there s plenty of those here, especially with this situation. any drilling company would give up their blowout preventer to do something like this, to get this well shut in. so it wasn t a matter of a lack of equipment. i m just very confused why it took ten weeks to get it built. yeah, me too. bob cavnar of dailyhurricane.com and huffington post, thanks. let s turn now to mack mcclellan human rights reporter for mother jones magazine. good evening, mack. good evening. do you have any details or contacts in which to flush out the story we mentioned earlier, the claims against bp that the louisiana official says are getting cut now? yeah, so, basically what happened is the department of children and family services has independent auditors who are double checking to make sure that bp s doing what they re supposed to be doing. turns out they are not. they ve had half as many checks going out as they have claims coming in at the end of june, and of those checks that
former oil and gas executive you, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry for huffington post. good evening. good evening, keith. what was your take-away from the news today about the sudden new updated, improved estimate for finishing the relief well? keith, i think there are several things going on here. one, i believed for the last several weeks that mid-july was the time frame they would be ready for the kill, were it not for a storm or some other situation come up. since there hasn t been a storm that s shut them down, they really have made enough progress to do the kill by mid-july. the fact they re pushing their date up finally is one, they re facing the reality they re within a couple hundred feet. since they re being pushed to put a tighter cap on, they want to get that well killed before they have to put the cap on.
in a perfect world with no interruptions, he said, bp s relief well drilling would have reached the spilling and be ready to start sealing off with the ahead fluid known as mud by july 27. july 27 just happens to be the day bp answers to investors for quarterly earnings. a day bp wants good news. congressman ed markey asking bp to explain how and now why the original application to drill the relief well listed an estimated completion date of august 15th. bob cavnar pointing out in a post today that for the same reason bp had financial incentive to low ball its initial flow rate estimate has financial incentive not to cap the spill at all. but end it with the relief well. why? capping the spill successfully would allow scientists to count accurately the rate of gallons per minute generating a hard and precise number for the total amount spilled.
rush job, with congressman ed markey and bob cavnar. the gop has a new member. would-be senator sharron angle. i think you named it. clearly, it s a slush fund. both angle feet in the angle mouth to the hypothetical 13-year-old girl raped by her father who needs an abortion i think two wrongs don t make a right. i have been in the situation of counseling young girls and they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. there has been another palin tape about something. apparently she s been promoted from pit bull. here in alaska, i always think of the mama grizzly bears that rise up you on their hind legs when somebody s coming to attack their cubs. i ll see your grizzly bear
as always, great thanks for your time tonight. as promised, let s bring in former oil and gas executive you, bob cavnar, who writes about the industry for huffington post. on his own website the daily hurricane. bob, good evening. good evening, keith. what was your take-away from the news today about the sudden new updated, improved estimate for finishing the relief well? keith, i think there are several things going on here. one, i believed for the last several weeks that mid-july was the time frame they would be ready for the kill, were it not for a storm or some other situation come up. since there hasn t been a storm that s shut them down, they really have made enough progress to do the kill by mid-july. the fact they re pushing their date up finally is one, they re facing the reality they re within a couple hundred feet. since they re being pushed to put a tighter cap on, they want to get that well killed before they have to put the cap on. whatever litigation motives