Spill Fighters

US Revises Estimate: BP Well Gushing 35,000-60,000 Barrels Per Day
06-15-2010  •  ZeroHedge.com
If this is indeed the case, it means that the amount of oil already having leaked could be as high a 3 million barrels, or 12 times the amount spilled in the Exxon Valdez.

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Matt Simmons Interview: Revises Leak Estimate To 120,000 Barrels Per Day
06-15-2010  •  ZeroHedge.com
Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas Jefferson research vessel which was compiled late on Sunday, quantifies the leak at 120,000 bpd. What is scarier is that…

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Environmentalists give Obama a pass on oil spill
06-15-2010  •  Politico.com
Some say there’s little doubt that if a spill like the one in the Gulf took place on former President George W. Bush’s watch, environmental groups would have unleashed an unsparing fury on the Republican in the White House.

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Matthew Simmons: Undersea Oil Lake May Be Covering 40% Of The Gulf
06-15-2010  •  Businessinsider.com/
He confidently predicts that the relief well will fail (due to structural problems with the pipe) and that un

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BP engineer called doomed rig a ‘nightmare well’
06-15-2010  •  Guardian.co.uk/world
BP took measures to cut costs in the weeks before the catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico as it dealt with one problem after another, prompting a BP engineer to describe the doomed rig as a “nightmare well,” according to internal doc  less we’re content with having 100K+ barrels spill each day, then we have no choice to nuke the well.

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Obama’s Solution To The BP Oil Gusher Is To Name An “Oil Czar”
06-15-2010  •  Businessinsider.com/
We have no idea who it will be, but Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assures us it will be “somebody that will be in charge of a recovery plan, putting a recovery plan together…. when we get past the cleanup and response phase of the disaster.”

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It
06-15-2010  •  InfoWars.com/
This makes Katrina look like a grade school fire drill. Well I wonder how well they will do this time as they prepare to evacuate entire cities and states. Once the evacuations begin the markets will tank. Once people are forced to grasp what is…

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BP Hires Mercenaries to Stop Media Coverage of Oil Disaster
06-15-2010  •  RawStory.com
Wired’s “Danger Room” blog dubbed BP’s decision to hire private mercenaries in the Gulf “one of the bestest public relations moves ever.”

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Gulf Oil Spill “Could Go on Years and Years” …
06-15-2010  •  arclein
Napolitano’s actual reasoning for invoking national security, according to Madsen, was merely to block media coverage of the immensity of the disaster that is unfolding for the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and their coastlines.