BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard

ABC ^ | 17 June 2010 | DAVID MUIR and BRADLEY BLACKBURN

[Hoodat]

Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor's wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.

"It's the most frustrating thing," the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. "Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."

Sixteen barges sat stationary today, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday. Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks. It was a homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.

"These barges work. You've seen them work. You've seen them suck oil out of the water," said Jindal.

So why stop now?

[Freddd]

And this is the way Obamacare will be handled.

[BlackjackPershing]

The actions of the Administration borders on the treasonous. Clearly, Hussein Obama hate America and is lashing out in any way he can.

This act here shows wa an a** clown he is. Where is the impeachment for crimes he’s committing?

[jersey117]

Given the gravity of this situation, it shouldn't take the governor of an affected state more than a few minutes to get through to a responsible party at the White House

This whole "crisis" smells rotten. The administration and certain members of Congress need to go before hearings. Not just BP.

[Pravious]

“Un-&^%&^-believable...”

Exactly what I was going to say.

[muawiyah]

EPA has a problem with drillers using "brown mud" during well pipe sealing operations ~ they imagine that the "brown mud" might come into contact with some of the petroleum in the well and then contaminate the pristine environment outside the well.

Of course it's the best stuff to use to maintain pressure during sealing so that the well doesn't suffer a major blowout.

Halliburton was advising the BP workers to use "brown mud" and the BP company man, listening to EPA ordered the "brown mud" out and to instead use sea water.

The well then blew out.

Later on EPA said that the US couldn't use the oil skimmers the Dutch provided because, alas, they pumped "contaminated" water back into the Gulf. They preferred to allow 100% of the oil to contaminate the Gulf than to skim off 95% of it.

Now, this.

Someone in the government hierarchy wants to make this blowout as damaging as possible. We need to find out precisely who that person is.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“So...what if the barges ignored the Coast Guard. Are they going to ‘open fire’ ?? Somebody needs to push this to the breaking point.”

If enough weaponry was produced to back up the words “Eff Off!” to the the Coasties I have no doubt in my mind that Obongo would give the order to fire.

[Cementjungle]

The actions of the Administration borders on the treasonous

That's the understatement of the day. It's becomming more clear with every day that the goal here is the complete destruction of all private business in the region, and to make every person there completely dependent on the government for generations to come. That's exactly how the Obama administration wants it.

The bigger question in my mind is... what's in store for other regions of the US? How will he do the same for the rest of the country?

[Venturer]

The Coast Guard has been cut so many times I didnt know there were any left.

[hopespringseternal]

Malevolence. A republican was sabotaging Obama's shakedown of BP. Can't have that.

There is absolutely no reason for the Coast Guard to essentially impound a whole group of ships for a safety inspection. They were ordered not to let them out in the gulf.

[Shqipo]

>>>>The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board...<<<

—And surely that the crews had completed Sensity Training classes! Good freaking Grief!!!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Thinking about it again, it would be cool if Jindal called in enough state law enforcement to protect the barges and to tell the Coasties to take a hike so the barge workers can continue Operation Vacu-Suck along the coast of Louisiana.

[opentalk]

o is such a fraud,

btt

[VeniVidiVici]

It's like this huge committee down there," Riley said, "and every decision that we try to implement, any one person on that committee has absolute veto power."

That's exactly what Obama and the Democrats have going on. And nothing gets done. 24hrs to approve life jackets and fire extingueshers. Unbelievable.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Oceander]

"But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges."

Can this be any more blatantly pretextual? This is tantamount to the police stopping the fire-engine racing to put out a blazing building because the cops in the patrol car cannot confirm that the fire-engine has more than the legally-required minimum amount of tread on its tires, and are having difficulty contacting the people who put the tires on the fire-engine.

Keep in mind, the Coast Guard simply couldn't confirm that fire extinguishers were on board. In the game of Alinsky-style disinformation, that is intended to be understood as (falsely) implying that the barges in fact do not have fire extinguishers on board, when all it really means is that the Coast Guard doesn't know one way or the other.

This is either clear-cut ideologically-motivated action, or else is evidence that the Obastard administration is so monumentally incompetent and negligent, that they make Jimmy Carter look like an artist by comparison.

[KevinDavis]

I’m looking at the comments, but from what I’m seeing a lot of negative comments towards Obama over this move... I think they want the spill to go on..

[Carley]

This was a deliberate delaying action. The question must be answered. Who ordered this ‘inspection’.

If this was at O’s behest due to union considerations, then Thad Allen must resign. If he pulled this stunt on his own then he must be fired.

We cannot allow this continued destruction to continue.

[annieokie]

The WHite House can’t be bothered, Zero is probably on his way to meet up with the wifey for the weekend.

[Pit1]

Federal F***ups.... One of Zero’s buddies must have a contract to study the situation.

Obuttface wants a blue ribbon commission to study what a fire extinguisher and life jacket is.

[milagro]

It’s about time—and on ABC too! Hope this gets people who watch it tonight as PO’D as I am!!