Well, or so he hopes you may believe.
Ken Salazar has got his Gail on. He announced his plan Thursday to declare that the estimated 5000 barrel per day oil plume will be bombed on Sunday.
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday the federal government will come up with its own determination of how much oil is gushing in the gulf.
Questions have arisen about the reliability of the 5,000-barrels-per-day figure BP has provided since the April 20 explosion destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. Others have hazarded guesses the flow could actually be many times greater.
"The best estimates are, at this point, that there is 5,000 barrels a day (leak)," he said, noting the difficulty of accurately measuring the flow a mile below the surface. "But there will be and has been under way an independent review by NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the USGS (the U.S. Geological Survey) and other agencies looking for satellite imagery and looking through a whole number of other efforts to come up with the number.
"So the United States doesn't have anything to hide here. We will have a number that is true and accurate. We need that because we need to go after BP relative to the natural resource damages. But we also need to make sure that the American people know the complete story of how much oil has
spilled." A boatload more then five k, pal, and you know it.
Salazar also told CNN "our hope is what they call the dynamic kill of this well will happen on Sunday and that it will be killed."
This is Friday. Remember this day, the day after Ken Salazar framed the gusher at 5000 bpd and said they were going to bomb it in two days. Before the independent scientists can measure it, I assume might be their reasoning.
This man is working hard like a smart oil company lawyer, not the steward of the planet we modern types expect but rarely get in an Interior Secretary. He's establishing the five thousand figure, nakedly speaking for them on their behalf, to presumably reduce their liabilities.
Just the thing to do in twenty-ten.