Salazar Defends Federal Response to Oil Spill

[interwebconsultant]

Funny that we don't hear anyone speaking about this anymore. :(

[kurtvallance]

Thanks for sharing.

[rgwinful]

Why Ken, why is the government allowing BP to continue to dump around 20,000 barrels of toxic corexit into the ocean each day. Why is this happening Ken? Please put a stop to it. This insidious act will come back to haunt future generations of Americans.

[ReduceGHGs]

Can't kill the spills, kill the drilling.

Kill the drilling anyway. We need to move to clean energy ASAP anyway.

Business-as-usual is a death sentence; literally for many.

Jim Hansen of NASA wrote the following recent book that is worth the read.

Storms Of My Children

[romanpolanskyz]

Love ly Benzene for east coast food chain - east coast full of BLACK WATER militants.

Love ly Benzene for east coast food chain - east coast full of BLACK WATER militants.

Love ly Benzene for east coast food chain - east coast full of BLACK WATER militants.

[romanpolanskyz]

Screw the Environment

BP and the Audacity of Greed

By DAVE LINDORFF

[floatingcompassmedia]

Dump idea...to drill in the ocean.

[TheTravisChannel]

Obamas whole time in office is his Katrina

[stuBhound69]

Wow,like what the puck do Homeland Security (American Gestapo),know about oil-spills?.

[davidlee110]

BP = bull pit

bull pit = don't care anything!

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR ILL PUT A GIANT BUBBLE GUM COVER AROUND WITH IT.

[clock2012]

How to bankrupt world's economy and create massive banking swamp?

Madoff into ponzi

American Idol into idoltery.

Tiger Wood into sex manic.

Lindsay into drug

politican sex scandal.

You don't see Jews do anything to save the world and tenth commandments? Except the people in the bible.

We are in living in state of "In God We Trust" theme. It's really sad. The USA is falling apart too fast and hiring stupid workers.

[romanpolanskyz]

please those who like my comments put under software instant censorship, it uses my ID to do it so take it and paste under your nick. that way it will pass thru.

they call it spam but its not. its posted over and over again coz its INSTANTLY suppressed by software.

[romanpolanskyz]

I have excellent comments - always press "see all" because youtube is also a CORPORATION and they cover each other up. Their rules of impartiality are all DECEPTION and LIP SERVICE. they play game of CENSORSHIP at multiple levels.

[bolitapelona]

So Katrina was all Bush's fault, but an oil spill is all BP fault. Very typical Liberal position. Blame the others and never admit to failure. What a bunch of LOSERS!

[ocerg1111]

amazing how republicans cry for big government after complaining about it lol. Its not the feds problem, its BPs. let the blame fall there, where it belongs

[dkgw]

Blame Bush, blame ecomony, blame congress, now blame BP.

Why have they not approved the dregging? why are they not building the sea wall, that is not Bush's fault or BP is it?

This president has made tossing others under the bus an art form.

[romanpolanskyz]

It had to happen sooner or later; Thank God it happened on EAST COAST !!!

The entire east-coast FOOD CHAIN has now been totally POISONED ...

on the west coast people must get off their butts to save their food chain ...

go with recording cameras and find and take these companies to law suits and fully investigate and question their tactics and methods. they must bring ONLY OPEN TECHNOLOGY. we will NEVER TOLERATE ANY PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY due to public interest.

[sciiworks]

@romanpolanskyz

guy it happened in the gulf the east coast hasn't been impacted yet

[humaner]

Blah,Blah and BP keeps making money and gets others to clean up its mess ..great deal.

[clock2012]

Everyone with BP experience or worked BP company quickly press Alt + F4....

There's brower code for leakage gas!!!

[cmwen]

Do you realize that the explosion happened 1 MONTH AGO NOW!!! It was exactly on the 20th of April. I can't believe this situation has so short media coverage. 1 MONTH AGO NOW!!! It is enough!

[christmas254]

@cmwen OBAMA CAN NOT PROTECT OUR BORDERS OR OUR COAST

[cmwen]

@christmas254 Did I say the contrary???????????

[cmwen]

@christmas254 What the point of your response???

[christmas254]

@cmwen Obama is destroying this country from with in & we are letting him

[cmwen]

@christmas254 LOL - Absolutly NOT. Bush destroyed it. Whateveeeeer, just race for president and save the world instead.

