P-9 OIL SPILL NEWS UPDATE

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

LIVE BP OIL FEED
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=2&openAIR=true
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bp-oil-spill-live-feed-vi_n_590635.html
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/
homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
OBAMA ON OIL SPILL-VIDEO
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/deepwater-bp-oil-spill-presidential-press-conference
PART 1-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oil-still-gushing-as-of-645pm.html
PART 2-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/05/p-2-oil-slick-news-nay-29.html
PART 3-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-3-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 4-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p4-oil-spill-news.html
PART 5-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-5-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 6-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-6-oil-remembering-dead-from-rig.html
PART 7-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-7-oil-spill-news-update.html
PART 8-OIL SPILL NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2010/06/p-8-oil-spill-update-news.html

ITS DAY 57 OF THE OIL SPILL 7:30 AM JUNE 15,10.CIA LEAD MSNBC IS SAYING OBAMA WILL BE PUSHING FOR CAP & TRADE,CLIMATE CHANGE,CARBON TAX IN HIS GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL SPEECH TONIGHT.IN FACT FOR THE NEXT MONTH MSNBC SAYS THE GOVERNMENT MEMBERS WILL BE PUSHNG HARD FOR THE ENERGY ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE ENERGY PUSH ALSO.SO EXPECT JUST TO HERE GET RID OF FOREIGN DEPEDENCE ON OIL OVERSEAS AND MORE ENERGY(CARBON TAXES,CAP & TRADE TAXES)ON AMERICAN CITIZENS.THE DECIEVING PROPAGANDA PUSH IS IN FULL GEAR NOW.

IF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE AND CONGRESS WOULD BE SMART THEY WOULD FORCE BP TO HAVE A CAMERA ON THE TOP OF THE GULF WATCHING BP BURN THE OIL AND PUTTING THE POISON GASES INTO THE AIR WHICH WILL BE KILLING PEOPLE FASTER THEN WITH THE OIL GENTLY GOING TO THE SHORE TO POISON THE PEOPLE.I SAY GET A CAMERA ON TOP TO WATCH THE OIL CLOUDS OF POISON SINCE THEY HAVE CAMERAS ON THE LEAK ITSELF ON THE BOTTOM.DEMAND THIS AMERICANS.FORCE SOETORO-OBAMA INTO ACTIONS NOT JUST HIS USELESS WORDS.

ITS 7:50PM JUNE 15,10 MOUTH PIECE OBAMA IN 10 MINUTES WILL BE MAKING A SPEECH ABOUT THE OIL SPILL.MEANWHILE THERE SAYING 2.52 MILLION GALLONS A DAY ARE SPEWING POISONS IN THE GULF AND AIR.

ITS DAY 58 OF THE OIL SPILL 4:30AM JUNE 16,10 AND YES OBAMA WAS PROMOTING CAP & TRADE & CLIMATE AND CARBON TAXES JUST LIKE I FIGURED.AND AFTER THE SPEECH CNN,MSNBC AND EVEN FOX WERE ALL TALKING THE SAME.THE PROPAGANDA HYPE IS ON FOR THE GIGANTIC TAX HIKES FOR AMERICANS DESQUISED AS CLEAN ENERGY.HERES THE WORDS FROM OBAMAS SPEECH LAST NIGHT.

OBAMA ON CLEAN ENERGY TAX HIKES
This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels is going to take some time, but over the last year and a half, we’ve already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels. Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that someday will lead to entire new industries. Each of us has a part to play in a new future that will benefit all of us. As we recover from this recession, the transition to clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create millions of jobs -– but only if we accelerate that transition. Only if we seize the moment. And only if we rally together and act as one nation –- workers and entrepreneurs; scientists and citizens; the public and private sectors.

When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill –- a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America’s businesses. Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And there are some who believe that we can’t afford those costs right now. I say we can’t afford not to change how we produce and use energy -– because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.

