B.P.'s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Thread (it's all here).....
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Should have paid the extra 4 the shut off valve. Why not simply slide something into/through the pipe line to block it off or really try to clog it ?
Many great , workable ideas have been given to stop the leak...None taken .. It is All Big Biz/Big Gov B.S Games...Time to get away from oil ..It's end has come..Let us not follow..
The Light is Green, The future is Clear ..Green/Clean Tech is now ...It is the future...
Many great , workable ideas have been given to stop the leak...None taken .. It is All Big Biz/Big Gov B.S Games...Time to get away from oil ..It's end has come..Let us not follow..
The Light is Green, The future is Clear ..Green/Clean Tech is now ...It is the future...
Should have paid the extra 4 the shut off valve. Why not simply slide something into/through the pipe line to block it off or really try to clog it ?
Many great , workable ideas have been given to stop the leak...None taken .. It is All Big Biz/Big Gov B.S Games...Time to get away from oil ..It's end has come..Let us not follow..
The Light is Green, The future is Clear ..Green/Clean Tech is now ...It is the future...
You do know that there was a blow out preventer on that well, I hope.
As for 'simply' sliding something into the pipe, do you have any idea how hard that would be? Any concept for what the pressure is coming out of the well? Any concept of how much force it would take to 'stick' something into the pipe, and how would you make it stay there?
Do you not think that engineers have thought of this?
Loop Current Lies
Saturday, 26 June 2010 08:25
'As we reach day 67 of the Gulf oil gusher, the useless cleanup effort run by the very company that caused the disaster has been even more abysmal than their failure to prevent it in the first place. Many beaches as far as Pensacola have been closed due to lethal toxins in the water and in the air. People are experiencing breathing problems and significant skin rashes/lesions. Crops as far north as North Carolina have been damaged due to toxic rain.
Crude oil has even been observed falling out of the sky during rainfall inland of the Louisiana coast. Washington Post has recently reported that they are expecting to have to evacuate upwards of 20 million people from coastal areas. The state of affairs in the Gulf region is on the path to all out chaos and Martial Law. The anarchy may reach levels orders of magnitude higher than that of Katrina.'
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Saturday, 26 June 2010 08:25
'As we reach day 67 of the Gulf oil gusher, the useless cleanup effort run by the very company that caused the disaster has been even more abysmal than their failure to prevent it in the first place. Many beaches as far as Pensacola have been closed due to lethal toxins in the water and in the air. People are experiencing breathing problems and significant skin rashes/lesions. Crops as far north as North Carolina have been damaged due to toxic rain.
Crude oil has even been observed falling out of the sky during rainfall inland of the Louisiana coast. Washington Post has recently reported that they are expecting to have to evacuate upwards of 20 million people from coastal areas. The state of affairs in the Gulf region is on the path to all out chaos and Martial Law. The anarchy may reach levels orders of magnitude higher than that of Katrina.'
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Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see all 22 photos)
It looked like tobacco spit and smelled foreign, and it pooled in yesterday's footprints as far as you could see. State officials called it the worst show of crude on shore from the gusher 120 miles away. READ THE STORY: Oil blankets Pensacola Beach.
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see all 22 photos) | Reporting with a camera
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The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city
By: poorrichard
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How the fire happens
So let's say the oil blowout continues, and the Gulf of Mexico is carrying millions of gallons of crude oil as a massive hurricane approaches. It's a hot July day in the Gulf of Mexico, with temperatures soaring towards 110 degrees, accelerating the evaporation of volatile oils which get mixed in with hurricane-force winds.
The hurricane makes landfall in New Orleans, let's say, dumping potentially hundreds of thousands of gallons of what is essentially "volatile fuel" on the city of New Orleans. Now, at first it's just a wet, slippery toxic mess that kills trees and grass. But what happens after the storm when the sun dries out the city?
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‘AND THE SEA SHALL TURN TO BLOOD’ …
… A ‘BIBLICAL’ CATASTROPHE THAT WILL AFFECT US ALL
Corexit is manufactured by a corporation called Nalco, once part of Exxon Mobil, and the current leadership includes executives from Exxon and BP. The European Union Times said of Corexit:
‘A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction” …
… Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.’
BP has told the US government that 400,000 gallons of this environmental destroyer has been sprayed into the sea with another 805,000 gallons already ordered.
You might think at first hearing that it is blatantly crazy to use Corexit when there are some 12 other less toxic and more effective dispersants approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Two of those on the EPA list ‘were found to be 100 percent effective on Gulf of Mexico crude, while the two Corexit products rated 56 percent and 63 percent effective’.
Well, yes, it is crazy, these people are crazy, but there is method in their madness, as I shall explain.
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Deepwater Horizon exploded about 11 p.m. on April 20 and later sank. Visit our special report page for the latest reports on the gulf oil disaster.
The tide came in Tuesday night, under a moon almost full, and when the sun came up and the water retreated there it was: a broken band of oil about 5 feet wide and 8 miles long.
