they operate the plant, and they failed at maintaining the fail safe valve

BP owns the well,and therefore is the one charged with the cleanup.

Transocean is BP's subcontractor, it's BP's responsibility to ensure it's subcontractors are operating to spec. BP could go after Transocean after the fact, but right now this is BP's baby

Also, there were testimonials from survivors that a transocean and BP official were in an argument about the process they were going to use to cement the well.

They're going to play the blame game for a long time after this is over.

top kill has been temporary suspended

watch the show "60 minutes" that was posted earlier, and u'll understand why this is Bp's fault, and not transocean's. BP was pushing the transocean crew harder and harder because it was costing BP way too much money than originally planned to drill this well, thus BP flew people onto tranocean's rig and lay the smack down on how to do shit the BP way, and now shit hits the fan, BP points fingers at transocean.

on a side note the Chevron's Burnaby refinery has been seeping oil, gas and diesel fuel into the Burrard Inlet since at least April 21

http://www.vancouversun.com/Historic...018/story.html

All BP does is talk bullshit too, obviously all these VP's are gonna talk about the best case scenario when in fact it's probably 100 times worse then they report and they know it.
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wow...

I bet more oil, gas, and diesel fuel gets out of motorboats and ships in burrard inlet than that Chevron refinery...

not since April21 thats when it happened. I used to work at the loading rack and they are VERY VERY environmentally conscious. They are just required to notify the government when it happens

bump

is it more or does it look worse then before?

it is more. earlier it was 3 gushers now it looks like 5.


also read that BP took a 16 hour break from top kill and never told anyone till recently

Whats interesting is that BP will have to pay taxes on the amount of oil that has leaked.. (it's considered profit once it's come out of the ground..)which is probably one of their motivations in lying about the numbers.

interesting. i never knew that.

so they are saying could be a max of 3.8mill litres a day right now. Thats a whole lotta tax lol

OBAMA:

"JUST PLUG THE DAMN HOLE!"


lol

I wish I could be down there and help with the clean-up.

The only thing that is stopping me is the cost of the flight, rent, food, etc.

ill equip you might end up like those sick fishermen

Wow @ $930 million just for the clean up. Imagine the payouts for the massive lawsuits in the coming months and years and possible lawsuits from the various States and residents against the EPA for dumping millions of gallons of untested toxic chemicals.

u need a donation from RS fellows to save up ur flight ticket

MSNBC is reporting that they managed to stop the flow of oil from the well with the drilling mud. Now they have to pump it full of cement.

They're not out of the woods yet.

"WASHINGTON - The flow of oil from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has stopped, the Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen claimed Friday, but BP warned it would be a further 48 hours before it was known whether the "top kill" procedure had been successful.

"They have been able to stop the hydrocarbons from coming up the wellbore," Allen said on ABC's Good Morning America. "I think the real challenge today is going to be sustain the mud on top of the hydrocarbons and reduce the pressure to the point where they could actually put a cement plug in."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37394541/ns/gulf_oil_spill/

*Fingers crossed*

Yeah the only thing stopping me from going to Africa and saving the children from aids and famine is the cost of flight, rent, food, etc.

^

Any excuse will do!

My Cousin is a Oil driller in Northern Alberta. He said the only way that they will be able to stop it is to diagonally drill into the existing pipe and attempt to block or redirect the oil flow

He also mentioned that anyone that finds out how to stop it will be an instant Billionaire. His crew put in a multi billion dollar quote to drill over a period of 8 months.