[A-List] Is BP trying to cap the Gulf oil well ...

[Bill Totten]

... or keep it flowing?

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

naturalnews.com (May 31 2010)


Today, I spent my time interviewing people on the Gulf Coast from
Mississippi to Louisiana. Several of those interviews were
conducted on camera, and you'll be seeing those videos as early as
tomorrow here on NaturalNews.

Interestingly, it turns out that a lot of the people living on the
Gulf Coast have a history of working with oil companies - and even
on oil rigs. I spoke to several people who have a work history with
BP, and two of them told me they are certain that British Petroleum
is NOT trying to stop the oil coming out of the well. What they are
trying to do, I was told, is SAVE the oil well so that they can
capture the oil and sell it.

This claim stands in direct contradiction to what BP says. The
company insists it's trying to stop the flow of oil from the well.
But if you look at BP's actions, what they're really trying to do
is siphon off the gushing oil where it can be pumped to a tanker
ship and sold as crude. It is a simple matter, by the way, for oil
companies to separate water from oil. They do it all the time in
oil fields all across America. So if they can siphon off the oil
from the Deepwater Horizon well - even if it's mixed with water -
they can sell it for potentially billions of dollars.

It raises the question: Is the economic promise of captured oil
causing BP to avoid using its best effort to cap the well?

Tapping, not capping

Notice that the new device they're lowering onto the well is
designed not to close it off but to pump the oil to an awaiting
ship. This is a plan to "capture" the oil, not to seal off the well.

The mainstream media hasn't picked up on this yet, by the way. To my
knowledge, no one is yet reporting this story that BP may have
never had any intention of actually capping the deep sea well.

We already know BP has been extremely dishonest with the media
about this entire situation. By distorting the truth and lying to
the public, BP has lost all credibility with almost everyone
(Governors, Senators, journalists, et cetera). So how can we trust
that BP is actually trying to cap this well when there's so much
money to be made from allowing it to keep spilling oil that can
soon be captured?

In other words, it's in BP's financial interests to avoid capping
the well and claim the well can't be capped when, in reality, what
they may be trying to do is buy more time until they can lower a
"capture containment device" onto the well head that can direct all
the outflowing crude oil to BP's awaiting tanker ships.

In talking to the people face to face here on Gulf Coast, I learned
that Gulf Coast people don't trust BP, and they don't trust the
company's intentions. Today was the first I had heard of the BP
agenda to "keep the well flowing" yet suddenly this theory makes
sense. BP, after all, went through all the trouble and expense to
drill the well. Why wouldn't they want to cash in on the crude oil
coming out of it?

To collapse the well and plug it for good would destroy BP's chance
to siphon off oil and sell it for profit (until at least August,
when the pressure relief wells are expected to be completed). And
that is perhaps the single most important reason why oil is still
flowing out of that well right now.

As one person I interviewed today put it, "Why should a British
petroleum company care about what happens to America's shores?"
After all, the financial payoffs to the businesses hurt by the
spill may pale in comparison to the billions of dollars in profit
to be had from tapping - not capping - the well and turning crude
oil into raw cash.

There will be more to this story. Let's see if the mainstream media
picks up on this angle.

By the way, I don't yet have conclusive proof that BP's intentions
are to avoid capping this well. It's just a working theory based on
people I've talked to here on the Gulf Coast who appear to know
what they're talking about. BP would obviously deny this, but then
again BP has denied many things that we know to be true (like the
fact that the beach cleanup crews specifically cleaned the beach on
Grand Isle before Obama showed up, then left promptly as soon as he
left).

If you haven't yet, check out my CounterThink Cartoon on the BP oil
spill at www.CounterThink.com

Also, watch for video interviews with the people on the Gulf Coast.
We'll be publishing them here on NaturalNews starting as early as
tomorrow.

I'm headed to New Orleans tomorrow to check out the local scene
there and see what else I can find out by talking to the locals on
the front lines. {SubscribeHealthRangerBlock}

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