[christmas254]

@cmwen Bush saved over 1million people. But he did spend a lot of our money but he keep us safe. Obama has done nothing but take us down and is now making it very unsafe for us

[cmwen]

@christmas254 what a laugh, if you want to live in coucouland that's is your business. My issue is about all this polution! Not about bush, he is DONE now. And btw bush saved NOBODY, just looked at all the soldiers died since. And guess where all the US depts come from? Answer: from both wars. And guess who is waiting for their money back? Answer: China. The US lives in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever. so go back to coucouland and give me a break

[christmas254]

@cmwen you have been drinking to much Kool-Aid if you don't think Bush saved lives then you really have your head in the sand and Bush did not spend anywhere near the money that Obama has been spending

[christmas254]

@cmwen every time your country is in trouble we have send our boys & money & get you out of it and we have to send you money each year keep to keep your country running and all you do is cry and you can do anything look what you did to the rest of the world South Africa. India just to name a couple

[cmwen]

@christmas254 I am not British fucking prick.

[christmas254]

@cmwen I was talking about over 200 countries so just pick a country and it's one that we had to help and we give foreign aid to so many countries, because they can't stay afloat without it

[mediteranian213]

why wasnt this stuff researched 20 yrs ago when the other oil spill happend ? i know why because u ass holes dont care about where u live . its just drill baby drill .now u assholes have too clean baby clean . i just really feel sorry for those people who make their money in those waters because the because bp has ruined their lively hood for the next 20 yrs.

[screenwriterOscar]

God is soo correct. The world is going to end for people who become too greedy, violent, selfish, creating a great layers of false prophet. Nice try....

God will destoryed wealthiest people in the world. He planning to restart the world again. Some people will not survive in year 2012. the upper and middle classes. God will send volcano ashes and create plague attacks on wealthiest crooks. Terrible time for 2012.

[TRUMPHENT]

Steven Chu is Secretary of Energy, not Interior. Those labs Salazar mentioned, they are downright spooky.

The USDOJ needs to acquire the operations records of BP, Haliburton, Transocean and any other company involved, at gunpoint if necessary.

[stophypocrisy]

Benzene, incredible amounts of Benzene are being released into the atmosphere and is a clear and present danger not only for the old and people with respiratory problems but the general Gulf population as a whole. This will be complete death

for Florida and million of people around all the Gulf! Head for the hills!

[tvib09]

This guy is Brownie and Obama is becoming Bush fast!!

[HaniZurub]

must see this :

watch?v=Rb8-1jXAoGI

[Catfishotdog]

It will kill us regardless if it spills all over our ocean or burns up into our air, PEOPLE MUST BOYCOT OIL. If nothing else the government should seaize all oil companies and protect us from thsoe evil leaders of the republican army

[GotaPoint]

so you want to kill the well like you kill your enemies just put a bunker missile that will kill the well. idk why he said we treating this like an Apollo mission its not a space ship its oil, oil that will kill us soon oil that will clog and mess up our water sanitation system that we have cleaning our waters now oil that will ruin revenue from beaches tour guides and many others these ppl are just making crap up idk what to believe any more just finish what you started and get it clean soon

[ddddcinc]

I would rather live with a never-ending oil 'leak' than continue having these globalist-comms mucking up America. Priorities, people. Priorities.

[lancerhammer]

bp must have paid him millions to defend them

[l8rthen]

@lancerhammer , he's not defending them; he's fingerpointing at them. He's defending obama admin.

[Mackadoeshez]

The Gov is guilty of lax regulation enforcement of the oil industry & BP for the lack of a cognitive safety emergency response plan in place in case of an major accident . BP doesn't want to cap the oil spewage they want to capture it for refinement. If I had pour oil into the sewer or in a Lake I would be going to str8 2 jail.

[HemiHead66]

Why don't you cut off that bent up piece of shit riser that's leaking in 3 places, then cap the well with a giant ass super heavy dome? You said the last dome sunk like 15 feet into the mud, so I don't think there's enough pressure to push the oil out from underneath it. Or are you to worried about bringing the oil top-side?

[treid100182]

Biggest Douche in the Universe 2010?

[l8rthen]

@derkzukenval , Was there anything pos U wished to say? Is it UR wish that this not be fixed?

[mschneider212]

If we are up to destroying nature why not put about 10 MOAB missiles into the Icelandic volcano

[mschneider212]

Perhaps if we build a large wooden badger.

[romanpolanskyz]

Lets get REAL - Federal Bustards cant bring Roman Polansky to LA court after RAPING a 13 y old. FBI bustards cant find ANTHRAX MAILER. CIA bustards cant kidnap POLANSKY from Switzerland. FBI bustards FAILED to catch BERNARD MADOFF or IVAYLO IVANOV. This JERK is only a ARROGANT sound byte with coat and hat. FBI bustards failed in catching the culprit of 911 or covering it - whichever was their REAL TASK. RACISM is rife in USA and its BANKRUPT under ROTHSCHILD FRACTIONAL RESERVE.

[Pkr]

So, this is what Mohammed looks like... seems to be familiar for some reason... no black beard...

[nheitz]

Failure shouldn't be an option here, Git er done and plug it.

[billeybop]

You will sit on your hands as BP destroys some much life and ecosystem as not to hurt their feelings. Wake up and seal the leak. Let me guess you are taking Rush Limpbaughs advice.

[PigMine]

How about a few pounds of high explosives a few thousand feet down into the well?

[cghgrn123]

canyou tell me what has homeland security has to do with this

[Striker4928]

Don't believe this guy. Salazar is a repulsive liar and two-faced traitor and works for the oil companies. Salazar voted against fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks and voted for tax breaks for ExxonMobil and other major oil companies. Salazar votes against putting all endangered wildlife on endangered species list. Example black tailed prairie dogs are down to 2% and Salazar votes against protection & he wants to kill the last wolves. Salazar is a Bush and Palin clone.

[takeahnase2009]

Ich habe wenig Mitleid für die Konservativen und Neo Konservativen in Amerika. Wir haben seit Jahrzehnten Ihrer Politik der Zerstörung bekannt... Ihre manipulierten "freien Märkte" und unregulierten Branchen haben in der ganzen Welt zerstört und jetzt endlich mal zu probieren, was viele schon seit Jahrzehnten erlebt. Sie müssen lernen, Ihr Unternehmen zu regulieren und die Achtung Ihrer Umgebung, wenn Sie eine Zukunft und eine Zukunft für Ihre Kinder möchten.

[ITRIPOVERMYCOCK]

dear mr obama.... PLEASE NUKE THE SITE!!!

[ITRIPOVERMYCOCK]

all these people and no solutions.... there is a way to stop this well right now!! obama get off your ass and sign an order to nuke the site underwater... it has been done before and it works (ask russia) are you going to wait until the oil reaches the east coast? or canada? obama is a useless fuckin turd and i am ashamed to have voted for the numbnutz..

[witecracker2]

thank you thank you thank you for all those hard working people that are involved during this clean up!!!

i will be on the front line soon if and when it makes it here to south eastern fl... i hope and pray we can stop the destruction of our oceans...for all able body people near the coastal regions PLEASE help clean up this mess, our lives will depend on it....

[oicub2]

Math is Much More than Just Numbers .. 4 + 4 can Only equal 8 if you can bring them together .. .. in a non hazardous environment .. So with that said ,, 2 + 2 can be 5 but at the same time a 6 can look like a 9 and a 3 when you need a 2 can be 1 to many.

[christmas254]

@oicub2 Obama never showed up in Nashville and now no show on the oil spill NEED A T SHIRT ( NO SHOW OBAMA )

[762lenny]

Sir you are about 2 weeks too late but alas it was by design. Thank Obama for the oil on the beach.

[MojoJuana]

this is what happens when the corporate whores with whores in government are blinded by greed and drunk on profits...where the fuck is the backup plan?

[MojoJuana]

did they once think about if something like this was going to occur, they would know exactly how to deal with it?

instead they make matters worse by spewing toxic dispersants to break up the oil to make it look like a lesser spill, so the penality based on amount of oil spilled would be dramatically lower, without any regards to the added detriment to the environment!

evil!

[nitella]

Aren't these the same states that didn't want government interference? The EPA has been getting cozy with big oil for two decades. What do they expect?

