Meanwhile some oil from the leak is being collected. I find it ironic that this oil will be sold at the market. A greater irony would be to then sell the processed gas back to the Gulf states. Such is the market system.
McClatchy: Despite cap on broken well, it's too early to celebrate
"I do believe it will take us a few days to get up to peak efficiency. And I think we'll know more over the next couple of days of what we could ultimately get to."CNN: Crude still flows in Gulf despite cap on oil gusher
"We now have a battle line, if you will, that stretches from Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana over to around the beaches by Pensacola, Florida..."
By Friday afternoon, the company said on its website that it had collected 76,020 gallons of oil in the first 12 hours after it put the cap on the well, which is less than 10 percent of the 798,000 gallons of oil federal authorities estimate is pouring into the Gulf daily.
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It's another fiasco that is only collecting 1/10th of the flow. The other 90% is all over everything near it. This won't be fixed any time soon either because just as the so called relief wells near the well base Hurricane season will be upon us! It's more likely not going to be fixed till winter 2011. By then the ecological devastation to the Gulf and east coast will be almost total. BP will probably go bankrupt and hand the whole mess over to us ( the taxpayers.) This is another example of how Corps. are literally raping, plundering and profitting from what their doing and getting away with it. Why? because pols like Obama are gutless stooges or like BV$H paid for flunkies. The rest of us are just the suckers that are never given an even break. This BS has got to stop!
Aye Yie Yie, this thing is so sad. I can't take looking at the pictures of the oil soaked seabirds. I'd like to go down there a do something.
Nothing to be done. Mother Nature is pissed this is just the start.
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