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Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
* By Ben Raines al.com *
A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could be on the verge of becoming an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.
“The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Emergency Response document dated April 28. “Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought.”
Asked Friday to comment on the document, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen said that the additional leaks described were reported to the public late Wednesday night. Regarding the possibility of the spill becoming an order of magnitude larger, Smullen said, “I’m letting the document you have speak for itself.”
In scientific circles, an order of magnitude means something is 10 times larger. In this case, an order of magnitude higher would mean the volume of oil coming from the well could be 10 times higher than the 5,000 barrels a day coming out now. That would mean 50,000 barrels a day, or 2.1 million gallons a day. It appears the new leaks mentioned in the Wednesday release are the leaks reported to the public late Wednesday night.
Read more at al.com
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Has our unchecked lust for oil and our self-detemined gawd given right to drive gas guzzler vehicles as big as tanks finally killed off the oceans of the world?
Wait until that oil gets into the Labrador Current and winds up in Europe.
The Concerned Citizens, I know, have had it and can’t take NO MORE! 2010 has been the year of “WHAT the #*~/” Are you kidding me? Every problem the USA is now facing can be traced back to a culture of LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES and Conservative ideology. Bush/Cheney and the Republican controlled Congress of 1994-2006 put the warped policy into practice. The money pit WARS, unfunded policy, corporate welfare, reckless economics, Wall Street fraud, banking scandal, the UNREGULATED oil spill in the Gulf, on & on &…
The maddening part of this phenomenon is that Republicans/Conservatives either refuse or don’t possess the capacity to ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG! These right-wing hypocrites constantly make WEAK excuses, avoid accountability like the plague and dance around any issue like they were Morning Joe Scarborough… lol. Only in right-wing world can silver spoon LOSERS like William Kristol AND Jonah Goldberg make a good living from being WRONG all the time…
Then Conservative wacko voters elect some of the most evil beings on the planet who do little beyond ravaging and expatriating all our national wealth/resources. Now that we’re living the dire results of your misinformed choices, do you say WE’RE SORRY or at least TRY to make things right? HELL NO! What do you lowlife, dumb@$$, degenerate m#*~/s DO? BLAME POOR PEOPLE AND FOREIGNERS! (I’m talking to YOU Arizona)
I want to know something else… WHY is it that every other civilized nation on the planet, EXCEPT the USA, REQUIRES Oil drilling operations to have back up plans and top shelf shut off valves in case of emergency? I guess British Petroleum thought $500,000 was TOO MUCH for a workable shut off system. I know they LOBBIED in 2003 against the US government putting such REGULATION into place… (and I heard Cheney’s Halliburton is involved with this and other spills)
You Big Oil m#*~/’s should be strung up! Talk about TERRORISTS!
aaaaaggggggghhhhh!
Before I could take the first sip of coffee this morning I heard the latest news about that car bomb in Times Square. HEY, I’ve got family in NYC… this is BS! Just from what the breaking newscasts are telling… I’m thinking this is another case of Conservative Wacko Terrorism! (with connections to Texas, Connecticut and Crazy Joe Lieberman promoting his S.3081 – Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010 )
Even if this is a result of Middle Eastern, Islamic fanatic cults I’ve had it with ALL you extremist, religious fundamentalist degenerates… foreign OR domestic!
aaagggggghhhh!
ENTER:
“Ok, you lunatics want to cause TERROR? We’ll give you a reason to be afraid. I know a coalition of Italian-American and Native-American WARRIORS that are getting together to fight against these vicious LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES! Here’s what’s going to happen if you vicious idiots cause terrorist acts on US soil…
I think we’ll call it “Operation Swordfish”. We’ll find out who was involved with ANY terrorist act and then come after YOU… If we can’t get to YOU then we’ll find your parents, husbands/wives, cousins, aunts/uncles, best friends, etc… You want pain and suffering then that’s what you’ll get. Imagine you or your loved ones getting dipped in pigs blood then slowly chopped up into little pieces, ground into sausage patties and fed to the homeless…”
(sorry, I got mixed up with this fiction movie script I’ve been working on)
lol
I’m joking, right?
COME ON terrorist @$$#*!s… bet, check or GO AWAY!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“a foreign accent is a result of someone who speaks two languages… A Southern accent is the result of someone who can’t even speak one language right” RANDI RHODES
LOL, you steamin bro?
SETTLE DOWN BEVIS! I feel sorry for the people who are forced to be around you for any length of time.
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I agree with what…SPO 101 says’s
can’t realLy add to that ….thanks for that SPO101 …I feel better now….
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Is’nt it windy down there with the wind blowing off the gulf ?
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