The Official Unlimited Oil Spill Thread!

[the last yatto]

rem, you see Stewart joke about the nuclear option never being off the table? 


still dont get why instead of offering $5,000 lie-ability waviers,

they didnt hand fishermen oil booees
instead of just putting them up and leaving em unattended as i saw on msnbc

[Juana]

BP spend ZERO on R&D for "what happens if", they got the permit by promising oil would never touch land, or wetlands, or marshes,...

BP's Spill Plan: What they knew and when they knew it
They had a "what if" and even a plan, but it was based on I'm guessing some bad info, because their highest calculated possibility was 16% likelyhood for it to end up in the Parish mentioned in the article. Perhaps they didn't expect this magnitude.

I have obtained a copy of the almost-600-page BP Regional Oil Spill Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico as of June, 2009, thanks to an insider. Some material has been redacted, but these are the three main takeaways from an initial read. The name of the well has been redacted, but if it's not Deepwater Horizon, then there's another rig still out there pumping oil and aimed at Plaquemines Parish.

1) In the worst case discharge scenario (on chart below), an oil leak was expected to come ashore with highest probability in Plaquemines Parish within 30 days (see map above from the Advance Response Plan). This makes it clear that BP could have stored adequate boom there before a rig failure like the Deepwater Horizon, and workers could have been mobilized to apply the boom in the 30 days that the response plan predicted oil would hit our wetlands.

[Vene]

Personally, I love this. I love it almost as much as I love their emergency equipment supplier.

[Suu]

Nobody sent hate mail to anyone's family. Let's face it, that's just typical minitrue bullshit to help sway public opinion.

It wouldn't surprise me if the media was making shit up to make the British public feel bad for BP and the ration of shit they're getting for this.

Boo hoo.

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[Sir Squid Diddimus]

BP spend ZERO on R&D for "what happens if", they got the permit by promising oil would never touch land, or wetlands, or marshes,...

BP's Spill Plan: What they knew and when they knew it
They had a "what if" and even a plan, but it was based on I'm guessing some bad info, because their highest calculated possibility was 16% likelyhood for it to end up in the Parish mentioned in the article. Perhaps they didn't expect this magnitude.

I have obtained a copy of the almost-600-page BP Regional Oil Spill Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico as of June, 2009, thanks to an insider. Some material has been redacted, but these are the three main takeaways from an initial read. The name of the well has been redacted, but if it's not Deepwater Horizon, then there's another rig still out there pumping oil and aimed at Plaquemines Parish.

1) In the worst case discharge scenario (on chart below), an oil leak was expected to come ashore with highest probability in Plaquemines Parish within 30 days (see map above from the Advance Response Plan). This makes it clear that BP could have stored adequate boom there before a rig failure like the Deepwater Horizon, and workers could have been mobilized to apply the boom in the 30 days that the response plan predicted oil would hit our wetlands.

Whatever. Wanna help me scrub some birds? You can crash on my couch.

Pppppppwhahaha!

[Juana]

I signed up to do that, actually. We'll see if they call me or not, though they're having trouble with money last I checked.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

there's money?

fuck that.
got a bucket and some gloves? yeah.


let's go.

[Juana]

Money for the National Wildlife Federation people to pay for food and stuff for volunteers. You have to pay your way down there, and I can get free plane tickets, but I'd have to have food and somewhere to sleep.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I'm an hour from the coast.
I have food in my fridge.

I'll go.

[Juana]

Let me talk to my source of plane tickets and try to make some arrangements for some stuff, but I'll PM you soon if you're serious about this.

[Remington]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/09/bp-skip-hearing/

Seriously, can we rouse up some lynch mobs now?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Let me talk to my source of plane tickets and try to make some arrangements for some stuff, but I'll PM you soon if you're serious about this.

Uh, if it hits my shores I know where I'll be spending my weekends.

"Have shovel, will shlupp"

whether they want me there or not. i'll be cleaning some shit up.
i'll be watching. waiting. with my big black rubber gloves.

[Jasper]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/09/bp-skip-hearing/

Seriously, can we rouse up some lynch mobs now?

They made the mistake of lying to them.  This IS a witch hunt, or should be, and they should be afraid.

For the oceans, their precious company, and maybe even themselves.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I think Rachel Maddow has been covering this whole mess better than any other news station/show anywhere.