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Title: In Gulf Oil Spill 'War,' Cleanup Foot Soldiers Threaten Mutiny
Source: CSM
URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0 ... -foot-soldiers-threaten-mutiny
Published: Jun 24, 2010
Author: Patrik Jonsson
Post Date: 2010-06-24 15:13:19 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2447
Comments: 16

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, President Obama's pointman on the Gulf oil spill, has called the effort to contain the runaway Macondo well and keep its crude release off beaches and out of marshes "an insidious war."

But if the framing of the Deepwater Horizon accident and its aftermath has morphed from disaster rhetoric to war imagery, local officials say the shared BP and Washington response has suffered from a lack of situational awareness, racking up a long list of battlefield mistakes that is hampering efforts to keep tens of millions of gallons of gooey crude from coming ashore in the kind of "tarball attack" that hit Pensacola Beach Wednesday.

"You've got a militia sitting in this room," Gulf County commissioner Bill Williams told Coast Guard and BP officials in a combative meeting on Wednesday. "They can either be with you or against you."

The Coast Guard has admitted that it has failed to both anticipate and control the 2,500 square mile oil slick that's hiding in the waters off places like Perdido Key, Orange Beach and Plaquemines Parish, resolving to do better.

In recent weeks, the joint BP-Coast Guard Unified Command has created four regional command centers with the goal of pushing command and control down to spill level to better orchestrate the movement of boom and skimmers as the spill evolves.

Allen said Wednesday he hopes BP's replacement of Tony Hayward with Mississippi-born Bob Dudley as the spill response manager will improve communication and movement of resources.

"BP's decision to greater response organization for the Gulf ... is a very, very good decision," Allen said Thursday.

Earlier in the week Allen touted the success of the operation. "We have marshaled the largest response in our nation's history, and we have continued to adapt and evolve this response at every turn," he said.

But local officials say they've seen little improvement as their requests get bounced around, ignored or even opposed.

The main problem, they say, is the confusing command structure, which to them seems to have too many generals and not enough battlefield commanders, thus gumming up the ability of local leaders to react to approaching oil.

"How can you fight a war when you don't let the people on the ground make decisions," says Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson. "You're going to lose that war."

Mr. Robinson told the Monitor that requests for more help after a large swath of oil washed up on Pensacola Beach Tuesday night were initially rebuffed because central command in Mobile said they couldn't put certain kinds of equipment on a national seashore. But most of Santa Rosa Island is a public beach. "How could they not know that?" Robinson said.

In Plaquemines Parish, Mr. Nungesser blamed "government bureaucratics" for shutting down construction of a piece of a new protective berm structure over concerns they were dredging an area outside the allowed perimeter, possibly damaging the natural sand dunes. The delay came as northwesterly winds drove the spill toward the Chandeleur Islands. Two weeks ago, the Coast Guard temporarily shut down a barge pumping operation run by the state of Louisiana because the boats didn't have enough life vests aboard.

“We have told ... the Army Corps of Engineers and every federal agency that we are in an emergency situation here," Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday. "This is a disaster for our state. Days count. Hours count. We cannot wait for more conference calls and meetings for discussions. We need to adapt to the situation on the ground...." Subscribe to *Spill-Baby-Spill*

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

If Owe-bama can find a way to screw up Iraq, he'll be losing THREE WARS at once!

(chuckle)

Learning a man that tried to destroy your company just got sentence to 18 months in prison, and fined $600,000 will make ya a happy happy man. What a great day. Now, all I have to do is select the right card to send him in prison lol.

Badeye  posted on  2010-06-24   15:16:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

"BP's decision to greater response organization for the Gulf ... is a very, very good decision," Allen said Thursday.

Earlier in the week Allen touted the success of the operation. "We have marshaled the largest response in our nation's history, and we have continued to adapt and evolve this response at every turn," he said.

But local officials say they've seen little improvement as their requests get bounced around, ignored or even opposed.

Deaths of Insurgent Leaders.

Google that and you'll find the US Empire.

What the NOGC+Florida 35 million are now finding out. You're Small People and the Plan is to let you die.

" "You've got a militia sitting in this room," Gulf County commissioner Bill Williams told Coast Guard and BP officials in a combative meeting on Wednesday. "They can either be with you or against you."

Against you it is. Corporations v People. U Pic 'Em.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   10:09:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2)

A Bankrupt BP - Worse For The Financial World Than Lehman Brothers? by JSMineset

"People are seriously underestimating how much liquidity in the global financial world is dependent on a solvent BP."

See? Like I say, you can now, after the DeepS hit Horizon find out immediately who's on which side.

