Bp Contains Oil In Gulf

[SEABREEZE]

News reports say the well has been shut down temporarily, have to watch for low level pressure to be sure it will do the job, untill secondary wells can tap into primary to completly shut it down...

[pbjbike]

:banana: :banana: :banana: Knock on wood.

[xjoex]

Hells yeah!!!!!

-Joe

[johnnymossville]

Great News! I hope it holds.

[mister]

watch the well casing blowout under the cap now...

[Dekonick]

it only took HOW LONG?

:crap: :crap: :crap:

I sure hope it holds.

[gemship]

the news stated that BP's stock value rose 7% upon news of the stop leak move. I don't know why but on some moral level that just doesn't sit well with me.

[paulh]

Drag out the "Mission Accomplished" banner?

[SEABREEZE]

watch the well casing blowout under the cap now...


Yes, they are still not calling this accomplishment a success. The next 24 hrs
they are monitoring for low pressure, which may indicate leakage below floor bed...

We just need to keep our fingers crossed...

[gone]

Now there's just that small matter of 300 million gallons of oil that leaked out to clean up.

[flydhest]

Drag out the "Mission Accomplished" banner?


That's funny.

I do hope that the celebration (well deserved) of having capped the thing doesn't take away the impetus from dealing with all the oil that is already out there.

Of course, one would be shockingly naive to believe that that won't be the case, but a boy can dream.

[mister]

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Senators-Seek-Probe-Into-Alleged-BP-Link-to-Lockerbie-Release-98418874.html

Four U.S. senators are calling for the State Department to investigate whether the BP oil company might have pressured Britain to free the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing to facilitate an oil deal with Libya.

Four Democratic U.S. senators held a news conference on Capitol Hill to call for an investigation into allegations that a 2007 BP oil agreement with Libya might have influenced the British and Scottish governments to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer of New York, and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey said it was reported in September that BP communicated to the British government concerns that possible delays in the release of the Lockerbie bomber might jeopardize a $900-million oil deal with Libya.

Senator Schumer put it like this:

"Now it is almost too disgusting to fathom that BP had a possible role in securing the release of the Lockerbie terrorist in return for an oil drilling deal with Libya," he said. "It can be described in two words, "blood money," if that is what happened."

Senator Lautenberg said BP appears to have convinced British officials to "hold their noses" and strike a deal with Libya.

"The picture is becoming very clear," said Senator Lautenberg. "Not only does BP have terrible management, it has no character."

A BP statement says the company did not make an appeal for al-Megrahi and says it was solely a matter for the Scottish Executive and not for the British government.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said there was no "double-dealing" linked to al-Megrahi's release from a Scottish prison in August 2009. But former British Justice Secretary Jack Straw told The Daily Telegraph newspaper in September that trade and oil, including BP's agreement with Libya, were a part of the prisoner transfer talks.

Scottish authorities freed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds after doctors diagnosed him with terminal prostate cancer and estimated that he only had three months to live. His release sparked international outrage and strong protests from U.S. leaders and the families of the bombing victims.

In their letter to Secretary Clinton, the U.S. senators noted that al-Megrahi is still alive and reportedly living in luxury.

Senator Menendez said the State Department and the British government have a lot to investigate.

"There is plenty here when you have doctors saying that they, in essence, were paid to give a certain disposition that gave al-Megrahi the opportunity to be released," he said. "There is plenty here when you have the allegations, but you know manifested in written documents, to ensure that a prisoner transfer took place in order to get a commercial deal."

British Ambassador to the United States Nigel Sheinwald responded in a letter to the inquiry from the four U.S. senators. He said the decision to release al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds was made by the Scottish Executive on the basis of the medical information available to them at the time.

The senators say they strongly believe that the families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people have a right to know whether justice was compromised for commercial interests. The senators also called for BP to halt plans to drill off the coast of Libya in coming weeks.

[SEABREEZE]

Now there's just that small matter of 300 million gallons of oil that leaked out to clean up.

Excellent point, not to be forgotten...

Onward with the clean up... but how long will it be before the ecco system returns they way it was before the spill?

How long will it be before the fisherman can return to there livlihood?

How long will it be before the local bussinesses along the coast have the publics faith, that all is clean and safe, to want to be at the seashore?

[gone]

Excellent point, not to be forgotten...

Onward with the clean up... but how long will it be before the ecco system returns they way it was before the spill?

How long will it be before the fisherman can return to there livlihood?

How long will it be before the local bussinesses along the coast have the publics faith, that all is clean and safe, to want to be at the seashore?

All most excellent questions. How does one put a price on destroying an entire region (BP) or destroying a global economy (Investment Banks) and destroying tens of thousands of lives?

It would be enormously satisfying to see some of the culprits in both fiascoes punished but sadly the standard is "we didn't do anything against the law".

[bzbvh5]

A BP statement says the company did not make an appeal for al-Megrahi and says it was solely a matter for the Scottish Executive and not for the British government.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said there was no "double-dealing" linked to al-Megrahi's release from a Scottish prison in August 2009.

