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BP Readies the Final ‘Kill’

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Posted on Aug 6, 2010
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A screen grab taken Friday shows no oil leaking from the wellhead on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Someone should tell BP that the whole kill-speak approach does not bode well when you’re actually killing wildlife and industry in the Gulf. But nonetheless, BP says the mud and cement pumped into the blown-out oil well, termed a “static kill,” are holding and that it is preparing to seal the deal with a “bottom kill” later this month. —JCL

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BP said the cement seal on its crippled Gulf of Mexico oil well was holding on Friday, as the company readied a final push to permanently shut down the deepwater source of the world’s worst offshore spill.

More than 100 days after the start of the catastrophic spill that ravaged ecologically sensitive wetlands and lucrative coastal economies in the U.S. Gulf, BP said no oil was leaking from the undersea Macondo well and no “recoverable oil” was left on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

BP finished pumping cement into the ruptured well on Thursday after injections of heavy drilling mud earlier this week subdued the upward pressure of oil and gas. The wellhead was provisionally capped in mid-July.

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By rico, suave, August 7, 2010 at 5:50 am Link to this comment

“going to be decades to determine factual statistics,”

How true.

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By rollzone, August 6, 2010 at 11:41 pm Link to this comment

hello. i agree the whole media misinformation campaign centers upon killing the damage to BP. kill the story. putting a lid on it. sweeping it all under the surface. burned it all off the front pages, and need to kill it in your mind. the worst environmental disaster in our history, going to be decades to determine factual statistics, and the PR arm at GoldenSaks focuses on minimizing claims and sheltering their client from petty dead things, righteous claims of restitution and restoration; through terminal extinguishing verbiage, and computer program generated thought cleansing techniques- BP will come out stronger than ever to do it all again soon, on some coming fine day. murder in your mind the poison oil and lethal dispersant pollution they spewed continuously, and hide all death they caused and are still causing by their careless disregard for safety through media control. make it look like a drop in the bucket in the scheme of the worst disaster in history (it was really only bad for all the dead things). i do not even believe the photo is the same well. i see no BOP structure. this is more black collar crime. the kill terminology is a media weapon. the subsurface dead zones are still killing everything. this is a Wall Street, BP, White Administration triangle of media control and deceit, which is just the way it is going to be. progressive reformers, spend a little tax on me.

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By The Donkey Edge, August 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm Link to this comment

Killing jobs, killing wildlife, killing the hopes of the families of the gulf. Here’s some data on how the spill is affecting the people that nobody is talking about, the children of the gulf, and what BP isn’t doing to help:

http://thedonkeyedge.com/2010/08/04/its-oil-in-your-head/

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By rico, suave, August 6, 2010 at 12:54 pm Link to this comment

“Someone should tell BP that the whole kill-speak approach does not bode well when you’re actually killing wildlife and industry in the Gulf.”

What is this “JCL”, a high school newspaper?

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