BP oil spill
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- benfal990
I think USA should invade England and destroy all their stuff.
- rylamar0
Fuck BP
- ukit0
Submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher on Wednesday.
After six weeks of failures to block the well or divert the oil, the latest mission involved using a set of tools akin to an oversized deli slicer and garden shears to break away the broken riser pipe so engineers can then position a cap over the well's opening.
But it's a big gamble: Even if it succeeds, it will temporarily increase the flow of an already massive leak by 20 percent - at least 100,000 gallons more a day. That's on top of the estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons gushing out already.
If BP's new effort to contain the leak fails, the procedure will have made the biggest oil spill in U.S. history even worse.
"It is an engineer's nightmare," said Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences. "They're trying to fit a 21-inch cap over a 20-inch pipe a mile away. That's just horrendously hard to do. It's not like you and I standing on the ground pushing - they're using little robots to do this."
- lowimpakt0
More examples of the fine oil industry
the trail of oil trading company Trafigura finally starts. The Dutch Company illegally exported/dumped hazardous waste in the Ivory Coast in 2006.
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- instrmntl0
oils not so bad. it could have been worse. at least its not flowing with japanese people there. the ocean life would be doomed:
- Ramanisky20
How many of you have been boycotting BP like I have?
Completely done with that company. The closest gas station to my home is a BP and I avoid it like the plague. FUCK BP!!
Did you guys hear that fucking CEO of BP saying he wants to get his life back normal ... WTF???- And what do you think you are accomplishing?404NotFound
- Not contributing to their profits...DrBombay
- seriously?Ramanisky2
- Boy, you'll get em good, won't you. Why do people do this?404NotFound
- hey, everyone I know is boycotting BP gas stations...it adds up...and stock is downChrista
- Stock is not down b/c you aren't buying gas there.404NotFound
- mg330
I've been thinking... what they're doing now, cutting the pipe to put a cap on it (in which the saw got stuck today - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gu…) - what if when they get the cap on the pipe blows out in another location? It's just been setback after setback. I'd figure that the pressure of the oil coming out of the seabed can't just be stopped by capping the broken pipe.
- agree that it will probably just burst in another location.tasty
- plash0
- my bad. it was just postedplash
- no worries - only posted 4 times in this thread so far...invisiblechamber
- Déjà vuutopian
- Kidswift0
Visualizing the spill in scale to the UK
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/#lo…
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- Timmiller0
BP is the result of a merger between the old BP and AMerican Oil COmpany , head office may be in the UK but the American bits are all home grown.
- lets destroy England anywaysbenfal99
- I swear, if I hear another english accentvitamins
- not entirely true.
http://en.wikipedia.…******** - the american operations still have to answer to the brits, and take all their orders from them********
- Ramanisky20
***BREAKING NEWS***
BP successfully cuts off pipe at oil gusheryeay
- Moluv000
http://www.bpoilspillcleanup.com…
A wall of tweets about the spill
- ukit0
Looks like they are rolling out the PR machine
- dirtydesign0
can't wait to see obama on larry king tonight.
hopefully he's not the bobblehead he's been the past couple of weeks.
