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-- From the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command Ongoing Response statistics (last updated July 18, 2010)
• More than 6,490 vessels are currently responding on site
• More than 3.4 million feet of containment boom and 7.2 million feet of sorbent boom have been deployed to contain the spill—and approximately 852,000 feet of containment boom and 3 million feet of sorbent boom are available.
• More than 34.2 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been recovered.
• Approximately 1.82 million gallons of total dispersant have been applied—1.07 million on the surface and 771,000 sub-sea. Approximately 574,000 gallons are available.
• Approximately 615 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently oiled—approximately 352 miles in Louisiana, 112 miles in Mississippi, 69 miles in Alabama, and 82 miles in Florida.
• Approximately 83,927 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters remain closed to fishing in order to balance economic and public health concerns.
Despite the abundance of information provided by the Deepwater Horizon Response team, as the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico surpasses three months without a permanent solution, public anger against BP continues to overflow online. Web sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr have become active platforms for people to express their frustration with the oil giant and the current environmental crisis.
The "flow rate" of rising anger can be measured online almost as precisely as the gushing oil that incited it on: "Boycott BP." The site, one of more than 500 Facebook pages related to the oil disaster, is dedicated to boycotting "BP stations until the spill is cleaned up," and has 827,164 fans and counting. There are at least 164,000 YouTube videos capturing various protests; more than 36,606 Flickr photos related to the spill; and approximately 78 new tweets per minute continue to keep the oil spill ranking among Twitter's top trending topics.
A search for "BP" on YouTube typically yields clips like one posted by someone going by the name "annebonnylives" of a protest outside a local BP station. "The Raging Grannies," a group of elderly activists, have been staging their singing protests against Halliburton and BP in southern Florida.
Their song "BP's Friggin' Drillin' Rigs," which is sung to the tune of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," recommends the two companies "take your friggin' drillin' rigs 'cause we don't want your oil! / Halliburton and BP – you suck!" The video has gone viral, with more than 50,516 views.
Another Floridian, Stan Morton, is "real mad" at BP— so mad, in fact, that he has posted 49 videos, all critical of BP. In one five-minute video, he rants against the company and spills his yard debris in the parking lot of a BP gas station.
There are at least 36,606 photos associated with the Gulf of Mexico disaster on Flickr. User Starflyer2012, posted 88 photos from a May 28th protest at a Manhattan BP station, where hundreds of activists showed up looking as if they were covered in oil.
In addition to posting protest pictures, many people online have doctored BP's green and yellow logo to reflect the leak. Flickr member BWJ, combined BP's logo with Sherwin Williams' to "cover the earth" with black paint. Edited logos, like BWJ's, can even be submitted in a contest sponsored by Greenpeace, who used Flickr to create a "Behind the Logo group." There have been 1,111 entries so far.
To combat the growing body of negative content online, BP's own social media team has ramped up their online presence and is in the process of migrating their DeepwaterHorizonresponse.com site to RestoreTheGulf.gov.
They have set up their own accounts and pages on YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, where BP's Twitter handle BP_America has more than 18,338 followers. The company has also purchased search terms on Google and Yahoo, so their sponsored pages are at the top of the results.
BP's YouTube channel includes a video gallery of clips about the company's oil spill cleanup efforts, the release of clean, oil-free birds and presentations by BP officials about ongoing strategies to contain and clean up the crude.
As of Monday, July 19, the Making it Right commercial has been viewed 319, 482 times.
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Isn't crude oil a natural substance that appears naturally all over the world all the time? I'm not saying the oil spill was a good thing, but, c'mon folks, it was an accident.
More people than will care about you.
both of you are right. for everybody knows that a present disaster displaces the memory of a past disaster. here's an example of this short range memory loss. a louisiana shrimper was intreviewed on tv. he was asked how he compared the gulf coast disaster to the katrina debacle. the shrimper remained silent for a moment before confessing he had forgotten all about katrina. i'll bet anyone dollar to shrimps that the next disaster will make people remember bp as just two letters and a gallon of gas.
To Mike-784951:The BIG difference between the Shrimper's memory regarding Hurricane Katrina vs. the BP Disaster was that Hurricane Katrina was a natural occurance from which the ecosystem of the Gulf recovers from naturally. The shrimper "had forgotten" about the effects to shrimping from Katrina, because the gulf's ecocsystem had recovered.
The environment takes a whole lot longer, if ever-to fully recover from Ecological disasters created by man.
The long felt aftermath of the New Orleans disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina can be directly attributed to man! Never settle and build a city on land below sea level!
I hope the reporter who interviewed this shrimper checks back with him in approximately two (2) years and asks the same question(s). I will bet you Mike-784951 that you are naive and sadly mistaken. This shrimper will more than likely be in another line of work, or unemployed and continued to be subsidized by British Petroleum!
