Flow Rate Panel Scientist: BP won't let in scientists to make measurements on oil leak flow !

Scientists challenge BP containment claims
Cast doubt on statement that device could capture 'vast majority' of oil
June 8, 2010


Some scientists are taking issue with BP's statement that a containment cap placed over a gushing well could be capturing "the vast majority" of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

"I don’t see that as being a credible claim," said Steve Wereley, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University and a member of the Flow Rate Technical Group, a national panel of scientists and engineers tasked with determining the spill size.

"I do not know how BP can make that assertion when they don’t know how much oil is escaping. I would say that statement is their hope and aspiration," added Ira Leifer, a researcher in the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara who is also a member of the flow-rate panel.

Leifer said based on the data he's seen so far, the rate of flow from the broken well has increase since the initial April 20 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers. He believes BP's decision last week to sever the well's damaged riser pipe in order to install the containment cap has increased the flow by far more than the 20 percent BP and government officials had predicted.

In fact, Leifer says, the well may be spewing what BP had called before the spill its worst-case scenario — as much as 100,000 barrels a day from a freely flowing pipe.

Meantime, any statement on the proportion of oil being captured and saved from the Gulf is, like the underwater spill video feeds, murky, said Leifer.

"BP is arguing with itself. I’m happy to watch their argument but it would be much nicer if they would let in some scientists to make measurements," he said.

Read the full article at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37573643/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf

Making sure that this kind of obstructionist nonsense doesn't happen.

No questions and not a simple request. Do it or else!

This going back and forth is pure BS. It needs to stop, and Obama can stop this crap if he wants to.

BP is responsible to no one but their investors.

This is what a corporation does. Look out for maximum profit for its investors. People are fools to think corporations should have a conscience or a heart.


Expropriate without compensation

Notice how BP won't show that view in its public feeds.

Disperse as much of the flow as possible, thus less surface cleanup costs. If they have an accurate measurement, there would be a discrepency because of that dispersed oil. Never mind that the long term damage done by the dispersed oil will be 50x worse. Out of sight, out of mind.

or are not heavily regulated. "Leave it to us...."

Yeah, leave it to you to fuck things up permanently because you are nutty sociopaths, born without a soul or that part of your brain that was supposed to prevent you from doing what the World now can see. That's why a conscience is so important to the human race as a whole, morons...!

Good for BP.

Gee. I wonder why they did that? BBI



Scientist: BP's Oil Spill Estimates Improbable
by Richard Harris
May 20, 2010


BP has started to provide more video to a Senate committee. But the oil company rejected a plan that would have produced an independent measure of the oil flow.

Richard Camilli of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution told the committee that he and a colleague had offered to put together an instrument for BP that uses sound waves to measure underwater oil flow. He said BP was interested for reasons related to broken equipment, not the environmental consequences. Camilli said he got an e-mail from BP at 3 a.m. May 5 essentially giving the thumbs up, but at 1 p.m. the next day, BP sent a message putting the project on hold.

"Our team was thanked politely by BP representatives for our efforts, and I've had no further communication with BP since May 6," Camilli said.

Camilli said he hoped to use the information about oil flow to help scientists measure the magnitude of a spill that's not only on the surface of the ocean but also spreading deep underwater. "Understanding and knowing the total amount of oil that has been released is going to be critical so that we know how much was on the surface, we know how much remains subsurface, and we can track it and attempt to mitigate it."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126975907

:)

why aren't we treating this as a crime scene?