Originally Posted by
bionicarm
http:///forum/post/3279101
How could the Feds accurately determine the requirements of what needed to be cleaned up when BP couldn't even tell anyone how much oil was spewing out of the well? One day it's 5,000 gallons, next it's 15,000, now we're hearing 25 million. The first week BP was spouting off how it "wasn't that bad", and clean-up efforts could be handled by them. Unless the Feds had the opportunity to put their experts on the site, and use whatever high-tech equipment they have available to accurately determine how much is coming out of that well, there's no way you can formulate a viable clean-up plan to insure the oil spill is contained and picked up. They've even stated the majority of the oil is flowing in currents a couple hundred fett underwater. How do you capture that oil? Does the Coast Guard or other Federal entities have the equipment to do that?
NOAA was the ones who estimated the 5000 barrels a day, not BP, they had a much smaller estimate. The Coast Guard estimated 8000 barrels a day leaking from the rig right after the accident. Between what was leaked out of the rig and what NOAA, not BP estimated 5000 barrels a day a week after the accident, And BP was unable to shut off the valve, that is when all hands should have been called.