Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill And Offshore Drilling Hearing Liveblog

nytimes.com:

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is holding a hearing on offshore gas and oil development, including the Interior's Department's recently announced plan to allow more drilling and the April 20 accident involving the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Green is live-blogging the hearing, with the most recent updates at the top of this post. MSNBC is also providing a live feed.

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Comments

[rsaillant1]

08:08 AM on 05/14/2010

When the leak has been stopped, by whatever method,
the clean up remains and it's to be a monumental task.

Most oil removal methods utilize harsh chemical
solutions that endanger an already damaged environment.

There is a natural way to resolve this and you'll find
it at: http://www.recoveryiinc.net/

It's a proven method already patented and has been available for
years. The Big Oil companys and their remedial satellite corporations
have resisted employing this method. Why? Your choice... Greed or Stupidity?”

[JAZZVIEW]

01:34 PM on 05/12/2010

Just had this disturbing thought - I wonder if the zipperheads trying to stop this leak might actually be **avoiding** a solution that would permanently plug it up for fear of loosing the possibility of salvaging some of their precious black gold???

[wassilij]

04:32 AM on 05/12/2010

Whats needed is a corporate death penalty.......If any corporation like BP or Halburton causes a disaster to occur.....The entire corporation including all assets are dismantled and all assets liquidated to pay for the cleanup and economic losses felt by those whose livelihoods they have destroyed.........making it RETROACTIVE!!!.......NO more Halburton...or BP or whatever CORPORATIONS were involved!!!
Not a single one of these Rat B@stards could man up and take responsibility for this disaster that has ruined the entire southern coast of the US...How much longer are WE the people going to allow these CORPORATIONS to destroy our life support system?.......DESTROY THESE CORPORATIONS....Starting NOW !!....No second chances....no 75 mile limit BS,,,,
If this was the policy from the beginning....Safety measures and plans ABC and D would be in place.....the only plan they had was called GREED
.......One coast down ......Two to Go.....Are you willing to take that risk? Make them pay...with a CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY!!!....RETROACTIVE!!

[Doug F]

10:59 PM on 05/11/2010

hi iam interested in finding out what the projections are for the gulf spill, three to four months of pumping 250 000 gallons per day. realisticly that is how long this is going to leak for, and after the casing and cement washes out there will probably be 500 000 to 750 000 bbls per day entering the gulf . then it enters the gulf stream around florida and its time to start heading north, when it hits washington then it might get more than a 1 min bit on the news. then it keeps going because lets face it we are only 2 months into the 3-4 months it will take to drill this releif well if it works it might even make it worse.Then its north again east coast of canada thats where the other half of our seafood from north america comes from. Well its all down hill from there ps iam not some quack alarmist i have 25 year of drilling experience all over western canada eastern canada and the united states so please let all american know you have to stop the leak before you can start making clean up estamates ty

[OhgReaTone]

12:50 PM on 05/11/2010

Too bad George Carlin died - he would be great at a Senate Hearing. .......

http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/05/21/george-carlin-on-saving-the-planet/