A top Obama administration official warned Sunday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might not be stopped until late summer after BP’s latest attempt to plug the leak failed.
The “American people need to know” that it’s “possible we will have oil leaking from this well until August, when the relief wells will be finished,” said Carol Browner, the White House energy advisor.
Browner said on CBS that Energy Secretary Steven Chu and a team of scientists on Saturday essentially put a halt to BP’s attempt to cap the spewing well through a process known as “top kill.” The administration team worried that the increasing pressure from heavy drilling mud being forced into the well to seal it actually would make the leak worse.
The worst oil leak in U.S. history is now in its 41st day. It is sending 504,000 to 798,000 gallons a day into the Gulf of Mexico, according to estimates by a government panel.
Interesting to note that a relatively small sin could easily crush a huge giant like BP. I truly hope that it does not happen. But imagine the production that could be had if the $2 billion minimum would go into search and production instead of repair and cleanup.
Our lives are too often a lot like that.
Don
I blame Bush.
Let’s pray for good weather as we enter hurricane season.
#2 I blame the environmentalist and the Nimbay crowd. If this oil well were in Anwar or 100 feet of water it would be capped by now, in days not weeks, Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water? Katrina caused flooding, yet years before, when the Corp of Engineers wanted to build surg protection the environmentalist took the Corp to court and blocked it. DDT was banned on very bad science and millions died in Africa..