Top Kill Indeed
Saturday 29 May 2010
by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: erix!, designshard, hill.josh)
Update: The "Top Kill" was officially declared a failure by BP Saturday afternoon.
"Top kill." That has been the phrase on the lips of every network news talking head, and in the lead paragraph of every news report, all throughout this last week. British Petroleum (BP) describes the process this way: "The primary objective of the top kill process is to put heavy kill mud into the well so that it reduces the pressure and then the flow from the well. Once the kill mud is in the well and it's shut down, then we follow up with cement to plug the leak."
Think about that for a second. Here was the Deepwater Horizon, an absolute marvel of high-flying engineering and construction, until it exploded and collapsed into the sea. Afterward, here was this hole in the ocean spewing raw crude into the fertile waters of the Gulf. Despite all the fantastic technological prowess evidenced in the construction of the Deepwater Horizon, it's failure left us so buggered for answers to the oil vomiting from the hole they drilled that they are down to stuffing mud into it and praying that works.
Maybe it has, actually. Friday's New York Times suggested as much, reporting, "By injecting solid objects overnight as well as heavy drilling fluid into the stricken well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers appeared to have stemmed the flow of oil." However, the report goes on to state that we won't really know if it worked for another day or so, and even if it did work, the leak could start up again without warning.
Let's all take a huge, arm-flapping leap of faith for a moment and assume the "top kill" mud bomb did in fact work, and the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has actually been stopped. A lot of people will probably do some victory dancing on your television screen - BP officials, Coast Guard officials and maybe even the president - and if they do, it is your moral obligation to scream at them until you feel like your throat could burst.
This is just beginning, and even with the oil spigot turned off (for now), it is going to get much, much worse, and will stay that way for a very long time.
This thing has been spewing as much as 19,000 barrels of oil into the ocean per day, every day, for the last five weeks. There are tens of millions of gallons of oil down there, swirling around in the currents and making their way toward a long and desperately fragile shoreline.
Here is one example of what we're all going to be hearing about for the next several months, if not years, to come:
Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama. The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.
The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters), and is more than 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school. Hollander said the team detected the thickest amount of hydrocarbons, likely from the oil spewing from the blown out well, at about 1,300 feet (nearly 400 meters) in the same spot on two separate days this week.
The discovery was important, he said, because it confirmed that the substance found in the water was not naturally occurring and that the plume was at its highest concentration in deeper waters. The researchers will use further testing to determine whether the hydrocarbons they found are the result of dispersants or the emulsification of oil as it traveled away from the well.
The first such plume detected by scientists stretched from the well southwest toward the open sea, but this new undersea oil cloud is headed miles inland into shallower waters where many fish and other species reproduce. The researchers say they are worried these undersea plumes may be the result of the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil a mile undersea at the site of the leak.
Who knows how many of those plumes are lurking in the Gulf? Where will they go, and when will they arrive? Will this oil be carried around Florida and up the Eastern Seaboard, drowning beaches and fishing grounds and every ecosystem it encounters? How much damage will be done by the dispersants that will be used to quell the oil damage?
I don't know. Neither do you. BP doesn't know; the Coast Guard doesn't know; the president doesn't know. Nobody knows.
We're going to find out, though. Slowly, dreadfully, we are going to find out.
Factor this in before you think this is as bad as it can get: it's about to be high, hot summer in the Gulf. Cleaning up oil at sea and on land when it's above 90 degrees and brutally humid will test the endurance of every human who dares to assist in the clean-up. People died when the Deepwater went down, and mark my words, people will die cleaning up the mess.
This, too: it's about to be hurricane season:
The upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will likely be a busy one and may spawn as many as 23 named tropical storms, including up to seven major hurricanes, the U.S. government said Thursday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that eight to 14 storms would strengthen into hurricanes, with top winds of 74 mph (119 kph) or higher. Three to seven of those could become major storms that reach Category 3 or higher - meaning they bring sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 kph).
