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Hi Clover. Does that mean, "Not tonight, dear...I have a headache?" For about the last week, BP has been running an extended commercial on the evening news (CBS) featuring the head of the company. It is quite apologetic and BP maintains it is sticking with the ordeal. - There's a Truth out there somewhere!
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6/9/2010 1:43 pm |
classic: Just this (6/9) AM the COO of BP told us, on the Today show, that there was no evidence of an underwater plume of oil. Please go back to Samantha Joye and ask her to check again.....
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6/9/2010 8:45 pm |
How much oil???? Way way way too much. I don't think a lot of people understand the magnitude of this disaster. There is no way I could ever do the numbers but only takes a bit of common sense to know this situation is a catastrophe. Classic, thankyou for the number breakdown..just shows you how accurate these reports are...but we know its bad. BP is doing its best and have yet to hear them play the blame game, this is not one parties fault..it is spread widely. I'm to blame when I filled my car with Gas this morning and when my furnace burned some oil to take off the chill in the air. I wish us all well for in the end I think it will affect us all.
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From later on June 8... Federal confirmation Federal officials for the first time today confirmed the researchers' findings, although Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is leading the federal response to the spill, questioned the use of the term "plume" to describe that underwater oil. "The term 'plume' has been used for quite awhile, [but] I think what we are talking about are concentrations," he said. "'Cloud' is a better term." Joye's team's results echo the findings of a University of South Florida team aboard the Weatherbird II vessel. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco said her agency had finished testing water samples collected by the USF team that confirmed the presence of the oil. "The bottom line is, yes there is oil in the water columns," she told reporters. "That's confirmed for the sites we've done the analyses." BP CEO Tony Hayward had disputed the presence of plumes, saying on June 6 that there was "no evidence" of their existence. BP spokesman John Pack said today they would be paying attention to the data that is coming in. "We will obviously listen to what they have to say," Pack said. Lubchenco said the test confirms the presence of subsurface oil, which she said federal scientists suspected was present. Lubchenco said that oil was found in "very low concentrations" in the range of less than 0.5 parts per million. NOAA tested samples from three collection sites, confirming the presence of subsea oil 40 nautical miles northeast of the well. She said samples from a site 42 nautical miles northeast were inconclusive and that samples from a site 142 miles southeast "were not consistent with the oil spill." "That does not mean it doesn't have significant impact. A more complete picture will require additional information, and we're in the process of getting that," Lubchenco said. "We remain concerned about the location of oil on the surface and under the sea," Lubchenco said. "We are attacking it aggressively to mitigate the harm and understand the impact." Lubchenco said "there is definitely oil subsurface" and that NOAA would continue to analyze water samples as they were collected. "We will continue to do research to understand where it is and in what concentrations and what are its impacts," she said. - There's a Truth out there somewhere!
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