By Bondo Lamaragi - Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
BP Plc continues to hide things from the public as another document revealed that the amount of oil gushing out from the BP oil spill leak amounts to 100,000 barrels per day (4.2 million gallons/15.9 million liters). The document was leaked from BP itself and is one of the worst case scenario situations of BP.
Admiral Allen on Wednesday also briefed reporters regarding the collision incident which was reported that had caused the removal of a containment cap over the leaking well. A remote-controlled vehicle collided on the cap which causes some minor damage. In effect more oil gushed out again and made the biggest oil recovery yet ineffective.
In another development, the effects of the oil spill are now being felt on the white sand beaches of Pensacola Beach in Florida. The pudding-like mixture which affected the beach line covered 3 miles or about 5 km. Pensacola Beach is a barrier island that is part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
“It’s just a line of black all the way down the beach as far as you can see in both directions. It’s ruined,” said Pensacola fisherman Steve Anderson.
Emergency workers are now working double time to clean the shore and at least prevent any major damage to one of their tourist attractions and wealth. However, more than the beaches the span of the effect of the BP oil leak if affecting more animals in a greater number of area and territory.
Just a week ago hundreds of sea creatures seeks refuge along the shorelines of Florida and Alabama including dolphins, mantra rays and sharks. Some seabirds too went as deep into the marshy waters near the shore but they were never seen again and are believed to have died. About more than a dozen sea turtles were also found dead and covered in oil last week.
President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress seeks to maintain a moratorium and strict rules on deep offshore oil drilling however, the Republicans and the US Supreme Court seem to be favoring oil companies. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is keen in passing a law which focuses on a drilling ban which was blocked by a federal judge.
“We will in the weeks and months ahead take a look at how it is that the moratorium in place might be refined,” he said.
Obama said that he will see to it that this will be a lesson learned and that whoever is responsible will pay dearly for all the damages cost. This is amidst the findings that the BP management is to blame for all the damages cause because they have made cost-cutting decisions in which safety nets suffered.


[...] the black stuff ebbs and flows at maybe 100,000 barrels a day toward civilization, anger at President Obama and a British conglomerate is reaching a fever pitch. [...]