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| Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official |
| 2010-07-23 |
| Some 750 boats drafted in to scoop up oil from the Gulf of Mexico are having "trouble" finding any crude in the sea, a top US official said Wednesday, almost a week after a busted well was capped. "We are starting to have trouble finding oil," US pointman Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of handling the government's response, told reporters. The boats, which have been drafted in to skim oil off the surface of the Gulf, are "really having to search for the oil in some cases" around the area of the capped well, he added. According to official US government figures, more than 270,000 barrels of oil (11.3 million gallons) have been burned in controlled operations since the start of the spill in April. That is more than all the crude that spilled into the seas off Alaska in the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. The US government also said that some 34.6 million gallons of oil water had been recovered from the Gulf since the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank in April. BP finally managed to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf on Thursday, when a new 30-foot (10-meter) giant cap was put in place. The government has allowed BP to keep the cap shut since then, extending permission in 24-hour stints. Allen said some of the boats used in the skimming operations were being brought ashore for repairs, as attention turned more towards cleaning up the oil that has already washed ashore along five Gulf coasts. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 "Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official" Tell 'em to look on the beaches. And if the Bambi gummint had allowed the foreign help offered to come in right away, it wouldn't be there either. It's almost like the Bambi clowns wanted the Gulf states to be damaged. Why, some of 'em even had the gall to elect Republican governors! The nerve.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-23 19:27 |
| #5 This is proof there was no spill. It's a conspiracy to hide an alien spaceship that was found in the gulf. Some oils was spilled and burned to make it look like a spill. Why do you think the government wouldn't allow overflights? why was press access denied? Well, it makes a good conspiracy theory. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-07-23 17:22 |
| #4 While the media endlessly repeats the 'environmental disaster' meme, there is no evidence that large oil spills cause any medium to long term environmental harm, and overall they are probably beneficial to the environment, not least because they reduce the biggest marine environmental problem, commercial fishing. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-07-23 17:21 |
| #3 Now had the government allowed them to start their work a couple months sooner.... Almost like they wanted the effort to fail. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2010-07-23 10:02 |
| #2 Yeah, it'd be interesting to see a stacked bar chart showing upper end of estimate of oil release on top, with total volume of the Gulf of Mexico below... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-07-23 09:29 |
| #1 Some 750 boats drafted in to scoop up oil from the Gulf of Mexico are having "trouble" finding any crude in the sea. OH HOH finally admitting the oil DISASTER might have been a wee bit exaggerated? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-23 00:30 |