Due to water current in the Gulf of Mexico, not all the Crude Oil is heading toward the USA Coastline.

...On May 17, 2010, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image, a large patch of oil was visible near the site of the accident, and a long ribbon of oil stretched far to the southeast....

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44006&src=eoa-iotd

I want detailed proof that the oil found at the Florida Keys does not belong to BP !

During the first weeks following the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon (click title to entry - thank you) well in the Gulf of Mexico, oil drifting from the site of the incident usually headed west and northwest to the Mississippi River Delta. But in the third week of May, currents drew some of the oil southeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the southward spread increased the chance that the oil would become mixed up with the Loop Current and spread to Florida or even the U.S. East Coast....

...This pair of sea surface temperature images shows how the warm waters of the Loop Current connect the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean (top image, May 1–8, 2010) and the dynamic northern margin of the Loop Current a week and a half later, on May 18 (bottom image). Based on observations of infrared energy collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, the images show cooler temperatures in blue and purple and warmer temperatures in pink and yellow. Cloudy areas are light gray....

The Era of Anti-Establishment and Invasion of the Red Democrat whom aren't really Anti-Establishment at all.

I thank Senator Spector for his service for so many years.  Considering the 'etiology' of both the Democrats in his primary, one has to ask, how Blue is the Democratic Party in the year 2010,' otherwise known as, where has moral political content gone?  The Democratic Party has always been the voice of the Middle Class, it would be a sorry state of affairs to simply be replacing high moral content with money mongers and Wall Street bullies again.

Grayson Concedes Early
Written by Cate Slattery
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 23:00
Despite receiving a major endorsement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trey Grayson was unable to come away with a victory Tuesday. He gave an early concession speech in Boone County Tuesday night.
“It's time to put all differences aside, unite behind Dr. Paul, he needs our help and I for one stand ready to serve,” said Grayson.


Throughout this primary season Grayson was pegged as the Republican establishment while his opponent Rand Paul identified with the tea party movement. Following his concession speech, Grayson said he didn't think that was a factor in the loss....


This is an Anti-Bush, Anti-Republican Establishment movement, seeking to be Anti-Liberal.  The fact of the matter is this is Republican punditry in its most deceptive form.

A vote for Paul is a vote for Grayson.

Grayson Urges Supporters To Back Rand Paul
Rick Howlett May 18, 2010, 10:47 pm
By Rick Howlett
Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson is urging his supporters to rally behind Rand Paul in the general election campaign....

http://www.wfpl.org/2010/05/18/grayson-urges-supporters-to-back-rand-paul/


The question is will Paul abandon the Tea Pary Movement, as Massachusetts Centerfold Scott Brown has once elected.  Brown has denounced being a Tea Party candidate after the election and has departed from their 'so called' value system.  Brown has voted with Democrats on issues and that is considered taboo for the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is more or less a saphrophyte of the dead Republican Party of Bush.  No real change, but, simply a different and younger face for the same parasitic Republican agenda.

BP has failed to stem the emergency. The chemical dispersant was suppose to be a temporary measure. EPA should recall the dispersant permit.

Screenshot from online video about dispersants by Nalco, Corexit's manufacturer

The pressures (psi) of the sea at one mile down also are not accounted for by the chemical manufacturer.  There is just simply no research to support ANY and ALL activities by BP a one mile down.  There is no way the USA EPA should be endorsing any prolonged use of this chemical agent. 

The Petroleum Industry is going to try to instill this mess as precedent, too.  It is simply poor decision making from here on to continue this charade.  The Petroleum Industry is trying to 'muscle' the citizens of the USA out of the picture by pursuing this as a strategy for every deep water rupture.

I am confident BP has the accolades of its peers and the likes of people by the name of Bush and Cheney.  This is NOT the Valdez, its wave dynamics, biotic content and the currents are completely different.


In Gulf Spill, BP Using Dispersants Banned in U.K.The two types of dispersants BP is spraying in the Gulf are banned for use [1] on oil spills in the U.K. As EPA-approved products [2], BP has been using them in greater quantities than dispersants have ever been used [3] in the history of US oil spills.

by Marian Wang, ProPublica - May 18, 2010 2:24 pm EDT


BP is using two products from a line of dispersants called Corexit [4], which EPA data [2] appears to show is more toxic and less effective [5] on South Louisiana crude than other available dispersants, according to Greenwire.
We learned about the U.K. ban from a mention on the New York Times’ website. (The reference was cut from later versions of the article, so we can’t link to the Times, but we found the piece [6] elsewhere.) The Times flagged a letter [7] Rep. Edward Markey, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, sent to the EPA yesterday. The letter pointed out that both the Corexit products currently being used in the Gulf were removed from a list of approved treatments for oil spills in the UK more than a decade ago. (Here’s the letter [7].)
As we’ve reported, Corexit was also used after Exxon Valdez [8] and was “later linked with health impacts in people including respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders.” One of the two Corexit products also contains a compound associated with “headaches, vomiting and reproductive problems at high doses [9].”
Given that the dispersants are EPA-approved, the choice on which ones to use was left to BP, which had stockpiled large amounts of Corexit and is now ordering more....


http://www.propublica.org/ion/blog/item/In-Gulf-Spill-BP-Using-Dispersants-Banned-in-UK

The EPA is not working in a vacuum regarding the 'knowledge' on record with allies in regard to these chemicals.  They need to be banned by the USA as well.  There is sea life and ocean currents at the bottom of the oceans and seas, too.  International waters cannot continue to be used as a dumping ground for every OIL GOOF that occurs.

"While I understand the importance of mitigating the effects of this oil on our fragile wetlands to date, little or no substantive data has been provided to the state of Louisiana," Barham wrote in a letter to BP Vice President David Rainey.

No one is saying Secretary Lisa Jackson has done anything wrong.  What is occurring is failure by BP to provide results in containing their emergency and the chemicals of all kinds have the potential to becomes a profound disaster locally and globally.  THAT cannot be allowed to happen.