So I’m happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party -– as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels. Some have suggested raising efficiency standards in our buildings like we did in our cars and trucks. Some believe we should set standards to ensure that more of our electricity comes from wind and solar power. Others wonder why the energy industry only spends a fraction of what the high-tech industry does on research and development -– and want to rapidly boost our investments in such research and development.
FULL TEXT OF OBAMAS HOGWASH SPEECH
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-nation-bp-oil-spill

OBAMA NEVER MENTIONED THAT 1 MILLION 100 THOUSAND GALLONS OF POISON HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE OIL BY BP.OBAMA NEVER MENTIONED SCORES OF PEOPLE ARE SICK FROM THESE POISON GASES.CAN YOU SAY OBAMA IS NOT INTERESTED IN THE AMERICAN CITIZENS HEALTH BUT HE IS INTERESTED IN BEING A CONTROL FREAK OVER ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS.AND IF OBAMA FORCES BP INTO ESCROW THAT WOULD FORCE BP TO GO TO COURT TO STOP OBAMA WHICH IN TURN WOULD STOP ALL THE PAYOUTS TO PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS TO THE OIL SPILL.OBAMA WILL DO ANYTHING TO TO STOP AMERICANS FROM GETTING COMPENSATION FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND BPS CARELESSNESS AND INCOMPITENCE.ONCE AGAIN OBAMA IS THINKING OF LINING HIS POCKET WITH THIS CLEAN ENERGY,INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE SMOKE SCAM WHILE AMERICANS PAY GIGANTIC TAXES.THE ENVIROMENTAL NUTCASE CARBON AND CAP & TRADE SCAM PROPAGANDA IS IN FULL THROTTLE NOW.4:53AM JUNE 16,10.

ITS 2:10PM JUNE 16,10 LOOK WHAT REVELATION I HAVE CAME UP WITH NOW BP WROTE THE CAP & TRADE BILL.I SMELL A FALSE FLAG SETUP HERE THIS OIL SPILL-BP IN TIGHT WITH OBAMA AND THE CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE.THE TRUTH IS STARTING TO COME OUT NOW.NO WONDER BP WON'T LET ANYBODY DO THE PROPER WAYS OF STOPPING THIS OIL SPILL.I AM 99.9% CONVINCED THIS IS A FALSE FLAG TO GET CAP & TRADE INVISIBLE SKY HOOKS AND INVISIBLE GAS BILL PASED SO AMERICANS PAY BIGTIME CASH THROUGH TAXES.BP WILL MAKE TRILLIONS OFF THE CAP & TRADE CHICAGO CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTION.AND EVEN IF THEY PAY OUT 100 BILLION DOLLARS TO WORKERS WHO LOST THEIR JOBS AND LIVELIHOODS THEY WILL MAKE 900 BILLION PLUS WHEN CARBON TAX AND CAP & TRADE IS PASSED.NOW I CAN SEE OBAMA TAKE OVER BP FULLY TO GET ALL THE TAXES FROM BP WRITING THE CAP & TRADE,CARBON TAX BILLS.WE HAVE A TIGHT CONNECTION HERE TO BP AND OBAMA AND CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE.NOW WE KNOW WHY OBAMA NEVER TALKED WITH THE BP CEO HAYWARD OUTWARDLY-SECRETLY THERE TALKING I PREDICT AND SETTING UP THE PROPAGANDA TO GET THE CAP & TRADE,CARBON TAXES BILLS PASSED.THERE PROBABLY BUYING OFF REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATES TO GET THE BILLS PASSED IN A MONTH OR SO.WE WILL SEE ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

ITS 5PPM JUNE 16,10 NOW I FIND OUT GOLDMAN SACHS WILL BE IN CONTROL OF BP IF THEY GO BROKE.NOW WE HAVE THE FINAL CONNECTION AS GOLDMAN SACHS HAS A BUY IN CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE ALSO.WELL WE HAVE ALL THE USUAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIMINAL SYNDICATE,CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE,GOLDMAN SACHS AND BP AND OBAMA.THIS ADMINISTRATION WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET THEIR COMMUNIST,SOCIALIST,FASIST,DICTATORSHIP OF TOTAL CONTROL.SOME LEFT NUTCASES ARE EVEN CALLING FOR OBAMA TO HAVE A DICTATORSHIP OF AMERICA.THESE NUTCASES ARE JUST REDICULAS.

NOW WE HAVE THE ANIMALS GOING IN SHALLOW WATER BECAUSE OF THE OIL AND THE POISONS.BUT THE CAP & TRADE SCAM JUST GOES ON.THIS OIL SPILL IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH THIS ADMINISTRATION AND NEW AGE NUTCASES AND ENVIROMENTAL CASES ARE TALKING AMOUNG THEMSELVES.THESE LUNATICS NEED TO GET A MIND CHANGE BEFORE THEY KILL ALL OF US OFF FOR THE WORSHIP OF THE EARTH.WELL AS RAHM EMMANUEL WOULD SAY WE CAN NOT LET A DISASTER GO TO WASTE.

