‘BP: IN DEEP WATER’ on CNBC @ 9 tonight - This report examines the scope of consequences of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. It also looks at the war of words between the Obama administration and BP, and asks what went wrong and why. - NYTimes 

This special originally aired on the BBC’s Panorama and it’s up on Youtube. Above is part one. Here are parts two and three. 

BP Well Test Results Not as Good as Hoped

Pressure Readings from Cap Not Proving No Other Leaks in Well, Federal Pointman Says

The federal pointman for the BP oil spill says results are short of ideal in the new cap but the oil will stay shut in for another 6 hours at least. 

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said on a Friday afternoon conference that pressure readings from the cap have not reached the level that would show there are no other leaks in the well. 

He said the test will go ahead for another 6-hour period before being reassessed to see if BP needs to reopen the cap and let oil spill out again. 

CNBC Anchor Slams Guest For Using False Right-Wing Talking Points

“Excuse me, let me just get the facts on the table and then you can make up your own.” - CNBC’s Mark Haines

“Excuse me, Senator McCarthy, you can’t tell us how many there are? I want the facts, give us hard facts, give us evidence, not innuendo, not baseless accusations, okay? It’s offensive to intelligence.” - CNBC’s Mark Haines

ThinkProgress

…in the 1970s, there was a BP-endorsed board game called “Offshore Oil Strike” on the “thrills of drilling.” The game wasn’t very popular, but it now bears a “spooky” resemblance to what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are the rules, according to BoardGameGeek: Two to four players compete at exploring for oil, building platforms, and laying pipelines to bring the offshore oil back to the player’s home company. Players take on the roles of either BP (Hull), Amoco (Bergen), Chevron (Rotterdam) or Mobil (Dieppe) in their quest for oil. As with other games focusing on offshore oil exploitation (e.g., Omnia’s North Sea Oil), there is also the risk that storms will reduce production on, or eliminate, one’s oil platforms. The first player to make $120,000,000 in cash is the winner. Players must also avoid “hazard cards,” which read, “Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.” continue reading… thinkprogress 

…in the 1970s, there was a BP-endorsed board game called “Offshore Oil Strike” on the “thrills of drilling.” The game wasn’t very popular, but it now bears a “spooky” resemblance to what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico.

Here are the rules, according to BoardGameGeek:

Two to four players compete at exploring for oil, building platforms, and laying pipelines to bring the offshore oil back to the player’s home company. Players take on the roles of either BP (Hull), Amoco (Bergen), Chevron (Rotterdam) or Mobil (Dieppe) in their quest for oil. As with other games focusing on offshore oil exploitation (e.g., Omnia’s North Sea Oil), there is also the risk that storms will reduce production on, or eliminate, one’s oil platforms. The first player to make $120,000,000 in cash is the winner.

Players must also avoid “hazard cards,” which read, “Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.”

continue reading… thinkprogress 

High-res Obama’s Well Neil King, Jr., & Keith Johnson of the Wall Street Journal: After the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals “found that the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea,” the Obama DOJ urged the Court to reconsider, which it did, allowing “drilling in the Gulf to proceed—including on BP PLC’s now-infamous Macondo well…. In his presidential campaign, President Obama criticized the Bush administration for being too soft on the oil industry…. But, once in office, President Obama ended up backing offshore drilling…, even as his administration’s own scientists and Democratic lawmakers warned about its risks.” - realitychex 

Obama’s Well

Neil King, Jr., & Keith Johnson of the Wall Street Journal: After the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals “found that the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea,” the Obama DOJ urged the Court to reconsider, which it did, allowing “drilling in the Gulf to proceed—including on BP PLC’s now-infamous Macondo well…. In his presidential campaign, President Obama criticized the Bush administration for being too soft on the oil industry…. But, once in office, President Obama ended up backing offshore drilling…, even as his administration’s own scientists and Democratic lawmakers warned about its risks.” - realitychex 

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“…BP will not give them the names of the chemicals that are in the dispersants. […] The average life span of a person who did clean-up on the Exxon Valdez is 51 […]

Almost all those people who did work on the Exxon Valdez are dead.”

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CNN - Video here