Gulf Coast Restoration Chief Ray Mabus has No Oil Spill Answers Just Yet

Nola.com ^ | 6/30/2010 | Frank Donze

[Qbert]

If Louisianians were hoping to get a clearer picture of the federal government's strategy for fixing their battered coast in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, they didn't get much help Tuesday from the Obama administration's new point man for Gulf Coast restoration, who made his first visit to the area since taking the post.

Hours after a flyover of the oil-stained Louisiana shoreline Tuesday, former Mississippi Gov. and current Navy Secretary Ray Mabus delivered this sobering message: Don't look for specifics anytime soon.

With a White House game plan for fixing the economic and ecological damage from the BP oil spill still in the formative stages, Mabus -- who has said very little publicly since being named to the new position two weeks ago -- asked for patience from residents of the four states reeling from the catastrophe.

"I understand that people are very, very concerned about today - about the here and now - and that it's hard to focus on something that may happen a month from now or two months from now or even years from now," Mabus said during a news conference at New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

[Qbert]

...Somehow I doubt this guy would have answers even if he did work full-time.

[fooman]

MABUS is working on the oil spill???!!!!

Ut oh, here comes the Nostradamus stuff..

[Kimberly GG]

I’ve been reading that the dispersant is more deadly than the oil. Wonder how much longer before they have to evacuate.

[chris37]

71 days is enough patience, Mr. Mabus.

Get your ass in gear.

[chris37]

They are both toxic, and so is the methane gas. Extremely toxic, and the methane gas, should it ever come on land as a single mass, will kill anything that encounters it.

This is really bad.

[fooman]

62

‘Mabus’ then will soon die, there will come
Of people and beasts a horrible rout:
Then suddenly one will see vengeance,
Hundred, hand, thirst, hunger when the comet will run.

---

I know, tinfoil city. But still creepy...

[aruanan]

Extremely toxic, and the methane gas, should it ever come on land as a single mass, will kill anything that encounters it.

And a relatively small quantity of air, should it ever be introduced intravenously, will kill every human on earth.

[FreedBird]

and Obama wants to ignore this deadly problem. The media is afraid of hurting Obama with truthful reporting.

[Qbert]

“Wonder how much longer before they have to evacuate.”

The time to evacuate was...oh, probably around day 55 or so.

But seriously, I think that folks down there should do whatever they need to do on their own- and bring in whatever researchers they need at the universities to do tests on this stuff. I have absoultely no faith that the Feds are telling the truth here after everything that has gone on.

[Kimberly GG]

WWL, Channel 4 News....

BP Oil Spill - Toxic Gases Spreading Inland Scientist Says Move Out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q-msqPnkD4&feature=related

[faq]

64

Hope at hand will come to fail:

Fleet at the great port cannot be received.

http://www.nostradamus.org/q_en_c2.php#q62

[chris37]

The post that I responded to inquired about the toxicity of elements of this oil spill, not to the mortality rates of intravenous embolism.

But thank you for the useless data just the same.

[aruanan]

The post that I responded to inquired about the toxicity of elements of this oil spill, not to the mortality rates of intravenous embolism.

But thank you for the useless data just the same.

You missed the point entirely, the point being that all that methane is not going to come onto land in one big mass. If it did, it would kill everything that breathed air that it overcame, but that's never going to happen. Just as a very small quantity of air is sufficient to kill every living human on earth if administered in the right way, but, like your methane gas scenario, it's never going to happen.

[iowamark]

Navy Secretary Roy Mabus is the one who was going to be fired and replaced by Joe Sestak if Sestak took Obama’s bribe.

Mabus is also famous for tape recording his first wife’s conversations with her minister to use against her.

[chris37]

Kimberly, thanks for that link. My best friend is in Metairie, La. I’m over in Milton, Fl.. We are both watching this very closely. At the first sign of evacuations or toxicity moving significantly inland, we will head to by brother’s house in Denver.

In fact, if the relief wells fail to bottom kill the gusher, it may well be time to head out then, if not sooner.

[chris37]

Oh. I see.

What if a hurricane pulls the methane up out of the water and then pushes it onto land?

Did you see the video of boiling surf in Pensacola? That’s methane.

Do you know how much methane has been released into the gulf in the past 71 days? Sure, the water is holding much of it down at this time, but what if that changes?

Never say never.

[Qbert]

“Navy Secretary Roy Mabus is the one who was going to be fired and replaced by Joe Sestak if Sestak took Obama’s bribe.

Mabus is also famous for tape recording his first wife’s conversations with her minister to use against her.”

Sounds like a wonderful guy. Just the kind of man we need to level with people during a disaster. (/sarc)

[LibLieSlayer]

mabus is a huge leftist commie loving, union hugging thief who was one of the very worst governors this State has ever endured.

LLS

[fooman]

It is all creepy, no?

Hope is failing-— Predicted by the man...

[aruanan]

What if a hurricane pulls the methane up out of the water and then pushes it onto land?

Did you see the video of boiling surf in Pensacola? That’s methane.

Do you know how much methane has been released into the gulf in the past 71 days? Sure, the water is holding much of it down at this time, but what if that changes?

Never say never.

There is no possible weather phenomenon that can selectively extract a gas from water, contain it at sea level, much less concentrate it over hundreds of square miles of water, and deliver it over a hundred miles to land.

Are you imagining the low pressure eye of a hurricane acting like a vacuum sweeper sucking up a giant deadly cloud of methane (without the lightning in the hurricane such as there was in Emily, Katrina, and Rita igniting it) and delivering it to a city? But the air inside the eye is descending and being exchanged into the ascending air of the eye wall. If methane was coming up into the eye from the sea, it would get sucked up into the up-currents of the eye wall. All of the air (and any gasses such as methane it contains) in the eye is constantly being exchanged and flowing out of the hurricane. If it weren't, the low pressure area would cease to be low pressure and the storm would stop.

There have been ships supposedly sunk by being directly over a methane outgassing but that's about it.