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press Writers 5PPM JUNE 16,10

GULF SHORES, Ala. – Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily get devoured by predators.A parallel would be: Why are the wildlife running to the edge of a forest on fire? There will be a lot of fish, sharks, turtles trying to get out of this water they detect is not suitable, said Larry Crowder, a Duke University marine biologist.The nearly two-month-old oil spill has created an environmental catastrophe unparalleled in U.S. history as tens of millions of gallons of have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.

Day by day, scientists in boats tally up dead birds, sea turtles and other animals, but the toll is surprisingly small given the size of the disaster. The latest figures show that 783 birds, 353 turtles and 41 mammals have died — numbers that pale in comparison to what happened after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, when 250,000 birds and 2,800 otters are believed to have died.Researchers say there are several reasons for the relatively small death toll: The vast nature of the spill means scientists are able to locate only a small fraction of the dead animals. Many will never be found after sinking to the bottom of the sea or getting scavenged by other marine life. And large numbers of birds are meeting their deaths deep in the Louisiana marshes where they seek refuge from the onslaught of oil.That is their understanding of how to protect themselves, said Doug Zimmer, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking in the oily sheen and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.I think part of the reason why we're not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning, Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.As for the fish, locals are seeing large schools hanging around piers where fishing has been banned; apparently the fish feel safer now that they are not being disturbed by fishermen.Also, researchers believe fish are swimming closer to shore because the water is cleaner and more abundant in oxygen. Father out in the Gulf, researchers say, the spill is not only tainting the water with oil but also depleting oxygen levels.A similar scenario occurs during dead zone periods — the time during summer months when oxygen becomes so depleted that fish race toward shore in large numbers. Sometimes, so many fish gather close to the shoreline off Mobile that locals rush to the beach with tubs and nets to reap the harvest.

But this latest shore migration could prove deadly.

First, more oil could eventually wash ashore and overwhelm the fish. They could also become trapped between the slick and the beach, leading to increased competition for oxygen in the water and causing them to die as they run out of air.Their ability to avoid it may be limited in the long term, especially if in near-shore refuges they're crowding in close to shore, and oil continues to come in. At some point they'll get trapped,Crowder said.It could lead to die-offs.The fish could also fall victim to predators such as sharks and seabirds. Already there have been increased shark sightings in shallow waters along the Gulf Coast.The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages. Roger Helm, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service's contaminants division, said the government expects a battle with BP over the extent of the damage and has every incentive to be scientifically credible.Both sides go to their own corner and interpret the data the way they want, Helm said. This is a legal process, and if we can't get an agreement we'll end up in court.Lush contributed from Barataria Bay, La., Flesher from Traverse City, Mich.

BP Helped Write Cap-n-Trade Bill
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for American consumers.
ACNSNews article: McConnell Charges That Major Part of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill Essentially Written by BP.Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said he believes that BP played a role in the Kerry Lieberman bill and that big oil companies regularly make bigger contributions to Democrat candidates than to Republicans. Watch his testimony in today’s debate on EPA regulation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/JimInhofePressOffice#p/u/0/pSARUzVgZo0

McConnell Charges That Major Part of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill Essentially Written by BP Wednesday, June 09, 2010 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

Senate Minority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday about how BP -- the oil company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf Coast -- helped write the Kerry Lieberman bill on global warming that is being debated by lawmakers. (AP photo)(CNSNews.com) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for American consumers. The problem for Democrats is that debating the Democrat cap-and-trade bill might not fit neatly into the White House messaging plan since it’s been widely reported that a major part, a major part of the Kerry-Lieberman bill was essentially written by BP,McConnell said on the Senate floor on Wednesday.Let me say that again. A major part of the Kerry-Lieberman bill was written by BP. This is clearly an inconvenient fact.McConnell made his comments at a time when Congress is debating a compromise global warming bill introduced in May by Kerry and Lieberman in the wake of the deep-water oil rig explosion in April that killed 11 men and has dumped thousands of crude oil into Gulf Coast waters.

