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BP Fails To Cover Up Oil Well As Containment Dome Fills With Ice Crystals

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BP CEO Doug Suttles and the US Defense Department just minutes ago held a press conference in Robert, Louisiana to give a grim update in the Gulf oil spill: the containment dome lowered into the open oil well malfunctioned, as ice crystals formed on the inside of it, countering pressure from above to fit the dome in the well.

Suttles emphasized that this does not mean the containment dome has failed, but that extra measures have to be taken so that the dome does not begin to float back up due to ice. The method has been used to control oil wells before, but never at this ocean depth.

The press conference, courtesy of CNN, below:

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  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    Why bother? Rush Limbaugh has assured his Douchebag Dittoheads that the ocean will take care of this on its own if it is left alone and left out there.

    P.S.
    Arsenic, lead and mercury are also natural you Dittohead Dipshits.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    DRILL, baby, DRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

  • ex political-media hack

    Yeah…drill, baby, drill.

    Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time

    JOHN M. BRODER-NewYorkTimes
    3/30/2010

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

    —-

    President Obama opens new areas to offshore drilling

    JulietEilperin-WashingtonPost
    4/1/2010

    President Obama’s decision, announced Wednesday, to approve new oil and gas drilling off U.S. coasts for the first time in decades…

    Obama Announces Offshore Oil Drilling Expansion – DailyFinance

    Announcing the first expansion of offshore oil and gas development in more than two decades, President Obama on Wednesday said that the Administration will allow offshore drilling in regions of Alaska, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and 50 miles off the east coast.


    Since spill, agency has given 27 waivers to oil companies in Gulf

    MARISATAYLOR-McClatchyNewspapers

    Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded April20, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico.

    The waivers were granted despite Obama’s vow that his administration would launch a “relentless response effort” to stop the leak and prevent more damage to the Gulf. One of them was dated Friday – the day after Interior Secretary Salazar said he was temporarily halting offshore drilling.

    —-

    when i found out during the primaries that Obama was the #1 recipient of funds from the hated Peabody Coal Company…I knew this fellow wasnt the great liberal hope and hero that he was being painted as.

    I voted for him in November (Im a 100% labor dem)

    but I never EVER expected him to overturn the offshore drilling ban!

    The day he did this i called a friend who is one of Biden’s top aides (Im oriiginally from delaware and have known Biden since i was 12 and first came to DC at 17 to work for him) he told me that Joe was sick over this (Joe has fought coastal drilling for almost 40 years)

    I warmed him that this was going to be very, very bad for the administration. It already is a terible situation for them and it will get MUCH worse. The Obama admin deserve every bit of the storm that will be coming at them once the scope of the disaster of this spill plays out.

    But as Gibbs and Salazar showed this week, this clods are still backing new drilling. Theyve only said the stoppage on new exploration is “temporary”.

    Wanna bet?

  • BR

    So sad that the leftists seem to be happy about this. Talk about wanting failure.

  • Averreauxii

    They should aggregate all the drill-baby-drill drone dittoheads (starting with SAraH PAYlin) and ship them off to the gulf coast to clean up that mess. Palin’s mouth would serve as an acceptable dome to cap the gusher…..and I’m not talking about that of the thoughtless ramblings emanating from the dead space between her ears.

  • digitaln3rd

    BP: Destroying the environment, one rig at a time.

    Maybe now we can actually invest in some research for energy that, you know, DOESN’T kill the environment. I notice Ms. Palin isn’t helping the clean up.. what’s a’matter, she doesn’t want to see what all this drilling leads too? How’s that “drilly-baby-drilly” stuff workin’ out for ya?

  • timzank

    digitaln3rd says:
    May 8, 2010 at 10:27 pm
    BP: Destroying the environment, one rig at a time.

    One rig in 30 years. Chill out.

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