut off a well in case of an accident — was not functioning and could not be manually repaired by remote underwater robots.

“The second attempt of the ROV to shut-in the well has failed,” an entry at 11 a.m. CDT on April 21 read.

By April 23, the Coast Guard logs include a new estimate that a full blowout could result in a spill of 64,000 to 110,000 barrels per day, the logs show.

The leak estimates revealing an early awareness of a potential catastrophe are missing from the White House’s official timeline of the crisis.

Public Integrity goes further to provide a complete timeline of events, which vindicates what Obama critics have been saying all along, namely, that the Administration's failure to adequately address the looming disaster in a timely fashion is precisely what led to the growing devastation of the Gulf coastline.

This video also shows the timeline and Obama's abject failure in addressing the issue (H/t to ResistNet):

Further, Kitty Tobias in an expose published by Charging Elephant stated that she believes that the oil rig explosion was a clear act of sabotage.

In the piece entitled, 'You Want Logic and Truth about the BP Oil Disaster, Ask an Intelligent Woman,' Tobias says the following:

I own a small oil company (www.strategic-oil.com) and we specialize in on and off shore cleanup. My CFO wrote all the checks for the Valdez spill.

I sat at an 1.5hr seminar by BP in 2008 at the OTC (offshore technology conference, the largest in the world) and witnessed first hand the technology aboard that ship particularly.

There is absolutely NO WAY possible for this to happen without it being sabotage. There were way too many tiers aboard that ship and it could have been stopped at any facet. And, even if ever man aboard was knocked out with toxic gases and the oil somehow managed to make it to water, their have huge blowup looking mats that surround the ship for miles to prevent (93%?) the oil from mixing in open waters.

It could be stopped now. Cleanup easily within 72 hrs, and the oil salvageable and able to still be refined and produced IF they wanted to. I believe it’s intentional to drive up oil and gas prices and push cap & trade. It’s only speculation as to motives but, the events of this and my synopsis are based upon facts.

Late this afternoon Conservative Examiner learned that the credible information provided the sources cited above was provided to and accepted by U.S. Representative Darrell Issa of California, who is investigating the spill, and has been shared with the New York Times.

You want logic and truth about the BP oil disaster ask an intelligent Woman
June 3, 2010 ·

http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/you-want-the-truth-ask-an-intelligent-woman/

[Kujo]

RIG is not at fault, Cameron makes and services the blowout preventers an BP ran the show.. all decisions to proceed and how to proceed. They've taken responsibility for it.

Nobody wants to shut down the oil business. This shut down is ruining families and businesses in the gulf. Did you know over 53% of the economy of the gulf is dependent on oil?

BP can't pay that, nor will our government go into debt with another bank bailout.. there isn't the money. They have to put people back to work with stricter conditions. That includes the following regs:

SAFETY STANDARDS

* Blow-out preventers, BOPs, on floating drilling operations need to certified by an independent third party. The department will also develop formal equipment certification standards for BOPs.

* Within a year BOPs on all operations will be required to have two sets of blind shear rams spaced at least 4 feet apart.

* Subsea BOPs will require remote operated vehicles that are able to close all shear and pipe rams, close choke and kill valves and unlatch the lower marine riser package.

* Interior will develop surface and subsea methods to test capabilities of remotely operated vehicles and BOPs.

* Interior will conduct more in-depth safety inspections that will include witnessing actual tests of BOP equipment.

* Rig operators will be required to undergo a series of procedures and checks before displacing kill-weight drilling fluid from the wellbore.

* All well casing and cement designs for new floating drilling operations will have to be certified by a professional engineer.

* Interior will develop specific cementing requirements.

* Interior will expand safety and training programs for rig workers.

this isn't less work for RIG, its more work


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