While I never thought this rupture would ever be contained and demanded a quick resolve to closing the drill sight with military explosives, I also recognized Secretary Jackson was willing to have faith in BP to end the emergency with a contained well head.  In that, I stood with her in issuing the permit for the disperant, it has gone on too long and the danger from the chemical dispersant is too uncertain to continue to allow its use.

On May 18, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson testified before the Senate committee on Environment and Public Works on the agency's involvement and activities related to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil release. She noted that "In the last three weeks, EPA has dispatched more than 120 staff scientists, engineers, and contractors to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi to perform rigorous testing and monitoring of air and water quality. We are tracking any possible adverse impacts stemming from controlled burning of surface oil, possible chemicals rising from the oil itself, and any issues caused by the use of dispersants. We are working with state officials, with local university scientists, and other federal agencies to get the best available data, share that data in a timely fashion, and to ensure proper response for the Gulf Coast people and their environment."...

The moronity of the illogic of Neocons cannot be overlooked either, "It is the natural thing to do.  It came from the sea it should be returned to the sea."  It doesn't matter if BP drilled miles below the ocean floor to obtain it though.

Statement of Lisa P. Jackson Administrator, (click title to entry - thank you)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Testimony on Federal Response to the Recent Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Release date: 05/18/2010
Contact Information: EPA Press Office, press@epa.gov, 202-564-4355
WASHINGTON - Chairman Boxer, Ranking Member Inhofe, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify about EPA’s role in responding to the BP Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. As we all know, efforts by BP to stop the oil release continue. While there is no perfect solution to the environmental disaster that the Gulf of Mexico is facing right now, EPA is committed to protecting our communities, the natural environment and human health. That commitment covers both the risks from the spill itself, as well as any concerns resulting from the response to the spill....


...National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council publications indicate there is insufficient baseline data to determine the environmental and ecologic fate of petroleum spills and their effects in the marine environment, according to Sawyer. The lack of adequate research makes decision-making related to major spill containment and remediation dicey at best, he stated in a press release.
“The dispersants used in the BP cleanup efforts, known as Corexit 9500 and Corexit EC9527A, are also known as deodorized kerosene,” said Sawyer. “With respect to marine toxicity and potential human health risks, studies of kerosene exposures strongly indicate potential health risks to volunteers, workers, sea turtles, dolphins, breathing reptiles and all species which need to surface for air exchanges, as well as birds and all other mammals....

http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2010/05/17/local_news/doc4beda649770cd552607928.txt

The USA - Mexico Border War with Drug Cartels (click title to entry - thank you)

Above: The home of a drug cartel leader was burned down after he was murdered in Guadalupe Bravos.

Guadalupe Bravos, Chihuahua, Mexico (WBAP) - Since the escalation of drug related violence three years ago, the Mexican government estimates 20,000 people have been murdered. Mexico's government says nine out of ten murder victims works for a cartel, but as the cartels battle for control with each other and the Mexican government, more families say their loved ones are being caught in the middle....

http://www.wbap.com/Article.asp?id=1806510&spid=

Johnny Cochran's Daughter sounded 'the truth' after her father's death and research now backs up her warning.

No doubt the 'cell phone' industry has already begun 'damage control' but the facts are clear.  When high volume of cell phone use occurs there is GLIOMA.

The real quesiton is "Why didn't this information exist before it was sold rather than after?" I guess 10% of cell phone users are simply disposable for the profitability of Wall Street. Mr. Cochran was simply a rich peasant instead of an impoverished one.

We were lucky his celebrity status allowed his daughter to speak out about the reason for his death on Larry King Live.  Thank you, Mr. King, the one media personality that actually isn't afraid of the truth.

...Johnnie Cochran, who died from a glioma in 2005,... (see link below)

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/05/26/brain_tumors_still_rare_cellphone_link_is_unproven/

....But the 10% of participants who reported the greatest amount of time spent on their mobile phones seemed to have a 40% increased risk of glioma.... (click title to entry - thank you)

Allowing British Petroleum to experiment in the Gulf of Mexico has caused global pollution circulation concerns.

KEY WEST — The U.S. Coast Guard and marine scientists will be surveying shorelines in the Keys Tuesday morning to see if they find more tar balls after many were found today on Key West beaches.

Park rangers at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park found tarballs throughout the day - about three an hour - at the park and nearby Navy beach at Truman annex, according to a Coast Guard news release late tonight.
The balls were 3-to-8 inches in diameter.
Coast Guard pollution investigators responded to this morning's report of 20 tar balls at Fort Zachary, but found no additional tar balls. Samples were sent to a laboratory to determine where their origin....(click title to entry - thank you)

The specimens are from Key West (there is a writing pen in the picture for perspective.).  If the BP pollution is in Key West it is also in the Gulf Stream on its way and quite possibly already reaching to Laborador, Greenland, Iceland and Europe.

There is global consequences to giving BP 'free reign' to carry out its' 'guess work.'  The USA, in my opinion, now has international liability as it was unable to contain the BP rupture.  The only 'fail safe' method to handle a 'deep water' goof is to close the well head and let the oil company figure out what they are going to do later.  The only way to effectively close any well head at such a depth is to cause an explosion sizable enough to dislocate the well head from the drill hole.  In other words, but, Earth back in place where it has been disturbed.  It is the only effective mechanism and I am saying, when these deep water instances occur 'peaceful use of torpedoes' is the only method that saves fisheries.

What the United Nations has to do now is begin to educate countries with coastal economies that they are now in danger of having food sources polluted and unuseable.  "In that' is a reality that places countries such as Thialand which relies heavily on their coasts for tourism and food directly in the 'path of harms' way.'  It is time to 'get the word' out there might be consequences they would never expect in their wildest imaginations and to exert extreme caution as the evidence of oil distribution globally continues. 

Besides the crude oil coming ashore and polluting fisheries, quite possibly destroying them, what has to be realized is that the oceans' biotic balance have been disturbed by the 'dispersant chemicals' now in large volume in the water column. 

