Posted on 06/14/2010 6:46:10 PM PDT by unspun
The video appears on a federal Web site.
The video appears to have been edited, and it was shot by a person carrying a camera from room to room.
In it, officials are discussing the search for survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. There is a hand-drawn map of the spill dated April 22. At one point, the video freezes on a sign next to a door that reads, "War Room."
In one scene, officials say that the estimate for the leak in a worst-case scenario is between 65,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. A dry erase board on the wall reads "Estim: 64,000 to 110,000 bbls/day. CNN reported 300,000 gal/day."
The high end of the estimate, 110,000 barrels, is about 4.6 million gallons. At that spill rate, 32 million gallons of oil would enter the Gulf every week. By comparison, the entire Exxon Valdez spill was about 11 million gallons.
Officials estimate current flow from the damaged well at 210,000 gallons a day.
It is unclear from the video what events would have to transpire to raise the flow rate higher.
A confidential NOAA report, dated April 28 and circulated among federal agencies, makes similar projections regarding spill size in a worst-case situation.
It describes newly discovered leaks in the tangle of riser pipe, attributing them to ongoing erosion of the pipe. The riser pipe, in this case about 5,000 feet long, connects the wellhead on the sea floor to the drilling rig on the surface.
"If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked," reads the report.
On Thursday, the day after the NOAA report was circulated, BP officials said they were worried about "erosion" of the piping.
Sand is an integral part of the formations that hold oil under the Gulf. The raw crude rising from the bottom of a well carries sand and other abrasive materials. In effect, the oil is sandblasting the piping as it rushes through with tremendous force, according to petroleum engineers.
"I think we need to be prepared for it to be the spill of the decade," Debbie Payton of NOAA, the meeting's coordinator, says during the NOAA video.
NOAA did not immediately respond to the Press-Register's request for comment on the video.
Ok..they knew...we know they knew....Bo knew....and how does this change the outcome that Bo will continue to manipulate any event, happening, crisis, etc. regardless of the fallout on the American people, be it peoples lifes, the environment or rolling the bus over his own.
Bo is still in office, congress will still do what they want while using every distraction to keep us from watching their slight of hands...and the media to wrap it in any package of their choosing.
So how is this going to change anything....I want to know.
2012 is the game changer and until then there is little we can do.
The other question is: What could *they* - the Federal government - do?
Who must the Feds rely on to stop this gusher?
A new Congress in 2011 can hold official investigations.
To what end?
Revelation of corruption far beyond Watergate levels.
April 24 - 1,000 bbl/day (US Coast Guard)
April 28 - 5,000 bbl/day (US Coast Guard, citing NOAA analysis)
Yes, but you can’t blame Obama. He could not hear this because it is so darn hard to listen when your yakker won’t stop yakking.
bookmark
Additionally by the time this all would go thru the courts Bo and his cohort's will continue their agenda to destroy the country...the most that will do is slow him down..maybe..but only if they also add onto his dereliction of duty and treasonous decisions...all that he has done.
Good on you for keeping a list!
I'm not watching his charade tomorrow night. I'll read the reports of it here.
I believe you are correct.
Bump!
Bookmark and ping again!
So while the Chicago and DC mob were raking in $$$$$$$,
the government played "mickey the dunce".
1) Pres_ _ent Obama and Rahm and the DNC gets $$$$$ from BP ............. check
"Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
.. more than $3.5 million…with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama"
"British Petroleum (BP) pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign"
"White House chief tied to BP adviser"
"Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel"
FACTOID:
Oil dispersant manufacturer NALCO is associated with Exelon
which was Rahm Emanuel's first big deal on Wall Street,
and with ComEd -for which Axelrod did the PR which Bill Ayers' father was CEO.
ComED & Exelon are connected to NALCO through UChicago Argonne and Fermilab.
UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC--Stimulus Contract: $163,724,912.00 DOE May 22, 2009
Million gallons of dispersant have been deployed containing PCB
Agencies to Study Dispersant Use and Ecosystem Impacts of Dispersed Oil in the Gulf of Mexico"
2) The secret reasons for the $$$$$ to Obama ............. check
BP oil leak: Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world"
3) Pres_ _ent Obama exempts BP from normal requirements ......... check
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study (Obama let it happen)"
Gulf oil spill: BP has a long record of legal, ethical violations "
Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon "
"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"
"Obama admin exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "
"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"
"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "
"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"
"U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits"
4) Pres_ _ent Obama, the DNC and BP conspire to create
a dangerous, negligent environment before, during, and after the event ......... check
Rig Survivors: BP Ordered Shortcut On Day Of Blast"
BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill"
Internal Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig"
BP reports warning signs before gulf oil rig explosion"
"Heated Argument on Rig Hours Before Blast ( Deepwater Horizon oil spill )"
"Workers on doomed BP oil rig: Corners were cut to save money"
"BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast"
"U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks"
5) Pres_ _ent Obama, BP, and the DNC begin the obstruction ......... check
"Coast Guard Logs Show Administration Knew Extent of Oil Spill within 24 Hours"
"There Was 'Nobody in Charge' (Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Fire)"
Limited Media Access to Oil Spill"
"McCarthy: Obama hasn't returned call of lawmaker representing district of rig!! "
"Obama sat on sand berm request 2 weeks, still no reply"
"Frustration over sand barriers boils in Louisiana as federal government offers few answers"
6) Pres_ _ent Obama, BP and the DNC begin the coverup ......... check
"BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day"
BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill"
BP buses in 400 for photo op with Obama
"BP shipped in workers for president's visit"
"Lab Chosen To Test Oil Spill Water & Animal Samples Has Ties To BP"
President Delays Oil Spill Recovery Efforts For San Francisco Fundraiser With Getty Oil Heirs"
7) The REAL DEAL: Pres_ _ent Obama displays utter incompetance (again) ......... check
MILES OF OIL CONTAINMENT BOOM in Warehouse- Just Sitting- Waiting For BP or US to Collect (Video!)"
"Louisianans take oil cleanup in own hands as frustration mounts."
"The President couldn't determine if MMS head Elizabeth Birnbaum was fired or she resigned."
"President Obama Returns to LA to Assess the Oil Crisis"
8) The REAL DEAL: Pres_ _ent Obama destroys America (again) ......... check
"Analysis: Could U.S. Lose 200 Rigs by the End of Summer? "
and probably half of those clueless and useless are double, if not triple, dippin.....
I can’t stand to see or hear him either. He is revolting and so are the people that still prop him up and believe in him after everything he is doing to our country. My sister and I can barely have a civil discussion anymore because of that man.
Going in the FReeper Keeper file! Thanks for putting it all in one place!
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