Government Tried to Drown Scientists' Plume Findings

http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/article1114225.ece

This really makes me angry. Here are some excerpts from the article written by Craig Pittman published today at Tampabay.com

"A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf.

The reaction that USF announcement received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:

Shut up.

"I got lambasted by the Coast Guard and NOAA when we said there was undersea oil," USF marine sciences dean William Hogarth said. Some officials even told him to retract USF's public announcement, he said, comparing it to being "beat up" by federal officials.

The USF scientists weren't alone. Vernon Asper, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, was part of a similar effort that met with a similar reaction. "We expected that NOAA would be pleased because we found something very, very interesting," Asper said. "NOAA instead responded by trying to discredit us. It was just a shock to us."....

READ THE WHOLE STORY.

WHAT ELSE IS BEING SUPPRESSED?

Check out Fintan Dunne's article, "BP's Immaculate Deception"
http://fintandunne.com/BP-Immaculate-Deception.htm

Dunne examines the 2 well hypothesis and has information posted about the geology and severity of the drilling debacle(s).