{"id":1484,"date":"2010-06-24T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2010-06-24T20:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:09:55","slug":"cbs-news-sources-govt-report-says-subsea-oil-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/06\/24\/cbs-news-sources-govt-report-says-subsea-oil-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News: Sources: Gov&#8217;t Report Says Subsea Oil a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/06\/22\/eveningnews\/main6607960.shtml\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/06\/22\/eveningnews\/main6607960.shtml<\/a><br \/>\nJune 22, 2010<br \/>\nCBS News Has Learned the Government Will Release Its First Report on Subsea Oil and the News Isn&#8217;t Good<\/p>\n<p>By Sharyl Attkisson<\/p>\n<p>(CBS)\u00a0 Throughout the oil spill crisis there&#8217;s been concern about oil below the surface of the water.<\/p>\n<p>The government is about to release its first extensive report on subsea oil, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.<\/p>\n<p>All along, this has been the BP company line:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The oil is on the surface,&#8221; said BP CEO Tony Hayward on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the government report will leave little doubt subsea oil is a serious problem. The subsea oil is like a sneak attack hidden unseen beneath the surface where it can travel under the boom and reach the shore. Independent scientists have been trying to sound the alarm for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On June 8, University of Georgia marine sciences professor Samantha Joye said, &#8220;The plume is very zig-zaggy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers tracked an underwater oil plume 15 miles wide and three miles long more than 1000 meters below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Still, CBS News is told the government&#8217;s report out soon won&#8217;t be a comprehensive picture of all the oil. It&#8217;s more like a sampling since only tiny slices of the Gulf have even been checked.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Richard Charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/06\/22\/eveningnews\/main6607960.shtml June 22, 2010 CBS News Has Learned the Government Will Release Its First Report on Subsea Oil and the News Isn&#8217;t Good By Sharyl Attkisson (CBS)\u00a0 Throughout the oil spill crisis there&#8217;s been concern about oil below the surface of the water. The government is about to release its first extensive report on subsea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/06\/24\/cbs-news-sources-govt-report-says-subsea-oil-a-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBS News: Sources: Gov&#8217;t Report Says Subsea Oil a Problem<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}