Those Scientists and Their Lyin' Eyes (and Cameras): BP Insists Gulf Leak Fixed

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BP has entered another dimension of doublespeak by sticking by its story that the Macondo well is not leaking - when video taken last week proves otherwise.

"Down in the Gulf, oil still is bubbling to the surface near BP’s disastrous Macondo well. Local fishermen know it, environmental watchdogs know it, local journalists know it. Now, five weeks after it was first spotted, the government knows it too. Following repeated BP denials that its well is leaking, the feds have finally taken action. They’ve ordered Transocean to investigate the mile of Deepwater Horizon riser pipeline that lies crinkled on the ocean bottom, blown to pieces by last year’s catastrophic well explosion.

The oil that meanders in miles long slicks near the Macondo oil field does not appear to be the thick viscous Louisiana crude that tarred the Gulf coast last year. Instead it seems to be made up mostly of oil sheens that float along in long rivers, moving with the waves like an oily ghost that refuses to leave its haunted home. A month ago, the Mobile Press-Register took video and samples of the oil that appeared to bubble up near the Deepwater Horizon site and later were linked directly to BP’s Macondo well.

Pilot and scientist Bonny Schumaker, who runs On Wings of Care, has been a key player in documenting this disturbing oil spill development. She's been tirelessly flying over the Gulf until the world believed what she and others have seen; fresh oil in the water near BP’s blown out well plugged a mile below the sea—or at least that’s what everyone hopes."

http://theenergycollective.com/rockykistner/66394/macondo-monkey-bps-back?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29

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:mad: just about nothing makes me angrier than the notion that the macondo is still leaking or has sprung a new leak.