Will White House Make BP Pay For Obama's Moratorium Disaster?
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 5:44 AM
On May 27, President Obama instituted a six-month moratorium on all drilling in water depths greater than 500 feet and stopped work on 33 Gulf deepwater exploration rigs, except under special circumstances. The president’s decision will force tens of thousands of Gulf Coast employees to lose their jobs.
EnergyTomorrow Blog posted this information on the disastrous moratorium:
Several organizations have offered estimates of the drilling moratorium’s impact on consumers, the U.S. oil and natural industry, and the nation’s energy security:
- Adam Sieminski of Deutsche Bank predicted that U.S. oil production could fall by 160,000 barrels of oil per day by next year. (Financial Times)
- Bernstein Research said delays from the moratorium and rising costs stemming from new safety regulations are likely to raise the marginal cost of deepwater production by about 10 percent. (Financial Times)
- Paul Cheng of Barclays Capital warned that the higher costs could eliminate small independent companies who compete for drilling projects against the majors. (Financial Times) He also predicted an 11 percent drop in deepwater oil production. (Houston Chronicle)
- The Houston Chronicle reports that two large oil-services companies are relocating workers from the Gulf of Mexico to onshore North America drill sites and Brazil.
- The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) predicts that relocation is just part of the pain to be suffered by energy workers. Burt Adams, NOIA’s chairman, said in a statement, “the [president's] order will be felt by the families of tens of thousands of offshore workers who will be unemployed.”
Last week it was reported that the Obama Administration misrepresented a study to push for their oil drilling moratorium. Of course, the state-run media has so far completely ignored this White House scandal.
Tonight Barack Obama will ask BP to set up an independently managed fund to cover economic and ecological damage claims.
CBS reported:
Mr. Obama will use his first Oval Office address to outline plans to streamline the BP claims process, a source of aggravation for many people affected by the spill. The administration wants BP to establish an independently managed fund to cover economic and ecological damage claims.
White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told CBS News’ “The Early Show” this morning Mr. Obama will discuss a strategy to “take the claims process away from BP” if the oil company does not establish “an independent entity.” Gibbs said the president “possesses the legal authority” to do that.
Legal observers say while that authority may be open to debate, the White House clearly has the political power to force BP’s hand. It was unclear whether the administration would allow BP to choose a third party administrator to oversee the fund but a private legal source told CBS News the company has already interviewed some potential choices for the position.
So, the question is…
Will Obama force BP to pay the salaries of the unemployed oil workers who are out of work due to the president’s reckless decision?
If he does, BP should refuse. It’s not their fault the oil workers are sitting at home and that oil rigs are being transferred to Brazil.
It’s Obama’s.
Related… Governor Bobby Jindal called for an end to Obama’s moratorium yesterday.
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neomom commented:
My gradmother once said “you can’t get blood from a turnip” Obama will destroy the Gulf oil industry and BP. He will leave the taxpayers with the bill for clean-up. Probably another gas/energy tax. The only thing transparent about this admin. is the admins motives. They know exactly what they are doing, anyone affected is collateral damage, the means that justifies the end.
katablog.com commented:
what is really important is what is excluded from the moratorium! BP’s largest well also known to be “troubled” and not up to standards!
myohmy commented:
The only winner here is George Soros. His puppet Obama is doing the heavy lifting for him. Who cares for millions of americans losing their jobs?
Joanne commented:
Obama is all about creating jobs…..NOT!!!
I can’t wait for his speech to-night, so I can watch the psychotic Liar-in-Chief spin his web of deceit. I would love for Bobby Jindal to give his rebuttal afterwards….would just love it.
Betsy Ross commented:
Captain kick-@ss has got to know that the moratoriam will accelarate economic doom…the only conclusion is that he WANTS economic failure…
HandyBill commented:
I wont be watching this idiot grandstand on the TV. I have grass that I need to watch grow.
mark commented:
Obama rejected other solutions from BP early on and also rejected help offered by Denmark. Obama is responsible for getting in the way and stopping cleanup efforts.
Obama’s administration is also responsible for ensuring the oil rigs are safe. All of them. (Dept of Minerals Management or whatever they are called,) are supposed to be inspecting and certifying. Isn’t that their job? (or is it watching porn?)