"If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record," NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said in a statement. "The greater likelihood of storms brings an increased risk of a landfall. In short, we urge everyone to be prepared."
So, let's be clear. There are millions of gallons of oil threatening thousands of miles of coastlines, ecosystems and livelihoods. Nobody knows how much there is, or where it will appear, or when. It's about to be brutally hot exactly where the clean-up needs to happen, and a whole slew of hurricanes and tropical storms are on the way.
And our best response is to fill a hole with mud, just like the little Dutch boy facing 11 holes in the dike with only ten fingers on his hands. All of this because we are so addicted to oil that the petroleum companies like BP were allowed to "regulate" themselves.
Top kill indeed.
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And there Are MULTPLE LEAKS,
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 10:17 — Vic Anderson (not verified)And there Are MULTPLE LEAKS, apparently from a series of non-installed O-rings on the sub-Gulf bottom's well pipe. So there's REALLY NO solution but for US to SUBROC and Blow The HOLE!
Mentioned this b4 & could be
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 11:05 — Anonarcmous (not verified)Mentioned this b4 & could be wrong: has anyone else noticed BP positioned the camera to show the mostly/mud escape vents while the more/petrol escape vents are hidden at back of photo area--depending on how you position the casing over the flow you can direct the petrol & mud directions to a degree. Anyone else notice the angle at which the pipe broke off coming out to the sea floor--any angle is a very weak link!!!Cheapocheapo!
now factor in the virtual
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 11:41 — harvey wasserman/Solartopia (not verified)now factor in the virtual certainty of a nuke reactor accident.
all these atomic advocates are assuring us they can control that technology.
but when push comes to shove they will be flying helicopters (all of whose pilots will die) as they did at Chernboyl, dumping concrete onto the irradiating mess.
this past week the house appropriations committee came within hours of approving loan guarantees for 2 new nukes at south texas,right on the gulf of mexico.
which future president will be running down there in a radiation suit, assuring the millions of people that will have to be evacuated that everything will be handled at least as well as with the Deepwater Horizon.
it's time to go totally solar, folks. the era of fossil/nuke is definitively and finally over.
The next solution is
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 11:47 — Colin (not verified)The next solution is probably duct-tape... My favorite is stuffing the BP Executive down the hole.
virtual certainty an
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:12 — fep (not verified)virtual certainty an asteroid will some day strike earth. yes, the shoddiness of modern day cost-cutting would perhaps lead to a nuclear reactor accident. Another good reason not to forcefully push that technology down our throats.
France never has had an accident. Where do they store their waste?
What if this oil never stops spewing, like a undersea lava flow? What if all sea life in the Atlantic dies?
Will, if you're going to be
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:12 — Miss Fritz (not verified)Will, if you're going to be consistent with figures, please stop using the oil industry's estimate of "barrels," which give the impression that the daily spill is not so terrible. Your figure of 19,000 barrels per day equals 798,000 gallons (42 gallons per barrel). Makes a difference in the horror index, yes? Think of one gallon of crude in your city's water reservoir and you've got a pretty good comparison of the overall damage thus far. It's GALLONS not BARRELS, BP !!
And then there's
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:47 — Anonymous (not verified)And then there's ATLANTIS:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wenonah-hauter/why-obama-must-shut-down_b_589372.html
In June 2009, a BP whistleblower named Kenneth Abbott informed Food & Water Watch that BP was operating the massive Atlantis platform without proper up-to-date and engineer-approved safety documentation. We began writing and calling the Minerals Management Service (MMS) to urge them to take action. It took the agency six months to agree to meet with us.
10 days after the Horizon spill on April 20, MMS responded to our most recent information request, but it appears that the agency has done nothing and it plans to continue doing nothing. It is clear that the cozy relationship between BP and MMS is resulting in irresponsible and dangerous practices.
Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit last Monday against the Department of the Interior (DOI) because it has failed to enforce its own safety regulations regarding oil drilling in the Gulf.
