The CG forced BP to halt initial burning operations on day 1 of the spill.
I'd be interested to see your evidence/documentation of this,
if you can find such a thing (but I bet you can't). I certainly never
heard anything about BP starting oil burns while the rig was still in flames.
Of course, simple common sense would dictate that this odd claim of yours is simply a lie. Given that on day one of the spill the oil rig was still in flames and near collapse, and given that on day one not enough oil had spilled to warrant even
suggesting that the oil be set alight, and given that BP had a few other immediate emergencies (burning/collapsing oil rig, rescue operations for people in the water, 11 dead, PR scramble) to deal with, there's no way they could possibly have "initiated burning operations on day 1 of the spill."
I call bull****.
Furthermore,
the Coast Guard decided to try burning the oil on April 27 (seven days after the rig exploded/sank and the spill began), and conducted their first test burn the following day.
The Coast Guard began burning a portion of the spill Wednesday [April 28] in an attempt to stop it from reaching sensitive environmental areas and the Louisiana shoreline. The slick was about 16 miles from Venice, La.
The test burn began about 5 p.m. CDT and Landry said it was successful. The "controlled burn" is designed to "minimize environmental risks by removing large quantities of oil" on the surface of the gulf, without affecting populated areas on shore, a Coast Guard statement said. --
New Leak Feeds Growing Louisiana Oil Spill
The Coast Guard late Wednesday afternoon started a test burn of an area about 30 miles east of the delta of the Mississippi River to see how the technique was working. --
Crews Start Burning Gulf Oil Slick
The sand berms weren't authorized for weeks.
Sixteen days, to be exact.
May 11, 2010: Louisiana requests emergency permission from the federal government to dredge barriers and construct berms.
May 27, 2010: Federal government grants Louisiana partial permission to dredge. --
GOP.gov
Jindal eventually got his crap together, and his dredging program began approximately June 14.
June 16, 2010: LA Governor Bobby Jindal took a helicopter out to the Northern end of the Chandeluers Island chain to see the state-led dredging operations under way there along with Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis and St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro.
Governor Jindal said, “The Great Lakes Cutterhead Dredge, called the California, arrived onsite this past weekend and began initiation procedures, safety protocols, and hookup of floating flexible discharge pipes between the dredge and the discharge pipe. Over ten support vessels, including barges, crew quarters and ferries have been mobilized to the site. The California is dredging and moving an average of 54,000 cubic yards of dirt a day. Thus far, 108,000 cubic yards of material have been placed as the beginning base for the barrier berm. We can already see the beginning of the above water segment of the berm beginning to form. Dredging has also begun on the west side of the Mississippi River - with the Stuyvesant dredging Cubit’s Gap in the mouth of the river and moving the material toward site W9, Pelican Island." --
Timeline of Events in BP Oil Spill
It's been over two months and the government is just now allowing super tanker-skimmers into the GOM.
A couple of questions/points:
1. How many oil-skimming supertankers are there in the world, exactly?
2. Of that number, precisely how many have been offered for our use?
3. When and by whom were they offered?
4. You say "the government is
just now
allowing super tanker-skimmers into the GOM." Since I don't think there has ever been an oil spill of this magnitude in the Gulf, the number of times we've
needed a supertanker-skimmer there is zero, so I seriously doubt there is some sort of general government moratorium the prohibits supertanker-skimmers from entering that body of water.
5. Can you give us the names of all the
other supertanker-skimmers that have been prevented from entering (i.e. not "allowed") in the Gulf of Mexico in years past/pre-BPmageddon?
6. Without consulting or notifying our government of his plans, and never waiting for a contract commitment from BP or contacting US regulation agencies for compliance, the owner of the Taiwanese supertanker had the ship reconfigured as a skimmer in Portugal during the first week of June, and just sent it here. The retrofitted ship didn't arrive in the Gulf until July 30.
7. Nobody "refused to allow" the supertanker-skimmer to enter the Gulf. Nor did our government tell the owners "We don't want your help." In fact, our government went immediately ahead with testing the ship to see if it actually works, and if so, how well. This has yet to be fully determined.
You first. :roll: