MoldyFrogToe
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We'll be tasting that oil in the Northeast and all over the world in no time
I love how all these people wanting to drill kept saying its "safe" and "ahh, no that will never happen..." but here we go. Buncha' fucking idiots.
Also it is 100% BP's fault they are a greedy
This part worries me, not being able to ever stop it till what? It all runs out?
This might be Human beings biggest f**k up ever
"Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton, who heads a federal chemical hazard assessment team for oil spills, worries about a total collapse of the pipe inserted into the well. If that happens, there would be no warning and the resulting gusher could be even more devastating because regulating flow would then be impossible."
https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=10887&pictureid=368007
BP? Chu got sum 'splainin to do!
I wonder if the USN has anything that could get deep enough to cap this thing off before it becomes an environmental catastrophe. Bottom line:
They've made plenty of $ off of oil. They should easily be able to afford to shut the damn thing off, and then pay to fix the environment. Ugh. They've broken the Gulf of Mexico, and that current map that someone posted easily shows how this mess could spead around the globe.
I'm not too sure about this because maybe explosives down an underwater well act differently then in open underwater situations, but the concussion, the shock waves, are detrimental to underwater creatures in a large radius in all directions. Its not like setting off a bomb in the forest, the waves go through the water differently.
In the early 70's, and after a couple of disasterous cali oil spills, the U.S. decided to limit offshore drilling because even one mistake can be disasterous. Well, along comes the Drill baby Drill gang and there motto is "to hell with the enviroment and future generations, we deserve it now, drill baby drill."
Inching toward the beaches of the gulf coast is a 2x4 to the head to the drill baby drill gang. A new understanding of offshore drilling will develop over the next 60 days. Since the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have led the way to open the gulf to drilling we can only hope the brunt of the spill will be on their beaches