When Success Is Actually Failure
If I’m reading this correctly, the newly installed containment device is working better then planned and sucking up a large amount of oil. But according to new data, we’re finding out that the amount still going into the ocean is as much and perhaps much more than we thought last week. As the AFP puts it:
A containment device fitted last week is now capturing 15,800 barrels a day, but the latest data suggests at least 4,200 barrels and possibly up to 25,000 barrels—more than a million gallons—are still spewing into the sea each day. At least 40 million gallons of crude have already poured into the Gulf, and perhaps double that. That is roughly four times as much as the Exxon Valdez spill off the Alaskan coast in 1989.
This is a perfect example of why not “owning” up to the flow rate from day one was so stupid on the behalf of BP. Equally as much that the White House allowed it to happen. Of course BP wanted to low-ball the numbers, cause each barrel means up to a $4,300 fine. But this should be seen as a success, one of the few the White House can claim. But since now the oil from the well is going onto a ship, and it is stupid simple to measure, there is no longer anyway BP can hide the full extent of the problem. What should be a success and a good news story for Obama, is actually an epic fail. Ugh!
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