Breaking: Miles of Oil Containment Boom in Warehouse- Just Sitting- Waiting For BP or US to Collect (Video!)
by Jim HoftUNBELIEVABLE! How’s this for HOPE AND CHANGE?
Tar blobs began washing up on Florida’s white sand beaches near Pensacola this past weekend. Crude oil has already been reported along barrier islands in Alabama and Mississippi, and has impacted about 125 miles of Louisiana coastline.
It didn’t have to be this way.
(Reuters)
There are miles of floating oil containment boom in warehouse right now and the manufacturer Packgen says it can make lots more on short notice.
There’s just one problem… No one will come get it.
Maine Governor Baldacci visits Packgen to see the manufacturing of Oil Containment Booms, as well as lend his support to the people of Packgen and the Gulf Coast.
Gregory Sullivan at Pajamas Media reported, via Instapundit:
John Lapoint of Packgen in Auburn, Maine, says he’s got plenty of floating oil containment boom and can make lots more on short notice. There’s just one problem: no one will buy it from him.
He’s already had a representative from BP visit his factory and inspect his product. The governor of Maine, John Baldacci, visited the facility and made a video plea to no one in particular to close the deal. Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins wrote a letter on May 21 to the secretary of the Interior, the administrator of NOAA, and the commandant of the Coast Guard to alert them to the existence of Packgen, their supply of boom, and their demonstrated capacity to make more. I have no idea if those are the correct persons and agencies to notify about the manufacturing capacity and the availability of boom. One wonders if the senators know.
While it is not easy to clean up an ocean oil spill, it is not a complicated procedure. In the open ocean, chemicals can be sprayed on slicks to try to disperse them. For the most part, oil floats, so it can sometimes be ignited and burned to lessen the amount that might reach a more sensitive area than the middle of an ocean. Out in open water, you can use booms (temporary floating barriers), but the wind and wave action makes it pretty difficult to place them and keep them there. When you get in closer to shore, where the oil is likely to do the most damage but the water is generally calmer, the best way to deal with it is to place flexible booms in the water, against which the oil will collect, and then run skimmers, a sort of pump that vacuums up and separates the oil from the water. Then you mop up what makes it to the shore as best you can.
…Oil collected against a boom is fairly easy to process and recycle. Sorbent booms, designed to collect oil at the water’s edge, are made from materials that absorb oil but not water — unlike hair. Oil full of hair or straw lapping against a shoreline is a HazMat nightmare. And sorbent boom is not in short supply anyway.
…Packgen’s main business is not making oil boom. They make specialty packaging materials for shipping and storing environmentally sensitive materials. But when Packgen’s president, John Lapoint, saw the BP oil spill in the news, he understood right away that to have any hope of containing the oil drifting towards the shoreline, lots of floating boom would be necessary.
It didn’t have to be this way. Our southern shores could have been spared.
If Barack Obama really wants to find some ass to kick. It may be his own.
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Mr president, Go get the DAMN BOOMS. *sigh*
Well I guess ol barack needs to get out there and kick some ass
Obama is in charge. Therefore, clearly, NOBODY is in charge.
Go back to Community Organizing in South Chicago…..America was safer and wealthier before Obambi got to Washington DC.
There is NO question that Limbaugh hit the nail on the head when he stated that Obama WANTS this catastrophe to happen. The less he does the more he can bash BP and the private sector in general.
Government is really good at forcing people to do what it wants, but it shows its soft underbelly when it comes up against a force greater than itself, ie, nature.
The Founding Fathers understood this: that nature's law is supreme, that freedom is supreme, that government will try like mad to usurp nature's role and thus it must be limited to a few defined responsibilities.
Wow. This could be big. I don't think the MSM can ignore this for long.
If the President is really looking for solutions, this one is a start…. instead of talking to college professors, he should be taking to Packgen and other's who have solutions to this disaster…. I'm sick of the President always pointing fingers. He needs to stop talking about kicking ass and start by getting off his and get this disaster under control. The President wants to be in charge… well, this one is on you Mr President.
Barry will need to empanel a team of experts, spend $5billion, play 10rounds of golf, too make a decision, on whether or not to discuss getting the Containment Boom to the Gulf!
Let’s not be hasty here! Barry’s gotta think this through.
Mr president, Go straight to hell.
You're useless as tits on a boar hog.
