re: #193 tradewind

How long had the spill been leaking before POTUS addressed it? Depending on whether you take the NYT’s figures ( 12 days) or another source’s nine, it was a long time of nuthin’.
Well, Golf, and some spa time.

Right. Have you fed your Unicorn today?

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Captain of the port zones are present on every single part of the coastline of the United States. When they have to activate a response, the local Coast Guard commander is designated the federal on-scene coordinator and coordinates with state and local governments and directs the responsible party in the cleanup, the admiral explained.

“That is the way we have been prosecuting this case since the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on the 20th of April,” he said. “Even in advance of the sinking of the drilling unit, we were staging equipment that was against the scenario we would have a worst-case spill.

“We started actually mobilizing equipment salvage engineers and everything right after the event happened into the 21st of April,” he added.