McConnell also charged that Democrats want to piggy back the Kerry-Lieberman bill into legislation being considered to mitigate future oil spills.At the same time as Americans wonder when this gusher will ever be plugged, we hear word that the administration and my good friend the majority leader [Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.] want to piggy back their controversial new national energy tax--also known as cap and trade--to an oil spill response bill that could and should be an opportunity for true bipartisan cooperation,McConnell said.So here again, we see the administration using a crisis--in this case the disaster in the gulf--as an opportunity to muscle through Congress another deeply unpopular bill that has profound implications for small business and struggling households,McConnell said.Look, if the health care debate taught us anything, anything at all, it’s that Americans want these kinds of massive bills to be debated out in the open,said McConnell,not rushed past them on a holiday or tucked into a must-pass bill aimed at alleviating the kind of suffering we’re seeing in the Gulf.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said he believes that BP played a role in the Kerry Lieberman bill and that big oil companies regularly make bigger contributions to Democrat candidates than to Republicans. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)An administration that seems to spend most of its time coming up with new ways to show how angry it is at BP, is pushing a proposal that BP actually helped write,said McConnell.I can’t understand it and I don’t think the American people will understand why that it makes sense to respond to the BP oil spill by imposing a gas-tax increase on the American people that was advocated by BP.When asked by CNSNews.com about McConnell’s remark that a major part of the Kerry-Lieberman bill was essentially written by BP, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said, I believe that’s true. In fact, it’s kind of funny, the Democrats try to say the Republicans are the product of big oil and all that.

The BP oil spill means America needs Cap and Trade By Laurie Roth JUNE 16,10

The Saul Alyinsky white house continues the Drama Queen manipulation of events and news to forward its radical agenda.Obama, with this disengaged congress has already pounded,bribed and crammed into law,the Obama care Health disaster.Now,we see Obama, hoping we are still dumb as posts,daring to compare the 9/11 attack by Islamic radicals with the Gulf oil spill.Shame on him.There is NO comparison! He plans to use this crises in the gulf as his fuel to quickly move a Cap and Trade, environmental bill through. Just recently we heard Obama say to Politico, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.He set the sheep up further by stating,One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster.You now must realize that the lesson, we the class must learn is that Obama has the Cap and Trade Environmental control answer to fix this BP disaster.The only cost to his messiah inspired plan is the freedom and health of American small, medium and large business. With his mythological, carbon emissions controls hoisted on America,we will dream for the days of an oil spill disaster because instead we will be consumed by the unholy trinity…. Regulation,taxation and litigation!……..just the way Obama likes it.

Obama will throw everything he has at the wall before Mid terms

Obama’s scheme and game is classic Rules for Radicals behavior.He knows he doesn’t have the votes right now in congress to cram Cap and Trade through so he is supporting the EPA, (Environmental Protection Agency) in redefining things to control and bypass congress…..regulation, redefinition and manipulated causes that demand taxation. They must save us from invented nightmares….carbon this and plant food that.Obama is counting on the magic of this BP crises to distract Americans from his quickened environmental agenda to cram an emergency response. We’ll feel SO much better with Cap and Trade. Expect it to be called something else magical though which will sound Mother Theresa like.Expect the amnesty bill to try and sneak through congress as well. We have already seen Obama betray the state of Arizona, slander and insult Governor Brewer and build up this new immigration law as a national AND international disgrace. Obama even apologized for the needed law to the President of China and Mexico.What a national disgrace that was! I predict, Obama will use this misguided law with a sea of manipulative speeches designed to make him once again look like the messiah of minorities and illegal immigrants so he can cram an amnesty bill through this current congress before Mid terms. He knows that the Mid Terms are swinging towards the conservatives so he counts on working the manipulated BP crises, Arizona law, race card and illegal alien card for his fascist and controlling agenda. He also needs and counts on the lies, distortion, intimidation and push of ACORN and any voter fraud and help he can find. Prepare for people to vote 10 times each, illegals everywhere to vote, dead people to vote and voters to be harassed and intimidated at polling places.Regardless of the endless voter fraud we will see, we must ALL vote and push through any wall of intimidation to counter act the millions of votes that shouldn’t be counted.Obama is just classic…..the self imposed victimization by the media and conservatives, the reworking of disasters; the growth and encouragement of racism; the inventing of climate challenges out of thin air; and the targeting and betrayal of babies and seniors (among others) with the Obamacare bill. He is right on course. The question is WHERE ARE WE? Mid terms come quickly.I refuse to believe that America will be dummer than a post again.

Obama declares reckless BP will pay Gulf cleanup By JENNIFER LOVEN, AP White House Correspondent – Tue Jun 15, 10:12 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Vowing to make BP pay, President Barack Obama accused the oil giant of recklessness in his first address to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, eight weeks to the day after the catastrophic oil spill began destroying waterways, wildlife and a prized Gulf Coast way of life.We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long it takes, declared Obama, whose own presidency has been stumbling because of the gushing oil. A new Associated Press-GfK poll even indicates as many Americans disapprove of his handling of the crisis — 52 percent — as felt that way about President George W. Bush's handling of the Katrina aftermath.

