WRONG!
I’m having flashbacks of the Hedgemony listening to this White House propaganda. The BBC reports that the Majority of BP spill ‘dealt with’
Almost three-quarters of the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico has been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces, the US government has said.
A government report says only a quarter of the oil from the BP well remains and that it is “degrading quickly”.
The majority had been captured, burned off or evaporated, it states. But more clean-up is necessary officials warn.
The report was released after BP announced its “static kill” procedure to seal the leak was working.
…Speaking on the ABC television network, White House energy adviser Ms Browner said: “The scientists are telling us about 25% was not captured or evaporated or taken care of by mother nature.”
She said the inter-agency report was “encouraging”, but added that further clean-up effort was necessary.
Browner is effectively lying. Even Newsweek has figured it out: What the New Report on the Gulf Spill Really Says
To be precise, the report indicates that 50 percent of the oil is gone—17 percent was collected directly from the wellhead, 8 percent has been skimmed or burned, and 25 percent has evaporated or dissolved. Of the remainder, 24 percent has been dispersed, either naturally (16 percent, by the force with which oil left the wellhead, much like spray from an aerosol can) or through the use of chemical dispersants (8 percent). The final 26 percent remains unaccounted for, and has either washed ashore or remains lurking in the sea.
The “dispersed oil” isn’t gone. They are finding it in larval crabs and in huge plumes in the water column. They don’t know what is going on, because they aren’t doing the sampling that is necessary to find it.
At a press conference the head of NOAA, Dr. Lubchenco, said that there was no oil on the floor of the Gulf. How in hell does she know – they don’t have anyone looking at the floor of Gulf. Off shore in five feet of water people are finding oil on the floor of the Gulf, so Lubchenco is back to her bad habit of denying reality until someone buries her in facts. You can’t find it if you don’t look, and NOAA isn’t looking.
We put up with eight years of this anti-scientific garbage under the Shrubbery, and it looks like this is another policy that Obama is continuing.
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We have hauled plenty of dead animals out of the Gulf and off of the beaches. Just because the major media outlets aren’t there to take pictures, doesn’t mean that the local media isn’t.
Since he obviously doesn’t know, things that die in the water come to the surface after a few days because of the gases caused by decay, but they will sink after a few more days, especially when you have tropical storms pushing them off shore.
Regarding over-fishing, the state and federal governments impose major restrictions on fishing in the Gulf, and the size and structures of nets are part of the Florida constitution. We can’t control what happens when the fish head out into the Atlantic.