I own a pickup. Can I go start taking loads of boom to the gulf. Come on…SOMEBODY GET IT. How about Bobby Jindahl? Can he sent the Louisiana National Guard?
This is the tenth time I've heard about possible clean up and no work they're doing it. Are they skimming? Are they burning? Are they at least doing it somewhere???
Barry couldn’t kick his own ass, if Rahm and Axelrod held him down. And we know Barry’s all ass, so that’s pretty pathetic.
He's saving them for the bloodbath that will be the November Midterms
Obviously, someone wants an environmental disaster. Now, who benefits from this?
Every time the man thinks it costs another billion, Jindal should have threw him and the EPA the bird, If The POTUS doesn't want to Act on anything the Governors on the gulf coast should push him out of the way… To Hell with the Feds. What are they gonna do about it anyway? Point fingers?
And, he'll need to form a new gov't agency to "handle" procurement.
FAGS….Federal Agency for Gettin Stuff
I don't care who you are, that's funny.
The two most likely reasons Packgen is still sitting on this equipment are: 1. They don't donate enough money to the Dems. or 2. They must have a NON-union workforce.
Maybe he just can't let a crisis go to waste. Maybe in this administration's eyes the bigger the crisis the better. And what better way to expand the crisis than to sit on thier thumbs. Though probally a chicken with his head cut off senario fits the situation at hand more squarely.
"Get out of your own way"
"lost in space"
"Ate up with the dumb ASS"
"It ain't my job"
How about kickin' your own ass…
Stay tuned for June 8, 2010 “Mini” Super Tuesday Election Results: http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/06/08/june-8-20... A lot is going to be happening all night and we all need to help each other make sure we don't miss anything.
Also, who is everyone rooting for in the big races? Is there a race that we aren't focusing on that we should be?
Once again the idiots reveal theirselves, what do you people base these accusations and theoretical scanarios on?
I would like to think that all that good music should of set his head right.
My first guess would be that Packgen's workforce isn't Union. Or maybe they didn't donate enough to the Obama campaign.
To paraphrase Joe Biden…………………………………….."this isn't a big fukn deal"……………………
I'm not rooting for Romney, that's for damn sure. Palin 2012. Romney can fade away like the RINO he is.
I wonder why FEMA isn't doing anything?…Seems like they could help with the
beaches….Everyday it's something new with this spill, they say they think they
are getting a handle on it, and two days later they say it's worse…If they don't
get it under control, we're in big trouble…
Geez Louise!!! I live 2 hours away and I could rent a few trucks to drive it down there and still be faster than the feds at this point!!!!! Incompetence at the highest levels.
Lemme guess. Enviro-wackos don't think these booms are enviro-friendly ENOUGH – so the pelicans and turtles CAN DIE – while the ULTIMATE GOAL of "Green Utopia" advances.
" BP has been talking secondary well shafts and Obama chimed in with a 3rd drilled shaft from the beginning as every one of these liars has known the facts, covered up those facts, and postured from Alabama tourism commercials to Obama flying around down there lying to people like he is doing something with dictator Admiral Oil.
If the American people fully understood what the evidence shows in this secondary river flow, they would impeach Mr. Obama and haul him into prison as he has deliberately done this, dithered for political reasons, and deceived everyone as he knows "damn" well why that "damn" hole was not plugged from Day One.'"
cont…
Obama is going to come down to the Gulf Coast for two days…All he is doing is
sightseeing….Otherwise, he has NO clue….Love your comment, agree with every
word…Only thing, Obumble won't let them push him out of the way…He is hopeing
BP could fix it up and then he'll take credit for being the Savior of the Gulf Coast!
First, in regards to current accusations, responsiblity falls on Bp, their complicity and culpablity has caused this, not Obama's. In addition, the lack of oversight and regulation on Bp's conduct can be attributed to decisions made during the Bush administration, reducing regulations while installing several indivduals that made this entire mess possible. The comments are this site suggest an emerging trend of uneducated, ignorant indivudals choosing fiction over fact.
" One would think that Mr. Obama lying, covering up, deceiving the America people over why BP did not cap this, because it would cause another erosive blow out, so Obama could use it for political gains would be a Nobel or Pulitzer winning story someone could steal from this blog, but no one will touch this monumental attack upon Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, the GOP Gulf States, BP American employees and the American People as the Gulf ecosystem is tar balled by Obama in one of the greatest crimes since Saddam Hussein deliberately lit up the oil fields "
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2010_06_08_archive...
