BP oil spill

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by Palor

This is only going to get worse and worse until someone actually steps in to fix it. So far all they have done is few half assed attempts at stopping the flow, some poor booming and then they added dispersants. Oh and of course all the finger pointing.

All the while the Gulf is dying, likely will be a wasteland by the time they fix the leak. The Southern USA is going to takes decades to recover if it ever does, likely not in our lifetimes.

And that is exactly why this whole mess is yanking at my guts.

I have went swimming in that water before, The gulf of Mexico WAS once an American asset.

One time when I was in Florida, I watched the sun rise in Daytona beach, and that same evening went to Tampa and watched it set over the gulf.

[Kmef07]

they need to stop the political BS and just let the military do what it proposed when it first happened. They were ready with a plan of action to plug the whole with a bomb. they were going to use the earth itself to plug the whole but it is still being held up by the people against the oil companies. it is funny they say they are enviromentalists, but they are letting a disaster happen that could have been stopped within a week by one bomb. their excuse...they are worried about the effects the explosion will have on the surrounding ecosystem.

[Nafun]

I read that the window for plugging it with a bomb has passed, that trying to bomb it now would equal disaster.

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by Kmef07

I would agree and it sucks, but so is life I guess...The earth has seen many natural disasters that is has cleaned up before. While this is not a NATURAL disaster, the earth has a way of cleaning itself and recycling something that is produces.

i dont think anyone is saying that bp wanted this to happen.the reality is that it has.imo your quote above is all true.but the earth can only do so much at one time to save itself (theres a lot of man made stuff going on right now).i have watched documentrys that say there is already more natural disasters happening more often than we have seen in recorded history (tsunami's,hurricanes,global warming).take the uk,we have now experienced floods on a yearly basis that before happened once every 10 years.at present we have the dust of the errupting volcano in poland settling here and grounding aircraft.chuck in a few man made disasters and we'll have something to really worry about.i wasnt condeming drilling for oil.i was condeming the hap hazard way in which they do it.i watched a documentry but cannot remember which country it was about (nigera,algeria ?).the state the oil companys left behind after a job was finished was obscene.it had ruined the locals way of life for the next 20 to 30 years or more.all i'm saying if these companys put as much effort into cleaning up after themselves as they do at making money then we would all be better off.i like to think of myself as someone who keeps it real.of course we need oil that was what i meant when i said there have been no realistic breakthroughs on a replacement (hence we need oil,until such a thing exists).i'm definatley not a tree hugger but being realistic we havent half ruined this planet over the last 150 years.its our poor grandchildren and they're children thats going to bare the brunt of all these greedy unsafe endeavours.now that the worlds running out of oil imo its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.the fact that countrys are squabbling over the oil in the artic circle will just be the first of many examples of this type.sadly i have no answers to these problems.at least we are all being made aware of these things down to how easy it is these days to get news out there.so hopefully sooner rather than later some of that human ingenuity that gave us oil and all its products will come up with a plan to take us to the new safer cleaner way of doing things.
cheers shaun

[infernalis]

Just checked, and plugging that hole has not even begun yet.

There was also leak in Alaska just now, and the Korean spill not that long ago.

Divers went into the water and globs of the oil mixed with the dispersant are adrift at all depths, this crap is getting into the gills of the fish, it seems as if this is getting worse before it gets better.

The Gulf of Mexico will be polluted now for decades, I will be dead and gone before it cleans up, and that depends on weather or not this happens again.

I'm no tree hugger either, I'll cut them up with a chain saw and build a nice fire to cook meat over, no problem.

However I cannot find any peace in the senseless deaths of entire populations of sea life that are now unfit to eat by anything or anyone.

Also saw that the blow-off preventer malfunctioned, so what good is it to have one?

[infernalis]

I just watched an oil covered shark die on national TV... I feel sick.

That oil is full of dead animals already, it's a nightmare.

The gulf is dying fast and the end in not even in sight...

[airjacobs]

How wrong can you be in estimating an oil spill? The first few days after the tragic April 20 blowup of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the US Gulf Coast, BP estimated a spill rate of 1,000 barrels per day. This was further revised to 5,000 barrels a day.