- dedicated to Borehead, Fishwarrior and others fighting for the oppressed “small people” fishing businesses.
A crime is not a crime unless you are caught with your pants down. Yet you wonder why the “big people” don’t go to jail for perjury, for insider trading, murder and other crimes even when caught red-handed. On the other hand, the lesser people or “small people” as BP chairman referred to were punished dis-proportionally. See the many articles highlighting the high-handed punishments meted out to poor fishermen for failing to observe NOAA’s stringent catch quota and NOAA/NMFS’s unfair treatment of fishermen and the Federal Government’s takeover and redistribution of marine resources at Bore-head007 and fishwarrior columns at Newsvine.com
Nowhere is the disparity in double standards more evident than in the regulators’ kid glove treatment of BP’s gross violations and repeated misconducts. See ex-EPA attorney’s 12 years wrestle to disqualify BP from receiving billions of dollars in government contracts and other benefits for repeated misconducts. Yet despite the high risk of offshore exploration drilling especially in the delicate deep water shelf edge zone, MMS (Minerals Management Services, the federal agency previously in charge of regulating offshore drilling activities) gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf. See US said to allow Drilling without needed permits.
One would have thought NOAA should be more concerned with BP’s gross negligence and misconduct as any disaster like the DeepWater Horizon blowout would have financial, environmental and social impacts far greater than any accidents involving the small fishing businesses. Drilling into a major strike-slip fault zone and an active mud-volcano would be inviting trouble yet BP was never charged for gross negligence. Drilling into the worst possible high risk geohazardous location must be willful negligence of the highest order. Yet BP was never punished. On the other hand, “excessive fines are normal" said Gloucester-based fisheries attorney Stephen Ouellette. "Regulatory compliance is less important to NOAA than collecting money for their expenses." NOAA Attorney Charles Juliand’s cash demand draws ethic fire.
Would BP a technological multinational giant, admit to not knowing the existence of the NW-SE strike-slip fault and mud-volcano it was drilling into? That would be an admission of gross incompetence since the broken geology, faults and mud-volcanoes are clearly evident even on the basis of publicly available information. It is doubtful BP would publicly challenge the forensic and technical analyses given in bklim.newsvine.com.
BP has long denied ever drilling more than 1 well at the Macondo 252 prospect. That is a complete lie. Images of 2 different well-heads were published on 11 Nov 2010 to prove this. More images captured by BP’s ROVs are given here to provide the conclusive proof that the third and deepest well (S20BC) did exist. That well was the only well (out of the three) to have reached the oil reservoir at 18,300 ft bml. Images to prove that BP had not ceased chemical spraying despite public denials were published on 13 Nov 2010.
So when Tony Hayward swore to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth before Congress, was he not guilty of perjury. If NOAA is toothless in prosecuting BP for their crimes of perjury and mass destruction, then NOAA should also lay off persecuting the “small people” fishing businesses.
The following video-footages and images, establish the fact that the third well (S20BC) exists. Further if the dates on the ROVs’ video are correct then the relief wells must have intercepted the rogue well much earlier than 15 Sept. For BP to be working on the casing of the blown well, the gushing well needed to be bullheaded first by the relief wells. In all probability at least one of the 2 relief wells must have intercepted the rogue well in the first week of July. And while the relief well was bullheading and trying to kill the rogue well, BP was performing a “dog & pony show” on the shallowest well (Well A) which was drilled down to only 5,000ft bml. The whole truth of the 3rd well is reminiscent of “The Emperor Wore No Clothes” story.
The target date for intercepting the leaking well and pumping in mud and cement to permanently seal it is still mid- August, U.S. National Incident Commander Thad Allen said today on a conference call with reporters. The well is within 600 feet (182 meters) of intercepting the leak, he said.
“They are ahead of schedule at this point,” Allen said. “I am reluctant to tell you that it will happen before the middle of August because I think that everything associated with this spill and response recovery suggests that we should under- promise and over-deliver.”
HOUSTON -- BP says the rig drilling the relief well that's the best hope of stopping the Gulf oil spill has made it within about 20 feet horizontally of the blown-out well that's gushing crude. BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Monday that the rig is going to drill an additional 900 feet down before crews cut in sideways and start pumping in heavy mud to try to stop the flow from the damaged well. It's currently about 16,770 feet down.
Wells says BP is moving extremely cautiously to make sure everything is lined up correctly and the relief well is still on target to be finished by early August. A second well is being drilled as a backup. Wells says the company has a high degree of confidence in the relief wells.
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A normal well takes 3 to 4 weeks to drill. A relief well with an inclined trajectory will probably take 6 weeks. So Relief Well C should have reached the 3rd rogue well at 18,000ft bsl by the first week of July as suspected. BP was just playing for time and was not sure if the relief wells could successfully kill the well from below even though publicly they still maintained that the Relief Wells were the surest and most reliable way of plugging the leaks. But BP soon found out the hard way what many independent geologists had been expecting of the broken geology; that it was impossible to put the Genie back into the bottle.
