FAA: Aerial Spraying Operations
The Federal Aviation Administration released a set of regulations on June 9, entitled NOTAM. This document laid out what could and couldn’t be done over the oil spill in regards to aircraft activity. BP, along with the federal government have basically put the entire airspace over the spill in a complete lock down mode. Even more interesting is the fact that the FAA is openly admitting to the existence of aerial spraying in the Gulf. One of the companies contracted out to do this “spraying” is none other than Evergreen Air.
The document starts with this warning
No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM (except as described).
6. With the exception of aircraft conducting aerial chemical dispersing operations;no fixed wing aircraft are authorized below 1000 feet above the surface unless for landing and takeoff.
Letter from Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to British Petroleum.
Notice how it says, “The Respondent caused and/or allowed unauthorized discharge of oil and OTHER pollutants to the waters and coastline of the State of Louisiana.
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I have been reading everything available (that is not blacked-out) on how to fix this oil disaster. Analogously, our government is standing inside a burning house and attempting to determine the cause of the fire, rather than calling for help to extinguish the flames that are surrounding them.
Recently, it has been alleged that oil is leaking from several areas on the Gulf basin floor. However, neither the public nor trustworthy scientific resources can determine the extent of the damage to the well site because our government and BP are attempting to hide the facts, which is like trying to hide an elephant in a broom closet.
If the Gulf basin floor has become unstable; with cracked, sedimentary layers of compressed salt & sand – then any deep well pipe that is imbedded in this stratum will only have the sealing capability of a long pin that has pierced a thick soda cracker (for lack of a better layman’s description). Furthermore, the idea of using a small tactical nuke to close the well hole could also collapse a large portion the entire Gulf basin. Since any restrictive cap that has been used to close-off the pipe has caused the oil to leak around the outer well pipe sleeve or leak from localized floor fissures which are in close proximity to the well head – - then the idea of slowly sinking a large battleship to cover the surface area of this well site may be the best option. If this ship forces the oil to escape from another location, then we shall need to drop another ship to close that cavity also. At best, this will at least slow the amount of oil escaping to a manageable level, and we can start the clean-up process.
http://thehayride.com/2010/05/breaking-if-top-kill-doesnt-work-u-s-navy-to-take-over-spill/
Regardless of the amount of oil that will rise to the water surface, we need to stop injecting chemical dispersants underwater at the well and on the surface of the Gulf. Corexit dispersant is more toxic than the crude oil and Corexit shall also inhibit the only option we have to remove the oil from the seawater.
http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-june/epa-reveals-whats-gulf-oil-spill-dispersants
The only promising fix that I have seen is an organic microbe that will eat the oil quickly, and create a non-toxic by-product waste that won’t harm the water or whatever marine life may still exist. http://www.cnbc.com/id/37596590
And see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18AKWCvGqGI
I must digress though, because BP only wants to collect the oil from the well – they do not want to plug the well, let alone introduce a harmless micro-organism that shall eat the oil toxins. Our government’s lack of oversight to at least prevent the oil from entering the sensitive marshlands along the coastal waterways shows that they would rather see these communities and wetlands destroyed, condemned, and de-populated, rather than attempt to maintain this priceless infrastructure.
Did you bother to read the NOTAM? Obviously not.
It’s only restricting flight ops at or below 3,000 feet AGL.
” to the point of beginning at and below 3000 feet AGL excluding the airspace outside of 12 nautical miles from the us coastline. ”
Obviously, you’re not a pilot.