BP oil spill
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- dorf0
is it done?
- PonyBoy0
I am a little confused as to why the U.S. is going to shutdown offshore drilling in the gulf... ... but Vietnam... China (both in conjunction w/Cuba) are still keeping at it...
... that and Brazil (w/U.S. money involved) is still going forward off their shores...
... shouldn't this be an international 'wake-up'?... ... or is it just the U.S. that needs to wake up - everyone else is okay w/their status quo... ?
*confused
- deathboy0
i think bp should hire a team of ladys like this and go this route
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/831…
i for one would be happy to accept the apology, over and over
- benfal990
Its Earth's shit.
- Iggyboo0
It is a national issue because if this thing gets much worse its going to wreck not only our resources, its going to wreck a number of nations in the gulf's resources and livelihoods. Worse than that who knows what it will mean to the world'e ecosystems that are dependent upon fish and food from this area. I am not going all dooms day or nothing but it is just a cluster fuck of massive proportions and the same people Skewering BP on the political level who albeit were lied to, ate the lies about safety and then allowed these companies to dig deep water oil wells on American shores. This is not happening outside of America's waters this is like a few hundred miles off-shore. I think many of the politicians who agreed to offshore drilling need to be outed and skewered just as much as BP and all these other corporate greed based companies. And lets face it who's using the most gasoline in the world right now? American military, for wars in several nations right now. I mean that's just a fact. And I am not trying to sound anti patriotic but it's quite a national fuck-up to allow this to happen to our shores with ill prepared companies. This is unfortunately quite national of an issue. Lets hope "they" meaning our government and those financially responsible fix it fast. Also I don't care to hear Obama say repeatedly that the gulf will be amazing in the future, I am not voting for you right now we don't need a "Hope" speech we need a " Get the shit stopped or otherwise..." speech. But that's just my opinion.
- ETM0
Nobody won
- benfal990
How many days since it begin?
- maliah0
I haven't read the entire thread, so sorry ahead of time if this is a re-post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
- __TM0
Nature's mega fart > How the ultimate BP Gulf disaster could kill millions
http://www.helium.com/items/1864…- just kidding > http://www.bioedonli…__TM
- That's frightening.mg33
- hans_glib0
I'm getting pretty fucking sick of the US government bitching about this spill and trying to pretend it's nothing to do with them. This from a country that uses 25% of the world's oil resources for only 5% of the world's population (apparently). Why were they drilling there in the first place? If the yanks weren't so hooked on oil they wouldn't be allowing this kind of drilling or would regulate it properly.
I agree BP have cut corners left right and centre, and have not dealt with the resulting mess at all well - the overuse of highly toxic dispersal chemicals is totally shocking. But all the furore from the US (rightly worried about the oil that's going to kill livelihoods, marine life and christ knows what else) is like a junkie complaining about the mess caused by the people who make his drugs.
Oil companies have been making a bigger mess of the Nigerian coast for a long time but I don't hear the US moaning about that (or about the pollution of the Indian Ocean from toxic waste dumping off the coast of Somalia).
just saying
- Nigeria and the indian ocean are not part of america and therefore there is no reason to worry about them.flashbender
- how much oil we use has nothing to do with neglect of procedure. the pansy british BP execs need to pay up for destroying an area known for producing a significant percentage of the worlds seafood.dirtydesign
- destroying an area known for producing a good percentage of the worlds seafood.dirtydesign
- it has everything to do with neglect of procedure. corners are cut to get you your drug.hans_glib
- ...as cheap as possible so you can continue to waste precious resource.hans_glib
- i agree BP should clean the mess up, but the US Govt should stop flag-wavinghans_glib
- and banks deserve to get robbed because they hold and distribute moneydirtydesign
- saudi arabia should make a public lolBonSeff
- mg330
A coworker has a friend that works with BP and drilling companies, and he sent this article over to him:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6…
It's long as hell but really interesting, and frightening. You should definitely read this if you get a chance.
- lukus_W0
I do think it's pretty terrifying .. I read the US gov doesn't want the cap to be left on the well, because it might lead to a build up in pressure -> wonder if this scenario is worrying Obama too?
- dorf0
here's the 60 minutes video
- dbloc0
Some action going on right now...
- CALLES0
just pumped at BP... spilled my mind... sorry guys