Obama offered no immediate remedies for a frustrated nation. Rather he announced he had asked former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus to develop a long-term Gulf Coast Restoration Plan — to be funded by BP PLC — in concert with local states, communities, fishermen, conservationists and residents as soon as possible.He did not detail what this effort — he called it a battle plan — should include or how much it might cost, a price sure to be in the billions of dollars. Whatever the bottom line, he declared to his prime-time television audience, We will make BP pay.
That's not certain, however. In declaring that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf recovery, Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. The president meets BP executives in a White House showdown on Wednesday.

Fifty-seven days into the crisis, oil continues to gush from the broken wellhead, millions of gallons a day, and Obama has been powerless to stem the leak. The sad episode has raised doubts about his leadership and his administration's response to what Obama has called the nation's worst environmental disaster.He spoke from the Oval Office while seated at the storied Resolute desk, a bank of family photos and an American flag filling the backdrop. A president sometimes criticized as lacking emotion, Obama talked in a calm tone, no sign of the anger he showed earlier in the week concerning the spill.In one specific action, Obama announced former Justice Department inspector general Michael Bromwich as his choice for the new head of the agency that regulates the oil industry. Obama said Bromwich's job at the helm of the federal Minerals Management Service is to the oil industry's watchdog, not its partner.He also said that coming regulatory reforms would require stricter drilling safety measures and more robust spill response plans.With national frustration rising, Obama sought to defend his increasingly criticized efforts and to stoke new confidence that he can see the job through until the oil is gone and Gulf Coast lives are back to normal.He pledged not to rest until BP had been held accountable for all the damage its exploded well has caused and until the Gulf Coast region is restored. He did not repeat his earlier pledges to see the Gulf returned to better shape than it was before.Likening that process to a long epidemic instead of a single crushing disaster like an earthquake or hurricane, he warned that the nation could be tied up with the oil and its aftermath for months and even years.

There was more bad news, too.

A government panel of scientists determined that the well is leaking even more oil than previously thought, as much as 2.52 million gallons a day — or enough to fill the Oval Office where Obama sat more than 22 times. The total spilled so far could be as much as 116 million gallons.Lightning even struck. A bolt hit the ship siphoning oil from the leak — injuring no one but halting containment efforts for five hours.Back on land, as long as the oil keeps flowing, no one seems happy with what anyone is doing to deal with it, from Obama on down.Said one spray-painted sign along the president's Florida motorcade route earlier in the day, as Obama capped a two-day inspection tour of the region: Obama you are useless.For restaurant owner Regina Shipp, her business suffering for lack of tourists in Orange Beach, Ala., the speech offered little solace.He said he's going to make BP pay. Can he? Can he? said Shipp, standing amid a sea of empty tables at Shipp's Harbour Grill, which she owns with her husband, chef Matt Shipp. And yet, Obama's overall approval rating has not yet dipped, remaining around the 50 percent mark. Further, the public still is far more eager to blame the company than the president, with the poll showing disapproval of BP up to 83 percent.

On Capitol Hill, dominating the day before the president looked into the cameras from behind the storied Resolute desk, executives of the largest oil companies were grilled for hours by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Lawmakers chastised chief executives representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell — as well as BPAmerica — for being no better prepared for the worst than BP. In sometimes-testy exchanges about the risks of seeking oil under a mile of water, the executives testified their companies would not have managed the Deepwater Horizon well in the same way, suggesting BP shortcuts led to the devastating outcome.Looking ahead to his White House showdown Wednesday morning with BP executives, Obama said he would inform them that the company must set aside in an independently run fund whatever resources are required to make whole all local residents and businesses hurt by the spill and to repair the immense ecological damage wrought by the oil. That meeting was to be followed by a presidential statement — his fourth planned remarks on the spill in three days. Later in the week, BP leaders take the Washington hot seat again, appearing before more congressional hearings.BP has had only modest success so far in siphoning some oil from gushing into the water. But Obama said that within weeks these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well.Later in the summer, he said, the company should finish drilling a relief well to stop the leak completely. BP officials did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment on the president's specific criticisms. In a brief statement, the company only said it shares Obama's goal of shutting off the well as quickly as possible, cleaning up the oil and mitigating the impact on the people and environment of the Gulf Coast.However, Obama said that the new Gulf restoration plan would go beyond just repairing the effects of the crude on a unique, teeming ecology that was already battered by the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We must make a commitment to the Gulf Coast that goes beyond responding to the crisis of the moment,the president said.Much of the president's speech was devoted to a recitation of steps his administration has already taken — from the very beginning,he said.