[takeahnase2009]

Im sick of conservative, small government tea baggin pussies asking the federal government for help containing the "spill." You are all a bunch of hypocrites. Nationalize the oil industry. Arrest and execute BP CEOs for murder and for destroying the environment. And then ban all off shore drilling.

[TheRatzBand]

@takeahnase2009 You are being ignorant and hypocritical yourself. Conservatives want smaller government, not elimination of Government.

[takeahnase2009]

@TheRatzBand A conservative would say that it is the corporation's responsibility and at the most the State's responsibility. A conservative asking the federal government to be responsible for BP's incompetence is hypocrisy. This is the equivalent of the tea baggers that I know who collect a government check and then bitch about people getting government checks. You are the ignorant one. You are confused by your own contradictory ideology.

[mosquewatcher]

@takeahnase2009 hey cocksucker, if you are that much of a fucking bad ass, bring your ass down to Biloxi Mississippi motherfucker. We will have one hell of a talk, until that time shut the fuck up you faceless bitch. LITTLE FUCKIN BOY

[takeahnase2009]

@mosquewatcher Hey fuck face. I would not visit you sodomites in the South for all the money in the world. You are all dumbass retards and hypocrites. Enjoy your destroyed coast lines and remember it is all because of capitalist greed. Drill baby drill. Karma is a bitch isn't it? Suck it up. Pussy.

[mosquewatcher]

@takeahnase2009 pussy

[takeahnase2009]

@mosquewatcher You bring it you little punk bitch. You come over here and visit me at the foot of the walk. Leave it to an authoritarian, conservative to stifle free speech because you are too dumb to carry on a conversation. You fucktard.

[mosquewatcher]

@takeahnase2009 show your face coward or shut the fuck up.

[takeahnase2009]

@mosquewatcher LOL! All of you tea tards resort to violence because thinking makes your head hurt. But come visit me at Coopers Rest this Wednesday on Easter Road in Edinburgh if you are man enough. I'll bring some of my socialist friends and we'll "talk." We'll see how much of a man you are. In the mean time grab a shovel and get to work cleaning your destroyed beaches. And remember that it was capitalism that gave that to you. Little man.

[TheRatzBand]

@takeahnase2009 Well, I can tell by your immature verbiage that you are not only ignorant, but immature. You hate the fact that people pay into such "welfare" programs like social security and medicare. Which indeed, would be the antithesis of the word "welfare". You are inunduated with non-facts and propaganda you just seem to give up any actual learning. Instead, you let the TV do all of the thinking for you. As Mr. T would say, "I pity the fool."

[takeahnase2009]

@TheRatzBand And you take every word I say to be literal and serious. This shows me your linear, prepubescent thinking. Why don't you waste some more of your time analyzing what I say in order to convince yourself that you and your cankered assumptions are right? I don't hate people paying into social programs. I want people to pay more into them. But don't you find it ironic that the people in the tea fag party who do not want socialism are the first ones to line up for a government check?

[TheRatzBand]

@takeahnase2009 No, I do not find that ironic since THEY PAY INTO THE SYSTEM FOR YEARS. That money is used for themselves. Not people who just sit on their ass all day and milk the government for all of its worth. Now you're including the tea "fag" party... I am not familiar with that movement, but I'm guessing it is comprised of homosexuals.

Tell them welcome aboard!

[takeahnase2009]

@TheRatzBand I am glad that you agree with me that socialism is a good thing. Let's make sure we all keep paying into the system. I must point out that those who do pay into the system often take out more than they put in over the course of a lifetime. It is not a dollar for dollar thing. If it were people would run out of SSI after about 5 years. You being a homosexual does not bother me and I applaud your courage for coming out of the closet and into the streets.

[TheRatzBand]

@takeahnase2009 Thank you

[l8rthen]

@takeahnase2009 , nationalize and asking govt for assistance is hypocritical? What an ass. Order of solution should be: Corp, then state, then nat. If prob is beyond one's ken to solve, it is what it is? What kind of a fuctard lets an emergency go on just so he can continue braying like a jackass? ( that;s U).

[takeahnase2009]

@l8rthen I understand. Sarcasm and irony does not always translate well online. ;)

[tampabayproductions]

maybe if all you you green idiots that bitch about us being dependent on foreign oil owuld let us drill in depths of 150 feet this rig woul have been capped in the first day. It's the Green fanatics that make it impossible for us to become independent. Where are the Nuclear power plants that you were supposedly for now OBAMA?