This is a profound reality that has to be realized and contextualized on the impact of populations globally to contain the impacts.  My concern is that it will ultimately lead to sterile oceans if this continues in the volume that it exists today.

Morale to this chapter in 'capitalistic indulgence' is that Sovereign Authority is suppose to mean something and protect the citizens and not Wall Street entities.  The 'returns' on the indulgence of BP is huge, there are chemical industries lapping up all kinds of profits, along with BP's own 'wishes' for securing 'the answer' that will provide them with 'an edge' in deep sea oil drilling.  It is the most hideous set of circumstances I have ever witnessed in my lifetime.  That's Wall Street and its relationship with the USA.  There is no damage control by the USA government, just more opportunistic indulgences. 

This 'also tracks' with prior administrations and Congresses.  There was the Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the list goes on .  This is typical of the USA and should be limited by a larger global community. 

Media buys 'in to' British Petroleum's Bait and Switch. BP has the worst environmental record on the books.

The accident at the offshore oil rig is threatening an ecological and economic calamity along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

First BP was going to capture the oil and methane in a concrete capture unit, then it was going to place a 'Top Hat' on the well to stem the flow UNTIL a 'Junk Shot' was SUCCESSFUL in stopping the flow completely.

NOW ! 

To the delight of Americans everywhere, BP has decided to continue to allow the well to spew tens of thousands of barrels of oil and methane gas into the ocean while a mile long pipe 'sips' at the flow in order to capture some of the mess to 'balance the cost' of the clean up.

It has been nearly a month since the explosion which was a result of the high methane content of a site one mile below the sea surface that killed eleven people (of which we have heard nothing from their families to any service conducted) and BP still does not have control over the 'gusher.' 

Today, the USA media stated, that BP is collecting some of the oil so that it will go to refineries to help power American cars. My, my.  What a wonderful idea.  The question is "Whom in the USA is actually purchasing BP products?"

The current administration is 'buying into' the propaganda of BP as well.  Does the Obama Administration really want to END the flow of oil and gas out of the rupture or it is 'warmer and fuzzier' to simply demand monies and public statements that lead to those 'feel good feelings?' 

Money is power it would seem, BP should spread more around. 
BP Inserts Siphon Into Leaking Pipe -- Still No Sign It Will Do Much Good
Joe Weisenthal

May. 17, 2010, 5:43 AM


Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up and started leaking last month.
According to a press release, some oil has been captured and siphoned off via the insertion of a tube into the leaking well.
There's not much more news than that. The word "some" doesn't give one the sense that a significant portion of the flow has been stopped.
Expect lots more throughout the day.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-inserts-siphon-into-leaking-pipe-still-no-sign-it-will-do-much-good-2010-5

How lucky for the USA, it is ruled by Plutocrats. 

Update on Riser Insertion Tube Tool progress
ROBERT, La. - The Unified Area Command for the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to advance multiple subsea options to contain and ultimately stop the flow of oil from the MC 252 well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Overnight the Riser Insertion Tube Tool was successfully tested and inserted into the leaking riser, capturing some amounts of oil and gas. The oil was stored on board the Discoverer Enterprise drill ship 5,000 feet above on the water's surface, and natural gas was burned through a flare system on board the ship.
The test was halted temporarily when the tube was dislodged. While this is disappointing, it is not unexpected given the challenging operating environment.
Technicians have fully inspected the system and have re-inserted the tool.
The tool is fashioned from a 4-inch pipe and is inserted into the leaking riser, from which the majority of the flow is coming. While not collecting all of the leaking oil, this tool is an important step in reducing the amount of oil being released into Gulf waters.
The procedure - never attempted before at such depths - involves inserting a 5-foot length of the specifically-designed tool into the end of the existing, damaged riser from where the oil and gas is leaking. In a procedure approved by federal agencies and the Federal On Scene Coordinator, methanol will also be flowed into the riser to help prevent the formation of gas crystals, known as hydrates. Gas and oil will then flow to the surface to the Discoverer Enterprise drillship.
The Enterprise has the capability to separate the oil, gas and water mixture safely and eventually store or offload the recovered oil onto another vessel.
We will continue to provide updates as they become available.


For information about the response effort, visit www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com.


http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/551935/

Torpedoes ! 

Peaceful use of powerful explosive device to close the hole one mile down.

It is all about Wall Street Dividends. Nothing else. The governments along the Gulf Coast could not care less about the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current either. Nope. Torpedoes.

The East Coast States need to flie suit against the federal government to act to close the hole by using teh USA Navy and its torpedoes.  They need to do that NOW.

Figure 1. The Loop Current flow northwards into the Gulf of Mexico. Every 6-11 months, a bulge in the current cuts off into a clockwise-rotating eddy that then drifts slowly west-southwestward towards Texas. Image credit: NOAA.

LOOP CURRENT

...Researchers tracking the spill say computer models show the black ooze may have already entered a major current flowing toward the Florida Keys, and are sending out a research vessel to learn more. William Hogarth, dean of the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science, told The Associated Press Sunday that one model shows that the oil has already the loop current, which is the largest in the Gulf. Hogarth said a second model shows the oil is 3 miles from the current — still dangerously close. The current also loops around to the East Coast....

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9FOAEJG0


Profit driven recklessness is provided a venue in the USA.  Good old capitalism is allowed every opportunity to return cash to profitees over the rights of citizens.  Doesn't matter the venue, the American people and their economy are disposable when it comes to lining the pockets of fat cats.

...There is hardly a silver lining to the Gulf oil spill. However, faculty members at FGCU see a heightened need for the type of research that could both prevent and clean up such an environmental catastrophe, as well as the trained professionals to carry that work out.

“The one thing to keep in mind is a lot of our former students are in the thick of it right now, out collecting samples for USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) and the Department of Environmental Protection,” said Darren Rumbold, associate professor and marine science program leader at FGCU. “Even small children right now seeing it on the news, seeing how it unfolds in the next few years, are probably going to be drawn into the environmental field. We certainly are going to need students trained in this science in the next few years.”...

