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There were "many, many restrictions" within the well and other drilling equipment on the seafloor, Suttles said, dramatically slowing the release of oil. "This is a long way away from something more significant."
Events soon proved Suttles' reassurances to be terribly misplaced. The leak rate at the time was far, far higher than BP portrayed to the Coast Guard -- more than 50,000 barrels per day from the moment the rig went down until the well was capped 87 days later, a government-led panel of physicists and engineers would conclude that August. At that rate, the leak had produced an Exxon Valdez-sized spill at least every five days.
Today, more than a year after the spill ended, serious questions remain about BP's role in estimating the size of the undersea gusher.
What is clear is that BP failed, throughout the event, to produce an accurate estimate of the size of the leak to the federal government or the public. Also readily apparent is the company's strong vested interest in downplaying the size of the spill: federal pollution laws stipulate fines as high as $4,300 for every barrel of oil unlawfully discharged into U.S. waters.
Less obvious is precisely how and why the multinational energy giant fell so short in its efforts to determine the scale of the disaster. BP officials have adamantly denied deliberately lowballing the size of the spill, arguing that the company was overwhelmed by the technical challenge of measuring the deep-sea leak and claiming that the government shares equal responsibility for the early flow estimates.
Yet a review by The Huffington Post of thousands of pages of documents, along with interviews with dozens of engineers, scientists and government officials, has uncovered new information challenging BP’s portrayal of its efforts to measure the leak -- and found the company may have withheld crucial data on the well’s flow rate from federal responders during the spill.
According to federal officials, BP was solely responsible for producing the very first spill estimate of 1,000 barrels per day, a figure which led to a sense of complacency about the seriousness of the event among some federal and state responders at the outset of the disaster, the presidential commission on the oil spill concluded in January 2011. BP has never publicly acknowledged generating this figure and even the commission’s investigators could not determine the methodology used to produce it.
Department Of Justice Investigates BP For Faulty Oil Spill Estimates (VIDEO)
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Just how many more skeletons are waiting to burst thru the closet?
- 5 votes
#1 - Wed Nov 2, 2011 9:20 AM EDTMore than can be counted. That "closet" is more like a huge graveyard.
- 5 votes
This story just gets more and more WORSE as time goes on.
Youtube is loaded with videos (Recent) with Tarballs that are the size of Footballs and smaller. The recent Plane that flew over the Gulf and showed the continuing Oil leakage is so sad.
I know living in Montana we also just had a Pipeline rupture and Yellowstone Pipeline said it was a contained leak... But then... The News of Oil in the River for 30 Miles. Most people don't realize that a simple RIVER FLOAT on a boat in the beautiful Summers in Montana can get you a good 12 miles a day as you just lazily drift alone enjoying the beauty.
But to think of what they call a Leak Friday and was contained Saturday, You know for sure that More Oil was leaking in that few hours to make it travel 30 miles downstream. Like BP, The history of constant Rig problems, Safety Violations and then to think that they were just given the OK to now drill another 1200 or so feet DEEPER then the DWH.
You'd think they must be out of their minds to Issue such a permit. And, when the Last Mess has yet to be cleaned up or if in fact it was ever plugged to begin with?
Thinking again of that Plane that flew over the Oil Sheen's. Even at a slow pace, The Plane was traveling at least 90 Miles an Hour. The Video Clip was over 15.00 Minutes so one can just imagine the amount, The Real Amount of Oil by VOLUME that is leaking.
Like I said before too. I sure hope they have a special fleet of ROV'S at 6300 +/- Foot recording ever inch of these New Wells.
Gulf of Mexico: Widespread Sickness Due to Toxic Chemicals
Illnesses Linked to BP Oil Disaster:
Widespread Sickness Due to Toxic Chemicals Gulf Coast residents and BP cleanup workers have linked the source of certain illnesses to chemicals present in BP's oil and the toxic dispersants used to sink it - illnesses that appear to be both spreading and worsening.
pacificfreepress.com/news/1/7720-gulf-of-mexico-widespread-sickness-due-to-toxic-chemicals.html
Ex BP cleanup worker speaks: people are sick and dying in the Gulf
Health concerns persist over Gulf coast oil spill – Jennifer Rexford on Al Jazeera News 4.3.11
bpoil.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/2011/04/03/health-concerns-persist-over-gulf-coast-oil-spill-al-jazeera/
Jennifer Rexford’s blood test results
bpoil.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/ex-bp-cleanup-worker-speaks-people-are-sick-and-dying-in-the-gulf/Jennifer%20Rexford%E2%80%99s%20blood%20test%20results
Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Report Mysterious Illnesses Year After Disaster – Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/gulf-oil-spill-health-cleanup-workers_n_850486.html
Health Effects of the BP Oil/Corexit Disaster in the Gulf – daily updates from Florida Oil Spill Law
floridaoilspilllaw.com/tag/healtheffects
With Headlines like this... BP was issued another Drilling Permit?
This is the Human Side, Who talks for all the Sea Life that washes up.... DEAD!
MWM
- 4 votes
This is the Human Side, Who talks for all the Sea Life that washes up.... DEAD!
You, me and a lot of concerned Americans and citizens of the world. It is just that they haven't spoken loud enough to be heard. If the fishes are dying, so too will we if this madness for oil and greed continue.
- 2 votes
This administration greenwashed this eco-assult on the Gulf, and Lubchenco, Chu, and Allen's fingerprints are all over this.
BP ran this charrade of an operation, and this inept administration allowed them to.
And the oil keeps flowin', and the marine life keeps dyin'.
Right B ?
- 5 votes
#2 - Wed Nov 2, 2011 1:44 PM EDTThat right BH. They create the problems then provide the expensive solutions. Nobody in their right mind would want to purchase millions of gallons of their Stocked Corexit. This was they get to move their stock and when the people get sick, they provide the cure from their pharmaceutical companies. Then the health insurance comes in etc. So instead of taxing you once, they tax you 3 to 5 times in every phase of the loop. Then when you are down and out , they take away whatever properties you have.
It is less profitable to them by killing you outright. By the slow way they multiply their profits. It is the same with industry as for individual. It is as cruel as the Chinese farms milking the bears for their biles through crude holes cut into the abdomen wall and the gall bladder. They don't kill them outright.
- 5 votes
#3 - Wed Nov 2, 2011 3:55 PM EDTThey'd have to nail down a day or did they forget like they were suppose to and don't realize it's still growing and the COREXIT is in full production.
- 1 vote
#4 - Thu Nov 3, 2011 12:56 PM EDTIn the coast guard logs, they were ready with aircraft to disperse corexit almost at the instance of the blowout; when
on the first day after the blowout on 20 Apr 2010.
Unified Command Planning Meeting. Dispersant Aircraft on standby in Mississippi & Arizona. Plans are being developed for Well Intervention. Responsible party indentifying available rigs in the event of a WELL BLOWOUT Incident command post setup in Houston at BP & Transocean
HW: D8 received following update from MSU Morgan city: Dispersant Operations are on standby. King Air plane in Stennis, MS with a capacity of 500 gallons of dispersants and C130 out of Arizona with 3000-5000 gallons depending on range. Potential 700,000 gallons of diesel onboard, potential 8000 barrels/day of crude oil. IF THE WELL WERE TO COMPLETELY BLOWOUT.....
NEW ORLEANS — An internal review of the Coast Guard’s performance during the BP oil spill cleanup last year has concluded that the agency was caught badly unprepared and that the response operation was dogged from the beginning by significant planning failures.
The report, which was commissioned by the Coast Guard, found that the agency’s preparedness for environmental crises had “atrophied over the past decade” as the guard confronted its expanded security responsibilities in the post-9/11 world. This resulted in significant coordination and communication problems during the spill response as well as a lack of familiarity with long-established procedures among many of the response workers.
The review, completed in January, was quietly made public by the Coast Guard last month. It was prepared by a team of experts that included two retired Coast Guard admirals as well as officials from several federal and state agencies, with substantial involvement from representatives from the oil industry, the spill response industry and the environmental community.
The Coast Guard has prepared these reports, called incident specific preparedness reviews, to identify areas for improvement after major operations. The report found that both the government and private sector “demonstrated a serious deficiency in planning and preparedness for an uncontrolled release of oil from an offshore drilling operation.”
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Dispersant could have been Soap (Dawn Liquid). COREXIT is a sinking agent made of some of the nastiest Toxins on Earth and now a Tidal Death mixture. Nam had Agent Orange. The Gulf has the Shadow of Death below the Blue. Janie Greenlighted it lets make sure she gets credit in our History Books, teach your Children well. Out of sight out of her mind inexperience Green Sighted MORON.
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