Government "Still Studying Oil Spill".

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Readout of Secretary Salazar's and Secretary Napolitano's Visit to Louisiana

GALLIANO, La.--(ENEWSPF)--May 24, 2010. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today visited Louisiana to inspect the ongoing, unprecedented federal response to the BP oil spill—accompanied by a bipartisan Senate delegation including Senator ####### Durbin (D-IL), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Senator David Vitter (R-LA).

In Louisiana, Secretary Salazar and Secretary Napolitano met with Governor Bobby Jindal and local community and industry leaders to discuss the latest response efforts in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast with federal officials leading the effort as well as BP representatives.

Secretary Salazar, Secretary Napolitano and the Senate delegation conducted a flyover tour of the Louisiana coastline to view firsthand the spill’s impact on these vital coastlines, and cleanup efforts underway.

Response personnel and Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Teams, along with hundreds of volunteers, continue to clean the Louisiana coastal areas impacted by the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. More than 550 cleanup personnel, 500 vessels and 51 aircraft are on-scene in Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and Terrebonne Parishes investigating reports of oil, cleaning impacted areas and evaluating response efforts to ensure the oil is removed with the most environmentally responsible methods.

Response crews are manually removing oil, skimming the oil off the surface, applying dispersant and conducting controlled burning operations at every opportunity to minimize coastal impact. Additional response personnel and equipment is being surged into areas where modeling and aerial surveillance indicate a greater potential for shoreline impact.

In total, more than 1,200 vessels and 22,000 personnel are responding across the Gulf Coast and the affected area to mitigate the spill’s impact on the economy, the environment, and the communities of the Gulf Coast.

Flow Rate

The National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) is designed to support the response and inform the public by providing scientifically validated information about the amount of oil flowing from BP's leaking oil well while ensuring the vital efforts to cap the leak are not impeded.

The administration-wide response efforts have always been geared toward the possibility of a catastrophic event, and our deployment of resources and our tactics have been based on such a worst case scenario not an inexact number.

That said, the FRTG reflects the federal government's clear understanding of the long-term value of determining an oil flow rate, both in regards to the continued response and long-term recovery, as well as the important role this information may play in the final investigation of the failure of the blowout preventer and the resulting spill.

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/

Edited May 25, 2010 by ##########

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I can save them millions. The result of the study will be...

The problem is worse than we thought, it needs more study.

[john & jean 37]

we all know Obama is going to fix it

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Feds: Government can't push BP aside on oil spill

COVINGTON, La. – The Obama administration's point man on the oil spill rejected the notion of removing BP and taking over the crisis Monday, saying the government has neither the company's expertise nor its deep-sea equipment.

"To push BP out of the way would raise a question, to replace them with what?" Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, who is heading the federal response to the spill, said at a White House briefing.

The White House is facing increasing questions about why the government can't assert more control over the handling of the catastrophe, which unfolded after a BP offshore drilling rig blew up April 20.

All of BP's attempts to stop the leak have failed, despite the oil giant's use of joystick-operated submarine robots that can operate at depths no human could withstand. Millions of gallons of brown crude are now coating birds and other wildlife and fouling the Louisiana marshes.

BP is pinning its hopes of stopping the gusher on yet another technique never tested 5,000 feet underwater: a "top kill," in which heavy mud and cement would be shot into the blown-out well to plug it up. The top kill could begin as early as Wednesday, with BP CEO Tony Hayward giving it a 60 to 70 percent chance of success.

Allen said federal law dictated that BP had to operate the cleanup, with the government overseeing its efforts.

"They're exhausting every technical means possible to deal with that leak," he said. "I am satisfied with the coordination that's going on."

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar suggested over the weekend that the government could intervene aggressively if BP wasn't delivering. "If we find that they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," he said.

But asked about that comment Monday, Allen said: "That's more of a metaphor."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

[alienlovechild 75]

Why not drill another shaft into the leaking shaft and drop an explosive charge down it and collapse the shaft?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Lets just all HOPE that he can CHANGE it.