How do BP and the Coast Guard get the press to speak of their heroic joint recovery efforts if they bar proper media access? What recovery efforts, you ask. Well, we wouldn’t know because we can’t see them or get someone knowledgeable to say something useful and sensible about them now, can we?
The Oil Drum | BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Not Everything is Clearly Successful
And at that drilling speed, they should be perhaps [be] there by now, in fact this number would suggest that they might have reached it. There then still remains the delay while they run that casing, which could be some significant additional time, depending on conditions.
… The voyage of the A Whale to sweep up large quantities of oil has so far been inconclusive and, despite the large fleet of vessels employed for the process, only an average of 900 barrels a day is reported as having been skimmed and recovered, initially by the two companies BP relied on.
nola.com | Media, boaters could face criminal penalties by entering oil cleanup ‘safety zone’
“The safety zone has been put in place to protect members of the response effort, the installation and maintenance of oil containment boom, the operation of response equipment and protection of the environment by limiting access to and through deployed protective boom,” the news release said.
… In order to get within the 65-foot limit, media must call the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans, Edwin Stanton, to get permission.
