Flawed Spill Reponse Plan of BP

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BP presented a seriously flawed spill response plan for Gulf in 2009 which even listed  a national wildlife expert who died in 2005. BP used incompetant and screwed methods to calculate spill volume that produced a lot lower spill volume that the internationally accepted formula.  There are grave and ridiculous mistakes in the data provided by BP in the plan. Many marine mammals listed in the plan does not exist and many that exist are not listed in the plan. Names and numbers of marine life specialists are incorrect along with marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida. 

One of the companies website that BP relies on for equipment to clean a spill directs to a Japanese-language page. It seems that most of the plan is made up without real data on assumption that nothing would go wrong ever that has resulted in on-the-fly measures to deal with the spill issue. Computer projections of  oil reaching coasts have proven way off and oil even reached locales that were characterized as safely out of danger in BP's plan.

State prisoners who are given training to wash birds have never been mentioned in the plan and although 100's of birds have been treated and washed , dozens have died and been covered in crude oil.  Countless fish, hundreds of turtles and several dolphins have also died due to the oil spill. 

BP has tried many methods to stop the spill including pumping mud and debris in the pipeline. Placing containment cap,first a smaller and then a larger cap  to seal and trap the oil on surface where natural gas is burned and oil is shipped to the shore .

Its almost seven week since the oil spill and the total amount of oil lost is betwwen 23 and 51 million gallons , the largest oil spill in the history of the nation.

According to BrassTV, 10-20 years of seafood has been destroyed in the gulf of mexico. 

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