http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/2 ... spill.html]Have some more "good" news:
Although one head has already rolled:
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Quote:New oil-flow estimates by scientists studying the blown-out well determined it has spilled between 64 million and 148 million litres, far more than the 42 million litres that spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster, according to survey director Dr. Marcia McNutt.
Early estimates used satellite images to suggest oil was gushing out of a broken pipe rising from the wellhead at a rate of 800,000 litres a day.
On Thursday, scientists with the geological survey said the amount was five times as much.
Obama blamed BP for not being "fully forthcoming" in providing information to help estimate the size of the spill. BP did not disclose immediately that it had a camera at the well site and did not share images from it until pressured to do so by government officials.
Although one head has already rolled:
Quote:News also surfaced Thursday that the head of the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS), which is responsible for offshore drilling, had resigned.--
Liz Birnbaum had run the service since July 2009. Her department had faced intense scrutiny in recent days after a report by the Interior Department said MMS staffers had accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies.
The report "can only be described as appalling," Obama said Thursday. He also accused her office of having a "scandalously close relationship" with oil companies.
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012