NOAA forced to admit that 75% of oil still in Gulf... while testifying before congress

[Generic Other]

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Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety Government Panel, House Committee Energy & Commerce, Energy and Environment, August 19, 2010:

Edward Markey, Subcommittee Chairman

Bill Lehr, Senior Scientist National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin., Response and Restoration.

[sandnsea]

1. Dispersed never meant gone

and the NOAA never said it did. The MEDIA said that.

[JuniperLea]

2. The scape-goating started before the clean-up...

Have you seen any reports from Green Peace this week? They set out to investigate the seafloor in the area, and I haven't seen boo about it for at least a week... maybe two.

[tabatha]

4. You can go to their website

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/news/oilspilltruth/

They update photos from their exploration undersea almost everyday on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/4907008257/

Check their Facebook page as well:
http://www.facebook.com/greenpeaceusa#!/greenpeaceusa?v=wall

[JuniperLea]

6. Thanks!

How sad that the media doesn't pick this up... but I do see a new story on this in GD!

[another saigon]

3. then why did they not clarify?

because that would be bad PR...

Published on Friday, August 20, 2010 by Huffington Post




Was Rosy Gulf Oil Report A White House PR Move?
Questions Mount About White House's Overly Rosy Report On Oil Spill

by Dan Froomkin

Two congressmen on Thursday questioned why the Obama administration made a major announcement <1> about what happened to the oil in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month without the science to back it up .

From left, Carol Browner, assistant to the President for energy and climate change, NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco, and national incident commander of the BP oil spill Thad Allen, update reporters at the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ed Markey demanded that NOAA surrender the data and algorithms behind its increasingly controversial estimate, so that independent scientists could assess the credibility of its conclusion that the vast majority of the oil BP spilled in the Gulf is gone,

At a subcommittee hearing he chaired, Markey said the report <2> was premature, has led to false confidence, and could be flat wrong. See my story on the hearing <3>.

And California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa accused the White House of releasing the report prematurely for PR purposes. "This is yet another in a long line of examples where the White House's pre-occupation with the public relations of the oil spill has superseded the realities on the ground," the ranking member of the House oversight committee said in a press release.

"It is deeply troubling that White House officials apparently preempted the completion and review of a scientific study on the oil spill by NOAA scientists in order to tout conclusions that many experts believe may be deeply flawed."

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration director Jane Lubchenco, meanwhile, dismissed the growing controversy as "a tempest in a teapot."


http://www.commondreams.org/print/59589

[modestybl]

5. But the NOAA's statements were misleading...

... and they appear to be covering for continuing BP lies...

Why did head of NOAA repeated that there was only circumstantial evidence for underwater plumes that weren't dispersing, and that the "dispersed" oil was of no environmental concern?