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/may/16/gulf-oil-spill-creates-environmental-research-inte/

It almost seems like April Fools to try to understand the next joke coming from BP, Transocean and Halliburton.  The Ship of Fools captian this time is Kent Wells.  How apropos.  Kent WELLS, as in oil wells.  Please give me some sanity soon !

So, Wells seems to think that they are making progress.  Really?  How is anyone to trust that estimation when BP and Mr. Wells completely LIED in their statements about the amount of oil coming out of the rupture?  Tell me that.  They were the folks with the video camera and they couldn't even make an educated guess from their 'Emergency Center.'  What good is any attempt at stopping the rupture from deluging the Gulf of Mexico with oil when the people attempting to stop it can't even estimate the 'discharge rate' correctly?

When is the USA going to stop being as stupid as the people at the BP Emergency Center?

Blind trust?  WHY????????

I have never witnessed such massive moronity in my life !  One simply has to ask the question, has ANYTHING worked to date, INCLUDING, the research that would have allowed this depth of drilling?

NO!

HOUSTON/GALLIANO, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP reported a limited success at containing the oil that is gushing unabated into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday but a skeptical U.S. government said it was "not a solution."

Reports of huge oil plumes in the Gulf, including one as large as 10 miles long, three miles wide and 300 feet thick, underscored the drama's gravity....

...The underwater operation used guided robots to insert a small tube into a 21-inch (53-cm) pipe, known as a riser, to funnel the oil to a ship at the surface.

"It's working as planned and we are very slowly increasing the rate that is coming from the riser tool up to the surface," BP senior executive vice president Kent Wells told reporters at BP's U.S. headquarters in Houston.
Not all of the oil was being trapped, however. Wells said it was too early to say how much had been siphoned....

....Preparations for a maneuver to inject mud into the well to stop the leak for good were ongoing and would be completed in seven to 10 days, Wells said. Undersea robots are preparing pipes and hoses around the well to pump up to 40 barrels (1,680 gallons) per minute of mud into the well.

BP's best near-term hope of stopping oil from pouring from the well is "kill mud," a heavy mixture of synthetic materials that technicians will attempt to shoot into the well to form a barrier to prevent oil and gas from escaping.
"Ultimately it is a winning game that we outpump the well," Wells said.
If the mud fails to seal the well, BP will try to inject golf balls, tire fragments...

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1650634/US.News/BP.reports.limited.success.in.containing.oil.spill

...Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a joint statement Sunday expressing caution about the effectiveness of the insertion tube.

"This technique is not a solution to the problem, and it is not yet clear how successful it may be," the statement said. "We are closely monitoring BP's test with the hope that it will contain some of the oil, but at the same time, federal scientists are continuing to provide oversight and expertise to BP as they move forward with other strategies to contain the spill and stop the flow of oil."


The effort was dealt a setback Friday night, when the frame holding the insertion tube shifted and prevented the surface vessel from connecting to it, said Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/16/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

We haven't heard from Jindal since May 7th and what a brilliant statement is was too.

Jindal Demands Boom For Delicate La. Coastline
Governor Meets With St. Bernard Parish Leaders Friday



POSTED: 7:06 pm CDT May 7, 2010
UPDATED: 7:50 pm CDT May 7, 2010

CHALMETTE, La. -- Gov. Bobby Jindal met with St. Bernard Parish leaders on Friday to try to save the Louisiana coastline.
The initial line of crude oil has reached parish waters, and more is expected to arrive next week.
Parish officials in St. Bernard Parish said they're not dealing with "what ifs" anymore. They said fishermen have been collecting lumps of oil from the water off the parish coast.
"We have oil in St. Bernard waters," President Craig Taffaro said. "We have oil now affecting the boundaries of St. Bernard Parish. We are now in more of an emergency mode than we were last week."
Parish officials said the ecosystem of Louisiana's coast is like a jigsaw puzzle. It's immensely complex and, if destroyed, it could potentially take some time to reassemble....

http://www.wdsu.com/news/23491664/detail.html

The Mississippi Governor Barbour, a Presidential hopeful and former lobbyist is more TYPICAL of the Southern Authoritarian, he rather just lie.  Rather than just trying to deny the emergency, Barbour should 'walk a mile' and ask oneself, "Why would I plan a vacation to Mississippi when in a matter of moments crude oil can completely destroy it?"  Just a thought.  I don't know if Barbour has thoughts, but, maybe someone can suggest it.

Barbour is criticizing the media for effecting the Mississippi economy.  I didn't think the media created the emergency.  At very best the media has been grossly downplaying all of this and even trying to play amateur oceanographer with a Mr. Wizard approach.  So, I think Barbour is simply venting.  You know, sort of like the rupture at the drill site.

Gov. Barbour: South Mississippi is open for business 

Posted: May 12, 2010 5:52 PM EDT
Updated: May 13, 2010 12:10 AM EDT

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - South Mississippi is open for business, there is no oil on South Mississippi shores or barrier islands and after three weeks very little has changed in the proximity of oil to Mississippi shores. That is the message Governor Haley Barbour gave at a media briefing Wednesday afternoon in Biloxi.
Barbour also took the national news media to task for reporting that, he says, is negatively impacting South Mississippi.


http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12471702


It would seem as though Alabama's Riley is the only one even close to being 'real' about this event.  He still is pandering to BP about the solution to this though.  It may be because they are all getting BP MONEY and are satisfied.  Money goes a long way to making cronies of  ineffective government.

