tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571217448396416517.post7001008733727095596..comments2024-02-12T11:58:36.964-06:00Comments on BP Slick: Crews work to place tube over Gulf oil leakJohn L. Wathenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01140840127236193125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6571217448396416517.post-33418352210451291612010-05-15T08:28:37.156-05:002010-05-15T08:28:37.156-05:00Gulf Oil Spill-Positive Action Now! Stop The Flow!...Gulf Oil Spill-Positive Action Now! Stop The Flow!..<br />Positive immediate action must be taken today to stop the out of control oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Assemble pile driving barges and begin lowering a pipe to surround the open pipe/preventer and seal it to the ocean floor. We need to stop the flow now! If the response to seal the leak permanently from the surface were taken at the time of the incident weeks ago; the flow would have been stopped weeks ago. <br />BP is trying to save the well and salvage production instead of sealing the drill hole permanently. Top Hat, if it works at all, is temporary at best and the Junk Shot is very tenuous and not a permanent seal. The plan to siphon part of the flow to a surface vessel is temporary and is designed to salvage oil instead of stopping the flow. <br />Is this environmental and economic chaos a terrorist attack? No more screwing around! It will take 83 sections of welded 60’ pipe and 80 valves to get to 5,000 feet in depth and as the pile is hammered into the sea floor it will seal the preventer and the end of the open pipe and the flow of oil will be contained permanently.<br />President Obama, take control of the spill and start action to permanently seal the flow. - Now! Today! Not a month from now. <br />Dr. Chu, how can you possibly think “things are looking up” in this environmental and economic chaos when the oil flow is unchecked and you have no immediate, positive plan to permanently cut off the flow?<br />Call your representatives in Congress today and demand that positive action be taken today by the Corp of Engineers to seal off the flow of oil by plugging the leak from the surface.<br />http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm<br />http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com