Allen NOW says, 'Bottom kill' to be complete week after Labor Day!8-19-2010!

*JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT THAT THE WELL HAD BEEN KILLED, SEVERAL TIMES, INCLUDING ON BARACK'S BIRTHDAY.......WELL, IT'S ALIVE AGAIN!!* BP & THEIR NEVER ENDING LIES AGAIN!!* NO SURPRISE, AGAIN!*LET'S CALL THEM, "THE NEVER KILLING WELLS"!! THERE ARE TWO NOT ONE YOU KNOW!!...ANOTHER BP LIE OF COURSE!!*

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- If all goes as planned, the "bottom kill" operation to permanently plug the ruptured underwater well in the Gulf of Mexico should be completed by the week after Labor Day, Thad Allen, the government's point man for the oil disaster, told CNN Thursday.
In the last 48 hours, a sequence of actions has been agreed upon, Allen told CNN's "American Morning." Those include flushing out the current blowout preventer, looking for material that may cause a problem, then putting a new blowout preventer on and conducting the "bottom kill" operation.
"This will ensure that we can withstand any pressures that may be generated," Allen said. "If all that lines up, we should be looking at the week after Labor Day."
Later Thursday, Allen said he had authorized BP, the oil company that operated the sunken well and is responsible for cleanup, to replace the existing blowout preventer with a new one ahead of the "bottom kill."
Allen told reporters Thursday that officials are in the midst of conducting an ambient pressure test to determine whether the pressure in the top of the well matches the pressure outside the well. That test is expected to be complete Saturday morning. If no anomalies are detected, BP will conduct a "fishing experiment" to try to pull out the drill pipe through the top of the well, Allen said. If both steps are successful, he will then have to issue another go-ahead to remove the existing blowout preventer and replace it with a new one.
The early-September timeline, he said, is "conditions-based." He denied that the bottom kill was being delayed, but said it was going forward with "very deliberate consideration."
Meanwhile, a House hearing was being held Thursday on the safety of Gulf seafood in the aftermath of the disaster. Scientists, professors and members of seafood organizations were set to testify at the hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. However, committee chairman Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, was the sole lawmaker in attendance as the hearing got under way.
Markey noted that some people have gone away for the summer, but said the oil has not gone away, and neither has the attention focused on the matter.
Allen told reporters that seafood coming from reopened Gulf fishing waters is safe to eat.
Jane Lubchenco, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, echoed Allen's comments about Gulf seafood, saying that where water is still tainted, no fishing is allowed.
"Twenty-two percent of federal waters in the Gulf remain closed because we have not yet determined it's safe" to eat seafood from there, Lubchenco said.
But there are some that are still skeptical about the safety of seafood. Acy Cooper, a commercial fisherman and vice president of the Louisiana Shrimpers Association, disputed claims there is no oil on the ocean floor.
"We know it's there," he testified at the House hearing, referring to the oil. "... BP, if we let them leave now, we're going to be in a lot of trouble."
He said a few places are indeed clean of oil, and fishermen stay away from areas that are not clean because "we want to make sure what we put on the market is good ... we get somebody sick, it's going to come back to us."
He said in a typical season, he usually catches 10,000 pounds of shrimp. This year, he's caught 500 pounds.
"How am I going to survive?" he said. "They say the oil's gone, it's not gone. You stir the bottom up and oil comes up."
This week, a major environmental watchdog group called for more stringent testing of Gulf seafood, where the fall shrimping season began this week.
The National Resources Defense Council released a statement saying it sent letters to the Food and Drug Administration and NOAA, co-signed by almost two dozen Gulf Coast groups.
"With the opening of shrimping season and near-daily reopening of fishing areas, seafood safety is a major issue right now," Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, said in the statement. "The government needs to show it is putting strong safety criteria and testing standards in place to ensure that the seafood from the Gulf will be safe to eat in the months and years to come."
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[LaPuertorra69]

Awesome point! I wasn't aware of THAT! Them scumbags "blackout" EVERY THING that benefits THEM! It's Crazy, but TRUE! Thanks so much for ur Comment, Kearns!

[Habasch78]

Could be that no more oil is comming up. But it is never gone. It just trickles away out on the beaches and marches.

The result of a dispersed oil spill. Type "Tar Below the Surface!" and you can see the result. What kind of dispersant they have used?

[Kearnspalmbay]

Note: he says the search for more oil from this spill, involving all universities and independent research institutes will/should be coordinated under the NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco who has been in her job for a year, who has already said she doesn't believe COREXIT has harmed the fishery, and she doesn't believe USF. Now the blackout will be on science, rather than the media