The Deepwater Horizon explosion was not a freak accident, but a result of a history of negligent behavior, and Atlantis is no small threat: An internal BP email characterized the situation as having the potential for "catastrophic Operator errors." A worst-case scenario spill from Atlantis would be many times larger than the spill from the Horizon explosion.
I put energy and faith into
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:47 — Anonymous (not verified)I put energy and faith into electing Obama, who, it turns out, is an empty suit. Another president (not senile John McCain, though), who didn't lead by first giving away the store to corporate interests, might have had a better grasp of the risks this industry poses. If Obama doesn't undergo some significant values shift away from seeing success as service to the power elite, we need to begin to look for a progressive alternative in 2012.
We are all frustrated. I
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:53 — Otto Schiff (not verified)We are all frustrated. I would suggest that we all bombard our legislators to start going after the oil companies. BP has a record of malfeasance. What can we do about that.
Another thought,
Maybe there is a way to recover some of these "plumes".
Instead of complaining, how about some creative thinking.
As awful as this sounds, I
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:56 — Rob Turner (Canada) (not verified)As awful as this sounds, I hope this "top kill" doesn't work, simply because if it does, it will be trumpeted as technology triumphing once again over nature.
Everyone will breathe a sigh of relief; the networks will go back to covering Lady Ga-Ga coughing up a hairball; and life will go back to 'normal'.
Technology will not solve our problems...real change is necessary and we all need to wake up to this fact.
What strikes me is that BP
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 12:57 — ToLo (not verified)What strikes me is that BP played for a month at not stopping the gusher, but finding some way to still garner the oil. The first attempts consisted of a metal hat, so to speak, that would trap the oil so they could pump it out and sell it. Only after a month of growing bad press did they finally get around to trying to plug the damn hole.
Oil leaks are part of the
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 13:19 — tahoevalleylines (not verified)Oil leaks are part of the landscape around the world. The failure to base transport on railway is more important factor in many of the current problems of the world economic situation. See China, with the largest railway engineering underway in history.
We approached Billionaires Clint Eastwood and Steve Wynn at Lake Tahoe about ten years ago regarding a renewable energy electric railway system at Lake Tahoe and connecting region cities like Reno & Sacrament0.
Steve Wynn replied, saying he could not participate is such a rail project at Tahoe because the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) would not approve his gaming facility, and he would go elsewhere to develop. Clint Easteood was approached with a proposal, for Tahoe electric railway service, to include SF MUNI streetcar #1169, seen in the "Dirty Harry" movie. Eastwood, apparently not interested in railway mode, never replied.
In America, even as we slide into oil-induced servitude, the "smart money" remains unable to participate in a sorely needed upgrade and expansion of the North American Railway matrix. From Canadian wheat belt railway abandonment to Mexican/Central American freeway projects, the renewable powered electric railway remains an impossible but obvious, key part of the solution set.
Return on investment is a moot point when trucking breaks, and the system simply melts down. No duh.
I'm glad I have not been in
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 13:26 — Anonymous (not verified)I'm glad I have not been in total denial over the years about the devastating impact of man's brain on our environment. To a certain degree, I am preparing myself for what is going to happen. But, then again, how can anyone predict what this reality is going to feel like. How can one ever be prepared to walk into a gas chamber? I visited Dachau in 1954 as a 9 year-old child. It left a life-time impression on me. I spent a year in Vietnam as an Army medic. When I came back from that experience, I was hospitalized twice for major depression and suicidal thoughts. Lets face it, the earth is getting tired of the human species. My strength lies in the fact that my ego has no answers--none. Like walking into a gas chamber, my thoughts go beyond the limitations of my human experience. There is peace there, because I am not struggling for answers for my survival. You simply move to another dimension of reality. You have no choice, because the ego is always a tireless hunter. You move through the shadow of death. The key word here is, shadow. Call this energy whatever you want, but it is there. I am 65, and life is still worth living, because there is more life than you think. Be still...