Governor Bob Riley and members of his administration have spent much of the past two weeks in Mobile and Baldwin counties and remained in frequent and regular contact with federal, state and local officials throughout the oil spill crisis in the gulf.
Saturday saw Governor Riley back along Alabama’s coast for the ninth day of the previous 11 days. He and local mayors, county commissioners and legislators mapped out plans for use of the $25 million BP is providing the state. They agreed the funds will go to communities to help protect vulnerable areas along the coast.
On Friday, Governor Riley and Congressman Jo Bonner met with Admiral Thad Allen, commander of the Coast Guard’s efforts to fight the oil spill. The meeting was to provide the latest information on how weather systems are affecting the oil slick and how it might impact Alabama’s coast.


http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/alabama-governor-riley-on-the-ground-during-gulf-crisis-30515.html

The Gulf of Mexico Human Induced Oil Seep has been and continues to be grossly mismanged.

Indulging an industry that has no repsect for any other aspect of the marine environment except profits to stockholders is no way to protect the people or the USA or any other country from the catastrophe that continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico.

It is a darn shame this ever has resulted in this huge a disaster, but, that's the Red State South for you.  Wall Street first, children and their future 'dead last.' The 'here and now' business venturists, they don''t give a damn about anything except money.

In some ways, the priorities of the Gulf States and the lack of dedication to what is important in life, has put them in a position they somewhat deserve. 

I don't think the Federal Government has a role in this crisis except to ask the USA Navy to put an end to the charade that is continuing to threaten the East Coast fisheries as well.

I do believe the entire Gulf Coast is declared a Disaster Area?

What else are we suppose to do when people in the South are this stupid?

Their outcomes would have been very different if they only LISTENED to others than their corrupt political structure.

I'll be back later.

Restoration Biologists - click title for an example of NOAA recommendations for Wetland Restoration

The States along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River need to begin to assess the long term affects on their wetlands and fisheries.

The 'Day of Oil' is over. 

End of Discussion in regard to continuing this charade.  The USA needs to move past this idiocy. 

The tax base to these States are on the verge of collapse and now they are affected by more dynamics that will collapse them further.  It has to stop.

The USA cannot continue to 'pretend' that Wall Street is a friend to its infrastructure. 

IT  IS  NOT !

The States affected by this disaster have to examine their tax base, their tax distribution and reapportion monies to restoration efforts as soon as possible.

This is a matter of preserving the land and its resources to benefit the citizens that live there.  The people that derive an income from the fisheries need to be hired by the State Governments through fiscal allotments to do this work under the supervision of scientists qualified to make assessments, formulate plans and continually assess the dynamics of the restoration as it unfolds.

The 3% of the Earth's REMAINING oil/gas reserves are best left to the discretion of future generations by some chance they might actually need it.  Oil and gas are soon to become an insignificant element of the USA tax base and presence within its economy.

The USA cannot do without its fisheries.  The plans to drill on the East and West Coast of the USA has to be stopped and all the States along those coasts have to prevent any occurrence to their coastal areas.  The 'chance' that the East Coast could be affected by this disaster in the Gulf is still very, very real.  The oil could enter the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and travel great distances to erode any health of the East Coast fisheries.

The 'crude' will not simply breakdown on its own.  It has to be removed and to realize that one will begin to realize how a coat of it will destroy microscopic organisms that are the base of any ecosystem that sustains remaining fisheries.

The circumstances surrounding this disaster are grave and needs to be treated as such.

To minimize the impact of this disaster is to doom the health of the fisheries and any potential recovery.  Microscopic organisms don't 'show up' in 'landscape beauty' and it is why there has to be uncorrupted and qualified scientists 'running the show' and 'setting priorities.'

The motto first appeared on a coin in 1864 during strong Christian sentiment emerging during the Civil War,

While we are on the subject of the Illegitmiate Media in the USA; the morons at the Murdock 'dictate' do it again.  Is Palin on something?  She looks a little 'woozy' to me.

But, at any rate, both her and O'Reilly are lying. 

AGAIN.

They state this 'motto' was adopted by the Founders of the USA Constitution.  It wasn't.  It was adopted during the Civil War.  A Civil War is a very threatening episode in any country's history.  It is not uncommon during times of war that people, citizens that will be putting their lives on the line to die for the sovereign right of to exist, will turn to solice in dedicated belief to God even over country.

Separation of Church and State was the cry of the Founders of the USA Constitution EVEN when at war for their sovereign right to exist.  "Times of Trial" are always difficult for any nation, finding comfort in lies such as those from Murdoch isn't the way to protect the USA Constitution.

The Murdoch Media Machine are promoting Lies and Anti-Constitutional Agendas for the USA.  They are treasonists.  Get over it.  Where is the FCC?

It is as I thought, the vat is too dangerous to drill. That is the rupture in the apparatus, not planet Earth.

The picture is of the rupture.  That is metal, collapsed and broken metal spewing crude and methane gas out of the hole.

The 'white stuff' is methane gas and the 'dark stuff' is the crude.  The Earth is burping large amounts of methane from this site and it will remain to be dangerous.  The white stuff is what caused the deaths of eleven people and the dark stuff is what is causing a coastal dead zone across the entire Gulf Coast of the USA.

There were reports yesterday of 3 inches of crude along the Alabama beaches.  People should not be in their homes with crude oil only yards away from their homes.

AND let's get this straight, it is NOT tar balls, its Crude Oil !

John is incorrect in assessing the fact we need gas and oil.  We don't.  His 'mind speak' is typical of the oppressed nature of the USA South.  The people of the South are focused to 'buy into' Wall Street priorities as it is 'portrayed' as the only venue for income for the citizen-peasant. 

John is correct in his assessement of the hopelessness to the circumstances in the Gulf, but, he is grossly "W"rong to his loyalty to the Petroleum Industry and the 'idea' that government can actually control this.  It can't !!!

The drill site in the Gulf has PROVEN to be too dangerous to continue to allow leases and our fisheries are now limited to the East and West Coasts.  The Gulf fisheries are lost for at least three generations, if not forever.

There is no reason for the USA to continue to drill for 3% of the oil supply REMAINING in Earth.

TORPEDOES !!!!!!!!  Close the hole !

This will be recorded in history as testiment of Wall Street's dominance over the soverignty and well being of the citizen in the USA.

