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BP oil spill. People are paying attention NOW, aren't they? *mad face*
May 2, 2010 at
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Unless my "search" button is broken, I can't find any threads about this oil spill.
Aren't there some Loungers here from the Gulf Coast area, besides myself?
This thing is going to be bad. Really bad.
I grew up in Pensacola, FL and have spent my whole life on these beaches. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Navarre, Destin ... they are beautiful. And they have already suffered so much devastation over the years from hurricanes and now they have to endure THIS?
If this goes on long enough and the oil makes it's way into the Florida Keys, that will be the end of the natural coral reef habitat. What about the dolphins and fish and turtles and birds?
Environmental disaster aside, I can't even imagine what the economic impact is going to be.
Aren't there some Loungers here from the Gulf Coast area, besides myself?
This thing is going to be bad. Really bad.
I grew up in Pensacola, FL and have spent my whole life on these beaches. Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Navarre, Destin ... they are beautiful. And they have already suffered so much devastation over the years from hurricanes and now they have to endure THIS?
If this goes on long enough and the oil makes it's way into the Florida Keys, that will be the end of the natural coral reef habitat. What about the dolphins and fish and turtles and birds?
Environmental disaster aside, I can't even imagine what the economic impact is going to be.
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They don't have to give $20billion to anyone, but they did.
They are only responsible for $75million towards the clean-up, but they are footing the entire bill.
Nobody has to hire lawyers and sit through years of trials, BP is taking care of them.
BP is doing everything the right way. What more do you people want from them?
I blame them for this spill. I blame them for taking shortcuts. I blame them for cutting corners. I blame them for NOT making sure that all safety measures were implemented. I blame them for not being honest about ... anything. I blame them for the loss of life; human, aquatic, land-living, etc. I blame them for the loss of livelyhood that so many have and will endure. I blame them for ruining the most beautiful beaches in the continental U.S.
This is not a natural disaster, this is man-made and will have devastating effects for many, MANY years to come. And I truly believe that it didn't have to happen.
This was going to happen sooner or later. Any one of the dozens of drilling platforms in the Gulf was bound to have this happen to them.
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Some of you people act like this is the end of the world need to understand that this has happened before:
http://en.wikipedia.or
(see link for whole story)
Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135-F in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (160 ft) deep. On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in the third largest oil spill and the second largest accidental spill in history.
Accident
Mexico's government-owned oil company Pemex (Petreos Mexicanos) was drilling a 3 km (1.9 mi) deep oil well when the drilling rig Sedco 135F lost drilling mud circulation.
Containment
In the next nine months, experts and divers including Red Adair were brought in to contain and cap the oil well. An average of approximately ten thousand to thirty thousand barrels per day were discharged into the Gulf until it was finally capped on 23 March 1980, nearly 10 months later.
And if they really wanted to treat all the sand to remove the oil, the facilities are already in place to do that, since it's the same procedure used to extract oil from tar-sands (or so I read).
http://en.wikipedia.or
(see link for whole story)
Some of you people act like this is the end of the world need to understand that this has happened before:
http://en.wikipedia.or
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