Mike H.
Why would they want to keep
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 14:07 — drinkkoolaidnotwater (not verified)Why would they want to keep the oil under water with a toxic chemical that costs money when they could let it float to the top and salvage/scrub/skim as much as can be seen? BECAUSE THE FINE IS BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF OIL SPILLED!!!!! If no-one independent is allowed to measure the flow and the bulk is below the surface, we'll just have to take BP's word on it. Just like their word on the safety factors that were in place and the contingency plans. How about all of those safety and pollution discharge violations that are documented...WHERE"S THE GOVERNMENT... fighting the boogeyman in Afghanistan and protecting BP's profits....
Yeah, there's life which
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 14:28 — Vic Anderson (not verified)Yeah, there's life which eats crude oil, but it's NOT US!
The Gulf of Mexico is now a
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 14:38 — frank1569 (not verified)The Gulf of Mexico is now a Toxic Waste Dump. Period. There is no chance of saving it.
What needs to happen ASAP: Emergency Gulf Americans Buyout/Move-out Plan. BP must put their 2010 1st Q profits - $5.6 BILLION - in an escrow account right now, to be used to buyout and move-out all but nonessential Gulf residents.
If they stay, they face a future of fatal sickness, pain, horror, misery and early death. Yea, it sucks, but there IS NO OTHER CHOICE.
At least if we get them out RIGHT NOW on the BP dime, they'll have enough money to start over anywhere they want.
Consider it a preemptive rescue operation...
"Buyout/Move-out Plan." How
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 15:05 — Anonymous (not verified)"Buyout/Move-out Plan."
How many are going to be bought out? How many were bought out of New Orleans after Katrina? Many are still not back and cannot come back. How many Alaskans have been bought out? Will the Cubans, Hatians, etc., be bought out too, when the oil and collateral damage ruins them more than they are already? Who will put the coral reefs back when the current ones are destroyed by oil and dispersants? And who will foot up the bills for all these buyouts anyway? The U.S. taxpayer, of course, that bottomless pit of money to pay for all this.
the sophistication of the
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 15:48 — Anonymous (not verified)the sophistication of the oil drilling compared to the primitiveness of the response efforts is quite striking, esp since this keeps happening, spill after spill, decades later and it's still the same.
to those of you that keep calling for us to "blow up" the leak: this is oil that had been kept under the surface - blowing it up will just allow all of it to gush up and seep out.
we need an adequate, proven, and enforced emergency precaution so that this is never allowed to happen again.
Couple of comments. I fear
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 17:41 — Anonymous (not verified)Couple of comments. I fear this is the tipping point, the man-made event that kills our planet should this flow not be stopped. It's as many as 6 billion gallons about to hit the gulfstream current that will sweep it to Great Britain and beyond. 50 years from now we will point to this event as being the beginning of the end.
So, except for one thing, I am not interested in all the finger-pointing. That exception is who is responsible for removing or preventing oversight by our government that could have prevented this catastrophe? Bush? Clinton? Reagan? Right-wingers? I'm interested as I suspect that person or organization has been simultaneously hard at work destroying us in other ways and in the few decades we have left we ought to stop the theft of our livelihoods and/or planet and have them NOT in charge as we try to do what's best with what's left.
"Topkill" officially
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 17:45 — Anonarcmous (not verified)"Topkill" officially kapput! OMG has anyone figured out you cain't fool mother nature, yet--even if you are some big executive. Actually some refreshing titles on MSNBC that BP is continually downplaying the situtation. MattLauer was even asking some good questions this am. Is this what it takes??This is below-the-crust volcanic force--the question is what force on above-earth do we have to counter this? Maybe not.
4got:watch BP declaring
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 18:08 — Anonarcmous (not verified)4got:watch BP declaring bankruptcy so they don't have to pay.
And now, Saturday afternoon,
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 18:16 — farmertx (not verified)And now, Saturday afternoon, BP announced that the top kill isn't working. But never fear, they are working on a different plan.