Gulf oil spill news links: Alabama resident says it's worse than BP admits  (click title to entry - thank you)
By Press-Register staff
May 13, 2010, 5:09PM
Alabama resident John Wathen talks about his impressions of flying out over the Gulf of Mexico to view the oil spill caused by the demise of the Deepwater Horizon oil well.
As a volunteer pilot flies him out farther and farther from the coastline, Wathen becomes more and more impressed by the scope of the oil spill. "It's not a leak, it's a volcano spewing oil," Wathen says in the text posted with the video....




This is the propaganda from the Associated Press. 

I suppose the people of the USA can go back to bed with their security blankets now.

Where's the oil?
Much has evaporated, underwater

By CAIN BURDEAU (AP) – 1 hour ago
NEW ORLEANS — For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, it's hard to pin down where the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has gone.
Although the government has been slow to say what's happened to it, a picture can be drawn from a publicly available model called the Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills.
The model shows that about 35 percent of a hypothetical 4.8 million gallon spill of light Louisiana crude oil released in conditions similar to those found in the Gulf now would evaporate.
It also shows that between 50 percent and 60 percent of the oil would remain in or on the water and the rest would be dispersed in the ocean.
Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University chemist analyzing the spill, says he thinks most of the oil is floating within 1 foot of the surface


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j8YdCmUhenqe5oY9IW57QRQ4jBOAD9FMHN0G8

Real lives, real economy and they contribute more quality of life and to the tax base of the USA than the Petroleum Industry ever did given all the crime and subsidies they receive !!!!!!!!!

The citizens along the Gulf Coast have had their lives played with and destroyed.  I suppose their solice is that they were lucky enough not to work on an oil rig.

Updated 8:55 am Wednesday May 12, 2010

Louisiana Confirms Tar balls at South Pass
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has confirmed the presence of tar balls at South Pass in Plaquemines Parish. Tar balls are sticky, dark-colored pieces of oil which occur after weatherization changes the physical characteristics of floating oil.


LDWF technicians working with oil spill response crews on boom maintenance around Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area (WMA) spotted the tar balls that had washed ashore on the southeast side of the WMA .
The state continues to monitor coastal conditions and will assess any potential damage to Louisiana’s coast and wetlands as impacts are reported.

http://www.plaqueminesparish.com/


Gulf oil spill: More tar balls wash up; turtles, dolphins found dead  (click title to entry - thank you)
May 12, 2010

10:49 am
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries confirmed Wednesday that tar balls that washed up on the beach at South Pass in Plaquemines Parish, La., are from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Biologists found the sticky, dark-colored blobs on the beach at South Pass Monday but did not confirm that they were from the rig until Wednesday, said Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokesman Bo Boehringer.
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which is tracking the oil spill and its effects on local communities, also confirmed the presence of a dead turtle on shore at the Bay of St. Louis, Miss. Locals also saw dead fish on the beach, an hour east of New Orleans.
On Tuesday, the National Marine Fisheries Service said that dead dolphins also had been found in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but that such deaths are common in calving season, when they swim into shallow waters. Tests are being conducted to see if the dolphins were affected by the oil.
-- Alana Semuels

And what is Wall Street worried about?  Oh, yeah, the really important stuff, like how much liability are ALL the partners going to have?  No human interest, just, PURE MONEY and GREED.  They should all be so proud.

...Pound for pound, Anadarko may have to pay more than BP. (see link below) ING Bank NV estimated that costs of the spill may reach $7.8 billion. Anadarko may have to pay as much as 25 percent of those expenses, which would be almost $2 billion, if ING’s forecast proves accurate. BP, which owns 65 percent of Macondo and is project operator, is 29 times the size of Anadarko by revenue and almost eight times as big based on reserves available for future production....



http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-13/spill-may-hit-anadarko-hardest-as-bp-s-silent-partner-update1-.html

So what I was wondering is the reference of 'pound for pound' mean the weight of the peasants that died?  Or the collapse of the industry that won't exist any longer along the Gulf Coast?

Being near a solution is still not having one. Any industry that is this distructive to the environment and economy doesn't deserve the consideration of any nation.

...The Mississippi River Delta and nearby Louisiana coast (image top) appear dark in the sunglint that illuminates most of the image. Sunglint is caused by sunlight reflecting off the water surface—much like a mirror—directly back towards the astronaut observer on the Space Station. The sunglint improves the identification of the oil spill. Oil on the water smoothes the surface texture, and the mirror-like reflection of the Sun accentuates the difference between the smooth, oil-covered water (dark to light gray ) and the rougher water of the reflective ocean surface (colored silver to white). Wind and water currents patterns have modified the oil spill’s original shape into streamers and elongated masses. Among the coastal ecosystems threatened by the spill are the Chandeleur Islands (image right center)....(click title to entry - thank you)

It is completely appalling the level of risk the Petroleum Industry has engaged in KNOWING the delicate nature of the ocean environment in relation to the livelihoods of the citizens of which PERMITTED leases to be written against their natural resources.

There are eleven people dead through no other reason except pure unadulterated negligence and risk taking.  The well head should have been taken into the custody of the USA military as soon as it occurred and an immediate solution resolved. 

This disaster has caused issues now with the National Security of the USA and the Petroleum Industry needs to be banned from drilling any deeper than they currently have DOCUMENTED technology that is known to be effective in prevention of such incidents.

What does the Petroleum Industry think they are doing?  These are the natural resources of the people of the USA and they treat the citizens of this country as if we are a nuisance to them. 

Well, too bad.  There needs to be drastic measures taken against this industry and every day that goes by that it doesn't occur, is another day of danger to our nation, its populous and it natural resources, including economies that have stood far longer as a VALUE to this nation than this mess !

All the companies' executives involved with this should be criminally charged and imprisoned !

Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands. The image is from the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43903&src=eoa-iotd

THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO government regulations or instruments in place to protect the citizens of this country.  There were absolutely no measures IN PLACE in at the State level either.  This is negligence at every level including that of the USA military.  They don't understand how important the marine environement is to the security of this country?

And to think this industry was allowed to run rampant over our lands and assets as if they didn't hold value unless the precious Petroleum Industy could do as they please without any scientific process to dictate the safety of their practics.  This is some of the WORST governance I have witnessed in my lifetime.

Where is all the testimony at the Senate and House from scientists and conservations in rebuttal to the Petroleum Industry?

Bart Stupak is limiting the cause of the incident one mile down in the Gulf of Mexico to ONE failure of a device.  He is making the mistake of 'generalizing' the cause to treat the citizens of the country as simpletons to limit the impact on the Petroleum Industry.

I am sorry, but, that is not competent assessment of the circumstances the Gulf States and the citizens there are facing.  To allow such generalized assessment to dictate the impact on the Petroleum Industry is to doom it to happen againh....Representative Bart Stupak, head of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said the rig's underwater blowout preventer had a leak in its hydraulic system and the device was not powerful enough to cut through joints to seal the drill pipe....  (click title to entry - thank you)


'Top hat' reaches Gulf of Mexico floor, BP says  (see link below for video)

...The "top hat," a 5-foot-tall, 4-foot-diameter structure, weighs less than 2 tons. The structure was deployed by the drill ship Enterprise....
...Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the success of this latest attempt to cap the well could be known in the next few days....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/12/oil.spill.main/

PB is going to drill a 'relief' what? Is that really advisable?

The false information surrounding this profound tragedy simply mystifies me. 

Where is the logic that states this won't happen again? 

Better than that, where is the assessment of the incident and the PROOF that this won't happen again.  There isn't any and yet we are all suppose to believe allowing BP free rein to do exactly what they want will bring about a solution. 

Well, there hasn't been a solution yet !

Are we all so desperate for a resolve to this crisis in the Gulf of Mexico that we are willing to believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause?

There are eleven people ALREADY dead and their bodies missing, probably never to be found, and yet we are allowing British Petroleum to carry on as if nothing has happened.

Absolutely NOT !

Eleven people dead and a devasted coastal economy that promises to get worse and no one is even having the dialogue about how TOXIC the oil washing up on shore is to human health.  DON'T GET IT ON THE SKIN ! 

Yahoo has an article that is a good BEGINNING.

Oil spill clean-up brings workers and volunteers into close contact with chemicals that are known to be hazardous to human health. As we deal with the oil spill in the Gulf, it helps to brush up on history.

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_green_news/344/the-health-effects-of-oil-spills.html

After the Exxon Valdez disaster, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reported an increase in respiratory symptoms, headaches, throat and eye irritation, rashes and other skin problems among the clean-up workers.
More recently, a study of beach clean-up workers and volunteers in Spain after a 2002 oil spill found an increase in DNA damage. The long-term significance of this finding is not yet known. In Alaska, a mental health study of residents one year after the spill found that exposed individuals were more likely to suffer from anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.


Here's a summary of some of the scientific studies of the health effects to workers, volunteers, and local residents associated with five previous oil spills:

That is only the beginning.  What about the innocent citizens now harvesting fish that are contaminated in some way unknown to them and they'll start to get sick and worse than that even die.

What about the children that are swimming in waters off of Florida as if there is NO POTENTIAL to danger?  What about them?  BP has not come forward to release information regarding the dispursants and what to expect from them.  Yet, the Coast Guard is trapped in to advocating the use of them due to the sad attempt to stop the coastal damage.

Where is a Russian Submarine when one needs them?

We have witnessed the contamination and death of wildlife with results to their death still pending, but, there are no precautions to protect the public from unknown toxins.

Well, the Petroleum Industry indeed seems to have mystified the USA government along with every citizens in the country, save me perhaps.

A "Top Hat."  How cozy. 

And then there is 'The Junk Shot.'  Very amusing.  Sort of like shooting hoops.  Ah?

The incompetency that is currently engaged in this issue throughout the Petroleum Industry can't be understated, yet, British Petroleum, Transocean and Halliburton (Which was the last company to complete work within 24 hours of the explostion.) are still at work to remedy this.

Well, there is a remedy, but, it has NOTHING to do with the failed plans of these industries.  To allow this to continue is to damage the USA Coast all that much more and disperse more and more unknown chemicals into the water column.  Where is the logic in all this? 

This has gone on too long, the industry is simply playing with the citizens and government of the USA and are hoping to be some kind of hero at the end of the day.  The only hero they will be is to show how strategies to disarm the power of citizens can actually work for the industry while people and there economies disappear off the horizon of the future.

Everyone is being played for fools.  Everyone.

Go ahead.  Become so invested in the myth that everything is going to be alright that the worst case scenario actually becomes a 'grace of god.'  Go right ahead.

I think the expression is, "When the lie becomes the truth."

...The shift would be the first major structural change in government regulation of oil and gas operations since the destructive Gulf Coast oil spill that began on April 20. The formal announcement is expected to be made by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at 1 p.m. Eastern time, officials said.
Mr. Salazar will propose breaking up the Minerals Management Service, which has been caught up in scandals repeatedly in recent years and has been accused of being too cozy with the industry it is supposed to regulate. Its current mission includes collecting royalties and negotiating leases while at the same time acting as a policeman, overseeing safety and environmental protection rules....

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/12interior.html

Senators and House Representativs that have received political monies from British Petroleum need to RECUSE themeslves.

These are ethics violations.  When an elected official is seated on a sensitive committee  after having received monies in the way of political donations, it is CORRUPTION.  

This is an ethics violation.  People don't understand influence peddling?  

Any elected person that willingly takes a seat on a committee that DIRECTLY interacts with cronies should be ruled as unethical with appropriate measures taken.  I don' care whom it is.  No different than Senator Dodd and his role with the economic interests of his state.  Same thing. 


An elected official of any state in any capacity has to recognize when their authority and power are interfering the best interests of their electorate/citizens.  