Corporate Planet Killer or the Indigenous People.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   10:11:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: War, Fred Mertz, All (#3) (Edited)

TPTB can't hold it.

BP p.l.c. Common Stock (NYSE: BP)

Real-Time: 27.38 Down 1.36 (4.73%)

They're desperate to extend pretend thru Monday.

ain't gonna work. Seize the british petroleum now.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   10:13:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm (#4)

You have my call...

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-25   10:19:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: war (#5)

You have my call...

;}

And the BDI:

Now 2502. So many Broken Trends Lines, looks like a multi vehicle interstate pile up. ;}

http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index.htm

2502.

2290 and you can turn off the lights. Cause it'll be breaking 1380 on the way to 890.

The US/UK/Israel will have to start a REAL LIVE WAR.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   10:36:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: war (#5)

You have my call...

A lot of bp folks goin' to prison:

BP p.l.c. Common Stock (NYSE: BP)

After Hours: 26.93 Down 0.09 (0.33%) 5:39PM EDT Last Trade: 27.02 Trade Time: 4:00PM EDT Change: Down 1.72 (5.98%) Prev Close: 28.74 Open: 27.77 Bid: 26.92 x 100 Ask: 26.94 x 5000 1y Target Est: 44.58 Day's Range: 26.83 - 28.08 52wk Range: 26.83 - 62.38 Volume: 93,243,758 Avg Vol (3m): 48,796,700

At all stages during the drilling of a well it shall be assured that assumptions made during the casing design are not violated."

Quote Originally Posted by Cynthia View Post If negative and positive pressure tests are run before the cement has 'set enough', is it possible to negatively affect the cement intergity? Absolutely. Halliburton recommended waiting on cement 48 hours to obtain the proper compressibility strength. This recommendation was totally ignored by BP even thought their own bible clearly states to use API guidleines & have a sample premade. I think you are staring to get your own picture of just how agregious these acts were. You have to understand when you come into this thread late that it takes a few weeks to set in just how guilty these people are. companyman1 gCaptain

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-25   17:57:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: mcgowanjm (#7)

PING me when it hits 19.99.

Thanks...

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

war  posted on  2010-06-25   18:20:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: war, All (#8)

PING me when it hits 19.99.

Thanks...

I won't have to.

It will take Herculean efforts to avoid seeing it and it's implications.

Derivatives everywhere will be acting like popcorn over a flame.

Your welcome.

And this guy, Hiram Eastland is my age. I grew up in the same area. He's the nephew of the Late Senator James O. Eastland. You may or may not know who the Senator was. LBJ/Hoover had a very close relationship with the man.

Just sayin' these are Big Guns aimed at bp's heart:

"The coalition of law firms bringing the suits anticipates uncovering further evidence of BP's shenanigans through the discovery process, and will likely add additional claims - and defendants - as a result.

According to Eastland:

"These claims are just the tip of the iceberg, and we fully anticipate adding additional claims and defendants as this civil litigation progresses. The public deserves to know the whole truth."

"It's not just the people of the South, but people from all over the country who have come to love the Gulf of Mexico and our Gulf shores just as much as we do. They love our pristine seashores, our pelicans and sea gulls and sandpipers, our dolphins and our seafood and the whole way of life we enjoy on the Gulf Coast. And they passionately believe as we do that it's past time to get action, if not get medieval on BP's unlawful conduct and what they have done to our shared waters and our Coast."

Ongoing investigations, as well as the discovery process, could turn up new evidence of wrongdoing, not just on BP's part, but across the entire offshore drilling industry. Given the revelations last week by Rep. Ed Markey's committee that the five major offshore drilling companies had each submitted nearly identical response plan documents, there are hefty implications for all the major oil companies engaged in offshore drilling, some or all of which might be added as defendants in these RICO suits.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-26   8:23:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: war (#8)

OhS hit. Like I thought.

Eastland hooked up with the Mississippi/Florida folks that got Phillip Morris to change it's name:

"

May 7 – Judge throws out hog farm suit. As was reported a few months ago, a number of environmental groups aim to take a lesson from the tobacco affair by using mass lawsuit campaigns to pursue various goals which they haven’t been able to secure through the legislative and electoral process. To do this they’ve teamed up with tobacco-fee-engorged trial lawyers; the nascent alliance got lots of publicity in December with one of its first projects, suing Smithfield Farms for billions over the nuisance posed by large-scale hog farming, a project apparently masterminded by Florida trial lawyer Mike Papantonio (tobacco, asbestos, fen-phen) and with suits against chicken and livestock operations promised in later phases of the effort (see Dec. 7, 2000). Far less publicity has been accorded to Judge Donald W. Stephens’s ruling in March which threw out the first two lawsuits as having failed to state a legal claim against the large hog packer and raiser. (Appeal is expected.) Power scion Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is still on board with his headline-ready name to front for the lawyers in the press, but he doesn’t seem to have gone out of his way to call attention to the adverse ruling (”North Carolina judge dismisses lawsuits against hog producer”, AP/MSNBC, March 30; Scott Kilman, “Environmental groups target factory-style hog farm facilities”, Wall Street Journal/MSNBC, undated; Smithfield press release, March 29).

