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Gulf Oil Spill

Rapidly becoming the worst environmental disaster of our time, the Gulf oil spill is taking it's toll on America. With what is apparently a News Media Black out, we will attempt to separate the Facts from Fiction, and Conspiracy Theory (C.T.). We will begin with the Time line of events...

Please Scan below Up Dates are added as we get them

TIMELINE

April 20, 2010: Explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig tragically kills 11 workers.

April 24, 2010: First oil leak is revealed by the Administration.

April 28, 2010: Interior Secretary Salazar travels to BP Command Center in Houston.

April 29, 2010: Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano announces a "Spill of National Significance" and President Obama makes first public remarks on the disaster.

April 30, 2010: President deploys senior Administration officials to Gulf region and makes remarks. Louisiana National Guard activated.

May 2, 2010: President visits Gulf for the first time.

May 4, 2010: Cabinet officials brief Members of Congress for the first time.

May 11, 2010: Louisiana requests emergency permission from the federal government to dredge barriers and construct berms.

May 27, 2010: Federal government grants Louisiana partial permission to dredge.

May 28, 2010: President makes his second visit to the Gulf and states, "I am the president and the buck stops with me."

May 29, 2010: BP announces that its "top kill" plan to fill the well had failed.

June 2, 2010: Obama Administration finally approves of Louisiana's plan to dredge and tells BP to pay $360 million for five new berms. The Justice Department announces a criminal investigation into the explosion and spill.

June 14, 2010: Senate Democrats write to BP calling on the company to set up a $20 billion, independently administered escrow fund to compensate victims of the spill.

June 15, 2010: President Obama makes Oval Office speech on oil spill and uses crisis to push climate change legislation.

June 16, 2010: President Obama meets with BP executives at the White House.

To View the Q&A please see... http://www.gop.gov/policy-news/10/06/16/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill#share

More in depth Time Line http://deepseanews.com/2010/04/the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-a-timeline/

To View a Pictorial Time Line see... http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/obamas-katrina-illustrated-timeline.html

For "alternative" (C.T.) discussion http://libertyletters.ning.com/page/oil-spill-truth-vs-lies

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Comment by gary heyer on January 17, 2011 at 7:03pm: test comment

Comment by Fish Guy on August 14, 2010 at 5:52am: youtube video Friday August 13, 2010: Plumes of oil seeping from the seafloor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-DkVOX7qE&feature=player_embedded

Comment by boltcarrier556 on July 21, 2010 at 7:18pm: The liberal progressives don't want any drilling at all. Cloward and Piven strategy. Create a colossal crisis that "only government can fix". Crisis? How about bringing our economy to a grinding halt for lack of fuel.

Comment by Fish Guy on July 10, 2010 at 9:16am: Article: Methane in Gulf "astonishingly high": says U.S. scientist
June 22, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L6IA20100622

Comment by Fish Guy on July 6, 2010 at 1:13pm: One of the things I keep hearing about is how BP has refused to show the government it's mud log Data obtained during the drilling. There has been speculation that BP had bore as much as 30,000 feet instead the presumed 18,000 ft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z76QufhkltY

Comment by C_Marie on June 30, 2010 at 2:26pm: Could someone add the information Glenn Beck has on his Wednesday 30 June show regarding Beyond Petroleum statistics and facts? My satellite feed shut down due to a thunderstorm.

Comment by Tara Bell on June 27, 2010 at 12:48pm: Panorama - BP - In Deep Water.2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53KJecfzgjQ

"This is worse than ten Katrinas"
"What scientists are really worried about is what is happening under the surface, not far from the explosion site they found one plume of oil twelve miles long and 600 feet thick"

**Pay particular attention at the 20 minute marker: Tyrone Benton discusses BOP and cement job done by Halliburton**

Comment by C_Marie on June 24, 2010 at 6:40pm: Reuters Update on oil drill moratorium june 24, 2010 8:51 pm
Government loses bid to keep oil drilling ban
"The Obama administration lost a legal skirmish on Thursday when a judge refused to put on hold his decision lifting a ban on deepwater oil drilling imposed after the worst spill in U.S. history.
"After striking down the moratorium on Tuesday, a federal judge in New Orleans rejected a request to allow the six-month ban to stand while the government appeals his decision.