Copperpeony, you can not be serious.
I bet it gets picked up pretty quick now!
Well Thad has been there over a week and it looks like there is a lot of concern over minute details that a top notch right hand person would handle. Sorry to say but Thad may well be just about as effective as a stale Alka Seltzer with the fizz all played out. But perhaps Obama wants it to get really really bad so any improvement is seen as great work. Sorry Barack Hussein Obama. There was NO REASON for it to have ever reached the Gulf Beaches you dithering dwaddling fool.
You can nationilize the US Assets of BP and perhaps pass your retroactive fine & punish BP scheme and Cap & Tax Boondoggle. We can watch the other Mult-National drillers move elsewhere and be forced to pay $7 to $12 a gallon for gas. We can and will throw you out and create new laws to retroactively punish you and your mass of minions.
We will take our country back in spite of PROGRESSIVES. That is a PROMISE.
This is what we get for having an American Idol mascarade as Presidential material and have the MTV generation buy it hook, line, and sinker. Is it too early to start impeachment proceedings on Oilbama?
And just WHERE are the complaints about FEMA, now that Obama is *cough* "in charge" *cough* ?
What's needed just sitting in a warehouse, as Barry twiddles his thumbs, goes on vacations, throws party after very expensive parties at the White House? For crying out loud…………..where is the outrage in the MSM ?
Thw chemical companies that are killing all life in the Gulf? Over 1,290.000 gallons of pesticede that was banned everywhere? The stock market? Goldman Sachs thats sols $250 million of stock in BP 3 weeks before the explosion> CEO Hayword that soild of 1/3 of his stock in BP just weeks before the explosion?
You want me to go on?
I'm with you.
These comments pervading this site suggest an emerging trend of uneducated, ignorant individuals commenting merely to convey inaccurate information. Does any one on this site verify this information, or the credentials. It's safe to presume that they do not. Please fact check this information, this website evidently post information with hardly stating it's authenticity and you idiots develop opinions based on faulty news.
There are just no words.
Wait, I get it. This was not about HOPE and CHANGE. It's about HYPE and CHANCE.
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Good start.
Obama, thus far, has effectively handled his position with poise and dilligence. Unlike his predeccessor, Obama has instituted several intelligent initiatives. Stop with this idiotic rhetoric, this prevents solutions.
I'm dead serious. Read and follow the money.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/e...
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-...
"Buzz off" Troll dude. Your wasting band width.
It's Basketball finals time, geez give "Captain Kick the Crack" a break. He will appoint a study group to study this solution after the finals are over.
Hey hey hey, don't get your knickers in a knot. This is Bush's fault, remember? Bush screwing up is hardly news in this day and age. Now if Obama made a mistake, that would make headlines. The man can do no wrong!
/major sarc
Why's it the government's job? I suppose "Big Government" means you guys LOVE Big Government.
My gut tells me that there will be NO election in November. (B.O. has the power thanks to executive orders signed by preceding presidents, who greased the skids for him, like Bush.) I hope I'm wrong.
This summer appears to be a PERFECT STORM for all kinds of hell breaking loose in this country, and I hope that I'm wrong on that one too. Or that if I'm right we survive it.
Based on Tucker's report from Bilderberg, the new world order goons feel a sense of urgency right now. That should give EVERYONE pause. Problem is, there are millions of SHEEP in this country who have no idea what is going on.
Probably right.
Isn't it the private sector's job to fix the private sector's problems? Why are you demanding that the government bail out BP?
LuvntheBIGsites has a special way with words…maybe he should apply for a Czar position. I agree with everything he says.
BOMBSHELL EXPOSE: Obama's cronies PROFIT FROM OIL SPILL
http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expos...
It's interesting to me that BigGovernment.com readers are demanding that the government–nay, demanding the President–fix this problem.
He’s definitely feeling the vibe, and groovin towards a solution.
I guess Obama is waiting for Packgen to donate those booms. If not, Packgen is a capitalist villian and puts money ahead of helping the environment.
Yikes! Czar position? lol Kooky thread fan mail? hmmmmm Anon is that u?
I am sure that obama is finding and appointing a blue ribbon committee to study the problem and as soon as they arrive at their findings and get the EPA to approve of the solution they will get right to it.
with all this efficiency I can hardly wait for them to administer my health care plan.
