- 7/2, “According to one official, ‘until two weeks ago [after the President’s May 28, 2010, visit], BP was in charge and the Coast Guard looked to them for direction.’ Furthermore, ‘Coast Guard asks BP,’ not vice-versa.’”...
- BP, an apparent criminal operation, for help on life and death issues of our citizens, land, water and wildlife?
Billy Nungesser, president of New Orleans’ Plaquemines Parish, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work -- a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard -- was “somewhat inaccurate.”
- So, Nungesser asked to fly over the spill to verify the number.
- The flyover was canceled three times before those officials admitted that just 31 of the 140 skimmers were actually deployed.
The report, which relies on interviews with several local officials in Louisiana, goes on to quote
- Nungesser, who had been on local and national television enough so that the White House became concerned.
- Two White House officials visited him on Father’s Day and said,
- “What do we have to do to keep you off TV?” His answer was, “Give me what I need.”
The report also states that the people in the Gulf do not support President Obama’s six-month moratorium on offshore drilling, and also criticized
- Obama’s delay in allowing international assistance until 70 days into the spill.
- “These testimonials from the people who are on the frontlines of this crisis have brought to light a bureaucratic quagmire that is exacerbating the response and clean-up effort - in a post-Katrina world, this is unimaginable and unacceptable,” Issa said.
- On April 20, an explosion rocked Deepwater Horizon, which was under contract with BP to build an exploratory well off the Gulf of Mexico. This explosion has prompted some to call it the worst oil spill in history. As of June 30, the federal government estimates that between 40.7 million gallon and 117.6 millions of oil was released into the gulf....
- “They also described oil sheen, two miles by one-half mile, with 50 percent coverage with color ranging from dark to barely visible,” the report said. “On April 22, 2010, personnel reported to the national response center ‘what appeared to be a large area of bubbles in the water, possible natural gas leak.’
- The report begins with a May 2 quote from Obama.
- “And we will spare no resource to clean up whatever damage is caused. And while there will be time to fully investigate what happened on that rig and hold responsible parties accountable, our focus now is on a fully coordinated, relentless response effort to stop the leak and prevent more damage to the gulf,” the president added.
“Parish officials maintain that the federal government has not been in control since day one. In four separate interviews, senior-ranking Parish officials described how,
- until the President’s visit on May 28, 2010, BP was in charge,” the report said.
- ‘until two weeks ago [after the President’s May 28, 2010, visit], BP was in charge and the Coast Guard looked to them for direction.’
- Furthermore, ‘Coast Guard asks BP,’ not vice-versa.’”
- with a projected 16 named storms, six-to-eight-hurricanes and three-to-five major hurricanes. “Some experts have warned that meteorological conditions mirror 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina,” the report said.
“While administration officials have maintained that the Jones Act is not an obstacle and
- going so far as to claim that “nobody has come forward with a Jones Act Waiver [request],
- made a Jones Act request, which was denied
- More on BP being "go-to" answering for a lack of cleanup again showing depraved if not criminal negligence by Obama and the Beltway political class, 7/2 AP report:
- "The frustration extends to the volunteers who have offered to clean beaches and wetlands. More than 20,000 volunteers have signed up to help in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi,
- yet fewer than one in six has received an assignment
- according to BP."...
- 6/14, "Care2 Petitionsite, "Save Gulf Wildlife with 17,000 unused volunteers"
- not safe and they will fly back to be re-oiled and"...
No comments:
Post a Comment