"Judge Martin Feldman issued a brief order denying the stay request, pointing to his previous ruling that criticized the ban as arbitrary, far-reaching and unjustified given the impact on thousands of oil industry workers and communities."

Comment by 1Swimmer on June 23, 2010 at 11:33am: Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico (satellite image 6-19 2010)
www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44375

Comment by Suzie on June 23, 2010 at 11:25am: Thank You ALL for adding great information. When we expand this page to the new website-
I will incorporate your additional information.

Thank you for taking the time,
Toodles....

Comment by CWT2012 on June 22, 2010 at 3:07pm: More live feeds from Gulf ROV's

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentI...

Comment by Tara Bell on June 22, 2010 at 12:43pm: Lots of sharks, lots of oil seen off Bon Secour (with video)

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/lots_of_sharks_and_lots_of_oil.html

Comment by CWT2012 on June 22, 2010 at 12:41pm: What will a hurricane do to the oil slick in the Gulf? (.pdf)

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/hurricanes_oil_factsheet.pdf

Comment by CWT2012 on June 22, 2010 at 12:38pm: Live feeds from remotely operated vehicles (ROV)

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_engli...

Comment by Suzie on June 22, 2010 at 10:24am: Here are three good Map sources for tracking the spill

http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/Oil_Spill_Crisis%20Map.jpg

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mapping_the_oil_spill_in_real_...

Comment by C_Marie on June 21, 2010 at 7:25am: Thank you, thank you for setting up this timeline. Folks, like me, who have been away on vacation, need to come up to speed. And this page is the ticket!
Dear, dear God, help us clean the spill and care for the affected Gulf creatures! Please don't let the oil workers lose the work of their hands. Keep family gas station franchises from failure. For the fishermen, the coastline businesses and employees, give them the independent wisdom to overcome adversity without enslaving regulations. Amen

Comment by Pama on June 19, 2010 at 10:04pm: "...However, evidence shows that BP executives were aware of the looming disaster before March 17.
According to the May 31 Bloomberg article 'BP Lacked Well Control Six Weeks Before Gulf Rig Disaster, E-Mails Show':..."
This is truly scary stuff....I'd like to know exactly when the White House found out about this. Did they know about it before the explosion...? Our government is so corrupt right now...I don't think we'll ever find out the truth.

Comment by JeansBrother on June 19, 2010 at 6:30pm: I keep hearing that they have tried everything to stop the flow of oil. But, I don't recall hearing an attempt similar to that outlined below.

1) Make a cylinder 20-50 feet long equal to the diameter of the pipe spewing oil.
2) Add a flange at 45 feet to keep the cylinder from dropping to the bottom of the well.
3) Taper the first 10 feet to a point to help insert the cylinder into the pipe.
4) Lower the cylinder into the pipe until the flange stops it. Add mass to the cylinder to keep it from being pushed out of the well.

This should reduce the flow of oil to gallons vs hundreds of thousands of gallons.

Nobody on the news channels has picked up on the idea that the "relief" well(s) will probably be totally ineffective. 1) A well can handle only a certain amount of crude per second. 2) Will there be the shipping capacity to handle it? 3) Whatever crude not extracted via the "relief" well(s) will still come up through the Deepwater Horizon hole. 4) Unless the pressure in the oil reservoir goes to zero as a result of the "relief" well(s), the crude will still pour out of the Deepwater Horizon hole.

Let's seal the leak!

Comment by Deborah Kay Andrews on June 19, 2010 at 2:36pm: Thanks for posting that. I don't know what their responsibilities are in this mess, but I'm glad to hear they are "saying" they will do something to help.