These people suck more than the Hoover Vacuum company.
GOING AS PLANNED!!!!! The poor/middle class/small business/common people of the gulf are devastated by this human conjured catastrophe!!!! How long will the suffering last? There are some who know!!!! People must suffer first, it is the necessary ingredient for the rise in power they seek!!
You're right. It's not verified until Jon Stewart says it's so on the Comedy Network.
You hit the nail on the head
How many years does this pretender need to be in office and 'in charge' before it is HIS problem. Decades of Democrat control in New Orleans and all the fraud in maintaining the levees is also Bush's fault I assume. When are you libs going to grow a pair and take responsibility for your misguided, well intentioned social experiment F#CK UPS?
How about you enviro-retards requiring oil companies to drill in the deep water where as is obvious now the risks are so much higher?
Not a union shop,…………????????
FORGET ABOUT IT.
please pass some of whatever you're smoking.
I've been saying it since the beginning, If they had contained the spill (with the booms) on day 2 we wouldn't have near the ecological and economic disaster that we have today. The liberals are in charge of everything. They are completely incompetent. Anyone who thinks this isn't their fault is a total moron. I guess there was more important things to do, like play golf or go to parties. Remember who is in charge America. Why do you think these idiots are politicians? It's because they fail at everything else. They couldn't run a business if the tax payers funded it for them.
As a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator (yes a conservative wildlife rehab'r). This make me sick to my stomach. It's a shame that our President is out talking like a second grader and doing nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtmTALMkU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8jEd-6Bt6c
Hmm, I wonder if the buck still stops at OBungler's desk? Just asking?
His real handle should be "ParaquatPete"
So,,,are you and Buzzdud the second shift? Axelrod's blog battalions?
People were saying the same thing in 2008 about Bush… I guess we'll see how far the puppet master/s are willing to go.
Did you bump your head? …sport. I recommend a helmet when you leave the house!
If we don’t, are you gonna cry?
Hey Buzz, Hows this for a little critical thinking:
Within hours of the explosion (read catastrophe that is Deep Water Horizon/BP Well) the Federal Government SHOULD HAVE created a minimum of 3 rings of booms surrounding the rig and worked with State authorities to ensure the safety of each of their respective shores.
This my friend can be found in the following:
The Clean Water Act 1972
The Oil Pollution Act 1990 signed in the wake of Exxon Valdez (pun intended)
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan Overview 1968
And who do you think it designates as the responsible party for a spill in Federal waters? HHMMMMMM, let me think a minute, Oh Yeah, that guy who recently said that 'the buck stops with me' and 'so I know who's a$$ to kick'. Yeah, that party guy ol' bambi with his pet chinchilla in tow.
So, let us review.
The Commander in Chief is responsible for…..wait for it….protecting our shorelines when ever their is a catastrophe involving a non-permanent oil rig in the waters (from 12-200 miles off shore) that the Federal Govt sold a lease for. And, the State Govt is responsible for the State and outwards to 12 miles.
Crazy, I know, that we should expect our Govt to, at a minimum, do the job they are supposed to do, you know, protect the borders, the citizenry, etc., and not perform tasks that are outside their scope of responsibility like, I don't know, medical insurance, housing, food provisions and the like.
So, in the end, ol' bambi either did his job or did not do his job. It is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for him to not know his job, given that it is defined in so many ways through so many laws. IT IS NOT the responsibility of a company operating a rig that has an accident. It is the responsibility of the Federal Govt and its departments under the direct control and supervision of the executive branch to protect the collective states from any catastrophe that originates from the Federal Waters.
So, add up all the facts that are available;
BP and DWH Executives were on the rig to celebrate their collective safety record.
An Explosion occurs that the US Coast Guard registers and confirms with the rig and is told that all is under control. Two hours later, a second explosion occurs which kills the eleven operators and subsequent abandonment of the rig. Somehow, a minimum of 3 (THREE) failsafes were breached in order for this major explosion to happen. Our dear leader sits on his hands, plays golf, goes on vacation, ignores the Arlington Cemetery and D-Day, but can Party like a mo-fo and then blame everyone but the One who is in charge.
INCREDIBLE ain't it???
Who is Anon? I really did like ur posts. Whats wrong with fan mail?
