Relief well for Gulf spill may take 90 days-Salazar

Source: Reuters


Relief well for Gulf spill may take 90 days-Salazar

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Sunday said it could be 90 days before a relief well is completed to address the Gulf oil spill.

"You're looking at potentially 90 days before you ultimately get to what is the ultimate solution here and that's a relief well," Salazar said on NBC's "Meet the Press."


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BBC is reporting that Interior Secretary Salazar said that it will take 90 days before relief oil well is completed to stop leak.

BBC's map of spill as of May 2



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8656627.stm

And now they say the leak may already (or might soon become) six to ten times the estimated 5,000 barrels (or 20,000 gallons) per day that they had originally figured. That's 30,000-50,000 barrels (or 1,200,000-2,00,000 gallons).

Environmentally: Obviously devastating to bird (they a sting as I write), reptile, and fish species, but also mammal (swamp deer) and rodent. Oysters at the bottom might be flatlined (gone).

Economically: Beyond fishing/shrimping/etc., we have crayfish, cattle, cane, and rice, but I cannot imagine how this area will survive in the way it has without The Gulf.

Lafayette, LA.

:evilfrown:

Really? How's that working out?

I am outraged by this tragedy.

I have to say I didn't hear any talk from this administration about requiring more stringent environmental protections when they endorsed offshore drilling. More proof I guess that they really are corporate tools.

they are corporate tools. You hit the nail on it's head!

Just absolutely beyond acceptable.

Every one of the Republicans running for office in November needs to be shouted down with "Drill, Baby, Drill!"

It's a hell of a way to do it, though.

You have the right idea: Drill Baby, Drill them right into retirement.

--d!

and by implication the Democratic-controlled White House.

There is a danger that just as Katrina screwed Bush, this oil spill could screw Obama.

The articles are saying Federal help is basically 3 months away because it requires drilling a new well as the ultimate solution, which will take 90 days. In that 90 days all hell could break loose politically with the White House blamed.

And Jindal is shown in a video on one of those links and he looked good, like he's WORKIN' HARD, y'all, on that thar oil spill. His statement had an air of doing everything possible while as usual Obama looks too laid back, just in terms of political image. Obama doesn't have enough appearance of kick-ass in this crisis and it could be politically dangerous for Democrats.

At least Obama did. I assume some others did as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDB_0SrhCk


Having thrown their lot in with the Republicans on energy instead of setting a defining difference they don't know how to respond politically. They don't have the fire in the belly on this that they would have had they not been so busy trying to be like the GOP. I am seeing reports by the MSM and the GOP blowhards blaming this on the White House and Coast Guard for the sluggish response and this is toxic to Democrats in the coming election. The danger is that Obama will get blamed for a sluggish response just like Bush got blamed for a sluggish response in Hurricane Katrina.


The DLC White House looks like deer caught in headlights. What can they now say? I was for offshore oil drilling before I was against it?



This spill began April 20, just 2 days before Earth Day (April 22) and the political timing would have been phenomenal for Democrats EXCEPT that the White House was busy trying to be GOOD LITTLE REPUBLICANS and me-tooing the GOP, the same crap they've been doing since the inauguration.

Talk about being caught flat-footed at a historic moment.....

In the words of Harry Truman, "If you run a Republican against a Republican, the Republican will win every time."

He ran as a Democrat and then turned, by inauguration day, into a Reagan Republican.

Good video, thanks.

are crowing that this spill and the ramifications of future offshore oil exploration will be pinned on the GOP when the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT just lifted a decades old ban on more offshore drilling. :crazy: :wow:

It's like they are experiencing some mass elective memory syndrome.

The video of President Obama opening up more off-shore areas for drilling will be used often during upcoming elections.

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You have got to be kidding! The whole entire gulf will be a dead zone! You will have HUGE amounts of oil traveling the oceans killing every living thing in its wake and fowling beaches worldwide!

Every damn oil company in this world ought to be down there trying to cap that damn well!