BP and Big Oil on Safety Regulations.

 

"We believe the industry's current safety and environmental statistics demonstrate that the voluntary programs... have been and continue to be very successful."

Richard Morrison, BP VP

September 14, 2009

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35951483/MMS-2008-OMM-0003-00111

 

 

 

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http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/MMS-2008-OMM-0003-0030.3.pdf

 

"Drill Baby, Drill"

Hurry BP, "Drill Baby, Drill!!" Stop your damned leak. Stop the damage. --- "Much more oil may be leaking from a Gulf of Mexico drilling site than first estimated, BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Thursday."

"It may be as much as a new estimate of 5,000 barrels a day that the government first provided late Wednesday, he said."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36800673/ns/us_news-environment/
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That's 210,000 gallons a day.

Last Tuesday through end of today -- potentially 1.89 MILLION gallons of crude into the Gulf.

This is gonna top Valdez -- which spilled a whopping 10.8 million gallons.

Robots can't shut it down, they're gonna have to drill. Estimates of 45 days(9.45 million gallons of crude) to 90 days(18.9 million)to drill and plug the leak -- don't forget it took 3 months to fix Austrailia's oil disaster last year... .





What to do with those who chanted "Drill Baby, Drill" -- Kill Baby, Kill.

 

Pathetic Attempt at Cleanup

"More than 1,000 employees of federal and state agencies and an oil industry consortium are working to contain and track the spill.

 

Crews on 49 vessels were using more than 29,000 feet of boom to trap floating oil, which had created a rainbow sheen atop the Gulf with a circumference of 600 miles.

 

As of late Tuesday, roughly 157,000 gallons of mixed oil and water had been recovered."

 

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100428/ARTICLE/4281038/2055/NEWS?p=2&tc=pg

 

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29,000 feet is just 5 1/2 miles.  Almost.

 

5 1/2 miles of boom to contain a spill 600 miles in circumference?!  What a JOKE!!

 

They'd need some 3 million feet of boom to contain the spill -- IF it doesn't expand.

 

157,000 gallons is almost 3,750 barrels.  The blown rig is losing 1,000 barrels (42,000 gallons) of crude a day.  8,000 barrels or so should have been lost since last Tuesday's disaster. 

 

How many gallons of oil/water mix is created by pumping 336,000 gallons (8,000 barrels) of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico?