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BP Oil Spill Disinformation Campaign
by Decius at 7:39 am EDT, May 28, 2010 |
SA says: BP waited until after Obama’s news conference to announce that the operation had been halted the previous night... BP will not announce that a “top kill” is impossible until after Obama’s photo-op “I feel your pain” tour of the Gulf coast tomorrow. That’s why the last word from BP was it will be Friday night at the earliest before they “know” if the operation is successful. They already know it won’t work. They are just timing their revelations to curry favor with Obama.
renting_for_profit says: Nothing has changed – the oil will continue to spew, in greater or lesser amounts, until the relief well(s) are finished – with luck, before summer is over, without luck, in the beginning of 2011. This has been the case since the BOP failed, by the way, and is based on all the other cases of deep water wells blowing out, including in the Gulf.
Vespasian says: I’m inclined to agree with SA’s assessment. We already know that the PR-world loves to release bad news on Friday evenings … especially on a holiday weekend.
If they cannot stop the oil and it continues to gush for months, getting sucked into the loop current (which will eventually restart), it will destroy the ecosystem of the entire east coast of the United States. I hope this post looks silly in 24 hours. |
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RE: BP Oil Spill Disinformation Campaign
by Dagmar at 5:59 pm EDT, May 29, 2010 |
I have an idea that I think will work, and please everyone involved. We plug up the well by using BP and Halliburton executives. That they're still spinning these fairy tales and expecting everyone to believe them clearly demonstrates that their density should be enough to overcome the force of the escaping oil and completely stop it. |
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RE: BP Oil Spill Disinformation Campaign
by Dagmar at 6:04 pm EDT, May 29, 2010 |
Decius wrote:
If they cannot stop the oil and it continues to gush for months, getting sucked into the loop current (which will eventually restart), it will destroy the ecosystem of the entire east coast of the United States. I hope this post looks silly in 24 hours.
Oh, just to make this completely horrible for everyone... You do, of course, realize that basically... if they stopped the oil coming out of the well today that there would still be almost another entire month before it all shows up on various coastlines. Anyone wanna to do a quick calculation of how many inches deep in oil every inch of shoreline from LA to DC will be just from the one point seven million gallons or so that's already in the water? I sent an email to my brother yesterday telling him that if he's got any vacation days left that he can take in a hurry, and he ever intends to go snorkeling in the Keys again, he needs to do it like, now. |
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Top Kill, fail.
by Rattle at 9:08 pm EDT, May 29, 2010 |
Decius: I hope this post looks silly in 24 hours.
The good news is that your post doesn't look silly. Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to "move on to the next option."
That's the bad news. The next option is to inject lawyers and lobbyists into the breached blowout preventer until a compromise is reached with the oil well. Top Kill, fail. |
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