Enough.  Knock it off!

This is influence peddling.  

I don't care if this is just a 'hint' of unethical practice.  It is and it needs to be dealt with.

I want Landrieu investigated !  Eleven people dead and all she has to say is 'These things happen."  I don't think so. 

Hang nails happen, deaths don't JUST HAPPEN.  Minimalism is not my reality.

There are tons of conflict of interest between the best interests of Louisiana and Landrieu.  

Torpedoes, Ms. Landrieu.  

T-O-R-P-E-D-O-E-S !!!!!!!

...BP-related campaign and lobbying spending makes the political outlays of Toyota, another major foreign-based company under investigation by Congress for its failings on safety issues, look feeble by comparison.

British-based BP, No. 4 on Fortune magazine's list of the world's largest companies, spent $16 million last year lobbying Congress and the federal government, and $3.5 million in the first three months of this year. That was before its rig disaster led at least a half-dozen congressional committees to start investigating. Japanese automaker Toyota, No. 10 in the Fortune ranking, spent $5 million lobbying last year and $880,000 in the first quarter this year....

...The other top recipients of BP employee 2008 election-giving both sit on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, one of the panels investigating the spill. Obama's GOP presidential rival, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, received $37,000. And $16,000 went to a senator whose state is on the receiving end of much of the spilled oil, Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The oil and gas industry is a big employer in Louisiana. Landrieu supports offshore drilling and has repeatedly said rig fires are rare, a point she made at a committee hearing last November when Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., displayed a photo of a summer blaze on a rig off Australia's coast.

"The fact is, these things happen," Landrieu said at the time, estimating there are about 20,000 such rigs. "So, 19,999 were not on fire."...

Seeking a stronger female insight for the Supreme Court, President Obama makes history again.

Fairly recently, in an interview, the Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated there were four women justices on the Canadian Supreme Court.  She was worried there would never be a strong female insight at this level of the court in the USA.

President Obama is seeking to seat the third female justice to the Supreme Court and it could not be more wonderful.

I wish he and Ms. Kagan the best in their confirmation process.  She is a scholar in every sense of the word.

Let me make this real clear. BP is not going to be able to solve their problems at this deep water site. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO.

The issue currently existing with the 'hydrates' is an issue ALSO inherent to methane.

The 'methane clathrate' at the site is causing the issue with the extraction of the oil.  It is my opinion the entire field in this location is heavily laden with methane and this will be a continuing problem regardless of any plans to stop the leak.  Another well head won't make any difference either. 

The reason there are three holes rather than one is because of the continued instability with the methane field that has been cut loose now that there is a breech to the field.

This is NOT an oil site, this is a methane field.  The reason the oil is rushing out with such force is because it is under high pressure from the methane gas.  The issues that BP is encountering with this field is going to continue to be an issue for its entire existence.

While there are other geological issues that accompany 'gushers' there is a gas component that is like a propellant.  The high content of methane at this site will continue to cause real problems.  I don't believe it will ever be a 'safe' field to drill.

No drill site is usually compromised by escaping oil under high pressure with high level of methane in the area as well.  To continue to believe this is a manageable site is ridiculous and completely foolish.  

The coastal costs are not prudent to continue this charade.  The Petroleum Industry has no interest in the coastal economy of the Gulf Coast and it will continue to experiment with solutions while the oil continues to surface and the danger to regional and global circulation becomes greater and greater.

BP should cut its losses and allow the USA Navy to formulate a solution to this crisis.

This is not going to resolve with conventional methods.

The reason the deaths occurred may have been ACCOMPANIED by lack of application of industry standards, but, there is a lot more at work here than simply industry negligence and poor practice.  We are looking at an industry in the sunset of its existence and willing to take chances with life and 'content' in order to find some sort of profitability when in fact it should have been shut down a decade or more ago.

The entire crisis is related to the 'denial' by the West to come to terms with its dependence on fossil fuels.  It is time to end it and bring this tragedy to a close.

It is an unmanageable emergency and needs to be brought to an end.

Case in point, the Petroleum Industry does NOT have engineers and oceanographers that are the Brightest Bulbs in the Box.

My money is still on torpedoes.  That is not going to change.

That said, the government seems to think that environmentalists, conservationists and oceanographers always go to the highest bidder.

"W"rong  !

People involved with the well being of this planet are NOT involved with toxic industries.  They are far more moral than that.

The people that are the smartest and best centered on the well being of this planet and its oceans and its fisheries are opposition to the industries and ALWAYS are in consultant to the government in activism and in positions within academia and the government such as NOAA and NASA and the US Forest Service.

So, that said, British Petroleum has a decision to make and that is they are going to do the right thing and blow the ruptures of the planet closed or they are going to continue in an ineffective and untested manner at a depth they should have never drilled in the first place.

That said, there is a roll by the USA military and federal and State governments to demand a quick resolve to a set of circumstances that are out of control and have been from the beginning.

British Petroleum and Halliburton have breached EVERY safety standard in the industry and killed eleven people while doing it. 

Eminent Domaine comes into play here and it is time to call this what it is.  It is a corrupt government structure that has allowed this level of negligence and the federal government needs to take up the responsible position and recall the rights to the leases that surround this tragedy. 

The USA military needs to have war games at 5000 feet down and close the rupture to the planet. 

There are currently eleven people dead and entire coastal economy on the way to being destroyed for an indeterment length of time and I am calling it half a century recovery, if at all.

Enough!!!

I have held this point of view from the beginning and I will not be changing it.

Haliiburton has prepared this concrete structure to use at the cost of who knows how many millions of dollars and NEVER took into account the EXTREME conditions at 5000 feet down.  Where did they think they were engineering this structure to be placed, at the surface, in the tropics, with full sunlight and temperatures exceeding 60 degrees Fahrenheit?

Halliburton has NO CLUE what it is doing and this is suppose to be state of  the art.

THAT SHOULD BE TELLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE SOMETHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are limits to going into deep spaces of the planet and this is one of them !