6-23-10
Judge Stops the Halt of Gulf offshore drilling - BP Cap Removed: Oil Spill Now Gushing Unchecked
comrade Obama, a CIA operative who is US Constitutionally ineligible to be president, proves again the wisdom of founding fathers. Our founding fathers wanted our president to be loyal to the United States. For this reason they required both parents to be US citizens for a child to be eligible to be US president. Obama's father was not a US citizen and possibly this is the reason Obama is not loyal to the United States. Today BP removed the retaining cap on the Gulf well and the spill is gushing unchecked. Logic dictates Obama and BP are a tag team which worked in tandem to blow the Deepwater Horizon and now keep it spilling. This latest bit of cowardly un American treason comes in retaliation for a true American judge who overturned the Obama moratorium on offshore drilling.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will issue a new order imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling.
What kind of a president and what kind of a company would deliberately blow an oil rig and deliberately make the oil spill as bad as possible to get cap and trade passed and nationalize oil companies. What communi$t$ will do to promote their agenda is amazing. Hopefully when the BP and the Obama Administration screw the environment party is over Obama and the Board of Directors of BP will spend ever day of their lives locked up in prison. One year in solitary confinement for each barrel of oil spilled.
What would I like to see happen? It would great if the well was completely capped yesterday. This I believe BP has the capabilities.
Judge Stops the Halt of Gulf offshore drilling - It may go on Despite Obama's Announcement
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Jun 22, 2010
It looks like the oil companies are getting what they wanted and oil drilling can go on despite Obama's 6 month ban. There are 33 exploratory wells in the gulf.The drilling moratorium was first declared on May 6 and was to last until the end of the month. Then Obama said on May 27th that he was going to increase it for 6 months.A federal judge has overturned the Obama administration's delay on off shore drilling. Judge Martin Feldman said the Interior Dept. didn't justify the wait and that the malfunction of one rig doesn't mean that all of them are dangerous.Earlier executives at a major oil meeting in London warned that the halt would stulify world energy supplies.White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that, right away that the administration will appeal the result of the decision.
Judge rules against White House drilling moratorium
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6136131-judge-overturns-white-house-drilling-moratorium
BY bobreo New Orleans : LA : USA | Jun 22, 2010
The Obama administration suffered a set-back in its efforts to impose a six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration's moratorium.U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans concluded that the federal government was too quick in finding that because one rig failed, the other rigs were in imminent danger.Several companies that provide services to offshore drilling rigs asked Feldman to overturn the administration's ban, arguing that it was an arbitrary ban imposed after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and has leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf.The judge sided with the companies stating that "the federal government has been pressed by what happened on the Deepwater Horizon into an otherwise sweeping confirmation that all Gulf deepwater drilling activities put us all in a universal threat of irreparable harm."Under the ruling, the federal government may not enforce its ban until a yet-to-be determined trial date is set.The White House said it would immediately appeal the decision.The ban was imposed on the 33 deepwater drilling wells in the Gulf.
Oil Cap Removed: Oil Spill Now Gushing Unchecked
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/23/oil-cap-removed-oil-spill_n_622663.html
06-23-10
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Tens of thousands of gallons more oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped a venting system, forcing BP to remove the cap that had been containing some of the crude.
The setback, yet another in the nine-week effort to stop the gusher, came as thick pools of oil washed up on Pensacola Beach in Florida and the Obama administration tried to figure out how to resurrect a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.
When the robot bumped the system just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, gas rose through the vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like crystals from forming, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.
Crews were checking to see if crystals had formed before putting it back on. BP spokesman Bill Salvin could not say how long that might take.
"We're doing it as quickly as possible," he said.
Before the problem with the containment cap, it had collected about 700,000 gallons of oil in 24 hours and sucked it up to a ship on the surface. That's oil that's now pouring into the Gulf. Another 438,000 gallons was burned on the surface by a different system that was not affected by the issue with the cap.
A similar problem doomed the effort to put a bigger containment device over the blown-out well in May. BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals called hydrates clogged it, threatening to make it float away.
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The smaller cap, which had worked fine until now, had been in place since early June. To get it there, though, crews had to slice away a section of the leaking pipe, meaning the flow of oil could be stronger now than before.
The current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day. Anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons have spilled since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and blew out the well 5,000 feet underwater. BP PLC was leasing the rig from owner Transocean Ltd.
The Obama administration was plotting its next steps Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans overturned a moratorium on new drilling, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.
Feldman, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, including owning less than $15,000 of Transocean stock, according to financial disclosure reports for 2008, the most recent available. He did not return calls for comment on his investments.
The White House promised an immediate appeal of his ruling. The Interior Department imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the BP disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement that within the next few days he would issue a new order imposing a moratorium that eliminates any doubt it is needed and appropriate.
"It's important that we don't move forward with new drilling until we know it can be done in a safe way," he told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday.
Several companies, including Shell and Marathon Oil, said they would await the outcome of any appeals before they start drilling again.
Asked about it Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show, BP managing director Bob Dudley said his company will "step back" from the issue while it investigates the rig explosion.
BP said Wednesday that Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the spill. He takes over from BP CEO Tony Hayward, who has been widely criticized for his handling of the crisis.
In Florida, dozens of workers used shovels to scoop up pools of oil that washed up overnight, turning the sand orange.
Tar balls have been reported as far east as Panama City, Fla., and heavier oil is predicted to wash ashore further east along the coast line in the coming days. Oil has also
Salazar seeks to reimpose drilling moratorium
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Associated Press
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will issue a new order imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling after a federal judge struck down the existing one.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Natural Resources Committee in May.
Salazar said in a statement Tuesday evening that the new order will contain additional information making clear why the six-month drilling pause was necessary in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. The judge in New Orleans who struck down the moratorium earlier in the day complained there wasn't enough justification for it.
Salazar pointed to indications of inadequate safety precautions by industry on deepwater wells. He said he would issue a new order in the coming days showing that a moratorium is needed.
The White House also is appealing the judge's ruling.
washed up on beaches in Alabama and coated wetlands in Louisiana.