Somehow, just somehow, the Obama Oil Spill is going to be blamed on Bush.
John commented:
This president is like someone posing for one of those character sets for still photographs. “Sit here in the oval office, put on this jacket, and we’ll take your picture. For $20, your picture will say President Obama. Show it to your friends.” Well Mr. Obama, you’ve had your turn…next in line.
AuntieMadder commented:
Don’t worry about BP; the US taxpayers will foot the bill.
Taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars from BP’s still-gushing spill in the Gulf of Mexico unless Congress can retroactively change a law that limits a company’s liabilities for oil spills – and experts say it will be tough.
(snip)
But if the spill contaminates large parts of the Gulf Coast, the real cost is likely to be in the form of prolonged commercial losses to the fishing and tourism industries. Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which was passed in response to the Exxon-Valdez oil spill one year earlier, oil producers are liable for all cleanup and environmental restoration costs that stem from a spill.
But they are only liable for $75 million in claims for commercial and business losses, which could easily run into the billions. If BP and its partners don’t pay, Congress will be under just as much pressure to provide help as it was in the case of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. If the oil spill gums up a thousand miles of Gulf coast, the commercial losses would almost certainly run into the billions.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/The-Economy/2010/05/14/BP-Oil-Spill-Taxpayers-Could-Pay-Billions-in-Damages.aspx
Tammy commented:
Auntie Madder:
And BP will follow the letter of that law. In other words, they won’t have to pay.
Obama WANTS this crisis. He makes big business(oil) the devil.
He allows the oil to destroy lands(he doesn’t care)
and PURPOSELY is slow to allow clean up.
Why?
He wants to pass Cap and Trade. This is a perfect set-up.
I wouldn’t even doubt if the oil explosion itself was done on purpose.
Gas will be $10 a gallon before this man is out of office.
Unemployment will be 15%.
This is the plan.
Anyone can teach commented:
If I were the leader of Great Britain I would consider it an act of war if the assets of my people were raided in this fashion. BP can pay for clean-up and legitimate loss of income that resulted from THEIR actions. However, loss of income due to some idiot in the White House having a conniption and closing down all of the other wells in the gulf is just extortion.
Obama will precipitate another crisis and then use it as an excuse to impoverish even more people.
bill-tb commented:
Yes you can blame the accident on MMS and BP, regulatory failure and negligence on BP’s part — But containment and cleanup, BY LAW THAT IS Obama’s cross to bear …
I have just spent some time picking through news reports of the start of this massive big government failure of an oil spill, and it is heart breaking what has happened to our Gulf of Mexico because of Obama incompetence and big government failure. And all according to the experts, preventable if only one thing had happen … fire booms had been available for immediate use, the spill could have likely been largely contained offshore.
It’s too big to post here — Read about it here … http://10ksnookers.blogspot.com/2010/06/despite-plan-not-single-fire-boom-on.html
Let’s see if the people buy the change of focus to cap and tax tonight, instead of sticking with fixing the problems, and there is a whole lot of fixing that needs doing.
Swifty commented:
Gulf Coast Petitition to lift drilling moratorium
http://www.crt.state.la.us/GEST/Petition.aspx
Catherine commented:
Well last time I cked 9/11 was an attack on the USA and her financial industry.
and we found that most of those who supported bho said it was an inside job?
Move on . org run by sorors Van Jones and others??
So when they are saying the oil spill is like 9/11 are they saying that we have been attacked again or that it was an inside job?
just the facts and some crazy thinking?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8
Soros Hedge Fund Bought Petrobras Stake Worth $811 Million
By Jeb Blount and Miles Weiss
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=66288
George Soros Buys Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.Petrobras, AutoZone Inc., InterOil Corp., Sells Arch Coal Inc., Public Service Enterprise Group, PPL Corp.
Aug. 15, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/12/report-rep-maxine-waters-helped-steer-bailout-funds-bank-family-ties/
Report: Rep. Maxine Waters Helped Steer Bailout Funds to Bank With Family Ties
Published March 12, 2009
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., helped steered millions of dollars in bailout funds to a bank on whose board her husband served, the New York Times reported Thursday.
