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lotowner
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Fire Boom
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5/4/2010 10:53:52 PM
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U.S Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said “the government had all the assets it needed”.
But… controlled burns using fire boom (an asset of first use) could have possibly contained the spill (95%) and it is spelled out in a 1994 Federal spill response plan.
Fire boom is now in route after being borrowed from a South American country.
Questions?
Why was this plan not implemented?
Why did the Coast Guard not have a Fire Boom available?
Why did the company which developed this system have to do a world search?
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lotowner
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Fire Boom
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5/4/2010 11:20:15 PM
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WSJ Article
By JOHN FUND
The Obama Administration has tirelessly pushed the line that it has employed every available tool to fight the Gulf oil spill from "Day One." Well, it's certainly true that every media resource is being deployed to squelch comparisons with the slow-footed 2005 Bush administration response to Hurricane Katrina.
But as for having actual oil-spill fighting technology on hand before the crisis, as the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requires, the administration was clearly caught unprepared.
After the Transocean rig blew up two weeks ago, it turns out the federal government didn't have a single fire boom on hand in the Gulf to enable a controlled burn of the oil slick, according to The Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama. Instead, the government quickly purchased the only fire boom that an Illinois-based manufacturer had in stock, and then asked the company to call its customers around the world to see if the U.S. government could borrow their booms.
Ever since 1989 Exxon Valdez tragedy, the federal government has been required by law to keep spill-fighting equipment in place for an emergency. Ron Gouguet, who once led such efforts for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Press-Register that a quick controlled burn might have captured 95% of the oil spilling from the offshore well. In the event, it took federal officials eight days to conduct the first test burn of the leaking oil. By then, strong winds and rough seas inhibited its effectiveness.
Another factor may also have played a role in the failure to properly prepare. Certain environmental groups have long opposed the 1994 federal response plan for the Gulf region that called for burning any oil spill right away. Even Rear Admiral Mary Landry, the federal official coordinating the oil spill cleanup, told reporters last week that burning the oil meant a "black plume" of smoke that could effect birds and mammals.
I'd say there was a far bigger downside to both humans and animal life from allowing an oil slick that now measures some 130 miles by 70 miles to continue to grow
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Yankee06
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5/5/2010 12:34:17 AM
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-I know nothing about oil rigs, so I'll assume what is in above posts is correct.
-A law written 15 years ago requiring a fire boom on standby has a good chance of being forgotten by most organizations
-However, military units constantly exercise various crisis scenarios. If teh Coast Guard has the responsibilty to respond to oil rig blow outs (and I don't know if it does or not) then its periodic exercises should include the accounting for, deloyment of, and after-action report on a boom's use in such exercises. Thus, there is no excuse for a boom not being in teh gulf.
-Now if the presence and use of a boom is the responsibility of a civilian government agency or the oil companies, then 15 years is a long time to keep something around that has never (?) been used and that all teh people who once thought it was a good idea have long retired to homes on lakes without oil rigs (...accept for copperline's recent installation of one off shore from MM's house).
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MartiniMan
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It's all Bush and Cheney's fault
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5/5/2010 8:18:00 AM
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Don't you realize this is all their fault. Bush did nothing to prevent this from happening and it took the federal government 11 or 12 days to respond, three times longer than Katrina....didn't he learn anything?......oh, wait a second. Bush hasn't been President since January 2009.......oh Dear Leader, the most merciful Messiah has responded in a most wonderful way to this awful act of environmental terrorism by the evil, greedy corporation....
Well then its all Dick Cheney's fault because his former company Halliburton poured some concrete at the well and we know that Halliburton overcharged the government in Iraq and that Dick Cheney made a profit when he sold his Halliburton stock so it is obviously all his fault......the logic is sound, isn't it?
Dear Leader responded quickly to this disaster by moving along his round of golf and only playing a couple of hours of pickup basketball. Dear Leader is the image of compassion and leadership.....mmmm..mmmmmm.....mmmmm....
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