Gulf Oil Spill: New Plan Risks 'Major Surface Accident,' BP Says

McClatchy:

WASHINGTON -- BP's latest plan to capture the oil gushing from the runaway Deepwater Horizon well poses significant safety risks for "several hundred people" working aboard the ships that will process the corralled crude, the oil giant has told the Coast Guard.

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Comments

[T Pile]

05:36 PM on 06/15/2010

Oh so NOW you care about human safety, huh BP? Get back to work.

[Paul Russell]

03:01 PM on 06/15/2010

Has this risk stopped BP before? They don't care....even if it costs them

[waltzacrosstexas]

02:09 PM on 06/15/2010

This would haver NEVER happened if "safety" was ever BP's #1 concern, as stated by this guy, Suttles!

[DaveC19]

01:39 PM on 06/15/2010

Even if they capture every drop comming out, all that means is it is on to it's next ecology destroying destination, our atmosphere!

We need to start weaning off this stuff!

[john frodo]

08:48 AM on 06/15/2010

William Wallace should be supervising this clean up

[john frodo]

08:47 AM on 06/15/2010

The good news is we are going to recover all the oil leaking on the ocean floor, the bad news is we are going to spill it all on the surface, and likely kill more people than the Taliban doing it. I love it when a plan comes together.

[captainindustry]

08:06 AM on 06/15/2010

Make BP pay $2 a gallon for salvaged Gulf of Mexico oil

It's a practical solution that some high school students came up with.
http://www.ihigh.com/spartanbeat/article_29464.html

[morgy]

07:57 AM on 06/15/2010

I see on bbc offers for help with the oil spill are being meet with denial. The dutch know how to control these rigs and can help, but our great country says no. I don't get it. Why are we saying no to world help.

[rougebaisers]

05:50 AM on 06/15/2010

STOP THESE RECKLESS B*****DS.

[waldopepper]

05:05 AM on 06/15/2010

"...significant safety risks"... "several hundred people"

Well in THAT case plan approved. When can you get started boys?

[Just ME in T]

04:56 AM on 06/15/2010

Did You Know?
BP engineers alerted federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service that they were having difficulty controlling the Macondo well (Deepwater Horizon) six weeks before the disaster, according to e- mails released by the Energy and Commerce Committee.

“I don’t think this would have happened on Exxon’s watch,” Tom Bower, author of “The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century,” said in a June 11 Bloomberg Television interview. “They’d be much more careful and much more conscious of the need to supervise subcontractors.”

WELL excuse me your sainted Exxon....... and Chevron and ConocoPhillips.

Let’s just take a look at a few of your past misdemeanours, and then we can consider again – if the moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted, and place it all firmly back into your nice clean hands!

http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/fairy-stories-about-oil-companies.html

[morgy]

08:00 AM on 06/15/2010

whers the help. they should all be one family now getrdone

[tednarcotic]

02:59 AM on 06/15/2010

The problem is may be getting much worse. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread582892/pg1

[Deborah Beck]

08:21 AM on 06/15/2010

I had wondered what the til signified. Thanks for link!

[JUSTSAYING--]

11:52 AM on 06/15/2010

PLEASE READ THIS...could get 1000 time worst than it is now, gases are building up under the ocean floor, the well is disintegrating and the oil is leaking beneath the seabed.

http://standupforournation.blogspot.com/2010/06/well-disintegrating-oil-leaking-from.html

[waltzacrosstexas]

03:02 PM on 06/15/2010

Thanks for this... even if it is dis-heartening.
I pray... that may God soon come and save this world and ALL deemed worthy of HIM.

[kgb999]

01:03 AM on 06/15/2010

Wait a SECOND!!!! From the article:

[...in a letter dated Sunday, BP Vice President Doug Suttles said the new scheme would have three ships in place by the end of June capable of processing as much as 53,000 barrels of crude from the well a day, and by mid-July would have four ships collecting between 60,000 and 80,000 barrels a day....]

They are saying only 40,000 barrels are leaking daily. OBVIOUSLY, if this were the case, they wouldn't be laying plans to capture twice this amount.

How stupid do they think we ARE? This game has gotten absurd.

[ruth606]

04:37 AM on 06/15/2010

Two things:

1. Remember that they are not just capturing leaking oil, but also oil which has already leaked and is still below the surface.

2. They KNOW that many of us are extremely stupid and the ones who know better can't do a thing about it.

Cute, huh?

Here's what I'd like to know: why should we care about their safety during the clean-up? It's obvious that they didn't care about their safety or ours when they were going after the profits. I say Tony Hayward should be out there, personally monitoring the safety conditions. Nothing worse than a General who won't go to battle with his troops.

[kgb999]

04:57 AM on 06/15/2010

I'm pretty sure they are capturing straight off the pipe. Once it gets suspended in the water, they don't have any idea how to clean it up.

I say to move the whole BP corporate boardroom on site. That should motivate them to make sure accidents don't happen.