Coast Guard: No oil leaking from sunken rig

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: USToday.com

NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard officials say there is no oil currently leaking from a drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving 11 workers unaccounted for.

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said Friday morning that no oil appeared to be leaking from the well head at the ocean floor 5,000 feet deep, nor was any oil leaking at the water's surface.

Landry says the oil being contained now was residual from the explosion and sinking.

On Wednesday, Landry said the rig was spewing about 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-23-deepwater-horizon_N.htm

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Good news that no more oil is leaking.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Has it been capped yet? Is this truly the end of this story? eom

[Aramchek]

2. How can we blame it on Obama??

:sarcasm:

[tammywammy]

6. Here's another link

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Eco/oil-rig-explosion-coast-guard-no-oil-spill-sunken-rig/story?id=10455646

"We've been able to determine there is nothing emanating from the well-head," Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said. "That being said, we have positioned resources to be ready to respond should a spill occur... We will continue to monitor 24/7 for the next several days."

[ShortnFiery]

19. Correction: *appeared* ... see post 16. eom

[Xipe Totec]

3. I seriously doubt it

Wishful thinking is more likely.

[Xipe Totec]

21. And no big surprise here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8213627

[florida08]

4. Reminds me

of the mine explosion.

[tammywammy]

5. That's good news n/t

[Gman]

7. Why do I not believe this story?

Am I that cynical now?

[superconnected]

9. I don't trust it either - especially since they said they were leaking 13000 gallons an hour.

It just magically stopped I guess, or their store ran out? I don't believe them. Need more info.

[ShortnFiery]

16. Exactly! And the Operative word is *APPEARED* - not to be leaking oil

The article via USA today gives the following as The QUOTE from which to extrapolate the bogus conclusion that "Everything's Fine!" by the whores in the corporate media.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-23-deepwater-horizon_N.htm

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said Friday morning that no oil appeared to be leaking from the well head at the ocean floor 5,000 feet deep, nor was any oil leaking at the water's surface.

I don't take that analysis as SCIENTIFIC.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. They might have never hit oil.

Possible the explosion and fire was related to materials on-board, so the well might be dry. That, or they did at least ONE thing right.

[Gman]

13. Or it's the worst Gulf disaster since IXTOC I in the Bay of Campeche blew out in 1979

and spewed oil uncontrollably for months. 3.5 million barrels of oil was released. It was owned by former Texas governor Bill Clements, the first Republican governor in Texas since Reconstruction.

I never will forget having to watch out for tar balls in the water and on the beach. Everyone took isopropyl alcohol to the beach to wash oil off our feet.

http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/ixtoc1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clements

[superconnected]

18. Then why did they say it was leaking 13000 gallons an hour yesterday?

The article mentions this.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. I wouldn't call it cynicism.

Maybe a lot of other things, but not that.

[truthisfreedom]

8. The ocean floor in that area must be a wasteland.

[Robb]

11. Perhaps, due to effects over time.

Before anyone else says it, I'll point out that oil floats, and that surface effects are the worst when it comes to spills.

[Xithras]

12. The ocean floor in most of the Gulf is a wasteland.

Several years ago Discovery ran a show on it. You can drop a camera at any random point within 200 miles of any gulf shoreline, scout around on the floor, and find human trash within 5 minutes. It's the result of more than a hundred years of human trash washing out of the various rivers into the relatively enclosed gulf. In most of the worlds oceans, the currents tend to collect trash in relatively small areas. In the gulf, it just settles everywhere.

[Jennicut]

15. It is from fertilizers from the Mississippi River as well.

The stretch along the Gulf Coast is also known as Cancer Alley. Chemical plants and waste plants have done a # on the health of that region. This is an article about all the Gulf's problems way back in 2003: http://web.naplesnews.com/deeptrouble/deeptrouble.html#dayone.

[ShortnFiery]

17. What? Does that mean a few hundred THOUSANDS of tons of oil won't ....hurt the wildlife and

damage this area more? Nothing to see here, it was already trashed?

Please don't tell me that's what you think?

[Jennicut]

20. The Gulf has been in serious trouble for years. This just adds to it all.

Where the Dead Zone is:

[Thor_MN]

23. Why they don't mandate air injection at well sites and pipelines is beyond me.

Granted it not completely solve the problems, probably why the "black or white" conservatives wouldn't support it. But if every oil rig and pipeline were bubbling air into the depths, the excess nutrients would get used up.

[Odin2005]

22. And we should believe them WHY?