Obama also spent a large chunk of his remarks on his goal of passing sweeping energy and climate change legislation, a key domestic priority of his presidency that had become a long shot. But while Obama urged action, he was subtle about what he was calling on lawmakers and the public to rally behind. For instance, though Obama supports placing a price on heat-trapping carbon emissions, he did not directly state that.The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now,he said. I say we can't afford not to change how we produce and use energy - because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.
Associated Press writers Erica Werner in Pensacola, Fla., Harry Weber in Houston, Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., and H. Josef Hebert, Seth Borenstein, Ben Feller and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this story.

BP: Oil containment efforts resume after ship fire By HARRY R. WEBER and RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writers – Tue Jun 15, 6:03 pm ET

HOUSTON – A drill ship resumed siphoning off oil gushing from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday after a bolt of lightning struck the vessel and ignited a fire that halted containment efforts, the company said.BP PLC spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press that the drill ship called the Discoverer Enterprise resumed processing oil Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after the fire caused an emergency shutdown. Engineers on the ship have been siphoning about 630,000gallons of oil a day through a cap on top of the well.He said there was no damage reported to the containment cap, and the Coast Guard approved BP restarting the system.If we believed it was damaged, we would not have restarted the operation, Salvin said.Salvin was unsure how long the fire lasted but said it was apparently small and confined to the top of the ship's derrick.A crewmember aboard a nearby vessel that specializes in firefighting told the AP that his ship was called in to put out the fire, but by the time they arrived, it was already out.This is not an uncommon occurrence of this type and in this type of situation, Salvin said, adding that the Discoverer Enterprise has a number of safeguards in place to deal with the possibility of a fire and they all worked as designed.The fire was another setback for the embattled company in its nearly two-month struggle to stop the spill.It happened as President Barack Obama was in Florida as part of a two-day visit to the stricken Gulf Coast and came a day after the British oil giant announced that it hoped to trap as much as roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment equipment.

Scientists have estimated that anywhere between about 40 million gallons to more than 100 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. Though the latest cap installed the well has been capturing oil, large quantities are still spilling into the sea.BP has been beefing up its containment efforts with the hurricane season in mind, building a sturdier system that can withstand the volatile weather that is so common in the Gulf in the summer months.The Coast Guard has taken BP to task for not having enough redundancies in the system to be able to shift gears in events such as Tuesday's lightning strike.The company said it hopes to soon start a second containment system — a burner on a semi-submersible drilling rig that could incinerate up to 420,000 gallons of oil a day. BP had hoped to start the system as early as Tuesday.

The fire occurred in a vent pipe leading from a tank on the Enterprise where processed oil is stored, BP spokesman Robert Wine said.Louisiana has been hit with several storms and lightning strikes in the past day.Henry reported from New Orleans.

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 15,10 7:40PM

NEW ORLEANS – Scientists provided a new estimate for the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday that indicates it could be leaking up to 2.52 million gallons of crude a day.A government panel of scientists said that the ruptured well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons of oil daily. The figures move the government's worst-case estimates more in line with what an independent team had previously thought was the maximum size of the spill.This estimate brings together several scientific methodologies and the latest information from the sea floor, and represents a significant step forward in our effort to put a number on the oil that is escaping from BP's well, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement.The latest numbers reflect an increase in the flow that scientists believe happened after undersea robots earlier this month cut off a kinked pipe near the sea floor that was believed to be restricting the flow of oil, just as a bend in a garden hose reduces water flow. BP officials has estimated that cutting the kinked pipe likely increased the flow by up 20 percent.The pipe was removed so BP could install a containment cap that is trapping leaking oil and drawing it a ship waiting on the ocean surface.The new numbers are based on a combination of scientific data, including an analysis of high-resolution video taken by underwater robots, pressure meters, sonar, and measurements of oil collected by the containment device on top of the well.It is the fourth — and perhaps not last — time the federal government has had to increase its estimate of how much oil is gushing. At one point, the federal government claimed only 42,000 gallons were spilling a day and then it upped the number to 210,000 gallons.As of Tuesday, the maximum amount of oil that has gushed out of the well since the April 20 explosion is 116 million gallons, according to the estimates by scientists advising the federal government.

