Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

I'm doing an audio interview today with Paul Hellyer, the Defense Minister of Canada in 1963-67. In 2005, he came out to made a public statement that he knew that UFOs and ETs were a reality. I'm looking forward to talking with him.

More following on from yesterday's post about some of the publicity that the media have been giving to Matt Simmons. Because of his status and experience, his claims are frightening quite a lot of people.

Simmons claims that the new containment cap is only over the riser (not the blowout preventer, which he says is "miles away"). He says the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon is also miles away, and that there is a huge hole in the seabed - the real well, minus its casing - which is still spewing 120,000 barrels per day into the Gulf. None of these claims are correct.

Click on the thumbnail on the left for a large image of the blowout preventer. You can see what the ROVs are working on and what’s been visible every day in the live video feed. It’s the same metal structure as on the top of the BOP in the image on the right.

A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill.

Work on the relief well _ now just days from completion _ was suspended, and the cap that has been keeping the oil bottled up since last week may have to be reopened, allowing crude to gush into the sea again for days, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the crisis.

"This is necessarily going to be a judgment call," said Allen, who was waiting to see how the storm developed before deciding whether to order any of the ships and crews stationed some 50 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico to head for safety.

The cluster of thunderstorms passed over Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, and forecasters said the system would probably move into the Gulf over the weekend. They gave it a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or a tropical storm by Friday.

Crews had planned to spend Wednesday and Thursday reinforcing with cement the last few feet of the relief tunnel that they hope to use to pump mud into the gusher and kill it once and for all. But BP put the task on hold and instead placed a temporary plug called a storm packer deep inside the tunnel, in case it has to be abandoned until the storm passes.

"What we didn't want to do is be in the middle of an operation and potentially put the relief well at some risk," BP vice president Kent Wells said.

If the work crews are evacuated, it could be two weeks before they can resume the effort to kill the well. That would upset BP's timetable, which called for finishing the relief tunnel by the end of July and plugging the blown-out well by early August.

Scientists have been scrutinizing underwater video and pressure data for days, trying to determine if the capped well is holding tight or in danger of rupturing and causing an even bigger disaster. If the storm prevents BP from monitoring the well, the cap may simply be reopened, allowing oil to spill into the water, Allen said.

BP and government scientists were meeting to discuss whether the cap could be monitored from shore.

As the storm drew closer, boat captains hired by BP for skimming duty were sent home and told they wouldn't be going back out for five or six days, said Tom Ard, president of the Orange Beach Fishing Association in Alabama.

In Florida, crews removed booms intended to protect waterways in the Panhandle from oil. High winds and storm surge could carry the booms into sensitive wetlands.

Also, Shell Oil began evacuating employees out in the Gulf.

Even if the storm does not hit the area directly, it could affect the effort to contain the oil and clean it up. Hurricane Alex stayed 500 miles away last month, yet skimming in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida was curtailed for nearly a week.

The relief tunnel extends about two miles under the seabed and is about 50 to 60 feet vertically and four feet horizontally from the ruptured well. BP plans to insert a final string of casing, or drilling pipe, cement it into place, and give it up to a week to set, before attempting to punch through to the blown-out well and kill it.

read more at the link : http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/22/a-gathering-storm-halts-gulf-oil-well-work/

The dividend is due to be announced on July 27, and BP’s board may cut it altogether, defer it, or pay all or part in scrip, effectively an IOU to investors, Hayward was quoted as saying. “We are considering all options on the dividend,” the CEO told the newspaper.

Posted on the 20th of june :

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-11/bp-may-cut-defer-second-quarter-dividend-payout-ceo-hayward-tells-wsj.html

anomalous cowherd wrote:keep it simple, Bad People

pineal-pilot-in merkabah wrote:
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_C_Landau_072010.mp3

metaw3 wrote:So a guy studied some crop circles and there's a tsunami tomorrow in the GOM:
http://www.33mm.eu/en/backgrounds/bp/index.htm

Why do I have the feeling that nothing will happen?

metaw3 wrote:anomalous cowherd, Floyd, GODDESS OF PURPLE LIGHT and mudra:

The way I see it there is not much difference between propaganda and these prophecies. On one hand, we have a way of life where people will believe anyhting, logical or not, and act as if it's real, as long as it comes wrapped into a nice emotional package, that's the one condition for it to be true. On the other hand, we have people waking up to the lies, but they grew up with propaganda and that's all they know. So even if there is a real concern, all they come up with is predictions that have to be true because... they are based on their emotions and are well-written. Do you see the similarity between this prediction and the video mudra posted? They both fake reality on behalf of the emotional response they produce. They both express concerns about the Gulf, but their responses are either "feel good" or "feel bad". Thing is with 80 plus years of propaganda, people don't want the truth anymore because the lie industry makes a much greater reality to beleive in, only it's fake, like kids playing, and it's only good for as long as their is not an emergency requiring action based on reality.

Propaganda made our modern definition of truth be anything producing and emtional response that makes us feel good, without need for rational analysis, and the opposite of that kind of truth would be anything that makes us feel bad, without need for rational analysis. So these predictions are indeed the anti-thesis of propaganda: "A lie is true if it makes you feel good" vs. "A lie is true if it makes you feel bad". Do we read them in hope to reduce the cognitive dissonance caused by propaganda?