I don't believe any of this. This shows you can't trust government and you can't trust big business. Both of them failed to do the right thing for anyone else but themselves.

Does al-Megrahi even have cancer? I will never knowingly buy BP Products.

[Mr. Squirrel]

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Senators-Seek-Probe-Into-Alleged-BP-Link-to-Lockerbie-Release-98418874.html



Scottish authorities freed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds after doctors diagnosed him with terminal prostate cancer and estimated that he only had three months to live. His release sparked international outrage and strong protests from U.S. leaders and the families of the bombing victims.

In their letter to Secretary Clinton, the U.S. senators noted that al-Megrahi is still alive and reportedly living in luxury.



do you think the families of the people who died in the bombing would like three more months with their loved ones who died? they would, but they can not. even a squirrel can see that is nuts. :butt:

mr squirrel

[johnnymossville]

Let's hope the guy on MSNBC was wrong about this. http://tinyurl.com/2g9wxmh

[Kevan]

my mind's eye imagines an oversized hand grenade pull-ring attached to it.


Maybe now the underwater fire trucks will be built before there's another fire. We really screwed up.

[SEABREEZE]

Let's hope the guy on MSNBC was wrong about this. http://tinyurl.com/2g9wxmh

I yia I, if this is correct, we are all screwed ! ! !

[mister]

I don't believe any of this. This shows you can't trust government and you can't trust big business. Both of them failed to do the right thing for anyone else but themselves.

Does al-Megrahi even have cancer? I will never knowingly buy BP Products.

whoa. evil.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/16/MNM21EF4FD.DTL

Oil giant BP faced a new furor Thursday as it confirmed that it had lobbied the British government to conclude a prisoner-transfer agreement that the Libyan government wanted to secure the release of the only person convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing over Scotland, which killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

The acknowledgment came after U.S. lawmakers, grappling with the controversy over the company's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, called for an investigation into BP's actions in the case of the freed man, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi.

After an initial demand for an investigation Wednesday by four senators from New York and New Jersey, further calls for an inquiry by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were made Thursday by California Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

Al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence agent, was released and allowed to return to Libya in August after doctors advised the Scottish government that he was likely to die within three months of advanced prostate cancer. But nearly a year later, he remains alive and free, though kept out of sight, in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

BP's statement Thursday repeated earlier acknowledgments that it had promoted the transfer agreement to protect a $900 million offshore oil-and-gas exploration deal off Libya's Mediterranean coast. The British justice minister at the time, Jack Straw, admitted shortly after al-Megrahi was repatriated and freed that the BP deal was a consideration in the government's review of his case.

In the end, al-Megrahi was not released under the prisoner transfer agreement. Instead, to the consternation of the Obama administration, and of many of the victims' families, the Scottish government released him under provisions in Scottish law that allow for a prisoner's sentence to be commuted on humanitarian grounds, of al-Megrahi's cancer. That freed him from serving any further prison time in Libya, as he would have had to do under the transfer pact.

U.S. anger over the case found a new outlet this week, with the demands for an investigation of the issue in the United States. On Wednesday, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, together with Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, announced that they had written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking for a State Department investigation into BP's role in the prisoner transfer agreement.

Schumer told reporters that BP should freeze its operations in Libya because it "should not be allowed to profit on this deal at the expense of the victims of terrorism."

The two California senators followed Thursday with a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, declaring that "commercial interests - oil or otherwise - should never be prioritized over justice for victims of terrorist acts and severe punishment for convicted terrorists."

BP's business dealings in Libya include an exploration deal in the Gulf of Sidra, which the company estimates could lead to an eventual BP investment of up to $20 billion, as well as other deals in Libya's western desert. The deals represent BP's return to Libya after decades of exclusion that followed nationalization of the company's interests there in the 1970s.

BP's response to the senators' challenge came in a statement released Thursday, in which the company stuck to its claim that its lobbying was focused on the prisoner transfer pact, not on al-Megrahi himself, and that the company had nothing to do with the decision by the Scottish authorities to release him to Libya.

But the company's critics have said that such a distinction was largely illusory, since Libya's pressure for the prisoner transfer pact was primarily motivated, as Libyan officials said at the time, by their desire to bring al-Megrahi home.

British officials have noted privately that the last three U.S. administrations have been keen for U.S. oil companies to strike deals with Libya and that BP has been joined in the contest for potentially lucrative deals by several U.S. oil giants, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/16/MNM21EF4FD.DTL#ixzz0ts6k01Dr

[Lifelover]

Let's hope the guy on MSNBC was wrong about this. http://tinyurl.com/2g9wxmh


A few weeks ago the predicted the end of the world (http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/07/bp-oil-methane-explosion-extinction-level-event/) due to the same theory.



I doubt they are credible and if they are it won't matter soon.

[JeffS]

Onward with the clean up... but how long will it be before the ecco system returns they way it was before the spill?


We won't be alive to see it.


BTW, if the larger hole exists, it's time to queue the next orchestrated incident to keep everyone distracted for a while.

[gdw]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100716/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill