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BP Lays Out Latest Oil-Recovery Scheme

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Posted on Jun 14, 2010
oiled-up pelican
AP / Charlie Riedel

So, British Petroleum rolled out a new and ambitious oil-recovery plan on Monday, claiming it will increase its capturing capacity to at least 40,000 barrels a day by month’s end.  This is just too little, too late for all those oiled-up pelicans, however.  —KA

The Wall Street Journal:

BP, which said further enhancements will increase the collection capacity to as high as 80,000 barrels a day by mid-July, submitted its latest plan after Mr. Watson, the federal government’s second-in-command for the spill response, told the company Friday its previous plan was insufficient and gave BP a 48-hour deadline to come up with a revised approach.

The BP-owned well has been leaking for nearly two months, raising the risk of environmental and economic devastation in the region. U.S. President Barack Obama and much of the American public have expressed outrage over BP’s inability to stem the disaster, which has already cost the company $1.6 billion and is likely to result in many billions more in costs for cleanup, covering claims and litigation.

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By Richard_Ralph_Roehl, June 15, 2010 at 11:12 pm Link to this comment

The DOCTRINE OF PERPETUAL GROWTH of the human population and the global consumer economy on Planet Over-Birth Earth, a fragile HOST ORGANISM of finite space and finite resources, can no longer be sustained. Indeed! The planet has far exceeded it’s ability to host the current civilization. Any further growth would be a one way ticket to Armageddon and/or extinction.

In fact… the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that WE ARE ON THE TITANIC… AS IT $INKS OFF THE COAST OF EASTER ISLAND.

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By rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 11:25 am Link to this comment

Bush, post 9/11:  “Don’t worry, go shopping.”

Obama today: “Don’t worry, come to the beach.”

Will the same people who slammed Bush slam Obama? I think not.

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By rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 10:29 am Link to this comment

“is just too little, too late for all those oiled-up pelicans, however.”

Well then KA, let’s just give up! Do you call that journalism? What a pointless comment.

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By LostHills, June 15, 2010 at 9:41 am Link to this comment

The ” clean-up”  should be taken away from BP, their assets seized, their leaders
imprisoned, and MMS investigated by an independent prosecutor.

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By ofersince72, June 15, 2010 at 7:34 am Link to this comment

When I read the headline to this story

I thought it was going to be a cartoon…
but i quess the whole show so far is one

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By skulz fontaine, June 15, 2010 at 7:22 am Link to this comment

Obama Caesar to “address the nation” Tuesday evening. He will state categorically,
“BP isn’t damaging the environment. It’s just a minor leak of some black icky stuff
that’ll get cleaned up real quick. Gulf Coast will be just fine and it’s good. It’s all
good!”
USGS reporting that the well head is compromised and oil is leaking from the sea
floor. There you see? No worries.

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By ofersince72, June 14, 2010 at 7:40 pm Link to this comment

If you or I burnt and old tire in our backyard, they
would lock us up , then fine the hell out of us.

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By ofersince72, June 14, 2010 at 7:38 pm Link to this comment

Don’t worry, they are burning off the the recovered
oil, they have leaned how to bypass SUVs putting
carbon out of the ground and into the atmosphere,

I always thought it against the law to burn oil like
this, but what do I know.

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By thetruth, June 14, 2010 at 5:39 pm Link to this comment
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80,000 bpd?  Sweet!  Since there’s only 5,000 bpd leaking into the gulf (according to BP itself), sounds like everything’s kosher.

Welp, off to the beach then.  Gonna enjoy the rest of the summer in bliss(ful ignorance).

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By radson, June 14, 2010 at 4:29 pm Link to this comment

Susan Daker and James Herron are you guys for real ,did you actually pass basic arithmetic in grade school.This article that you’ve written is sheer stupidity ,you’re giving the term MSM a new
meaning ,which is garbage to begin with .Ask a Ten
year old how to count you might learn something.

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By PatrickHenry, June 14, 2010 at 3:45 pm Link to this comment

The whole process need to be militarized with B.P.‘s assets used as a checkbook.  Hire people, pay OT, task Lockeed, Boeing, General Dynamics on B.P’s dime.

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By mcbridek, June 14, 2010 at 1:16 pm Link to this comment

G.Anderson—

please explain your comment:

“And if the explosion at the rig was caused by methane hydrates, then this world has something much more serious to consider, than cleaning up an oil spill.”

And what makes you suggest the sea bed may have ruptured?

thanks

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By G.Anderson, June 14, 2010 at 1:07 pm Link to this comment

Sooner or later, probably later, people will start to understand that there may not be any solutions to this oil disaster, especially if the sea bed has ruptured.

Slowly, but surely the oil is inexorably on it’s way way up the East Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, then on to the rest of the world. Contaminating the deep ocean, and the fish that live there.

And if the explosion at the rig was caused by methane hydrates, then this world has something much more serious to consider, than cleaning up an oil spill.

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