[quote]Crews removed the cap from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late Thursday afternoon, a company spokeswoman said. The operation was the first..."/>

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Does this mean the oil is flowing again?

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Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:13 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

Crews removed the cap from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late Thursday afternoon, a company spokeswoman said.

The operation was the first step in removing the blowout preventer -- which failed spectacularly in April, triggering a deadly explosion and oil spill -- said BP spokeswoman Jessie Baker.

Officials plan to replace the blowout preventer with a new one, a major step toward a final fix. But the effort to permanently seal the ruptured oil well has stalled because of turbulent seas.

"We've run into a weather window that's got us in a hold," said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the oil disaster. "If we can get to the blowout preventer sooner rather than later, we will do that."

I see nothing saying the oil is gushing because the cap was removed, but if they took the cap off, surely it follows...?


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Thursday, September 2, 2010 5:06 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Apparently it means the "kill" is holding. Once they got it stopped, they pumped a metric shitload of concrete down its gullet and allowed it to solidify, effectively shutting off the flow of oil up the hole. Since it appears to have finally worked (for now), they've decided they can maybe use their known-faulty blowout preventer somewhere else...

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Friday, September 3, 2010 6:05 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Boy, I've been dense...I never saw or heard one word about all of that! And anything about the gusherfuck usually catches my eye. Duh.

Thanx Mike, that's good to know. Hopefully now it's all over but the damage...sigh...

Just got an e-mail from the Coalition...they're scheduling a three-day event mid-September to plant marsh grasses actually out on the beach, to help the damaged stuff recover. Busy little bees, they are!


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