Millions of liters (liters) of oil have poured into the Gulf of Mexico since a 20-4 blast to the rig Deepwater Horizon triggered a massive spill, pollution 100 miles (160 km) of coastline, threatening some of the United States is most danger to a fragile ecosystem and fisheries.
Below is a timeline of the spill and its consequences:
20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers.
21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.
22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks.
22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness.
Meanwhile, 200,000 gallons of oil are spilling daily.
23 April 2010: President Obama blasts the Arizona governor, state legislators, police officers and residents for backing federal laws that prohibit illegal immigration.
23 April 2010: The oil continues to flow.
24 April 2010: The president delivers his weekly radio address, which focuses on further regulation of Wall Street. He also calls upon certain segments of his original supporters -- African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women -- and asks them to mobilize for political action.
24 April 2010: Efforts to contain the spill are hampered by lack of resources and difficult weather.
25 April 2010: President Obama interrupts a weekend getaway to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham in North Carolina.
25 April 2010: Oil spreads across the gulf and heads toward the Louisiana shoreline.
26 April 2010: President Obama appears in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.
26 April 2010: The Coast Guard warns that the spill could become one of the worst in United States history.
28 April 2010: The President holds a rare, impromptu press conference on Air Force One, addressing "questions on the Arizona immigration law, the financial regulation bill and other issues." Obama also prepared to make his second nomination to the Supreme Court and warns of a "'conservative' brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decisions of lawmakers."
28 April 2010: large pools of oil are spotted close to the Louisiana shore line.
29 April 2010: the White House Flickr Feed is updated with a photo of the President meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior administration officials, including National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, which indicates that they are urgently working the issue of the oil spill.
29 April 2010: Meanwhile, local officials, the Coast Guard and private citizens continue their efforts to prevent damage to the Louisiana coastline.
Obama promises’ every single source, “including the U.S. army, contains the spread of spill. - Obama also says BP is responsible for the cleanup. Louisiana declares emergency due to threat to natural resources of the State.
4.30 – An Obama aide says that no drilling will be allowed in new areas, as recently proposed by the president, until the cause of the Deepwater Horizon is an accident.
- Tony Hayward, BP chairman says the company takes full responsibility for the spill and would pay all legitimate claims and the costs of the cleanup.
5.02 – Obama visited the Gulf Coast cleanup efforts to be able to see firsthand. U.S. officials exclude areas affected by the leakage of the fishery for an initial period of 10 days. BP begins to drill a relief well alongside the well failed, a process that can take two to three months to complete.
05-05 – A barge starts dragging a 98-ton containment chamber at the site of the leak. BP says one of the three vulnerabilities is by capping off a valve, but that would not cut the amount of oil gushes out.
06.05 – Oil washes on Chand Leur Islands off the coast of Louisiana, uninhabited islands that are part of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge.
7.5 – BP is trying to lower a containment dome over the leak, but the 100-ton machine was rendered unusable by a slush of frozen hydrocarbons that clogged. – A fishing ban for federal waters off the coast of the Gulf has been edited, enlarged and extended until May 17
9-5 – BP says it might try to plug the leak underwater by pumping materials such as shredded tires and golf balls up into the well under high pressure, a method called a “junk shot.”
May 11/12 – Executives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton appear at congressional hearings in Washington. Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman of saying that it appeared that the explosion on the rig was due to a “cascade of errors, technical, human and regulations. The executives blame each other’s businesses.
14.05 – Obama slams companies involved in the leak, criticizing them for a “ridiculous impression” of the public debt of trading on the accident in his toughest comments yet.
16/05 – BP succeeds in inserting a tube into the leaking well and capturing some oil and gas.
18/05 – The U.S. nearly doubles a no-fishing zone in waters with oil to increase to 19 percent of U.S. waters in the Gulf.
May 19 – The first heavy oil from the spill sloshing ashore in fragile marshes of Louisiana and part of the clutter is a strong current that could carry it to Florida and beyond.
May 26 – A top-kill “maneuver begins with heavy pumping liquids and other materials into the well shaft of the power to stifle, then seal with cement.
28.05 – Obama tours the Louisiana Gulf coast on his second visit – “I am the president and the buck stops with me,” he said.
- BP CEO Tony Hayward flies over the Gulf. BP says that the cost of the disaster so far is $ 930,000,000. 29.05 – BP says the complex “top kill” maneuver to plug the well failed, crushing hopes for a quick end to the largest oil spill in U.S. history is already in its 40th day.
May 31 – The U.S. government and BP have warned that the blown-out oil and can not be stopped until August as the company prepares a new attempt to catch leaking crude oil.
06.01 – BP shares dive 17 percent in London trading, wiping 23 billion U.S. dollars from its market value on the news the last attempt to plug the well failed.
Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning for a couple of days and actually pay attention to his own, personal Katrina. Even The New York Times has noticed, decrying the President's lackadaisical response. His own party and even lefties in the news media - even the late night comedians are taking their poke at the commander in chimp for his ineptness......but you know what it doesn't matter cause in the end BP will be forced to pay and be bankrupt by this gangster regime, and somehow, someway at the end of the day - it will all be George Bush's fault!
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Very informative. When it's all over, it will be everyone's fault EXCEPT Obama's. Count on it.
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