BP will forever be linked to the destruction of the gulf coast environment and the marine fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP's next body of water to destroy: The Meditterean Sea! Look out Libya! You thought you got away with murder with the Lockerbie bomber, but the Karmic wheel is spinning your way!
"is in the process of migrating their DeepwaterHorizonresponse.com site to RestoreTheGulf.gov."
So they went from a .com to a .gov? Civilian, or Business for that matter, can't purchase the .gov domain names. If BP are migrating, then it is because our government is in bed with them.
I amsure that there were many things that went wrong that contributed to this event but surely none in their right mind thinks that BP wanted this to happen or that they are not doing everything possible to contain, stop and cleanup the effects.
We have been drilling in the Gulf for over 60 years without a major spill. If we are going to judge BP by this single event then we need to start applying the same standard for eberyone including the US Government. They certainly have a stellar track record for doing things correctly, EVERYTIME!
I hope that this "outrage" will show itself at the polls, come November! There needs to be a big housecleaning in Washington, in the fall.
We sent the 82nd Airborne to Haiti to help, we had millions of Superstars, preforming to help Haiti, where is all of this now?? Our President hasn't done anything except demand BP pay for everything - that's fine, but send all the help we can muster, then demand BP pay for it - but get the help there!! I've heard that Canada is sending National Guard to the Gulf to help - if this is true, it embarrasses me but , I say THANK YOU CANADA - maybe someday we can send our own troops to help our own people.
Why haven't we puilled out all stops? Tried anything and everything that has been suggested, kept what worked, discarded what didn't work? There is new technology being developed BECAUSE of this disaster - that will help in the future, but right now our Government needs to get off its butt and get it done.
Everyone would have been screaming for GW's head if he'd taken this long on the hurricane, so why do we seem to let this go on and on and on. Get it done whatever it takes, then tell BP it will have to cover the costs. National Guard, 82nd Airborne, the Marines, or whatever.
Here are the current facts as far as the ongoing responce, the lead in above is not accurate and is incomplete as usual the media is stoking the anger with bad information. As for the GOBP and the dopes of nope and riechwingers from beckistan, the train is waiting for your trip in November. Where is your hero Jinkdolly the wash away berm expert and Billy bed pisser the thief, note the national guard authorization!
By the Numbers to Date:
Learn how Unified Command has embraced new technology to enhance our unprecedented cleanup efforts by touring ‘Big Gulp’ skimmer, a locally-developed, one-of-a-kind skimmer made out of a 4-million-pound barge, the size of a football field. Visit Morgan City Shipyard, where owner Lee Dragna invented the vessel - known as the ‘Big Gulp’ – which can collect 300,000 gallons of oil a day, 10 times more oil than many of his counterparts. This new technology is contributing to the fight of containing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and preserving fish, wildlife, wetlands and the marshes.
And none of it is working.
(ask me, I will tell you why)
Time too sweep out the cobwebs in Washington. November can't come soon enough.
Peace
It's that hope and change thingey.
You hope they will change and do something worthwhile, but you know, in the end, nothing will change.
Time to replace all 535 members of congress.
And that do-nothing President who prolonged this mess.
I understand the frustration being directed at BP. But they are working to repair the well. They are putting out millions to support the families and businesses that have been effected. This is the first failure like this in the 60 year history of drilling. We're dependent and we need to keep at it. Especially because of all the industries that provide jobs in this industry. We just need a much better disaster plan to encact immediately. Unfortunately, even with the list of what is being done, our own government has set up more roadblocks and created more red tape that has caused the bulk of the problem on shore. It's this administration's fault that the tar has made it to the coast due to their lack of leadership. We know where the blame really belongs that has effected the citizens of the Gulf Coast environmentally and economically. Everyone, REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!
BP cut corners from the get go with this well, and while rig workers were expressing concerns about the pressure buildup, BP was entertaining executives on the rig itself (celebrating the rig's "safety record"). BP was running over budget and behind schedule on this rig, so they cut corners to save time. Case in point, sending Schlumberger back on a regularly scheduled helicopter trip (without their equipment) rather than allowing them to conduct a crucial test. They are to blame and they need to suck it up and clean up our Gulf. Take a look at the local news coverage from New Orleans (Times-Picayune newspaper or NOLA.com)and South Louisiana, or better yet, if you can, come down to see for your self, and to help. We would certainly appreciate it.
We all know that this oil spill will get cleaned up.....it's only a matter of time.......and we also know that some people are going to make a killing in the market because they bought up a lot of BP stock when it was at its lowest point............anyone think this is about the envirnoment? It's about making $$ in the market, when it's all said and done.