It looked like tobacco spit and smelled foreign, and it pooled in yesterday's footprints as far as you could see. State officials called it the worst show of crude on shore from the gusher 120 miles away. READ THE STORY: Oil blankets Pensacola Beach.
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see all 22 photos) | Reporting with a camera
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The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city
By: poorrichard
Tags:
How the fire happens
So let's say the oil blowout continues, and the Gulf of Mexico is carrying millions of gallons of crude oil as a massive hurricane approaches. It's a hot July day in the Gulf of Mexico, with temperatures soaring towards 110 degrees, accelerating the evaporation of volatile oils which get mixed in with hurricane-force winds.
The hurricane makes landfall in New Orleans, let's say, dumping potentially hundreds of thousands of gallons of what is essentially "volatile fuel" on the city of New Orleans. Now, at first it's just a wet, slippery toxic mess that kills trees and grass. But what happens after the storm when the sun dries out the city?
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‘AND THE SEA SHALL TURN TO BLOOD’ …
THE ‘SPILL’ (UNCONTROLLED GUSH) WILL DEVASTATE AMERICA?
OH, YES, BUT THAT’S THE IDEA
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The toxic oil and gas are being added to by the lethal ‘dispersant’ being used by BP to (theoretically, for public consumption only) ‘disperse the oil’. They are using Corexit 9500 which is so toxic it has been banned in Europe, although Europe is likely to get it anyway via the Gulf Stream.OH, YES, BUT THAT’S THE IDEA
The David Icke Newsletter Goes Out On Sunday
Corexit is manufactured by a corporation called Nalco, once part of Exxon Mobil, and the current leadership includes executives from Exxon and BP. The European Union Times said of Corexit:
‘A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction” …
… Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.’
BP has told the US government that 400,000 gallons of this environmental destroyer has been sprayed into the sea with another 805,000 gallons already ordered.
You might think at first hearing that it is blatantly crazy to use Corexit when there are some 12 other less toxic and more effective dispersants approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Two of those on the EPA list ‘were found to be 100 percent effective on Gulf of Mexico crude, while the two Corexit products rated 56 percent and 63 percent effective’.
Well, yes, it is crazy, these people are crazy, but there is method in their madness, as I shall explain.
:roll: I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of us here know what damage oil spills and leaks can do and that "Deepwater Horizon exploded about 11 p.m. on April 20 and later sank.". Is there a point to regurgitating the news constantly? An argument against what the news says? What?
So, as if the stuff Stretch posts isn't scary enough, I came across a comment on the website theoildrum.com. Now I don't know $hit from Shinola when it comes to the engineering involved with producing oil from a well, but this comment makes at least laymen's sense to me.
It doesn't paint a pretty picture, and it seriously scares the crap out of me to think about it.
The comment is here, and is quite in-depth:
The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - A Longer Term Problem, Personnel - and Open Thread 2
It doesn't paint a pretty picture, and it seriously scares the crap out of me to think about it.
The comment is here, and is quite in-depth:
The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - A Longer Term Problem, Personnel - and Open Thread 2
Oily pelicans are surely a pathetic and sorry sight.
They prompted a boyish and petulant President to issue a six-month moratorium on drilling, thereby creating loss of livelihood and income fot thousands of families.
Using the same logic, when can we see a moratorium on driving:
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They prompted a boyish and petulant President to issue a six-month moratorium on drilling, thereby creating loss of livelihood and income fot thousands of families.
Using the same logic, when can we see a moratorium on driving:
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Careful there Y.J. your obsession is starting to run rampant like that of your "left wing" counterpart......................:lol::lol:
That moratorium was rejected by a judge, a judge who owned stock in Transocean, Exxon and other energy stocks, while he had made judgments in that case. He sold his Exxon stock 14 days after the case was filed, meaning that he held onto stock while he was presiding over the case.
Federal law requires judges to withdraw from any lawsuit in which they have a direct financial interest. The decision should be overturned.
Federal law requires judges to withdraw from any lawsuit in which they have a direct financial interest. The decision should be overturned.
JLM was obviously totally misguided when he admonished me thus:
"Careful there Y.J. your obsession is starting to run rampant like that of your "left wing" counterpart......................:lol:"
JLM, please DO NOT insult me like that. Grow up, and learn to distinguish between strong opinion that I have and obsession. Between facts that I present and opinions.
And don't EVER call me his majesty's counterpart.
"Careful there Y.J. your obsession is starting to run rampant like that of your "left wing" counterpart......................:lol:"
JLM, please DO NOT insult me like that. Grow up, and learn to distinguish between strong opinion that I have and obsession. Between facts that I present and opinions.
And don't EVER call me his majesty's counterpart.
Sorry there Y.J. -referring to you thus was a low blow- most people have their good side and I imagine Obama does too. I find the more obsessive people get, the more their credibility wanes. :smile:
So, in spite of massive spills and leaks that affect businesses and families and wildlife for decades, you think it's a good idea to forge ahead and drill more when it's obvious that more preventative measures and more precautions be taken to prevent further disasters? JUst in order to make a few billion in profits for a few and employ a few people?
I think you need to recalibrate your priorities, Jack.