The Gulf Oil Nightmare

[redshift]

Six weeks into this disaster, and still no good solutions. The latest news is that about 1000 barrels a day are being captured, a fraction of the total flow. I am very concerned for those of you living in the region, this is looking to become a truly catastrophic situation. I came across this earlier, not sure of the veracity of the info being read here, but sounds plausibly horrifying...

[magman]

It is disgraceful that after this long the oils leak has not been contained. The ecological effects will be felt for years to come...truly very sad

[swiftneed]

funny how we can help other countries and no one wants to say hey let us send u some aid this also affects overseas eventually

[Semi Pro]

why is everyone saying this is out fault, the oil rig is owned and mannaged by a british owned company.

[zeropointbug]

Thanks for posting this Red, I had a thread I made a few weeks ago on this, but I deleted it....

Another sick fact about the situation is that good honest 'Goldman & Sachs' put 'shorts' on TransOcean before the rig went down, for billions. Haliburton was involved, buying 'Boots & Coots International Well Control' 8 days BEFORE, and other foul play going on. They made a PRETTY penny. We should just round them all up and put them in a fenced in area to starve. That, or just hang up far and square.

Like WTF guys.

[redshift]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

'Goldman & Sachs' put 'shorts' on TransOcean before the rig went down, for billions. Haliburton was involved, buying 'Boots & Coots International Well Control' 8 days BEFORE, and other foul play going on.

Yeah, there is evidence this was done deliberately. Might be soon to call it a deepwater 9-11, but many of us know about the puts before 9-11. However before this becomes a conspiracy thread, I want to talk about the potential impact, the deed's been done.

[redshift]

True swiftneed, but heren lies the rub: (taken from this RCGroups thread- http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1237334)


"With BP currently in charge of the clean up efforts, it does look very grim indeed, some good points have been made in this thread regarding what the goverment and other 3rd party companies (could) do but cant due to the people in charge. I can name atleast 100 volunteers ready to go to the gulf to help with animal rehabilitation, all with HAZMAT training and some avian veterinary experience. but BP wont accept many volunteers, just the ones they approve of, the ones who keep their mouth shut."

[redshift]

And this, http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_new...a-not-gestures

[E-Revonut]

I truly am disgusted that BP hasn't fixed this yet and they have turned down the help of many people. James Cameron offered his expertise in ddep water expolration and they turned him away. I hope they get this fixed soon and then I hope BP goes belly up after they do what is humanly possible to clean up everything and pay the people whose way of life has been ruined. I beleive that if you are going to have an off shore oil rig like this there should be multiple plans in place of what to do when something like this happens.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

I truly am disgusted that BP hasn't fixed this yet and they have turned down the help of many people. James Cameron offered his expertise in ddep water expolration and they turned him away. I hope they get this fixed soon and then I hope BP goes belly up after they do what is humanly possible to clean up everything and pay the people whose way of life has been ruined. I beleive that if you are going to have an off shore oil rig like this there should be multiple plans in place of what to do when something like this happens.

But multiple plans in place would cut into the bottom line...

[redshift]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

I truly am disgusted that BP hasn't fixed this yet and they have turned down the help of many people. James Cameron offered his expertise in ddep water expolration and they turned him away.

No comment

[Finnster]

Epic disaster no doubt, and the only thing BP has managed to do right is cut the pipe and make the leak worse. Hopefully this Jimmy Hat works.

IDK about the vid tho, sounds a bit apocalyptic bullshitty.
This is going to be bad no doubt, but tsunamis seems a bit OTT.

[Arct1k]

As a brit i do have to add that the well was owned by BP but the rig, construction and failsafe were all US companies...

I'm sure the drilling followed all standard failsafe measures - In this instance the failsafe didn't do its job...

Its a right frigging mess no doubt but i do believe that they are throwing everything they possibly can at this.

In terms of BP blocking volunteers I thats bull - the cleanup is being paid by BP not managed by BP - All decisions are now approved by the US gov.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by Arct1k

Its a right frigging mess no doubt but i do believe that they are throwing everything they possibly can at this.

Good joke, but what's the punch line?

[zeropointbug]

I can see a collapse happening after a period time for sure, the ocean is pushing down on the oil with extreme pressures, the oil comes out, something has to give.