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Because it is in Federal waters dumbass.
It can't be about money. You KNOW BP will have to pay for it.
Redeya, Unlike Katrina, where the state and local authorities actually had lawful jurisdiction for the problem, with posse comitatus issues and all, in this instance, the explosion happened in federal waters, not state and therefore the Feds have both jursidiction and an obligation to protect the multistate coastline. I realise the truth takes a back seat to that which is politically expedient for you folks but there you have it, not so hard to figure out now is it?
illegals working on oil spill??
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-202212.html
Aww shucks… Well thanks to a leadership decision on the part of the BIG sites, Anon the troll is no more.
Welcome MinervaTHEhun.
too funny Stan….
Now that epithet could only have come from a true Texan! Well said!
I had to go back and read through this article a second time, as I couldn't believe it. Why didn't the Gov. of Maine get on the phone with Gov. Jindal instead of going through the U.S. Senators? Why didn't the OWNER of Packgen get on the phone (or on-line) with Gov. Jindal? I'm sure there are plenty of OTR drivers that would have jumped at the chance to haul the boom to the Gulf. Did Gov. Jindal send an urgent e-mail out to all other governors asking if they had any companies that manufacture this specific absorbent boom? I'm convinced all of the politicians are incompetent!
Go back to the article by Tom Russo posted here on Big Gov. 5/27 (Title: Louisiana Coast – Last Line of Defense) and read through the comments posted by Kermit_H. His comments were VERY informative and interesting. Gave an industry insiders view on the situation.
What is "theoretical" about thousands of yards of boom sitting unused in a warehouse???
Obooby could actually score a few points–which is more than he can do on the basketball court–by ordering his personal air posse to pick up the booms and deliver them to the Gulf.
This should shed a little light. http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/edu/oilspill_book...
Never under estimate the ability of the MSM to ignore the facts…
Or cleaning up the mess wouldn't fit the Prog narrative of "Oil is BAD!!"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That's a good one Buzz. Thanks for the laugh. You idiot libtard.
A couple of very informative link a friend sent me:
http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/fr/59fr47384.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/edu/oilspill_book...
Happy reading.
The National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan Overview 1968 was updated in 1994 by Pres Clinton. http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/fr/59fr47384.pdf
That is what I say, it's not a union shop.. OBAMA GET THAT DAMN BOOMS!!!! KICK YOUR OWN ASS…
They should hold on to them for when the oil makes it way up to Maine.
Does anyone else find it ironic that they are letting this crisis go to waste?
Maybe we should take up a collection to pitch in and buy these things…. NH FREEDOM can drive them down. That would get in O's craw.
Tell me why do liberals like you think that government is so smart? What exactly do you suppose that bureaucrats in Washington know about drilling oil that the oil companies don't know? What regulation is it that would have prevented that bubble of methane from coming up the pipe?
It was Obama that gave this rig special permission to drill and the Mining and Minerals office was accepting gifts from the oil companies on Obama's watch. That makes Obama responsible. Besides, Bush wanted to drill in ANWR which would have been perfectly safe. It's something about 5,000 feet of water, due to liberal laws/regulations, that adds a degree of difficultly to being safe while drilling. And its liberals like you that forced that situation.
BUSH BUSH BUSH… get over it already. Obama's just not up to the job.
Squishy, Thank you for the Clarification. Reading all the info in those documents can cause one to have an eye hemorrhage.
Yes, Obama has held his postion with poise and diligence at the golf course, as opposed to the gulf coast. He was far later to the major issue than his predeccessor was, not to mention, he wouldnt allow the state to get up barrier islands to stop most of the oil from hitting shore. All Obama has done so far is just point fingers again, and has done nothing to fix the issue.
Buzzdude, you need to buzz off you buzzkill. Yes, I couldnt resist.
One last thing, get your facts straight.
Plain and simple, O'Barry is a failure. He is incompetent and surrounds himself with below average advisers. Incredible.
At the speed of mud, here comes the government to help.
Buzzdude – Looks like you're new at the BIGS, (or a renamed troll), but general rule is, if you disagree, state some specific points of reference that are factual relative to the debate. I find it ironic that you criticize the facts stated here as being based on "faulty news", yet you state no specifics to dispute the facts. As a side note: We don't check with ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc. for facts. If that's your only source of news, I think you've come to the wrong website.
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