This week work will resume to close the well. I remain hopeful, but, skeptical all at the same time. The history of this kind of measure in the Gulf of Mexico has not been a promising indication of its potential success.
We have a Coast Guard dedicated to its purpose through all this and if that alone is proof of the 'promise' to close the disasterous well, then we have every reason to believe the USA will be safer in a week. Yes, I see this as a National Security issue.
Turning to the perils of the people of Louisiana? They desperately need new government and new hope in that state. I will not change my mind. I have heard some of the most desperate pleas coming out that state and it is profoundly because of the impoverishment of the people even before this disaster sent their lives into complete chaos.
The 'so called' Oil Service Industry that is suppose to exist to reduce economic hardship by opposing the moritorium is the saddest story of all. The folks we thought were losing their shirts because of the moritorium (Which I believe is necessary.) turns out to be some of the poorest people in Louisiana. They live, even when employed or working in 'self-employment' one pay check away from having their utilities turned off. That isn't tragic, that is insensitive and poor government that simply doesn't care about their citizens so much as manipulating their votes.
No lie. The Federal Government needs to 'investigate' the dynamics of the Louisiana economy before and after the oil disaster. There is something profoundly wrong here. The impoverishment of the people that are hurt the most by a necessary moritorium has to be understood. The oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico are making profits hand over fist and their 'service workers' are living 'hand to mouth.'
I don't think so.
I remain grateful to the Obama White House and its excellant handling of this disaster and the brilliant resolve of its closing of the well. We all look forward to a great outcome this week.
...On Sunday, crews took to sea and air to renew work on driving a cement stake into BP's botched well, and to assess how the remnants of the foul slick it spewed may have shifted after a few days of rough seas and blustery winds brought by meek Tropical Depression Bonnie.
Meanwhile, on Sunday aboard a U.S. Coast Guard plane, nearly 12,000 feet above the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zunkunft looked out from a small window and saw signs of progress where there had once only been continued set backs.
``It's presenting itself in the last phase of its life,'' said Zunkunft, the federal site commander for the spill site, told a handful of reporters, referring to the oil streams below.
From initial reports, the most serious damage was to the time table for permanently plugging the well. Earlier, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said it would add seven to nine days to work on two relief wells and push back a planned interim step for a ``hydro-static kill,'' which will pump heavy drilling mud through a new cap on the existing leaky well, until after Aug. 1.
``Generally the next week will be preparations, making sure everything is ready to go,'' said Allen during a conference call Sunday....
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/25/1746395/clean-up-efforts-resume-in-the.html
