I read an article today that the relief well was ahead of schedule, very close to the main well, weeks ahead of schedule. The final tie in is tricky, they will have to drill through the original casing, so it will slow up from here. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...chedule-with-600-feet-to-go-to-plug-leak.html
"waiting for permission from the coast guard and bp to be put into use" f that chit. it was needed weeks ago, screw bp and coasties fast track this thing!
btw, i am wondering about the dispersants used.... who all wonders if we are gonna find out that using them made things worse? that bp just used the gulf as a giant lab experiment to see if they had any positive effect?
far from it. that thread had 1,796 posts in it. also, we eat a lot around here. the "what's for dinner" thread has 1,790 posts.
was reading a lot of newspapers and listening to wwl a lot on my recent vacation. many say that with that type of "spill" the best thing to do is nothing (except cap it of course), but that was politically unviable. the dispersants may make it spread easier. just contain it as best you can many miles out and let it most of it evaporate. didnt hear them discuss the effects of hurricanes on this plan though. "Simon Boxall, an expert at Britain's National Oceanography Centre who has helped analyse various major oil spill cleanups, said several detailed experiments had been conducted since the Exxon Valdez spill, looking at areas that were left alone, as well as at areas cleaned up chemically or mechanically. "The chemically cleaned up areas have taken the longest to recover and they are still damaged," Boxall said. "The areas that were left alone actually recovered much quicker." Some 10,000 people were flown in to deal with the Exxon Valdez spill, and Boxall said scientists now wondered whether the "cleanup town" that grew up around it caused more environmental damage than the oil itself. Christoph Gertler of Bangor University, who has been studying various potential bacterial remedies for oil spills, said reports by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggested that dispersants were "changing the nature of the oil in a very unfavourable way," making it more difficult for naturally occurring marine bacteria to break it down. Boxall said it was important to remember that oil coming from the BP well was a light crude that would break down and evaporate fairly quickly when it came to the surface. He said there were three golden rules of oil spills: "The first is don't spill it in the first place: the second is, if you do spill it, try and pick it up as quickly and easily as possible," he said. "And the third is that in the open ocean, the best thing to do is leave well alone. Unfortunately, politically that always looks like a cop-out."" Analysis - Doing nothing might have been best for oil spill | Reuters
Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup - Yahoo! News Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's hard-hit Plaquemines Parish, said BP and the Coast Guard provided a map of the exact locations of 140 skimmers that were supposedly cleaning up the oil. But he said that after he repeatedly asked to be flown over the area so he could see them at work, officials told him only 31 skimmers were on the job.