OH HOW DID THAT GET IN THERE
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37684965
Chevron’s Oil Spill Hasn’t Reached Great Salt Lake
Published: Monday, 14 Jun 2010 | 9:45 AM ET
AP
Emergency workers believe they have stopped a 21,000-gallon oil leak from reaching the environmentally sensitive Great Salt Lake
but then you have to look at all the so called accidents that started in February 2010 first in Conn. so is this attacks on the USA like some want to make this bhos 9/11??
And with the rigs now on their way to South America was it an inside job?
Catherine
olm commented:
Bp should tell Obama to go pound the oil soaked sand.
Obama owns this baby, and whether this was on purpose to begin with or not, he clearly wanted this to become a crises. And it is becoming the total destruction of the southeastern states.
I’m sure Soros is proud of his boy.
bg commented:
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Charlie “green” Christ
PBS NewsHour, June 14, 2010
Escrow Fund & Basis in Law
White House Authority in Oil Claims Assessed
[put it on the government [.] i don’t see anything [.] requires them to set
up this escrow or trust fund [.] not sure there’s something in the law..]
Green Tech Demands Scarce ‘Rare Earth’ Minerals
[China: 'look out for yourselves']
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Kevin P commented:
Moving the rigs may be the right thing to do – based on “Worst Case” scenarios that were posted yesterday – I can’t find the link now – but it was on oildrum.com.
If the breach is below surface – the upcoming oil is eroding the seabed. Very bad news. This could cause the Gulf floor to collapse – and other oil rigs could be at risk.
If Gulf floor collapses – 2.5 BILLION barrels of oil almost “immediately” escape into the Gulf. Along with Oil is natural gas.
This also explains the no-fly zone above the Gulf. If the floor were to collaps – large amounts of methane could be released – destabilizing the air above the Gulf – causing airlines to crash.
This is one theory of “The Devil’s Triangle”. Methane vents cause both water and air to become so diluted that they can no longer support watercraft and aircraft.
I’m not an EXPERT – so don’t take my word for it. But it does make sense of two rather non-sensical moves from the White House. Banning all deepwater drilling and the no-fly zone – but only if the President truly has best interests (othter than his own) in mind.
Auntie Em commented:
I am dreading having to listen to Mr. Incompetent speak from the Oil Office.
I’d rather listen to scratching on chalkboards than listen to his horrible speech patterns and repeating words….besides that… being lied to pisses me off.
Everyone take a drink when he says unprecedented, unsustainable, let me be clear, historical, and I, me, or my.
MJ commented:
If a car manufacturer discovers a part’s defect they don’t recall and shut down all car manufacturers. OB is forcing gas prices to rise so voters will be more inclined to want cap-n-trade passed. He very calculating but transparent. Certainly wish someone in the White had a pair to decide to drill in Anwar. Might be up and running by now and employeeing people.
Besides many other countries have active platforms beyond the gulf. Do you think they use tough restrictions for drilling? Do you think if they have a spill it won’t affect the U.S.? Why did Soros invest 811m in hedge funds into Brazil Oil. Something sticks and it ain’t the gulf shores
Finncrisp commented:
This is just like a Narcissist. All that matters is self interest. The focus should be on containment, not on punishment. This fool is “acting stupidly” to quote him about this whole affair.
Completely reveals what a corporate hating light weight he really is.
Can’t wait untill NOvember.
olm commented:
Kevin, very interesting.
I actually do not have a problem with some of this stuff but what I do have a problem with is the progression to things that are clearly not in our country’s best interest.
For example, a moratorium? fine but then open up drilling elsewhere where it is clearly safe. The possiblities are endless.
But no, along with natural destruction Obama adds economic destruction. Clear to me Cloward’Piven.
Sandy commented:
As usual Obama’s disasterous policies hurt thousands more Americans while he finds a fall guy to blame. Blame the car companies, blame the banks, blame Wall Street etc. He thinks it makes him look tough.
There was a contract between BP and our Govt which calls for payment to those who would be left without employment should a disaster occur. Its standard procedure.
So this is a staged event to make BP look like a rudderless ship and take the total blame for this disaster. I noticed they used the words BP Chairman summoned to the White House.
