Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Mary Landrieu Tops on BP payroll in Congress | The Seminal PolitiFact | Landrieu says Louisiana doesn't get "one single penny" from offshore drilling Video: Beyond Awful | The Daily Show | Comedy Central watch from 3:15 on..... Landrieu flip flopping..
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Cousteau Jr.: 'This Is a Nightmare... a Nightmare' Jaques Cousteau's grandson takes a dive. this is utterly ridiculous.
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Chris Rose: I survived the oil disaster and all I got was this lousy jar - New Orleans News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - FOX 8 Live WVUE-TV Channel 8 Chris Roses take on the spill...sounds like a man after Okies heart
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Arrogance...not ignorance caused this spill !! When it approved BP's 2009 plan to start an exploratory well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast - the same well that's now spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico - the federal agency that oversees oil drilling assumed there would be little risk of a well blowout and likely no death to marine life if an accident were to happen. BP estimated that in the worst case, a blowout at the well would spew out 162,000 barrels of oil every day, a massive figure that far exceeds any estimate of what's coming out now. But in its exploration plan in March 2009, BP assured the federal Minerals Management Service that a well blowout was so unlikely that "a blowout scenario ... is not required for the operations proposed." MMS then granted BP a "categorical exclusion" from a public review of the potential environmental impact of the drilling. That was in line with MMS' general view that a blowout was nothing to be feared. Before the lease of the oilfields in 2008, the MMS wrote a generic Environmental Impact Statement for the entire northern and western Gulf of Mexico that made the catastrophic well blowout that happened April 20 seem like a near impossibility. MMS produced its blanket Environmental Impact Statement for 11 proposed leases, mostly off the Louisiana and Texas coasts. One of those planned sales was Lease Sale 206, which gave BP the right to drill at what's known as Mississippi Canyon 252 with a Transocean oil rig called Deepwater Horizon. The MMS assessed everything from the possible impact of noise on marine life to the specific vulnerabilities of sea turtles and sturgeon, but through it all, the agency assumed any oil that might be spilled would be minimal and any leak would be quickly shut off. The document says that small oil spills and leaks from pipelines and ships are relatively common and have little effect on the environment. In fact, thousands of natural seeps in the sea floor combine to pump much more oil into the Gulf of Mexico each year than the current man-made leak has produced, but they are spread all over the sea in amounts that quickly dissipate, the study said. When it comes to the type of oil well blowout that happened April 20, MMS was downright dismissive. The agency determined that fewer than six of every 10,000 wells would have a blowout that caused any oil to spill. Blowouts are "rare events of short duration," the study said, and "the infrequent subsurface blowout that may occur on the Gulf OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) would have a negligible effect on commercial fishing." That paved the way for BP to assert that its plans for drilling in Lease Sale 206 posed no real dangers. Oil well blowout risk didn't concern federal agency, records show | NOLA.com
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill What's not clear is who exactly was more arrogant... ...the MMS or BP themselves
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Brett, we need an oil spill emoticon...but how do you summarize the loss of a culture with one small image?
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Absolutely. I worked offshore for a few years in the late 90's, early 2K. The operation never ceases. It can't. You can't just stop drilling and take a break. Once you start the process, you continue until you're done. My point of course is that the process is not drilling 24/7. You trip in, you trip out, you trip in, you trip out...and so on, and so on, etc...endless. In between trips, fluids are being pumped in to control the pressures, etc...there isn't a moment in a day on a rig where nothing is being done. Not a single minute.
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill oil has also hit the marshes on the north end of Lake Chenes talking about resident of lower Pointe-Aux-Chenes having to evacuate if even a minor storm comes this way.