From the first week of July till mid September, BP was lying to the anxious world that the Relief Well C was still waiting to intercept (even though it was less than 20 feet horizontally from the rogue well) when it already had and had been trying to bottom kill it without success. Did Thad Allen “lie (knowingly or unknowingly)” to the shocked world in early Sept that the Relief Well Intercept would not happen until mid October. Then suddenly on 19 Sept BP released an official press statement that the Macondo 252 well “had been successfully cemented” which started unannounced on 15 Sept. All were taken by surprise including the BP’s goons at TOD who had spent months discussing and at times arguing intensely on the intricate details of intercepting the wild well. BP sure fooled the world. Was the 19 Sept press statement prompted by political consideration when nothing had changed with respect to permanent killing of the well or rather the leaks from the reservoir? Now that the truth of the 3rd Well is blown open wide, NOAA should have no more excuses in prosecuting BP. Not to do so will be an obvious dereliction of NOAA’s duty.
The following videos show the rare footage of the third well (courtesy of BeePeeOildisaster) and its vicinity:
Figure 138-1 - Undated video with no rov information at all. The video is inverted (shown upside down) to confuse.
10 July 2010 (date of video posting) http://www.youtube.com/user/BeePeeOilDisaster#p/u/282/Qq83rFsVzvc
Figure 138-2 – Shows a casing dipping about 10ยบ into the seafloor, next to a turbulent gas column.
5 July 2010 http://www.youtube.com/user/BeePeeOilDisaster#p/u/266/iOE8SjWzP-A
I know I’m just a “small people” but there is strength in numbers and there are alot of us “small people” who aren’t afraid of knowing!
Remember that compulsive violent retaliation is out of the question here.
Again thank you for the article. I am humbled.
I have been trying to tell them via you tube but they don’t listen to reasoning.
your going to see them all in their graves within 10 years Bp will stall them out until they are gone.I feel a sad sorrow for them they have not the good sense to leave
and hang on to a dream that is no more.
they are being poisoned daily and it compiles in the body , it is a particular nasty poisoning.
the Libetarians and Taxpayers parties would unite as one party and
the people support them things might possibly change for the better ?????
myspace/erikthered9
The scenes of crocodiles nailing 250 lb wildebeests (in the National Geographic movie “Nile Crocodiles: Here be Dragons’) are illustrative of the natural efficiency of predation. Predation, when inflicted on other humans, is generally thought of as a low class act. It is opportunistic, betrays trust, and leads to societal breakdown.
For this instance, inability to read is the weakness being exploited to a vulnerability by our own criminal government. Notice the “Corexit is like icecream” statements by government officials to Gulf kids in school presentations. Our present and past federal administration is the same cabal. They have no class and they have no balls. And they are intentionally murdering us in the down-wind GOM region and Iraq-Afghanistan. And they won’t come out to play or take criticism. Or compete. I am grateful for other exceptional government officials who, by the way, need help with their loads. Turn off your TV set and set it on fire. The revolution II will not be televised. The top TV execs make damn sure no University lectures make airplay. Most of them evidently want to kill or enslave us too. Kinda makes those sit-coms seem a bit hollow. Ay?
Congressional offices are affected by personal visits. If you campaign thusly they react. They seldom process e-mails and wordy letters. And they talk about visits in private. Avoid dumping personal baggage on them like divorce, bothersome neighbor or neighbor’s dog type junk at all costs. Stay focused. The DH blowout. Please tell them to let other experts in and out to report NOW without BP interference, including White House noise. Obama is a shill.
This is my opinion only……We need to Stand Up to these Cretins. Who ever said they were a “small” person…buddy, there isn’t anything small about any of you.
I thought I would share my theme song with ya all,
God Bless You,
Trisha Springstead RN
I think usually we need a U.S. Senator via a state Senator to successfully lobby for something like full undirected access to examine the DH site for the next 100 years. It should be a Senator that isn’t being black mailed. One of mine has been caught with under aged kids at least twice and the other one commonly rates 100 out of 100 in being ineffective. Neither wanders far from home.
I believe they are intentionally killing off GOM citizens until a U.N. force will come swooping in to really seal this thing off in 2 or 10 years because of ‘colonial American arrogance’ and ‘failure’. All the U.N. busses, camps and prisoner train-cars have been in place for up to 20 years and more. Old VCR tapes and .com materials prove it.
Historical records indicate that this is a realistic suspicion if not accurate. Successful colonizations require banks and promises these days. And most of America is hypnotized by CFR- TV and little plastic toys or their own criminal behavior. They are already casualties in any sense.
We must replace their false belief of survival in such such madness.
When your mamma told you that you were perfect and safe, she was lying.