Oil spill.........very bad.

[Ponce]

Massive oil spill in Gulf of Mexico heads to shore

By Carlos Barria

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico washed up to wildlife refuges and seafood grounds on the Louisiana coast on Friday, as authorities struggled to avert what could become one of the worst U.S. ecological disasters.

With leading edges of the huge slick lapping up to outlying marshes and waterways on the fringes of the Mississippi Delta, the U.S. Coast Guard prepared protective booms along the coast in Louisiana and other at-risk states in a desperate bid to prevent oil from soiling the shore.


"We continue to bring every asset to bear to fight this spill," Coast Guard Rear Admiral Sally Brice-O'Hara told CNN.


At President Barack Obama's urgent request, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson were due to fly over the affected Gulf area on Friday to assess the situation.


The leak from a blown-out oil well on the ocean floor off Louisiana is pouring out crude oil at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons or 955,000 liters) a day.


The accident forced Obama to put a hold on politically sensitive plans to expand offshore U.S. oil drilling. He unveiled plans in March for a limited expansion, in part to try to win Republican support for climate change legislation.


The White House said on Friday that no new drilling would be allowed until a review was conducted of the oil spill, which happened after an offshore rig exploded and sunk last week.


Obama has pledged to "use every single available resource," including the U.S. military, to contain the 120-mile (193-km) wide slick, while making clear that London-based BP, the majority owner of the ruptured well, was responsible for the cost of the clean-up.


The spill has pounded BP's share price and those of other companies involved in the project.


As alarm over possible contamination spread along the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Louisiana Department of Health said residents in coastal cities, including New Orleans, were likely smelling the sulfurous odor from the spill.


The last flight by a Coast Guard plane on Thursday had situated the thin surface "rainbow sheen" of the slick just 10 meters (33 feet) from the Pass-a-Loutre wildlife reserve in Louisiana. It seemed inevitable that some of the oil would reach shore, although the Coast Guard was awaiting fresh information from its aircraft and vessels.


THREAT TO FOUR STATES

More: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100430/us/usreport_us_usa_rig_slick

[oldmansmith]

My in-laws always ask why we heat with wood (free wood, I might add) because "it is so dirty."

Let's see how nice the Gulf coast looks after all that clean oil washes ashore. Never mind DU in the middle east, etc.

[Ifyouseekay]

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[Spectrism]

This will crash the Florida real estate market- as if it wasn't already fragile.

Restaurants, tourist trrade, hotels, boating companies.... TS just HTF.


This will ripple through the rest of Amerika. And this is just the beginning of sorrows. On the grand scale, this is about 0.2%. We have no emergency fund for disasters. All we have is debt.

I see a grand scheme working out and the disasters will actually be to our benefit as they will handicap the power elite from doing the worst of what they have planned. The painful frying pan experience will be better than jumping into the fire.

[JJ.G0ldD0t]

This will crash the Florida real estate market- as if it wasn't already fragile.

Restaurants, tourist trrade, hotels, boating companies.... TS just HTF.



yup - I was thinking along the same lines. And Seafood prices will go up as well- which will be good for fisherman operating off the unaffected TX coast- But you're absolutely right - the weaker economies of the other GC states are about to take a hit bad.

[Ponce]

First bird (of many to come) was rescued today......

[Neuro]

They were forced to put on hold continued off-shore drilling over this? I can't see how this accident, if it is one, is related to searching for more oil. I guess it is the same kind of logic that made Obama promise more off-shore drilling in order to get the climate-change scam bill through..

[Spectrism]

As I understand it, the leaking well did not have emergency shutoff valves.... BP thought it was too expensive and unnecessary.

I would drain the costs for this out of the people responsible.

And.... btw... where are the complaints about the Obama administration not acting fast enough or protectig the American shores? As I recall, many made a big deal out of New Orleans when that was a state issue. This one is national.

[madfranks]

They were forced to put on hold continued off-shore drilling over this? I can't see how this accident, if it is one, is related to searching for more oil. I guess it is the same kind of logic that made Obama promise more off-shore drilling in order to get the climate-change scam bill through..


Obama doesn't know anything about how the oil industry actually works, so he shuts it all down thinking that will help solve the problem. It's the same when clueless politicians interfere with any business they don't know a single thing about. They ruin it.

[Ifyouseekay]

They were forced to put on hold continued off-shore drilling over this? I can't see how this accident, if it is one, is related to searching for more oil. I guess it is the same kind of logic that made Obama promise more off-shore drilling in order to get the climate-change scam bill through..


Obama doesn't know anything about how the oil industry actually works, so he shuts it all down thinking that will help solve the problem. It's the same when clueless politicians interfere with any business they don't know a single thing about. They ruin it.


I was listening to gold seek radio yesterday, (from this past weekend). Robert Kiyosaki was a guest speaker. I usually like what he has to say, and this was no exception. He was talking about how all the people within the Obama administration were intellectuals. Saying none of them have street smarts. So when they take over these corporations and try to apply their intellectual knowledge, it fails. He says you must have first hand experience (street smarts) to be successful.

For the most part, I agree.

[Neuro]

They were forced to put on hold continued off-shore drilling over this? I can't see how this accident, if it is one, is related to searching for more oil. I guess it is the same kind of logic that made Obama promise more off-shore drilling in order to get the climate-change scam bill through..


Obama doesn't know anything about how the oil industry actually works, so he shuts it all down thinking that will help solve the problem. It's the same when clueless politicians interfere with any business they don't know a single thing about. They ruin it.

I don't think he is that clueless.... He probably have other motives. He was forced by the Repubs to allow more drilling, now he is using this as an excuse to stop the drilling...