Besides, a year from now..........none of that oil will be lying around..........we'll see.
Yeah, none of the oil will be lying around just every species of animal that made the gulf its home. Do we really all know it's going to be cleaned up ? Thanks for speaking for me. It's not going to get cleaned up in our lifetime. Yes. it's all about the money. BP didn't want to lose the well...there's billions upon billions of profit for them down there.
Is it true that at the start of this skimmers were turned away because their crews were non-union workers? Non union need not apply. Just wondering. Were skimmers turned away in the beginning by the Coast Guard for improper or no life jackets for the crews? Just wondering. IMO, Obama as well as his union buddies are the cause for the longevity of this disaster. Three months is ludicrous.
this has been a terrible travesty..where are all the morons who are always wanting our donations to help other countries in their time of stife? this makes me sick to my stomache and never again will i ever donate to anyone anywhere in this whole damned world for anything and as far as our government and their lack of getting this under control as soon as they should have does not surprise me one iota!!!...
How dumb can the Government People get? The question of the pressure in the well is no question at all. The measurements are the correct pressure. So - - - - some one made a slight error in calculating the estimate of expected pressure! Do those idiots need to be slapped in the fact with the reality of the facts? Accept the mesured pressure as is and get on with the production of the well. I cannot beleive that some idiot suggests that we should trade an eight gallon a day seep for the 8 million gallon a day well blow out! God, I'd love to trade with that jackass! I've got eight dollars to give him for the 8 million dollars worth of oil!
Note to MMS. 3.4 million feet of containment boom and 7.2 million feet of absorbent boom are not enough to contain a possible spill. Future permit requests should be required to have 3 times that amount available for immediate deployment; 10 million feet of containment boom and 21 million feet of absorbant boom.
Here is how I really feel -
I say lets sell Louisiana & kick in Mississippi, Alabama & Florida back to the French - they like dirty, smelly things. We'll call it the Great State Emancipation Purchase.
Wow, if you liked that try this -
MSNBC and all the news agencies spreading gloom & doom and then you IDIOTS read it and blow it further out of proportion with your no nothing statements.
This is the just punishment for the southern states that traded in human flesh ( slavery ) - you only exist because you exploit minorities - first blacks in slavery now Mexicans farm workers that are 1/2 step above that.
I've seen you godly fakes rejoice for rain because its god's will - well now rejoice all you bible thumpers cause god brought you OIL.
In some sick way they think they are privileged to walk on or over someone - they have turned into the criminals - just try to cut their wages or break their unions - the civilians would have to take up arms to control their gangs - It's no different then the elite ( shrimpers, boat owners, restaurants, etc) thinking BP owes them something. Year after year that state has begged big Oil to drill off their shores so they could make big money - now they scream bloody murder for putting the knife to their own throats and claiming $5,000.00 a month plus lawsuits - the poor shucker, shrimp peeler & packers who works for $5 per pound shucked will get nothing!!!!
The Florida Keys greedy have already filed hundreds of lawsuits and not a drop in site and none expected.
I'm so sick of you pukes ( Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida) whining about losing your livelihood's - You scum didn't give a crap when 19 Millions other Americans lost their jobs and had to quote " Man up and learn another line of work " - How many of you have offered to buy a meal for someone down on their luck or took someone and bought them a tank of gas like we did for the Katrina victims - 19 Million Americans have lost their jobs and many lost their homes, cars, and life. We didn't have a BP to give up $5,000.00 a month plus your unemployment check and insurance ( which I sure your all scamming ) just as the scum in Miami scammed FEMA after Katrina & Wilma. Your response was get up off your butt's and find something else to do which begs my response to tell YOU too get up off your whinny butt's and find a job and quit sucking dry the $0.30 out of my $10.00 per hour that I now make down from my $55,000.00 after 23 years ( IPhone has a app to learn how to mop a floor ). I don't hear TEXANS whining and screaming for hand-outs before the oil has hit them. It's called class.
Fort Lauderdale
How truly loving and reverent you are Rev, Ass Hole. I could give a rat's ass about how you feel !
Obviously the Holy Spirit isn't within you Rev J Wright. Your are just trying to stir up trouble...and for your information without Louisiana oil and gas we would be looking elsewhere for 35% of the oil and natural gas the rest of the country uses. Check your facts and remember you don't know who else is online...or what we do know...facts, that is!
Short attention span time, next year when the price of gas is way higher - people will be outraged at the oil companies again - this time because they are not finding enough oil to keep the cost down. And we STILL have NO energy policy !
