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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:34 PM
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BP pledges $500m to study oil spill's impact on gulf
Source: BBC News

BP has pledged $500m (£346m) to study the impact on the Gulf of Mexico of the oil spill, as top US officials flew over the area to assess BP's response.

A BP official said a bid to plug the leaking well with heavy mud and cement stood a 60-70% chance of success.

He said the company shared widespread public frustration with its inability to stem the leak.

BP is under increasing pressure from the US government, which has threatened to take over the response effort.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10149233.stm
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:40 PM
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1. This isn't some damned science experiment
We need 500 Billion to go to clean up.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 01:29 PM
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11. Or to stop it...the studies can come later...
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:41 PM
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2. oh they are going to be spending that on lawyers alone

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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:43 PM
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3. You mean study as in funneling money to lobbyists?
Which is where the cash will most likely wind up.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:44 PM
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5. If this means BP in control of the "study" ... then NO --
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:44 PM
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4. "US government, which has threatened to take over the response effort." ....
They're finally getting the message -- !!!

Would we ever have imagined anything like this having happened under Britain's control,

for one, and the private company remaining in charge?

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joanmj Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:48 PM
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7. Maybe the gov will take control.
Everyone is so frustrated!
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 01:04 PM
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9. Salazar/Obama are saying they're not sure BP knows what it's doing . . .!!
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FailureToCommunicate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:47 PM
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6. "[the U.S.] has threatened to take over the response effort" Then hire BP to manage it at
'consultant' rates and force U.S. taxpayers to cover all the costs. Nationalizing in reverse. What a plan.

Capitalism will always be "successful" as long as you have Socialism to back it up when it gets into trouble.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 01:17 PM
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10. Well that IS what I see most here screaming their heads off for...
while screeching for Obama's. :shrug:
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swilton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 12:57 PM
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8. We Don't Need Studies and Threats!
We NEED Action and remediation. I don't care if this hasn't happened before - get some bubble gum and plug up the leak. Mobilize the unemployed to do the clean-up. Ask for cooperation in CONSERVATION. BP doesn't have a monopoly on petroleum engineers.. Where is the Yankee ingenuity....This country has solved unprecedented problems before.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 01:46 PM
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12. A study? Is it possible to hate them more than I do?
WHY DIDN'T THEY DO THE STUDY FIRST?
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liberation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 02:16 PM
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13. Fuck'em. They can study all the reports on their crime from their prison cells...
Edited on Mon May-24-10 02:18 PM by liberation
all they want. And they should be ever so lucky. They did not extend the same courtesy to the untold wildlife they have harmed and the people's whose livelihoods/survival/future they have destroyed.

What is next Charlie Manson offering to write a PhD thesis on the psychological effects on the surviving victims of his gang of killers?
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Plaid Adder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 02:30 PM
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14. Oh no. Oh, nonononono.
You are liable for this mess. You do NOT get to be the people who tell us how much the damage costs.

@#$!,

The Plaid Adder
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