[uranian]

As I understand it, the leaking well did not have emergency shutoff valves.... BP thought it was too expensive and unnecessary.

read that too. both brazil and norway make this a requirement for offshore drilling.

[oldmansmith]

This will set our domestic oil production back big time. It also puts some of those "huge" oil finds in pespective, like Brazil's that is 50 miles offshore and is 7,000 feet below the surface and then three more miles underground.

Peak oil is here whether real or not. They could use natural gas as a replacement since there is so much of it, but would need to retool, and so far haven't done jack shyte. Think how much it will cost to retool when oil is 200 bucks a barrel.

[Large Sarge]

saw a mention on ABC, they might close down the whole mississippi river

can you imagine?

you know how much stuff travels up there (food, grain, etc)?

Also one of the major pipelines is right on the gulf, a spur heads upto atlanta.

if the oil gets so thick, or if it catches fire, no one will be offloading any oil there.

[cigarlover]

Seems like a nice way for TPTB to have a scapegoat for all this economic bad news. Blame it all on the oil spill now. Media will push it and 90% of America will buy it.

[oldmansmith]

I would drain the costs for this out of the people responsible.



I agree in theory Spec, but they never will. The area covered by the Valdez oil spill is STILL screwed up from the oil. What is the value of that? They will never pay the full cost.

[I am me, I am free]

The salmon population has never recovered from the Valdez incident.

Once that oil gets into the marsh grass, it will be there 'forever'.

One authoritative source stated that 41% of America's seafood comes from that area of the Gulf Coast.

BP failed to put a remotely controlled acoustic trigger on that well because that device permanently seals the borehole (meaning a entirely new well would have to be drilled) - their decision was based upon saving a few bucks, which relative to the money involved is strictly pennies. (I'm betting that an acoustic trigger device would have saved the $560M rig)

Guess who owns BP.

[sirgonzo420]

Seems like a nice way for TPTB to have a scapegoat for all this economic bad news. Blame it all on the oil spill now. Media will push it and 90% of America will buy it.


Yeah, I can definitely see that.

[uranian]

in unsurprising and related news, haliburton bought a specialist oil well fire fighting company days ago:

Halliburton Highlights Oil Services Trends (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/04/20/halliburton-highlights-oil-services-trends.aspx)


April 20, 2010

Halliburton, which is spending $240 million to buy Boots & Coots (http://www.boots-coots.com/) (AMEX: WEL), the pressure- and fire-control company, is continuing a general consolidation trend in the services sector. For instance, Schlumberger is purchasing Smith International (NYSE: SII), while Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI) is acquiring BJ Services (NYSE: BJS).

For my money, we're only seeing the beginning of an expanding string of marriages in the services sector. In Halliburton's case, Timothy Probert, the president of global business lines & corporate development, noted that the acquisition will result in a merger of his company's well intervention services into a new product line with Boots & Coots' assets.

their freephone line is 1.800.BLOWOUT :laugh

[mick silver]

i see were bp stock loss 25billion in four days ... and law suit are starting to grow more every day

[goldmonkey]

Leaked report:
Government fears Deepwater Horizon
well could become unchecked gusher

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

"The following is not public," reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Emergency Response document dated April 28. "Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought."

Asked Friday to comment on the document, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen said that the additional leaks described were reported to the public late Wednesday night. Regarding the possibility of the spill becoming an order of magnitude larger, Smullen said, "I'm letting the document you have speak for itself."

In scientific circles, an order of magnitude means something is 10 times larger. In this case, an order of magnitude higher would mean the volume of oil coming from the well could be 10 times higher than the 5,000 barrels a day coming out now. That would mean 50,000 barrels a day, or 2.1 million gallons a day. It appears the new leaks mentioned in the Wednesday release are the leaks reported to the public late Wednesday night.

"There is no official change in the volume released but the USCG is no longer stating that the release rate is 1,000 barrels a day," continues the document, referred to as report No. 12. "Instead they are saying that they are preparing for a worst-case release and bringing all assets to bear."

More ...
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwater_horizon_secret_memo.html


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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/43000/43846/gulf_tmo_2010119_1.jpg

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/43000/43846/gulf_tmo_2010119_2.jpg

[gunDriller]

Guess who owns BP.

the London Big Money Crowd, aka Jewish Banksters ?

[I am me, I am free]

Guess who owns BP.

the London Big Money Crowd, aka Jewish Banksters ?


Certainly they're players, but ultimately it's QE, just like ultimately the Dutch royal family owns 'Royal Dutch Shell'.

[Large Sarge]

let the oil leak out for a few more weeks, say memorial day or so.

Then have some drunken yeehaw do a signal flare from shore, and torch half the gulf of mexico.

as the fire spreads throughout the gulf, every other rig in the area will soon catch fire, and all shipping will cease

Seriously, think about all that stuff catching fire, the valdez spill happened in the pacific, the biggest ocean on the planet, and no oil rigs anywhere nearby

the gulf of mexico is like a big lake.

all that oil is just pooling up

waiting for the spark.

Hell you might get it from a thunderstorm, lightning strike at sea would do it.

[Book]

i see were bp stock loss 25billion in four days ... and law suit are starting to grow more every day


http://images.publicradio.org/content/2008/09/28/20080928_bailout10_33.jpg
CONGRESS ANNOUNCES BP BAILOUT

Any minute now...lol

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[I am me, I am free]

It's high time to wrest control away from the arrogant morons of the world who in their efforts to lord over everyone else irresponsibly and irreparably foul up the earth permanently in the process.

Accomplishing this is far easier than you've been led to believe - it starts within your own household and propagates out from there. You heard me.