So here we go again — another industry taken to task with Atty Gen. Holder instituting criminal charges which will come to nothing ala Goldman Sachs. We sit in stunned silence as the media marvels at our strong President. Reality is hard to come by in these tough times.
bg commented:
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adding on to Catherine @ 9:09 am #16 info:
Obama: oil spill “echoes 9/11”..
translation: “the life-sustaining US oil industries are terrorists”, while
the “foreign oil industry is sanctified” (ht & more @ Sojourner #29)..
President Barack Obamas national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, discussed the matter with officials this week during a visit to the South American country, Brazilian Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo da Silva
told reporters.
He said the U.S. Export-Import Bank already has signed a letter
of intent in that regard with Brazilian state oil company Petrobras.
The loan is equal in value to a similar credit line agreed to with the China Development Bank, also for exploiting Brazils pre-salt area, so-named because the estimated 80 billion barrels of high-quality crude in that new oil frontier lie far beneath the ocean floor under layers of rock and an unstable salt formation.
Under the agreement with the Chinese state bank, finalized during Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas visit to Beijing in May, Brazil can repay the loan facility with oil as opposed to cash.
According to the governments projections, the pre-salt reserves located at
a depth of up to seven kilometers (4.3 miles) below the ocean surface in an 800-kilometer by 200-kilometer area could eventually lead to a nearly six-fold increase in Brazils current proven reserves of 14 billion barrels and transform that nation into one of the worlds 10 largest oil producers and a major crude exporter.
Petrobras plans to invest close to $29 billion through 2013 to develop the pre-salt deposits in which the company already holds concession rights.
Petrobras is projecting that some 1.3 million barrels per day can be
extracted by 2013 from the pre-salt fields and 1.8 million bpd by 2020.]
more @ link..
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Sandy commented:
Auntie Em — Mark Levin will be playing the speech with live commentary. The only way to watch Obama is with an interpreter.
gus commented:
Well I’d just like to say that this Obama Presidency is moving along quite nicely.
Unions have plenty of cash, and the economy in the sh!tter. But Hope and Change springs enternal.
ted commented:
1. Obama works for Mohammedans – obo arranged for this disaster to occur to accomplish several objectives at once.
2. vengeance for his Saudi masters over the gulf war damage
3. increased oil pricing making his pet alternative energy sources more competitive
4. ecological disaster compounded by his deliberate delays in responding and his also deliberate interference in response efforts, give Obama a handy example of the hazards of expanding oil drilling
5. obama’s operatives targeted a British well in order to continue obama’s adolescent fussing of the British due to his perverted juvenile desire to exact vengeance for the British involvement in the slave trade
6. Obama is a vengeful adolescent with power which he is abusing to get even for his inadequecies which, because he never grew up to become a real man, he needs to prove himself victorious against all his demons, real and imagined, using illegitimate tactics as convenient
7. Obama is the worst tyrant ever
seven commented:
So if Obama orders drilling and fishing to stop, how can he charge BP for a decision they did not make? Obama forgets it was 20 years in court for Exxon Valdex settlement. BP can do their court elswhere.
Sandy commented:
13 Nations have offered to help us and they have all been turned down because of some antiquated law from years gone by.
Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, deals with cabotage (i.e., coastal shipping) and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. Could it be bypassed in a disaster? Sure, Bush did during Katrina.
Freddy commented:
Follow the money!
Obama pushed off this problem for weeks. Until he found a way to slap a few dollars into his friends hands and buy a few votes.
Obama is going to DEMAND that BP push billions into a slush fund that he can use to funnel cash back into the ‘Community Organizations’ that used to be called Acorn.
Look for Obama references to ‘impartial third party community organizations’ that are in desperate need of cash to pass along to help the gulf victims! This is the CHICAGO way of STEALING while pretending to be doing something worthwhile!
gus commented:
Has Obama created a Blue Ribbon panel or Commission today?? I mean, it’s past noon already.
bg commented:
++
Catherine @ 9:09 am #16
re: [And with the rigs now on their way
to South America was it an inside job?]
add the following to all the other dot connecting links..
Follow The Money
[BP wanted a big deal with Libya, and Libya wanted its nonsick Lockerbie terrorist in exchange for a HUGE contract (Britain doth protest). Obama didn’t stand in their way; he just told Libya not to celebrate too much. Though 190 Americans died in the terror attack, Obama said nothing about them.
BP gave Obama a lot of money during his campaign.
Obama seems friendly with Qadafi: Obama devised a plan to give Qadafi $2.5 million recently. Obama’s mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, along with Louis Farrakhan, met with Qadafi in Tripoli. Qadafi called Obama a “Muslim brother.” Qadafi is also linked to Odinga for whom Obama campaigned in Kenya (illegally, in violation of the Logan Act (watch video).
In March 2010, Obama ended the moratorium on offshore drilling.
Obama wants to pass cap and tax. Obama mocks “Drill, Baby, Drill” in 2008.” Obama mocks “Drill, Baby Drill” in 2010 (after the spill). He doesn’t like conservative bitter-clingers or “anti-government,” tea party gumps.
Obama wants China to buy more U.S. debt; is it in exchange for it taking over the decimated gulf seafood industry? China (among other countries) is ready to fill the gap. Seafood from China is sparking concerns over quality.
He also wants to raise taxes on oil and eventually nationalize the oil industry (into ruin, as Hugo Chavez did). And BP would not be harmed financially because American taxpayers would pay billions in claims and has insurance to cover the rig loss. BP also has limited liability for Gulf damages.
Never mind that hay works better than any chemical and is practically free and nontoxic and adsorbs oil at a 1:200 ratio), all nontoxic remedies are being ignored; there is no money to be made with a solution that simple.]
much more & links @ link..
“Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress
from outside. Today we have found an opening to enter the fortress and
to confront it from within.”
“The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. [..] Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time.” ~ Gaddafi
Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who
had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama.
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bobdog commented:
My God. Does this president do ANYTHING right?
Somebody please send him a proper book on economics.
I wish he would spend half as much time fixing the problem as he does fixing the blame.
Cynic commented:
The voting public had better do their homework for the next elections better than they did in ’08 or the USA is finished. We are on our knees now. A second term for this guy without any opposition and we are done.
Taxpayer1234 commented:
I wonder how many of Obooby’s friends are benefiting from the spike in oil prices.
bg commented:
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intentional or not, bottom line:
Obama is bound & determined to succeed where 9/11 failed..
the financial ruin of the United States of America..
this disaster is not 9/11, this disaster is a “crisis
that cannot go to waste” continuation of 9/11..
only this time we are being attacked
from w/in by the IslaMarxists w/in..
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starboardhelm commented:
There’s worse to worry about. Turns out the blowout is unstoppable from the top, most likely because the casing was shattered when the pressure surged, so when you plug the top, it just leaks out more from fissures around well. Subsequent erosion of the well could lead to a complete blowout, and possibly even a seafloor collapse. If that happens, we’re talking a mega-tsunami AND complete bleed out of the reservoir. This could be bad. China has worried about this scenario off Hong Kong for decades. We should be moving all the idled drill rigs to the area and drilling multiple relief wells NOW.
Kevin P commented:
Starboardhelm #39 – do you have a link? It sounds like you got some of the same info I got for my post #20. I can’t find that link back
Ginger commented:
Is there any way to find out what ship was in the area at the time of the explosion? There is tiny subs that can be armed! Not only follow the money we need to search the ocean floor around the oil rig for the remains of a ???????
bg commented:
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Kevin P @ 9:26 am #20
(ht TY #22 in a previous thread)
this the link??
perhaps 1 of a few reasons for ‘Consequence
Management Response Force’ preparations..
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archer52 commented:
Here is the bad news- BP may be at fault. Here is the link to my post with a long letter from an expert in the field. Apparently, this showed up originally in the WSJ. If the facts are correct, BP screwed up. Does’t mean they should be ripped apart, but they should pay.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/06/15/3195/
Still does not give Obama the right to rip them off. Two wrongs do not make a right, unless you are a liberal in vengeance mode.
bg commented:
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starboardhelm @ 11:32 am #39
re: [We should be moving all the idled drill rigs to
the area and drilling multiple relief wells NOW.]
check out link @ bg #42
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starboardhelm commented:
bg, Kevin P: Yes — this is where I got most of it. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967
I notice the website is distancing themselves from the post a bit, but it’s very plausible. Plus I know a little about sink holes re causes and effects at sea.
And I’m not a fan of fixing the blame until you fix the problem, but it does look like bp scrooged the pooch.
Kevin P commented:
bg#42 – Thanks! That’s the link!
Catherine commented:
Yes bg
the only thing to do is step up on offence and never go to defense keep them on defense they are great in turning the agenda but that is their goal.
is to enslave the American people and rule the world.
we see it has been the government under bho that stopped the clean up from the beginning and they have robed and got more power in what they have done.
will the American people just lay down and take it they never have?
bho is trying to turn heads away from blogo trial and the report that came out on ACORN admits to the FBI. These stories can not just be a blip over and over again recall helps.
as for the Democ-rats like the Bolsheviks after they won they ate their own those who helped in the fight that didn’t tow the line were killed or sent to Siberia
are demic-rats smarter I bet not. they want power and will stop at nothing?
Always follow the money. stop these a-holes from making any.
Remember the democ-rats
just gave more power to the EPA run by bho?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_686116.html
Sen. Ferlo wants moratorium on Marcellus shale gas drilling
By Brad Bumsted
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
HARRISBURG — State Sen. Jim Ferlo today called his proposed Marcellus shale moratorium legislation “reasonable and prudent,” but acknowledged he faces hurdles in the Senate.
Ferlo, D-Highland Park, wants to ban natural gas driling on state forest lands and private property for one year while a commission considers the ramifications
WHERE IS REZKO?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/datelinedc/s_488184.html
Barack Obama’s closet
OH MY HOW DID THAT GET IN THERE
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/burning_should_have_started_a.html
Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Burning should have started a week ago, former NOAA official says
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AmiRzod4NULKF3vYGN0LZAxH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTM2bHVmdjcyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjE1L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2JwZ2V0c29rdG9idQ–
BP gets OK to burn off captured oil, gas at sea
By RAY HENRY and BRIAN SKOLOFF,
14JUNE2010
AP
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. – BP won permission to start burning oil and gas piped up from its broken seafloor well, one step toward fulfilling a pledge to more than triple how much crude it stops from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Federal authorities gave permission late Monday for BP PLC to use a new method that involves pumping oil from the busted wellhead to a special ship on the surface, where it would be burned off rather than collected.
OH MY THIS MEANS THAT THE BHO STOPPED THE CLEAN UP OF THE OIL WHY?
Catherine
Paul___ commented:
How the slave and his masters did it? We will never know how they blew up the rig. Until a disgruntled whilst-blower shows up.
AuntieMadder commented:
Don’t read too much into the spin about this being Oilbama’s 9/11 or Oilbama saying it’s like 9/11. To do so requires the belief that the truth ever comes from Oilbama and his regime.
The very simple reason they’re comparing it to 9/11 is because many in the lamestream media and the general public began calling it Oilbama’s Katrina. The Oilbama regime are attempting to distance themselves from what most believe to be the shame of GW Bush’s time in office by attaching themselves to the time that Bush was at his best, when the worst catastrophe in the country’s history had happened on US soil and there he was, shining like a beacon as the people looked to him for answers and guidance.
Oilbama’s marketing people would like for us to look at Oilbama as the savior and beacon during this crisis instead of the guy who’s handling of this crisis in the Gulf of Mexico makes Bush’s handling of Katrina look really, really good. And, who knows? Maybe that could have happened, maybe he could have come out of this as a hero and a leader…if he’d started doing something about it eight weeks ago instead of golfing, partying with celebrities and vacationing. If this is Oilbama’s 9/11, then his role must mirror that of bin Laden’s because he sure ain’t looking like GW Bush did on 9/12/2001.
The Oilbama regime had better get used to hearing and go ahead and own it: This is Oilbama’s Katrina…on steroids.
AuntieMadder commented:
I posted this link here over the weekend but it looks like many ignored it. For those of you trying to connect the dots, go take a look.
Follow the Money: Rig-Gate Exposed! Rig-A-Boom! Bay of Rigs!
WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND THE GULF OIL SPILL?
by Jane Menta
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/06/06/follow-the-money-rig-gate-exposed-rig-a-boom-bay-of-rigs/
Andreas K. commented:
On the long run BP will pull out of the US. Followed by all other foreign oil companies. The workers, who are out of work, will get sacked. Why keep workers that a company doesn’t need?
Those are private companies, not socialist countries. They have to check their profit and expenses, unlike Obama and his morons.