Protests, boycotts, blame Bush, blame Obama, redicule and demean smart men and women working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with grief in their hearts trying to kill this well and get on with the clean up. People buy into the media sensationalism and stand in awe of ignorant politicians who 3 months ago could not tell you what that black spotch was on the driveway under their limos. Everybody that has an opinion all of sudden is an now and expert, like this enormous blowout 5000 feet below the surface of the ocean, in the dark, in pressure that would crush a human being like a styrofoam cup is nothing more than a leaky toilet. Fix this, hurry up, slow down, shut it in, open it up, don't go so fast, go away, come back, pay up now, not later, poor people that lost they're jobs, lets take MORE jobs away from the same people; get the government to fix it, the government can fix anything... I had no idea my country was so full of out of touch, hateful people. I am embarrassed.
The real irony to me is that all of you oil haters out there, every last one of you, will whine like little girls who fell on their roller skates the next time gasoline gets over 4 dollars a gallon. You detest the people who find it, who companies who produce it, you hate the smell of it, the look of it, the idea of oil. But you sure all use it like it will last forever. Like it is something that you are entitled to... cheap and without guilt.
Got a plan to end the fossil fuel era, short of long extension cords or little windmills on the roofs of your SUV's I mean? No, none of you do. Run BP out of America, regulate Exxon and Shell plumb out of the Gulf of Mexico, make that mess in your back yard, not mine, we don't need crude oil, who in this country can think past next week anymore?
We have an energy policy, TAX it. The Gubmint people will always find a way to make a living(well collect) money from others. Then they will creat regulations without merit, and ruin another part of American life. It's not about the spill, the real pollution is our Government, and how they operate. We got the finest Gubmint money can buy, just look and see, money always rules the roost.
The thing that makes me sick are the politicians who are bp stock holders and are involved in setting laws and regulations in this disaster cleanup. Gee, wonder who's back they have.
I care. But then I spent a lot of time in the Gulf over the years as a child and an adult. I care what this will do to our climate. I care about dolphins blowing oil out of their blow holes, I care about the fishermen reported on an NPR story that are suffering internal bleeding due to exposure to polluted sea water, I care about children in the gulf that are getting sick because even the fresh water sources are being affected. Who will care in a thousand years? What a cop out. What a shallow, crappy thing to say in the face of so much suffering by your fellow citizens. I care. And I know others who care, and we are not only vigilant about this process, documenting everything we can, but we are making our voices heard in every way possible to fight the evil that is BP, and they are evil. Buying Search Algorithims to control online research, so they can control the spin--what could be more evil than that, in what is supposed to be a free society, on a neutral net.
Who cares? I do and you should. I really wonder about mental health and the alleged intellectual capacity of people who don't care at all. Acres and acres of stupid and a jerk too? Wow, what a bargain!
If the enviornmentalist wouldn't be forcing the drilling out so far there wouldn't have been a problem. The few making the most noise have created the most problems for the most people. If the enviormentalists would look past the end of their noses they wouldn't be creating so many problems for everyone.
I am amazed that the vast majority of adult Americans are both blind and in self denial of the crushing debt our nation has and it is ever increasing. In reality this Federal crushing debt ($13 trillion plus) hangs ready to bankrupt this once great nation! This pending disaster is the direct result of no accountability whatsoever at all government levels. When increduluous projects squander the treasuries at all levels those being Federal, State, County and township there is absolutely no accountability since such outrageous expensive losses are summarily categorized as "goverment waste!" with no politication held accountable. The treasuries never are reimbursed for such expenditures. I cannot understand the recent concern and fear since this has been going on for decades!!
A lot of folks post "Wait until November!" Then you'll all go out and vote for your own incumbent. Betcha! And even if you don't, you won't get anyone better. ALL politicians are the same: ego-driven, power hungry, corrupted by their special interest donations. Fergeddaboutit & just go live your lives as best you can. It won't EVER get any better. I'm 64 & am fed up with waiting for improvement in government; it AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!
Will Victims of the BP Oil Gusher Also Be Victims of Class Action Lawsuits and the BP Oil Spill Victim Compensation Fund?
http://donovanlawgroup.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/165/
Just imagine how P.O. people would be if they saw the pictures of all the dead birds,mammels and fish. Which we never saw because obamas OPEN government. I wish the link for the Australian sixty minutes segment was still up. It showed what a major ecological disaster is going on in the Gulf,but it was up for less than twenty-four hours befor it was removed from every web site in the USA and Australia. Have you seen any news reporting like we had during Exxon Valdez, thats a big fat NO. There has been a major news blackout in our Country. If the American People really knew what was going on in the Gulf, I would hazzard a guess that there would not be a BP building left standing in this country. But our OPEN Government has chose to hide the facts from the public. Go!!! o I lie like a dog bama. Some OPEN Government you have there o if its not on the teleprompter i wont know what to say bama.