BP PLC now has a containment system in place in the Gulf of Mexico that has been capturing nearly 648,000 gallons of oil daily. That system was forced to shut down as a precaution Tuesday morning because of a fire on a ship connected to it. BP said the collection system was not damaged and about five hours after the fire, the containment operations resumed.Under pressure from the federal government, BP plans to gradually expand its ability to capture the flow of oil until a relief well can permanently end the leak sometime in August. The collection system could expand to a peak capacity of 2.2 million gallons of oil by the end of June and up to roughly 3.4 million gallons of oil by mid July.

Congress grills oil execs on prep for major spill By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 15,10

WASHINGTON – Members of Congress chastised the largest oil companies Tuesday, accusing them of being no better prepared than BP to avert an environmental catastrophe.As the oil executives testified at a House hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman asserted that the companies' spill response plans amounted to paper exercises that mirrored BP's failed plan. Their strategies to plug a spill deep beneath the sea are the same failed strategies that have stymied BP, the California Democrat said.The other companies are no better prepared to deal with a major oil spill than was BP, said Waxman, setting the tone for a tense hearing.But the executives sought to distance themselves from BP, telling lawmakers they would not have drilled the Deepwater Horizon well in the same way as the British company. They suggested some of BP's design decisions and actions may have jeopardized well integrity.One lawmaker after another expressed frustration at BP's inability to stop oil gushing from its stricken well as the chief executives representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell — as well as BPAmerica — sat shoulder to shoulder at the witness table.The House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing unfolded as President Barack Obama was on the Gulf coast for the second day and walked on a beach near Pensacola, Fla. as onlookers chanted Save our beach, save our beach.Obama at one stop pledged to fight back with everything we've got against the spreading oil.

A new Associated Press-Gfk poll released Tuesday found a majority of Americans disapprove of how Obama has handled the spill. Obama planned to address the nation Tuesday night on the oil spill.Meanwhile, BP said Tuesday it was speeding up payments for large commercial claims. The company said in a statement that it has approved initial payments toward 90 percent of large commercial claims filed as a result of financial losses. BP said it approved 337 payments totaling $16 million to businesses.The House hearing marked the first time that the chief executives of the major oil companies — all leaders in deep-water drilling in the Gulf — were called before Congress since the April 20 BP explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, unleashing the country's worst oil spill.The five companies, including BP, have a combined worth of $776 billion and earned $64 billion last year.Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., questioned why BP paid CEO Tony Hayward $36 million last year, while spending just $10 million on research.Do you think that is appropriate prioritization? Inslee asked Lamar McKay, president of BPAmerica. He declined to answer.The government has estimated that as much as 2 million gallons of oil a day may be flowing into the Gulf.Waxman's committee questioned McKay on internal company e-mails and documents that the lawmaker said showed that BP made repeated decisions in the days and hours before the explosion that increased the risk of a major well blowout.

Were mistakes made by BP? asked Waxman of the executives.ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson said the Gulf spill would not have occurred if BP had properly designed its deepwater well. We do not proceed with operations if we cannot do so safely,said Tillerson.We would not have drilled the well in that way,said James Mulva, the CEO of ConocoPhillips. As BP's McKay sat inches away, Shell president Marvin Odum said, It's not a well that we would have drilled the way it was set up.

Chevron CEO John Watson said some of BP's practices aimed at well integrity we would not put in place.We must learn from this accident,said Watson.In a tense exchange, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. insisted repeatedly that McKay apologize to the American people for lowballing for weeks the amount of oil that was gushing from the damaged wellhead. BP had said 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) a day were being released when it's now known that possibly ten times that amount may have been flowing, said Markey.Are you ready to apologize for getting that number wrong,repeated Markey.

McKay said those were not BP's estimates but those of the government's unified command dealing with the response. We are sorry for everything the Gulf coast is going through,McKay finally said. So far, 114 million gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf under the worst-case scenario described by scientists — a rate of more than 2 million gallons a day. BP has collected 5.6 million gallons of oil through its latest containment cap on top of the well, or about 630,000 gallons per day.
Waxman's committee released documents that showed BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive spill from a well that an engineer ominously described as a nightmare just six days before the April blowout.Investigators found that BP was badly behind schedule on the project and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars with each passing day, and responded by cutting corners in the well design, cementing and drilling efforts and the installation of key safety devices.Time after time, it appears that BP made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense, Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., chairman of the committee's investigations panel, wrote in a letter.AP reporters Frederic Frommer, Matthew Daly, Liz Sidoti, Trevor Thompson, Erica Werner, Ray Henry and Brian Skoloffe contributed to this report.

