Posted on 06/08/2010 6:06:00 PM PDT by tsmith130
There are miles of floating oil containment boom in warehouse right now and the manufacturer Packgen says it can make lots more on short notice.
There’s just one problem… No one will come get it.
John Lapoint of Packgen in Auburn, Maine, says he’s got plenty of floating oil containment boom and can make lots more on short notice. There’s just one problem: no one will buy it from him.
He’s already had a representative from BP visit his factory and inspect his product. The governor of Maine, John Baldacci, visited the facility and made a video plea to no one in particular to close the deal. Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins wrote a letter on May 21 to the secretary of the Interior, the administrator of NOAA, and the commandant of the Coast Guard to alert them to the existence of Packgen, their supply of boom, and their demonstrated capacity to make more.
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First I’ve heard of it, thanks.
Since Day One (TM)
Ping.
But Obammer is out looking for some a$$ to kick I thought? Still not looking for a solution? For a “community organizer, he sure ain’t that organized! Sheeesh!
No surprise to me.
I suspect Big Government is interferring with this use too.
Does anyone know how much oil containment boom costs per mile — Anyyone care to guess?
While it is not easy to clean up an ocean oil spill, it is not a complicated procedure. In the open ocean, chemicals can be sprayed on slicks to try to disperse them. For the most part, oil floats, so it can sometimes be ignited and burned to lessen the amount that might reach a more sensitive area than the middle of an ocean. Out in open water, you can use booms (temporary floating barriers), but the wind and wave action makes it pretty difficult to place them and keep them there. When you get in closer to shore, where the oil is likely to do the most damage but the water is generally calmer, the best way to deal with it is to place flexible booms in the water, against which the oil will collect, and then run skimmers, a sort of pump that vacuums up and separates the oil from the water. Then you mop up what makes it to the shore as best you can.
…Oil collected against a boom is fairly easy to process and recycle. Sorbent booms, designed to collect oil at the water’s edge, are made from materials that absorb oil but not water — unlike hair. Oil full of hair or straw lapping against a shoreline is a HazMat nightmare. And sorbent boom is not in short supply anyway.
My husband, who was a consulting engineer and worked on rigs in the North Sea when the first deep water wells were drilled (he holds 8 patents on oil production machinery) has been saying the same thing for weeks.
Thanks for posting.
Just charge it to the Fed’s credit card, Bobby Jindal- they’ll just print more and Obumbler isn’t going to do anything about it.
did they ever figure out what caused the initial explosion yet?
This is a failure of command from the TOP. No one knows who has the authority to do anything.
This is all a distraction to him. AND deep down I'll bet he's using this as an excuse for his failure as a President.
(A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States), the President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.
(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government–
(i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and
(ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.
There was an expert interviewed who said you cannot use booms because the stuff is coming from the ocean floor and can’t be contained the way oil from a rig can. Also, now that they have dispersed the oil, they can no longer burn it off. Just repeating what he said.
Why do I get the feeling that Lapoint was not an Obama donor?
Odumbo’s to busy looking to get his ass kicked....besides he already spent the money on concerts at the White Hut (10 million)
I saw an explanation on this thread today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2530341/posts
Go down to post #10, detailed but by someone who is knowledgable. The Freeper lists SEVEN short cuts that should not have been used. Short story cause: weak cement.
He is too busy attending high school graduations and preparing for the White House BBQ party.
“But Obammer is out looking for some a$$ to kick I thought? Still not looking for a solution?”
He’s reverting back to street thug since he has no leadership qualities.
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