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Obama finally takes up the Dutch offer 53 days later.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 6/16/10 at 4:23 pm
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The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. These are large arms that are attached to oil tankers that pump oil and water from the surface of the ocean into the tanker. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.
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The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. I
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Posted on 6/16/10 at 4:45 pm to tygerstripes
Posted on 6/16/10 at 4:46 pm to tygerstripes
How nice of them not to allow anyone to pump water mixed with oil into the GOM. fricking red tape!!!
This post was edited on 6/16/10 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 6/16/10 at 4:50 pm to DeafValley
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How nice of them not to allow anyone to pump water mixed with oil into the GOM. fricking red tape!!!
Only oil mixed with dispersants is allowed to be pumped into the GOM, duh
Posted on 6/16/10 at 6:27 pm to DeafValley
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How nice of them not to allow anyone to pump water mixed with oil into the GOM
Yeah because the oil is not already mixed into the water!
Posted on 6/16/10 at 7:53 pm to tygerstripes
when are they suppose to arrive in the gulf
Posted on 6/16/10 at 7:55 pm to tygerstripes
Who the HELL originally said NO THANKS? Was it BP or the administration in all their wisdom???
Whoever it was, heads need to roll ...
eta like regs seem to matter in anything these days
Whoever it was, heads need to roll ...
eta like regs seem to matter in anything these days
This post was edited on 6/16/10 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:02 pm to tygerstripes
Wait they did have this technology availible the whole time?
My dad had mentioned something like this but I thought it was a "drawing on a napkin" kind of thing.
Onama really dropped the ball on this.
My dad had mentioned something like this but I thought it was a "drawing on a napkin" kind of thing.
Onama really dropped the ball on this.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:03 pm to tiger91
I posted this awhile back. Official government to government offer rejected based on EPA saying the vessels would not be permitted to discharge the seawater that had just been skimmed and the vast majority of the oil removed from. Right up there with the COE delaying approval of the sand berms to study the environmental impacts while the oil was soiling the marshes. Idiots.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:03 pm to Napoleon
dutch offered their services on day 3 
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:08 pm to tiger91
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Who the HELL originally said NO THANKS? Was it BP or the administration in all their wisdom???
Whoever it was, heads need to roll ...
eta like regs seem to matter in anything these days
I know the Obama administration said no. I do not know what BP's thoughts were on the subject.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:12 pm to omegaman66
who the hell cares what bp says obama should have taken the offer and we wouldnt have had this problem
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:14 pm to nevilletiger79
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dutch offered their services on day 3
Did BP even admit to oil leaking by day 3?
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:25 pm to tiger91
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Whoever it was, heads need to roll ...
For what? Government incompetence? I have news for you. That is the rule not the exception.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 8:34 pm to omegaman66
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I do not know what BP's thoughts were on the subject.
They were not even consulted. Vilify BP for many things, but not this one. This is a great example of much that is wrong with this country. Rules and regulations that totally abandon common sense.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:04 pm to Icansee4miles
if this spill had happened near a third world country we would have sent the navy, coast guard and national guard and the problem would have been solved.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:08 pm to tiger91
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Who the HELL originally said NO THANKS?
It was due to some Act that protected American union workers and Obama didn't want to insult them.
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:18 pm to Cosmo
what union workers are we talking about
Posted on 6/16/10 at 9:56 pm to nevilletiger79
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Who the HELL originally said NO THANKS?
that would be barack odumass and his advisors
Posted on 6/16/10 at 11:48 pm to Cosmo
It's called the Jones Act. This Act was put in place around the 1920's to protect the unions. All the Moron in Chief had to do was sign an Executive Order to temporarily lift the restrictions of the Jones Act.
Bush did this during Katrina.
As far as I know the Jones Act still has not been repealed or lifted.
When the Dutch offered the skimmers he should have been on the phone getting every skimmer on the planet in the Gulf. But he said , "No thanks."
The oil leak is not his fault, but the response is. He had a chance to save the wetlands by using these skimmers, and getting more. He did not. Now we have a catastrophe. The Moron In Cheif is clearly in over his head. Where are all of the people saying how brilliant he is.
He may be an "intellectual", but he has no common sense, and has no wisdom.
The only thing he is good at is blaming people.
He needs to get the skimmers 57 days ago, and instruct BP to order more skimmer arms, and retrofit some existing tankers with those arms. We could have 50 skimmers in the GOM depending on how many arms are available.
For oil underwater we need to get some longer arms and use robotic submarines to guide the arms.
Bush did this during Katrina.
As far as I know the Jones Act still has not been repealed or lifted.
When the Dutch offered the skimmers he should have been on the phone getting every skimmer on the planet in the Gulf. But he said , "No thanks."
The oil leak is not his fault, but the response is. He had a chance to save the wetlands by using these skimmers, and getting more. He did not. Now we have a catastrophe. The Moron In Cheif is clearly in over his head. Where are all of the people saying how brilliant he is.
He may be an "intellectual", but he has no common sense, and has no wisdom.
The only thing he is good at is blaming people.
He needs to get the skimmers 57 days ago, and instruct BP to order more skimmer arms, and retrofit some existing tankers with those arms. We could have 50 skimmers in the GOM depending on how many arms are available.
For oil underwater we need to get some longer arms and use robotic submarines to guide the arms.
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