Markey: "The (top kill) solution will not be televised". RE:Cam blackout.

[Cetacea]

Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has issued a statement on his Congressional website saying that BP will end the live video feed of the oil spill at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee says in a statement on his website that BP will end its live video feed of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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By J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press
BP informed Markey's office that the live feed would end sometime Wednesday morning and would remain offline until after the attempt to seal the well is completed. Markey chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Read USA TODAY's full coverage of the follow up to the oil spill here.

"It is outrageous that BP would kill the video feed for the top kill," Markey said in the statement. "This BP blackout will obscure a vital moment in this disaster."

The lawmaker added, "After more than a month of spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP is essentially saying to the American people the solution will not be televised."








http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/05/markey-bp-will-kill-live-feed-of-oil-spill/1

[dipsydoodle]

1. Maybe they don't want you to know yet

who'll take over from Jacob as guardian of the well.

[gratuitous]

2. So, they'll cut the feed, declare success, and . . .

Deny that the continuing mess is their responsibility? Well, I have to say this is the only way any of the oil from that well would have gotten to the United States. It was destined for sale to the Asian market.

[Mythbuster]

20. Re where the oil was destined for...

Have you got a link? I'd love to be able to share it with some of the BP drones that are flooding other forums with their defense of BP.

[marions ghost]

3. More than outrageous

:evilfrown:

[Bluebear]

4. Transparency!

[Cetacea]

5. I have a feeling it won't be back.

[jtrockville]

6. This is to be expected when criminals are given free reign.

WHY is BP still calling the shots?

[Trillo]

7. There is a "command and control" structure in place right now.

Not that it wasn't always there pulling strings behind the scenes, it's just that it's official now. Department of Defense related. I've been told that's code for Executive Branch stuff.

Markey can probably yell all he wants and it won't matter much, but they are words that needed to be said.

Be happy :) Envision the well being sealed.

[Cetacea]

8. any more info, link on DOD?

[Trillo]

10. Yes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4396758
goes to
http://www.defense.gov//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59316

[Cetacea]

12. Thank you!

[Bluebear]

9. 'Envision the well being sealed.' - - We'd like to SEE it :)

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. James Cameron offered up his submersibles that he used to film the Titanic

Call him up and tell him to have a camera crew and the subs in the gulf first thing in the morning.

[Cetacea]

13. Link to his efforts and good info on current ops

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7719941/Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-spill-James-Cameron-offers-private-submarines-to-help-BP-clean-up.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. This is when we need to change our laws

regarding corporate secrecy. I suspect one reason they are doing the blackout is the highly technical and proprietary technology companies have.

Warning this is a corporate site, but it shows what I mean by this

http://www.oilvoice.com/n/Paradigm_Oil_and_Gas_Creates_New_Technology_and_Service_Subsidiary/7dbd2f728.aspx

I suspect Markey knows that though...

[Cetacea]

16. The dispersant's are protected by proprietary laws as well

True?

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Yep, gotten so bad that my tennis shoes

are protected by them too.

[Cetacea]

18. +1

What kind of stick do you hit with?

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. I got no clue but most of what I got round these parts

is protected... and is also part of the oil civilization... our addiction is deep.

[greencharlie]

15. so..... what's to hide? nt

[Bluebear]

21. kick