Britain Too?… Obama Administration Turned Down British Offer to Help Clean Up Oil Spill
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, June 13, 2010, 8:46 PM
It wasn’t just the Netherlands who offered to help with the disaster.
Top officials in the British Cabinet offered assistance to help clean up the oil spill a few days after the explosion. The Obama Administration turned them down because they did not have the correct paperwork.
A month later and 18 US beaches may be ruined for decades including Plaquemines Parish, La.
The Times reported:
A high-level British offer of help to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was rebuffed by America shortly after the accident, fuelling fresh fears of political tension between the two countries over the disaster.
A few days after the BP-leased rig sank on April 22, the Cabinet Office made a direct offer to the US State Department to airlift half of Britain’s 1,200-tonne stockpile of chemical dispersants, The Times has learnt.
At the time there was an urgent demand for fresh supplies. The offer to provide the chemicals, at the cost price of £3 million, was made through diplomatic channels and via the Civil Contingency Secretariat, the Government’s emergency planning unit.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which was also involved in drafting the plan, said that the US had chosen not to accept the offer. Officials said the US claimed that the chemicals held in Britain did not have the correct paperwork.
Hat Tip Winston
Today Barack Obama compared the oil spill to 9-11… Then went golfing for 4 hours.
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myohmy commented:
Sometimes it makes you wonder if Rahm Emmanuel has something to do with it. ” You don’t want to waste a crisis.” Right, Rahm?
Calamity Jane commented:
All I can say is……..UN-F*****G BELIEVABLE!
Sickofobama commented:
I’m going to come out and say it:
THE OIL SPILL IS OBAMA’S FAULT.
He is purposely using the spill to advance his agenda and doesn’t care who or what it affects.
newrouter commented:
its good to see that it only decades now. captain kickass how about those booms?
Kenny Solomon commented:
Naaaaah…… I better not say what I want to.
Definitely over the edge.
I’ll leave it at this:
The entire administration…… From the last of the night clerks to the top of the food chain…… Every last mother’n son and daughter of ‘em……… They gotta go.
I don’t even care where.
Kenny Solomon
We’re at less than 1 second to midnight.
Tick tock – tick tock – tick tock………
Boom.
Andreas K. commented:
Hey…. it’s smart power.
The majority of the Americans wanted it in 2008. Now they reap what they sowed.
That’s what you get for electing a “community organizer”, a bloody noob who has no experience in anything of actual value, into a, more or less, CEO position.
It can only blow up.
tj commented:
If we used those chemicals.. then we couldn’t buy as much from Obie’s friends at NALCO… Also Gore and Soros probably didn’t invest in those UK stockpiled chemicals…
Chippy commented:
All for a cap and trade speech on Tuesday. I want to kick the president’s ass. He is a jackass!
Scott commented:
Gee, the smartest community organizer in the room doesn’t know how to manage a crisis…Surprise! The democrats “deconstruction” of a Superpower continues unabated…
kakypat commented:
Only four hours on the course? At least he’s learning, and getting better at, something.
In the meantime, the beaches of my childhood turn black, people are losing their livelihoods, and the wildlife die at an alarming rate.
But…hey…priorities, and all…
Jane commented:
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
means
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
GS commented:
What’s worse, is that these actions and the inevitable “blame George Bush and the reTHUGlicans” speeches to follow, are only going to improve his standing amongst the left and the uninformed.
Don’t lose steam with the congressionals, folks. The only way this lecturing dork doesn’t recoup some of this lost popularity by 2012 is if we have a strong showing in this year’s elections, and get some folks in play who will offer solid ideas in stark contrast to Professor Dickweed’s lame excuses.
down with dems commented:
For a guy that wants to be seen as Mr. International, Mr. Uniter, Mr. One-World-Government, Obama sure missed many an opportunity to bring in help from nations across the globe to get this thing fixed… including our own nation (hello Packagen).
Sojourner commented:
myohmy/#1 says:
..’Sometimes it makes you wonder if Rahm Emmanuel has something to do with it. ‘
yes..and ‘imagine if Bush were president right now, and it was revealed that his chief of staff had lived rent-free in the home of one of BP’s consultants.’
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/203968/rahm-emanuels-bp-connection/greg-pollowitz
{..raises some important questions to pursue,I’d say, down the line,although, in the end, sure they’ll say it was a ‘deal’.. no quid pro quo, just an arrangement among ‘friends..just like everything else this corrupt regime touches.}
CLN commented:
Nauseating. Won’t take their help but has no problems blistering their pensioners with litigation….then off to the golf course, not a care in the world?
Chippy commented:
Geeez! Obozo is going to pre-empt “America’s Got Talent” to “The President Has No Talent”.
Gman commented:
A hypothetical I was thinking about. Let’s say I came up with amazing technology that would cap the spill and clean all the oil up very rapidly. I tell the president they can use it only if he resigns. Think he would?
Opus #6 commented:
Gman, no way.
Shaking my head.
John Frum commented:
This piece of crap has done more damage to this country than an invading army could ever do!!
30 years until the area has recovered economically and physically. Obama has committed an act of war on our country. This is treason. He must be impeached if our country will survive. Biden may be a moron, but he wants the best for America.. not so with Obama. He sees this as revenge for ’400 years of oppression’ … or whatever they say to eachother off camera
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