Thank God BP was and is so well prepared.
Oh wait; that's the problem ... they weren't prepared ... nor really concerned. Wanna bet if any BP exec's Holiday plans were canceled or even altered because of this disaster? Didn't think so.
Every single person on this
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 22:37 — prodemdss (not verified)Every single person on this planet should be furious about this event.....we may never recover from the ecological damage. Shame on anyone that blames Obama, just because it is convenient, and the offices supposedly watching over our hundreds/?thousands of oil wells that have been in place for quite some time prior to this President's election; and also, shame on anyone, Rob Turner, in Canada, wishing the top-kill had not worked, we should ALL be PRAYING for something to work now, not hoping for failure due to someone's own personal belief that it would possibly make us somehow feel safer. Good Lord, wake up, people.
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 17:56 —
Sat, 05/29/2010 - 23:59 — Anonymous (not verified)Sat, 05/29/2010 - 17:56 — Rob Turner (Canada) I'm not sure where you are coming from to wish that this last effort known as "Top Kill" doesn't work. Well apparently, it isn't working and you should writhe in penance for wishing it. The whole nation and the world is in anguish over this catastrophe. Even the despicable corporations involved are to be pitied at this point. If you mean that maybe when some containment will be accomplished, this country will understand that corporations, whose whole reason for being is the bottom line, need to be regulated and that all measures need to be taken that corruption is stopped well okay. One of the problems is that even our Congress gets bought out by the same corporations and they are not doing their jobs. This has been going on for at least 30 years, the worst happened during Bush 43, where corporations had the total support of the administration and got to run our government. I really don't think any of this is President Obama's fault as he had to rely on the system that was in place. Our presidents are not experts at everything and his advisers need to be totally above question, when they are not, as seems to be the case, the president can't take the proper precautions.
Let this nightmare end NOW!!
"... stuffing the BP
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 00:20 — Anonymous (not verified)"... stuffing the BP Executive down the hole."
That's what I said just a little while ago and my son replied, "Good one, that's all he's good for anyway."
Will this finally awaken the world??? One can only hope...
Now we know why Dick Cheney
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 11:27 — Anonymous (not verified)Now we know why Dick Cheney wouldn't let anyone see his secret energy policy. This disaster, surely, is enough of a smoking gun to unlock that mess.
Bernoulli's equation (1738)
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 18:39 — Renzo (not verified)Bernoulli's equation (1738) says that as the velocity and the pressure of flow are inversely related (I believe, but I'm not an engineer). So if they are dumping mud or even concrete into a vast undersea cavern filled with petroleum (under pressure) it will not stop the leak (and it didn't). Even attempting to narrow the aperture through which the oil is spewing will only increase the velocity of the spewing. The only way to decrease the pressure inside the well is to make the cavern bigger or release more of the petroleum.
This equation is almost three hundred years old now, who is in charge of this?
“BP ASSETS CONFISCATED,
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 19:16 — T. A. Madison (not verified)“BP ASSETS CONFISCATED, MANAGERS ARRESTED” should be the headline shouldn’t it?
Disaster propaganda involves shaping the terms of how an event is perceived through the media. The first aim is to create the equivalent of a “blink” in public perception, a cognitive dissonance, to distract from our arriving at a clear distinction that defines the event. The aim is to dilute the focus and alarm in the public. This has been well studied by the military and by industry and is employed in all these kind of events from coal mining disasters to nuclear catastrophes.
This is accomplished through a series of deflections and diversions to restate and reshape how the event is perceived. It aims at controlling the flow of information. We can get a sense of this by noting Pynchon’s remark, “If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, then they don’t have to worry about the answers.”
There is not much we can compare this US gulf coast oil disaster to in order to grasp its destructive scope. This is clearly a “worst case” man-made catastrophe the scope and context of which we can’t yet conceive.