Gulf Coasters skeptical of Obama, BP promises By BRIAN SKOLOFF and MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writers - Tue Jun 15, 3:15 am ET

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. – President Barack Obama promised that life would return to normal for people living on the stricken Gulf Coast, and BP said by the end of the month it would contain more than three times as much oil spewing from a ruptured undersea well.The pledges didn't placate some residents.I think that as long as BP is still in control, there's not a lot he can do other than show support for the residents of these Gulf states,Jennifer Jenkins, 34, of Long Beach, said of Obama.
The president visited Mississippi and Alabama Monday as part of a two-day stop. He sought to assure residents — and the country — that the government will leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before.He visits Florida on Tuesday ahead of a national address on the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, which has become a stern test of his presidency.His trip coincided with BP announcing that it could trap a maximum of roughly 2.2 million gallons of oil daily by the end of June as it deploys additional containment efforts, including a system that could start burning off vast quantities as early as Tuesday.It also came as documents revealed that BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive spill from a well that an engineer ominously described as a nightmare just six days before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Investigators found that BP was badly behind schedule on the project and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars with each passing day, and responded by cutting corners in the well design, cementing and drilling mud efforts and the installation of key safety devices.The House Energy and Commerce Committee released dozens of internal documents that outline several problems on the deep-sea rig in the days and weeks before the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and set in motion the catastrophe. The committee has been investigating.Time after time, it appears that BP made decisions that increased the risk of a blowout to save the company time or expense. If this is what happened, BP's carelessness and complacency have inflicted a heavy toll on the Gulf, its inhabitants, and the workers on the rig,said Democratic Reps. Henry A. Waxman and Bart Stupak.During the address from the Oval Office, Obama will announce new steps to restore the Gulf Coast ecosystem, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage the president's announcements.I can't promise folks ... that the oil will be cleaned up overnight. It will not be,Obama said during a speech in Alabama. But, he added,things are going to return to normal.Residents, though, were skeptical that the economic and environmental destruction would improve any time soon.Watching oil flow through Perdido Pass in Alabama's Gulf Coast, former Navy firefighter Clayton Ard said he wished Obama would break up the unified command responding to the crisis and let local governments handle it with more autonomy.It's just a huge bureaucracy that's slowing things down. ... We want to stop the oil now, but we can't do anything,Ard said.

The breached well has dumped as much as 114 million gallons of oil into the Gulf under the worst-case scenario described by scientists — a rate of more than 2 million a day. BP has collected 5.6 million gallons of oil through its latest containment cap on top of the well, or about 630,000 gallons per day.To trap more oil faster, BP would continue to siphon off the flow from a containment cap sitting above the well to a drill ship sitting on the ocean surface. More oil from the blowout preventer — a stack of pipes sitting on the seafloor — also would be drawn through hoses and pipes to a drilling rig where it will be burned using a specialized flare.Still, BP warned its containment efforts could be hampered if hoses or pipes clog and as engineers struggle to run the complicated collection system.Also, BP spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press that the company has contracted with actor Kevin Costner and Ocean Therapy Solutions to use 32 of their centrifuge machines that are designed to separate oil from water. We recognized they had potential and put them through testing, and that testing was done in shallow water and in very deep water and we were very pleased by the results,Salvin said.

Meanwhile, congressional investigators have identified several mistakes by BP in the weeks leading up to the disaster. In the design of the well, the company apparently chose a riskier option among two possibilities to provide a barrier to the flow of gas in space surrounding steel tubes in the well, documents and internal e-mails show. The decision saved BP $7 million to $10 million; the original cost estimate for the well was about $96 million.In an e-mail, BP engineer Brian Morel told a fellow employee that the company is likely to make last-minute changes in the well.
We could be running it in 2-3 days, so need a relative quick response. Sorry for the late notice, this has been nightmare well which has everyone all over the place, Morel wrote. BP also apparently rejected advice of a subcontractor, Halliburton Inc., in preparing for a cementing job to close up the well. BP rejected Halliburton's recommendation to use 21 centralizers to make sure the casing ran down the center of the well bore. Instead, BP used six centralizers.Asked about the details disclosed from the investigation, BP spokesman Mark Proegler said the company's main focus right now is on the response and stopping the flow of oil. It would be inappropriate for us to comment while an investigation is ongoing.
Associated Press Writers Erica Werner in Theodore, Ala., Jay Reeves in Orange Beach, Ala., and Harry R. Weber in Houston contributed to this report. Daly contributed from Washington.