--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, brian64705 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > I sent your comment to James Fox via Facebook and he > responded: > > I've got more info coming VERY soon that will support > my oberservations of a strong military presence in > that area. I also have footage from the air of the > oil marching into the shores and wet lands coming > within 5 hours. Thank you for writing to me and keep > in touch, > > james
He doesn't address any of my objections to the claims he made in the original phone interview, actually. The military he's seeing are Louisiana National Guard troops who are helping with cleanup: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/national_guard_troops_build_fl.html http://tinyurl.com/2cturp7 And the invasion of the Louisiana wetlands (as far as 20 miles inland) by the oil has been very widely reported in the media, so that's no great revelation. In view of recent media headlines being much worse than was thought, I should note that when I said-- > > > There's some uncertainty about the exact volume > > > of the oil flow, but it simply isn't the case > > > that the disaster is "much bigger than what is > > > being reported" --I was referring to the notion being promoted by some that (1) the spill is *many times* greater than was being reported, and that (2) its immense size was being kept secret. If you go with the earliest government estimates of 5,000 barrels per day--as some of the media stories are doing because it makes for a better story--yes, it's many times greater than that; the most responsible new estimates cite an upper amount of 40,000 bpd. (Some are claiming upwards of 100,000 bpd, but there doesn't appear to be any evidence for it being that much.) But that 5,000 bpd estimate was demolished fairly quickly by a government-sponsored panel of scientists who figured it was somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000 bpd. The new higher amount of 40,000 bpd is less than twice the previous one. And again, as these increasingly high estimates are being arrived at, they're reported right away. Nobody really knows for sure; it's extremely difficult to get a close estimate because the situation is so complicated.
