BP Photoshop Job
Posted on 20 July 2010 by LynThomas in Uncategorized
John Aravosis, from American Blog, claims an image from BP’s website is a fake and was Photoshopped.
It shows BP’s ‘Command Centre’ in Houston, where ever-vigilant BP employees appear to sit in a dark room, monitoring a ten-screen display of oil-spill footage.
However, the photo on the website was allegedly Photoshpped by adding three extra images to it. The question is why was it necessary?
BP's Photoshopped images
The metadata on the superimposed photograph indicates that the image was photographed in March of 2001, which would point to BP ‘covering up’, once again. The company blames its photographer for any confusion.
In the meantime scientists are attempting to analyze date from the sea floor as to whether or not a leaking well cap is a sign of BP’s broken oil well is buckling. Oil and gas are once again seeping into the Gulf, though more slowly this time.
Seepage was also detected 2 miles from the Deepwater Horizon site. This may have nothing to do with the broken oil well, as oil and gas are known to ooze naturally from fissures in sea floor of the Gulf.
BP and the government had been at loggerheads over the company’s desire to leave the cap in place, until a relief well can be used to plug it permanently.
Governent point men on the disaster, Thad Allan, said his initial preference was to pipe oil through the cap to tankers on the surface, in order to reduce the chance that the buildup of pressure inside the well would cause a new blowout. That plan would require releasing millions more gallons of oil into the ocean for a few days during the transition.
However, with lower pressure readings from the well than expected, speculation is that either the reservoir of oil is dwindling, or there is an undiscovered leak somewhere in the well.
Both BP and the Coast Guard initially said no oil was leaking from the oil rig, after it exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers. Next the company and its federal overseers, drastically underestimated the size of the spill. Somewhere between 94m and 184m gallons have gushed into the Gulf.
Ronald Sepulvado, a BP drilling supervisor, has testified that he reported a leak of hydraulic fluid in a critical safety device, weeks prior to the explosion. This report could have diverted the worst U.S. ecological disaster ever.
Was it this report that nudged BP CEO, Tony Hayward, to sell his 1.4 million pound of shares in BP just a month before the Gulf spill?
BP says the cost of the clean-up has now reached $4billion, with around 300 law suits and 116,000 claims being made against the company.
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