BP exec denies oil plumes

Source: macleans ca

Claim contradicts U.S. government information

Doug Shuttles, British Petroleum’s chief operating officer, went on the Today show Wednesday to deny government claims that massive oil plumes were polluting the ocean a thousand meters below the surface dozens of kilometers around the Gulf spill. But his argument may be mostly semantic—he also said the concentrations of oil were “very low” and that in the end the situation “may be down to how you define what a plume is.” The statement comes one day after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that University of South Florida researchers had conducted tests proving that the oil, an estimated 12,000 to 25,000 barrels a day of which is spewing into the Gulf, is polluting far more then the surface of the ocean.

Read more: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/09/bp-exec-denies-oil-plumes/

Was reading a report that a researcher was bemoaning the fact that all available ROVs are being used by the industry and he can't get even one to research where the oil is going.

Imagine what fun it would be if an ROV was used solely to track the oily plumes?

I know the Navy, or so I have been told, can't do underwater like BP can, but wouldn't it be fun if Obama were to kindly beg the Navy subs to do some recon and let us know what's what with the plumes?

Or maybe he did, and the Navy does, but they don't want us to know? No?

Conflict of interest, y'know????

MOTHERFUCKERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then his lies will be actionable offenses.

And that is really the entirety of that executive's job, most likely. Money will buy liars.

own impression of Baghdad Bob. Imagine what Hayward would say.

"Who you gonna believe? Me, or those scientists, engineers, and those underwater ROV cameras?"

"There are no additional oil plumes here."

"In fact, there never was an oil spill. It's all an optical illusion caused by the refraction of Gulf water."

"I blame Mexico's illegal immigrants."

The real answer at the bottom is

"I blame the Liberal environmentalist" - just ask Sarah.

of oil... :eyes:

and let's compare it to NOAA's.

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Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.

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n.
A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior.