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Oil plume from the Gulf spill likely to spread in to the Atlantic and up the eastern seaboard

This is a computer model and hasn't been peer-reviewed yet. It demonstrates a virtual die and shows how it could spread based on modeling of loop currents connecting to Atlantic flows. The oil could go up to North Carolina at a rate of 100 miles a day before it hits the eastern flow into the Atlantic.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/gulf-oil-could-spread-to-atlantic-coast/

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"I just want my life back."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward

I just want a non-devastated Gulf back.

There was a lovely piece on The Daily Show of violations recorded by the MMS on BP operations over the last three years. Over 800. The next two highest offenders? EIGHT. The lowest number of violations? Exxon with ONE.

And we don't even have the story of BP letting part of the Alaska pipeline rust on the front page yet.

When Obama said that deep sea drilling was safe a month or so before the well blew, I knew he was going to regret saying that, I just wish it hadn't been so soon and so cataclysmic. Apparently the Saudis (or some UAE country) had a similar incident. Environmental impact: almost zero. Their solution? They brought in lots of oil super tankers equipped with pumps and filters, they sat around the leak pumping in contaminated sea water, capturing the oil, pumping the filtered water back out.

Pity no one is talking about this.

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Doonesbury Say What?

"It's a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in the Gulf... Come on, this is America, there will be frivolous lawsuits."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward

You miss the point.
Turn around.
Go back.
Try again.

I heard that there are apparently huge oil plumes coalescing underwater because of the way they're using the dispersant. In the words of Blackadder, I believe it rhymes with Clucking Bell.

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"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."
-- Texas governor Rick Perry, on possible cause of recent platform explosion and oil leak

Apparently one of the things making this oil spill all the worse was that a special valve (a 'sonic' valve?) that could have stopped the spill was not installed. Allegedly Cheney's energy task force changed the requirement that this valve must be installed in US coastal drilling platforms, because of cost: it's $500,000. That's chump change to the profits of these companies, especially compared to how much this cleanup is going to cost them.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62899,business,dick-cheney-halliburton-implicated-in-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill,2?print=print

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-440328