MORE: National Public Radio, “Living on Earth” with Steve Curwood and reporter Leda Hartman, week of Feb. 16; Water Keeper Alliance (Kennedy’s group), hog campaign homepage with list of lawyers (J. Michael Papantonio, Steven Echsner and Neil Overholtz, Levin, Papantonio, Pensacola, Fla.; Thomas Sobol, Jan Schlichtmann, Steven Fineman and Erik Shawn of Lieff, Cabraser, New York and Boston; F. Kenneth Bailey, Jr. and Herbert Schwartz of Williams Bailey, Houston; Howard F. Twiggs and Douglas B. Abrams of Twiggs, Abrams, (Raleigh, N.C.), Ken Suggs and Richard H. Middleton, Jr. of Suggs, Kelly & Middleton (Columbia, S.C.), Joe Whatley, Jr., Birmingham, Ala.; Kevin Madonna, Chatham, N.Y.; Stephen Weiss and Chris Seeger, New York; Charles Speer, Overland Park, Kan.;

Hiram Eastland, Greenwood, Miss.) Compare “Conoco Could Face $500 Million Lawsuit Over Bayou Water Pollution Problems”,

Solid Waste Digest: Southern Edition, March 2001 (page now removed, but GoogleCached) (Papantonio campaign in Pensacola).

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-26   8:29:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: All (#10)

Ruh Roh:

"Before suing Aetna Inc. last month, lawyers associated with Richard Scruggs, whose small Pascagoula, Miss., firm earned hundreds of millions of dollars suing the tobacco industry, flew to Louisville for a two-hour meeting with Dr. Peeno.

A physician and former insurance-claims reviewer, Dr. Peeno knows managed care from the inside. In recent years she has been remarkably successful as an expert witness in more than 20 suits brought by individuals against their health-maintenance organizations. Now the class-action attorneys are saying she could be critical to the success of their cases, too.

"Had she not been speaking out, articulating the problems, it would have been difficult to come up with the legal theories that underlie our case," says Hiram Eastland, a Greenwood, Miss., lawyer in the Scruggs group."

British petroleum's a Dead Corporation Walking. 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-26   8:31:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: war, All (#11)

Don't fuck with the South.

We'll show you your heart before you die.

;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-26   8:32:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: mcgowanjm (#11)

British petroleum's a Dead Corporation Walking. 8D

I don't know about that. I don't thinks so.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-06-26   22:36:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Fred Mertz (#13)

British petroleum's a Dead Corporation Walking. 8D

I don't know about that. I don't thinks so.

I know so.

'Deaths of Insurgent Leaders'. That phrase has only up to now been used in US Empires Overseas.

Coming to a Coast near US. ;}

Either that or the same folks who brought down Big Tobacco (remember those pesky Southern Lawyers;} are going to file No Lose Lawsuits. Which the US Gov't will have to step in to quash.

See Eastland Law Firm, Greenwood MS for details.

The 35 million on the NOGC+Florida are a Non Trivial Population. Think the SEC in Football and multiply by exponentials.

british petroleum is being crushed as we speak. At 20, the derivatives based on bp implode.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-27   9:34:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Fred Mertz (#13)

BTW, I didn't mention that one Cat 3 will move Everything forward.

Alex jogging towards the LA/TEX border will have people in the know pissing themselves.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-27   9:37:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Fred Mertz (#13) (Edited)

You can tell how bp's on death's door by the TOTAL abscence of comment by the Media.

Our Leaders aren't sending out any copy, eh? And filling the silence with .....WAIT FOR IT....

liz cheney on FAUX. And Kristol, DavidF ucking Brooks and Afghan Apologists.

Disgusting evil.

BP p.l.c. Common Stock (NYSE: BP)

After Hours: 26.85 Down 0.17 (0.63%) 7:59PM EDT Last Trade: 27.02 Trade Time: Jun 25 Change: Down 1.72 (5.98%)

Queen's Ass Petroleum Dead Corp Walking. Just a preview of the fate of ALL Corporations.

I mean look. Corp's do nothing but kill the planet. And the killing is increasing. While 200 000 are added every day.

That's a 100% guaranteed implosion. 2 years(and nothing to do with the MAyans, btw;}

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-06-27   9:42:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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