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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 723423" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>OK, let's go with your number of 5000 gallons per day, the Valdez dumped 11 mil. gallons into Prince William Sound so 5000 gallons per day divided into the 11 million gallons from the Valdez which is our measure equals 2200 days. If you use barrels instead of gallons like Admiral Landry used, then you are into the 50 day scenario that 1989 referred too. The 5000 gallon number is the latest from the Coast Guard but they call that an estimate based on the output of the well itself in production. They use this as worse case scenario in order to factor their response which is smart but the reality is the well is likely not leaking at production levels. They also look at the size of the spill in area and calculate the amount of oil needed to achieve but the spill is not full coverage in that area but is broken and fractured. This may be a saving grace for mammals like dolphins and whales which must surface for air. Hope the weather cuts them a break and at least the winds shifts and starts blowing off shore. </p><p> </p><p>As to making this some kind of America bashing, you'd do well to read the history of BP itself.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">source</span></a></p><p> </p><p>So BP (BRITISH Petroleum) is a British Corporation under the authority of what is called the British Commonwealth or now the Commonwealth of Nations. Would you like to enlighten the rest of us here on Canada's status as to this authority of the commonwealth? </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">source</span></a></p><p> </p><p>Being this rig is located in international waters maybe the real culprit is more Canadian than American!</p><p> </p><p>But there is a significate American connection but can you find it? We'll see won't we!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 723423, member: 2189"] OK, let's go with your number of 5000 gallons per day, the Valdez dumped 11 mil. gallons into Prince William Sound so 5000 gallons per day divided into the 11 million gallons from the Valdez which is our measure equals 2200 days. If you use barrels instead of gallons like Admiral Landry used, then you are into the 50 day scenario that 1989 referred too. The 5000 gallon number is the latest from the Coast Guard but they call that an estimate based on the output of the well itself in production. They use this as worse case scenario in order to factor their response which is smart but the reality is the well is likely not leaking at production levels. They also look at the size of the spill in area and calculate the amount of oil needed to achieve but the spill is not full coverage in that area but is broken and fractured. This may be a saving grace for mammals like dolphins and whales which must surface for air. Hope the weather cuts them a break and at least the winds shifts and starts blowing off shore. As to making this some kind of America bashing, you'd do well to read the history of BP itself. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP"][COLOR=red]source[/COLOR][/URL] So BP (BRITISH Petroleum) is a British Corporation under the authority of what is called the British Commonwealth or now the Commonwealth of Nations. Would you like to enlighten the rest of us here on Canada's status as to this authority of the commonwealth? [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm"][COLOR=red]source[/COLOR][/URL] Being this rig is located in international waters maybe the real culprit is more Canadian than American! But there is a significate American connection but can you find it? We'll see won't we! [/QUOTE]
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