GULF LEAK MAY BE BIGGER THAN BP, GOVERNMENT ARE CLAIMING

[Bluebear]

NEW ORLEANS – While BP is capturing more oil from its blown-out well with every passing day, scientists on a team analyzing the flow said Tuesday that the amount of crude still escaping into the Gulf of Mexico may be considerably greater than what the government and the company have claimed.

Their assertions — combined with BP's rush to build a bigger cap and its apparent difficulty in immediately processing all the oil being collected — have only added to the impression that the company is still floundering in dealing with the catastrophe...

A team of researchers and government officials assembled by the Coast Guard and run by the director of the U.S. Geological Survey is studying the flow rate and hopes to present its latest findings in the coming days on what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

In an interview with The Associated Press, team member and Purdue University engineering professor Steve Wereley said it was a "reasonable conclusion" but not the team's final one to say that the daily flow rate is, in fact, somewhere between 798,000 gallons and 1.8 million gallons.

"BP is claiming they're capturing the majority of the flow, which I think is going to be proven wrong in short order," Wereley said. "Why don't they show the American public the before-and-after shots?"

He added: "It's strictly an estimation, and they are portraying it as fact."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

[marmar]

1. And the MSM parrots BP's "majority of the oil is being captured" line as a fact.....

..... when we know it's a load of bollocks.

[tavalon]

5. They do appear to like to parrot lies, don't they?

[Lil Missy]

2. No shit. n/t

[tavalon]

3. No way! Duh.

I like to say that the way that you can tell a Republican is lying is when his mouth is open. I'm beginning to add that same idea to BP.

[Jamastiene]

4. Time Lapse of the oil from Day 1 through May 24th by MODIS:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oil-spill-video.html

There is a lot more than they are letting on.

[Bluebear]

6. Absolutely.

[Bluebear]

7. kick