BP's bid to stem gusher stalled over stuck saw
Meantime, oil drifts to within 9 miles of Pensacola beaches
PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana - BP's latest effort to stem the oil gusher in the Gulf stalled on Wednesday when a saw become stuck as it was cutting through a pipe on a busted well, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.
Allen said the goal was now to free the saw and finish the cut later in the day. This is the second major cut in the effort to contain -- not plug -- the nation's worst spill. Allen said the first cut with giant shears was successful overnight.
Even if it works, the current mission to cut a major pipe and cap it would only reduce the flow, not stop it. If it fails, it could make the largest oil spill in U.S. history even worse. The best hope for sealing the leak, until a permanent fix is possible in August, failed Saturday, when engineers were unable to plug it with heavy mud in a maneuver called a top kill.
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weld it shut.
ReplyDeleteA zip strip would of cut it clean the first time.
ReplyDeleteThese fools are going to make this worse if they keep messing around.
ReplyDeleteShould have never forced them to go to deep well drilling plenty of oil else where damn liberals .
ReplyDeleteYes, blame the liberals.
ReplyDeleteYou want to drill on land, fine. I vote that we first check under the Ronald Regan Presidential Library. If we find oil, I will be the first one screaming "drill, baby, drill" as the bulldozers move in.
10:10 Why would you want to desecrate Ronald Reagan ? There's plenty of oil underground but your kooky ilk says it to dangerous deep water drilling is safer .
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