We can conceive that this oil volcano will kill all the sea life that swims through it, that it will destructively change the temperature of the water it occupies and that it continues to erupt in a, thus far, unstoppable way.
Imagine, what damage only an inch of oil the size of Texas would do to a thousand miles of coastline? It is likely even more than that, extending along the Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida coastlines, the Caribbean Islands, the Atlantic seaboard, Georgia and further on to, what, cross the Atlantic and wash up against the shores of England and Norway killing all sea life as it goes? Imagine.
All the people in the chain of command at BP and their government overseers must be held accountable and tried openly in a court of law. The first question is who are they? Who was the chain of command that allowed this to happen? There should be scores of people to arrest and perhaps a few key politicians too. The pubic needs to know their names and they must be indicted. BP should be taken apart.
If anything good can come out of this it will be in identifying the sites that loom with this kind of destructive potential. What the public can do now is reclaim its collective authority to use government to restrain corrupt industries. The fear of God should be put into every CEO, director, and politician in charge of the Public Trust.
Top Kill BP
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 23:16 — NedB (not verified)Top Kill BP
Thank you for shedding even
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 07:44 — Anonymous (not verified)Thank you for shedding even more light on what we already knew and thought was a horrific tragic disaster. It just is almost apocalyptic. Top Kill is right.... the chain reaction might just do that to us all.
Sue the hell outta BP for
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 07:58 — Anonymous (not verified)Sue the hell outta BP for the next 10 YEARS!
Stuffing the hole with the
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 18:49 — Nora (not verified)Stuffing the hole with the culpable is attractive. An enfilade first would do much to express collective disgust. Then we can stuff them more easily. We all know what corporations do if they have wiggle room.
We the people supposedly own
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 20:33 — Anonymous (not verified)We the people supposedly own the oil. What nis a foreign national doing in our waters making a billion dollars a day in the first place. Why don't we own it and use the profits to pay for health care, education, and balance our defecits,etc.?
I like you Mr. Pitt,
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 14:34 — Anonymous (not verified)I like you Mr. Pitt, disagreed with everything Bush did. But the one thing I agreed with, and probably the only true thing to come out of his month in eight years was that “we are addicted to oil”. And as we know, an addict will sacrifice everything for his fix. He will squander his wealth, home, family, and anything he holds dear. We as a nation are no different. We squander our wealth for it, we destroy our home (environment) for it, we even start wars and kill for it. So lets not all be so shocked and indignant about this. It is of our own doing, and until we admit our problem and go to rehab, the destruction and pain will continue.
AT LASTl! finally someone
Tue, 06/01/2010 - 17:15 — wiz (not verified)AT LASTl! finally someone (anonymous, of course), brought to light the fact that this is BRITISH PETROLEUM. This is not our oil, just our country and shores. Why in the hell no one in our government, present or past, did not contain the rights to that oil for our commerce, instead signed the rights over to a foreign entity that ultimately will kill us with it. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? You stood right there and let a damn monkey house run us up the river with the hard-sell of PROTECTING OURSELVES AGAINST A THREAT TO OUR ENERGY FOREIGN INTEREST!!! They (us) launched a war (most certainly oil-based) that has cost trillions, and nobody thought to sit in (or even demand to sit in) on the secret Cheney energy agreements. Kinda makes that whole Boston Tea Party rebellion look a bit pussy in retrospect, dont'cha think? The Brits Petrols are sure to walk away unscathed. Ask anyone in Valdez, AK. When Cheney/Bush were not held accountable for their original sins, this is what you get. Not only does the country allow this kind of foolishness, the stupidity is in fact your only reward. By the way, Conservatives, DARWIN IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE HANDS DOWN!!!
Thank you, Anonymous on 5/30
Thu, 06/03/2010 - 13:29 — Frances in California (not verified)Thank you, Anonymous on 5/30 at 16:27! I've been complaining for 8 years about how Cheney should not be allowed to keep Energy Task Force proceedings and pronouncements secret! Let the indictments begin!!!