[retsz]

i live on the gulf coast and this is extremely frustrating. it feels like the government and BP are playing a game of chicken to see who's going to take care of the problem and foot the bill first. it's outrageous that the "plans" to fix it are not being acted out in quicker succession. i say do whatever it takes to fix it, pay whomever it takes and do it now, and bill BP after. no matter what, this is their mess and they should pay. i get the feeling they will weasel out of it somehow though.

[l8rthen]

@retsz , It is amazing that they let something like this go on and on. It's ridiculous that they are STILL asking BP for data.

[beancube2010]

These oil tycoons won't pay a dime to any damage if the govt don't allow them to earn it from you. You must really study the essence of capitalism, consumerism, and modernized big account cash flow mechanism to understand what is going on behind the scene. After it is all arranged, they'll crack a hole and pipe it elsewhere. To get pay, people must paid first. It is how the system is designed. Govt can't do anything about it because most politicians don't understand the money they get at all.

[tampabayproductions]

@beancube2010 they have a 5% profit margin. Cookie makers have a greater profit margin you ill informed terdstuck.

[rocketman10owen]

@tampabayproductions but cookie makers don't make 20billion in profit a year

[l8rthen]

@beancube2010 , rather sillly. Pols understand the money very well. Are U saying that an executive order couldn't get anything rolling?

[humaner]

Of course little corrupt Republican companies will wait for the government to bail them out its precedent already.Why fix it get tax payer money to do it and little low life corrupt CEO's keep getting big salaries.

[PublicYahoo]

Finally a real government response after

everything is destroyed.

[witecracker2]

laugh not,...we need superman. where are you???

instead all we have is a bunch of Lex Luther's

[daedalx]

"They will find it.. eventually"

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

"Herculian" response? He's reading froma pre-arranged papaer from BP. Stop the bullshit, pull the plug, make nasa fix it... and slap them with the bill. That old faggot needs to catch a bullet with his face. Funny thing is, their next little "buy me timer" will be an attempt to shoot mud into the pipe!? Wow.... containment dome sounded hilarious too. We're all doomed... nobody is actually in charge!

[uhateusaFU]

10 million gallons collected? I don't even think that is one days worth and that probably includes the tanker with the hose.

[l0gically]

The only think "Herculean" is the size of the disaster and the incompetence that preceded it.

[ryen1992]

What TOOK THE GOVERNMENT SO LONG TO ACT.

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BURN THE OIL, BUT BECAUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T DO IT.

.

THE GULF OF OIL

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obama WILL BE A ONE TERM PRESIDENT.

.

[l8rthen]

@ryen1992 , too bad he can't be a half term prez

[JESUSlog45]

Is it not strange or orchestrated, that President Obama passes the health care reform bill and Arizona passes the most stringent immigration law in effect within thirty days. Obama allows more drilling in the gulf of Mexico and this disaster still has not been repaired. Then you have all these antagonists saying "Obama is not my President" and "Where is the change"? While we all argue and divide our country there are larger forces at work in this world that we do not pay attention to.

[BertGriffin88]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar you are dumber pelican poo. The OilSpew has been going on for 33Days, leaking 4Million gallons/day, from one 22" pipe. There other leaks & since the camera never pan out we, Americans don't really know how bad, bad is. Why wasn't a fix in place, day 2? This means Shell, Mobile, Exxon, etc have no solution. You've waited till now to start a fix. Everybody involved, is culpable. This is criminal & lots of crooks must go to jail.

[solimiansky]

salazar is in bed with the oil companies

[PresidentOfTheBlack]

The End of the World will not be done by mother nature but by those who work in the interest of The United States Dollar.

[centralthought]

@PresidentOfTheBlack Sorry dude, but it's not the United States' dollar, the Federal Reserve runs that particular debt contract.

[shaundraivy]

give a damn break...allstars? they couldn't even agree on the oil rig the day it exploded and killed 11 people and made an ecological disaster! And worst of all Ken, you let it happen! You let them regulate themselves. That's like letting a kid pick their own bedtime and being pissed that they never go to bed!! I am so sad that Obama let them drill baby drill in the first place! This should be a wake up call to everyone...we need clean energy!!

[ghostrid3]

Oil: 1 BP/Govt: 0