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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/diving-gulfs-toxic-soup-10735329
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-JfbMLgn4
quelle:http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/big_oil_goes_to_washington/index.htm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100616,0,1169383.story
Ein Video wie es so im Wasser und unter Wasser aussieht usw.....Cousteau Jr.: 'This Is a Nightmare... a Nightmare'
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/diving-gulfs-toxic-soup-10735329
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Lawmakers slammed executives from five of the world's largest oil companies. At one point Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., called on Lamar McKay, chairman and president of BP America, to quit his job. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-Louisiana went so far as to suggest McKay try a type of ritual suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-JfbMLgn4
Saving the walruses
But the hearing opened with Markey criticizing the companies for having cookie-cutter contingency plans for dealing with disasters like the Gulf Coast oil spill.
Those plans included "embarrassing" errors like a reference to protecting walruses, which haven't lived in the Gulf Coast for at least 3 million years, and the phone number of a marine biologist who died five years ago, Markey said.
In opening remarks, senior House Democrats held up a 500-page binder from Exxon Mobil, which details the company's plans for dealing with emergencies such as oil spills, and decried it for being nearly identical to BP's.
Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil also have similar plans, calling for measures like blowout preventers and top kill procedures which failed to contain the ongoing spill, lawmakers said.
When it comes to emergency plans, the "only technology you seem to be relying on is a Xerox machine," Markey told the oil execs.
Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson called the walrus debacle an "embarrassment." ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva and Chevron CEO John Watson followed suit, saying they too found the walruses "inappropriate" for a Gulf of Mexico response plan.
'Not equipped' for worst case scenario
Asked if the Exxon would have done anything differently than BP, Tillerson explained that he would have used a "different well design" and a "different cement formulation" than those used by BP at the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 workers and causing the leak that is fouling the Gulf.
quelle:http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/big_oil_goes_to_washington/index.htm
http://www.gulfoilspill.net/Oil spill could be up to 60,000 barrels a day
The number keeps changing, and the news keeps getting worse: Now the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico could be flowing at 60,000 barrels a day.
Hours before President Obama took to the airwaves to speak to Americans about the gulf oil spill, the government group whose task it is to assess the flow rate from BP's undersea well came up with a revised estimate of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day.
A previous revision from the federal Flow Rate Technical Group, delivered Friday, pegged the flow at 20,000 to 40,000 barrels.
If the new high number is accurate, that means that a disaster the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, which dumped 257,000 barrels, has been occurring about every week since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon erupted in flames, killing 11 people.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100616,0,1169383.story