The man from BP stood at the lectern Tuesday morning, telling the crowd packing the Tampa Convention Center ballroom about all his company had done to deal with the Deepwater Horizon disaster — the $11 billion spent so far, the 48,000 people deployed. Utsler, who will now be the chief operating officer of BP's gulf coast restoration organization, strongly defended his company and the entire Deepwater Horizon containment and cleanup effort, even controversial moves such as spraying chemical dispersants a mile beneath the ocean — something no one had ever tried before.
"This is an important tool in our toolbox when used right, and we used them right," he told the standing-room-only crowd.
Finally, Billy Nungesser had had enough. Sweating, the Plaquemines Parish, La., council president got up and headed for the exit.
"I had to leave because of my high blood pressure," Nungesser said. Of those thousands of people BP and the Coast Guard dispatched to deal with the disaster, he said, "how many did anything at all to clean up the oil? And how many stopped us from cleaning up the oil?"
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But according to Nungesser, nobody learned anything, and the people on the panels “were the same ones who had no sense of urgency about this thing right from the start.”
“Because the Deepwater Horizon well has been capped and killed, President Nungesser said, BP officials want to demobilize the cleanup crews in his region. But oil continues washing ashore in his parish, and he remains frustrated by the poor response to the disaster.”
That's the way to show BP we don't take their bullsh!t anymore.
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BP's trying to do a fast exit before the full extent of the damage is documented and publicized.
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Our government agency NOAA is aiding and abetting this destructive corporation, and I really wonder what it's gonna take to topple this house of card's. There is still oil washing up on Billy Nunguessers Parish?
WTF BP you QUEER BASTARDS FIX IT.
Oh ! Hey! BK ! They can't, can they! It's still oozing out of the ground, ain't it.
Not to mention the 75% still on the bottom. @!$%#s.
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I just saw an rov video showing the seafloor methane hydrate evaporating. Very disturbing. This was what we had feared of back in July when I posted the diagrams of the worst scenario.
The BOP at well A is also tilting and the hydrates build-up tells of more gas seeping out of the "wrongly capped well".
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Ektar, you are right. The position is deliberately offset 795 ft SSE of Well A. On the BOP tilting posting on Alex's Blog, the BOP position at Well A jumped 848 ft SSE of Well A. Towards the last 10 seconds (from 22:40:13) the distance offset was 30 ft West of Well A. But then again, the heading of the ROV camera was between 290 to 325 deg.
If the ROV was looking W to NW, the ROV position should be east of Well A, not WEST of well A. So again there is an offset in the easting - possibly by 40-50 ft since the ROV was very close to the BOP.
Well BP can cheat and lie but they cannot hide.
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storyartist! what can we do to get the newsvine community involved in pushing this to the forefront?
This guy has scooped every media outlet, and know one knows it but a hand full of us.
He has the proof. He shut down every detractor. Every one. That in itself say's something!
I ask you storyartist. What can we do? BH
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BH, do you know this guy, Nungesser? He had high blood pressure just listening to BP talking @!$%#.
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I watched Billy Nungesser during the spill. He's a parish president? mayor? leader?
You know B, that would be a great guy to get the attention of. I'd bet he has a bit of post BP trama going on.I will try to find his contact info, as you should too.
Never really thought about him , but, the more I think about it, he's a perfect target to focus on!
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