NOAA: Undersea oil plumes came from BP well

[G_j]

Source: Miami Herald

By CURTIS MORGAN
[email protected]

NOAA: Undersea oil plumes came from BP well

Below-surface oil clouds are challenging scientists as they try to understand the crude's effect on Gulf waters.

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After four cruises into the oil-stained waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a team of federal scientists Wednesday released a report confirming what other researchers concluded weeks ago: ``The preponderance of evidence'' points to BP's ruptured well as the source of massive undersea oil plumes.

But after two months, what's happening with the diffused clouds drifting beneath the floating goo, sticky tar balls, and shimmering surface still remains murky. It could take several more months for the federal agency in charge of assessing spill damage to simply get a good grasp of how much oil remains drifting below.

During a stop in Miami, Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- criticized by some scientists for being slow to jump into the Gulf disaster -- said federal assessment efforts were making headway. But she also acknowledged the Gulf spill, unprecedented in both volume and complexity, had strained the agency's resources and technology.

``That oil that is below the surface is much more challenging to get a handle on,'' Lubchenco said. ``It will continue to be an ongoing effort to understand where it is and in what concentrations, what the source is and what impacts it is having.''

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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/24/1697742/noaa-undersea-oil-plumes-came.html

[trof]

1. Gee, ya think?

And Corexit is what keeps it subsurface.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. If you can't see it, it's not there... oops, there it is.

Only now the gelatinous oil is doubly poisonous to marine life. WTG, BP!

[hootinholler]

2. "What the source is" - WTF?

Didn't they just confirm the source as the DW Horizon?

-Hoot

[Uncle Joe]

3. I'm thankful those plumes aren't coming from some oil gusher in China,

that would really be a mess.

Thanks for the thread, G_j.

[lovuian]

4. the EPA has ordered stoppage of the Dispersant

BP has refused
the Attorney General needs to arrest BP for failure to comply with the EPA and endangerment of American People

Where is our JUSTICE DEPARTMENT?

[G_j]

7. are they still using it? nt

[Jacobin]

8. Yes. They are still using it

BP told the EPA to go fork themselves and the administration is ignoring it.

[SunnySong]

6. Wow somebody earned there paycheck today... Where the F#ck did they think it was from? nt