20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day of Oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico

flyarm

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Thu Jun-10-10 04:29 PM
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20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day of Oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico

Edited on Thu Jun-10-10 04:38 PM by flyarm

per CNN breaking news..new estimates before June 3rd..before the cut and cap proceedure After June 3rd..scientists are gathering to figure out how much more is flowing since the cut of the riser..after June 3rd.

No Wonder BP was hiding the damn High Definition Tapes! As were their lawyers!

Remember Bp said 20% more would flow out after the cut and cap proceedure of cutting the Riser..

But they have been lying from the Get go..So I will wait for the scientists to tell us how bad this really is!

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AndyA

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Thu Jun-10-10 04:55 PM
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1. So...let's see...40,000 barrels a day @ $4,300 per barrel, for 52 days...

BP's fine is:

$8,944,000,000.00

(So far.)

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flyarm

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Thu Jun-10-10 04:58 PM
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3. That is just until June 3rd! more is flowing now!! eom

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Thu Jun-10-10 05:09 PM
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4. MSNBC reporting Gov. is saying 40K per day but since the cap error it's more...

So it's even higher....

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flyarm

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Thu Jun-10-10 04:56 PM
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2. Government Collusion with BP to Block Information Flow Means We Need an Independent Commission

Edited on Thu Jun-10-10 05:04 PM by flyarm

Government Collusion with BP to Block Information Flow Means We Need an Independent Commission to Handle Spill Response

By: Jim White Thursday June 10, 2010 6:50 am
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/53862

Writing in Thursday�s New York Times, Jeremy W. Peters provides further documentation of what he titles "Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News". Perhaps the most damning evidence Peters provides comes from an effort by Florida Senator Bill Nelson to visit the Gulf with a group of reporters:

Last week, Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, tried to bring a small group of journalists with him on a trip he was taking through the gulf on a Coast Guard vessel. Mr. Nelson�s office said the Coast Guard agreed to accommodate the reporters and camera operators. But at about 10 p.m. on the evening before the trip, someone from the Department of Homeland Security�s legislative affairs office called the senator�s office to tell them that no journalists would be allowed.

�They said it was the Department of Homeland Security�s response-wide policy not to allow elected officials and media on the same �federal asset,� � said Bryan Gulley, a spokesman for the senator. �No further elaboration� was given, Mr. Gulley added.

Why would the Department of Homeland Security have a policy that prohibits elected officials and media being on the same ship in the Gulf? Is there any other explanation than a blatant attempt by the federal government to stifle reporting on conditions in the Gulf as they really exist, rather than as they have been presented by BP and federal "spokespeople"?

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Thu Jun-10-10 05:42 PM
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5. Is it illegal to intentionally withhold important information about such a disaster? n/t

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flyarm

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Thu Jun-10-10 05:53 PM
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6. You would think so..but when our Pols are part of the witholding ..do we really think

anyone would be held accountable to our laws??????? Hell no one else has been..I just know there is a huge pile of powder still drying somewhere!!

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amborin

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Thu Jun-10-10 06:09 PM
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7. scary and horrific;

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flyarm

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Thu Jun-10-10 06:18 PM
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8. approximately 53.6 million to 64.3 million gallons of oil have emerged from the well

New estimate suggests that, if the flow has been more or less consistent since the April 20 blowout, approximately 53.6 million to 64.3 million gallons of oil have emerged from the well. That is roughly five to six times the amount spilled in Alaskan waters in 1989 by the Exxon Valdez.

The new figures, obtained Thursday by The Washington Post and soon to be officially announced by the U.S. Geological Survey, indicate that early estimates of the flow rate by the federal government and oil giant BP were not even close to the mark.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com:
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/6041ZA/2GCUZ/7ZGRSR/CFS8X9/3WJWR/KI/t

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