Opinions on the oil spill

[Wayneovich]

Personally I think it sucks. As much money these companies make this kind of thing should have never happenned.I really feel bad for the fishing industry these people already scrape by. Just when you think we got things going in the right direction.

[Blanca BusaLess]

Well with them saying it could take 3 months to stop the flow and the gulf current being circular it will eventually make its way down Floridas west coast, thru the keys , into the Gulfstream and out into the Atlantic at which point it will flow north all up the east coast.

IT IS A NATL DISASTER OF EPIC PROPORTION.
WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD ITS GONNA GET AND THEY AINT TELLING US EITHER !

[Wayneovich]

Well with them saying it could take 3 months to stop the flow and the gulf current being circular it will eventually make its way down Floridas west coast, thru the keys , into the Gulfstream and out into the Atlantic at which point it will flow north all up the east coast.

IT IS A NATL DISASTER OF EPIC PROPORTION.
WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD ITS GONNA GET AND THEY AINT TELLING US EITHER !

WOW I had not heard that man that is the SUCK. I know a local zoo has started taking in animals that have been caught in the slick.

[zukracer]

this has the potential to make the exxon valdeze slick look like some azzhat dumping oil along his property line to kill weeds if you enjoy oysters, lobster, shrimp, crab or any of the atlantic fish, get your fill now.

oh yeah, just wait for the $5-6/gal gas prices now that we are hemmoraging 5k barrels a day into the sea.

[BlondeOnaBusa]

This is going to devastate the Gulf Coast. I did hear on the news this morning that BP will pay all expenses....we shall see.

On a side note did any of you that live along the the GC smell the oil this morning? I caught a faint whiff of it. I sure hope it doesn't get any worse.

[Busa Jules]

It really sucks.. that's all I have to say about it... The Mississippi Gulf Coast is sitting here just waiting for it to get here.. we have put up barriers.. but due to the 5-8 ft seas we've been having the oil is just splashing over the barriers. The rain IS helping to break up the sludge.. but that is just a glimmer of hope for us.

Mississippi (as well as Louisiana, Alabama, and FLorida) are headed for an environmental and economic disaster. We LIVE on our tourism and fishing money here. Oil covered beaches dont bring people... not even to the casinos.

The price of shrimp, oysters, and crabs are gonna go through the roof. (Just Saturday they called off all commercial fishing in the Gulf Of Mexico indefinitely)

The future is very dark for us. We all know mistakes happen. But this is ridiculous.

I heard on the news this morning.. this may be the Chernobyl of the US... that's scary.

[m_ridgeway]

Personally I think it sucks. As much money these companies make this kind of thing should have never happenned.I really feel bad for the fishing industry these people already scrape by. Just when you think we got things going in the right direction.

Has nothing to do with how much money the oil co. makes its the company that made the BOP that should be in the most trouble. An american based company called cameron intl.

Yea its a bad deal. Hate to see things like this but its the risk they take when drilling in the ocean. Hopefully they come up with some solution and prevent future accidents.

Also bp has stated they will pay any damages and fishing companies have started to file suit already.
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[Vonderbach]

It makes me wonder, with the United States being perhaps the most technologically advanced nation in terms of industry, what would happen if the wells in lesser advanced countries exploded?

Also, while I'm sure I'm not even remotely comparable to the experts, one would think you could send a bomb down there to collapse the pipe?

[zukracer]

Also, while I'm sure I'm not even remotely comparable to the experts, one would think you could send a bomb down there to collapse the pipe?

yeah we figured out ways to depth charge the nutz outta german subs, you'd think we could find a way to blow up the well head. then again, perhaps that would only compound the issue rather than solve it. oh well, either way we are screewwweeedddd.... now anyone up for a class action law suit against BP for having our gas prices and dinner prices go up? I mean, really, I bet we could at least all make a little something out of it

[mrsBusawhipped]

I hope there is something that can be done soon. I can't imagine what life is going to be like in the coming months for the fishermen and residence of the Gulf areas.

[Vonderbach]

In this thread, we at hayabusa.org will solve this crisis.

First order of business

A Hope For Oil Spill Bioremediation

[Wayneovich]

I say we nominate Blanca head of cleanup operations

[mjrfd99]

The US should seize every thing BP owns right away. This is gonna be an epic disaster.

[afterhours]

oils spills are going to happen, was BP negligent in some way that caused this?

you use explosives to blow the fire out, so you can cap a well.

[Blanca BusaLess]

Sadly the LAW limits BP's liabilty on this !
They will pay but only up to 3 billion .
After that they are legally done .
And no I don't think Bush had anything to do with it .


VB the pipe is plugged into a huge oil reserve , like a straw into the side of a water balloon.
To ignite explosives there with the way they act underwater it could possibly collapse oceans floor oppening up entire reserve to the ocean .
Can't do that .

Also as stupid as it sounds BP is trying to stop this and still have wellhead usable for the future .

[Vonderbach]

you use explosives to blow the fire out, so you can cap a well.

I would assume you could also use them to implode the line too, but I know little about explosives, so I was just conjecturing.

[Blanca BusaLess]

I say we nominate Blanca head of cleanup operations

Sleepless_Red , I and a few thousand cases of lemon pledge can do it !

[afterhours]

I would assume you could also use them to implode the line too, but I know little about explosives, so I was just conjecturing.

not trying to be a smartass....but from what i heard, and read the oil is under pressure like a balloon as Blanca stated. so if you damage the wellhead, it may break,rupture leaving a broken pipe instead of a wellhead.

also if the pipe breaks, or you rupture the ocean floor you may have oils seaping from cracks in the sea floor that cannot be capped.

was this an accident, was it poor maintenance, bad design or is this what happens when drilling 5000ft under the water?

i have some family that is the oil fire business....i will try to get some info.(if possible)

[mikejmd]

Where's the Bruce Willis "Armageddon" team when you need them!

[kml]

Cut and paste from;

Oil industry reps begin to reveal cause of Gulf oil blowout - Bellona

US mulled acoustic switch requirement

The US considered requiring the remote-controlled shut-off mechanism several years ago, but drilling companies questioned their cost and effectiveness, according to the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, which oversees offshore drilling.

The agency, the, says it decided the remote device wasn't needed because rigs had other back-up plans to cut off a well. The UK, where BP is headquartered, doesn't require the use of acoustic triggers.

Mike Papantonio, an environmental lawyer said on the popular American radio programme, the Ed Schultz show, that former Vice-President D!ck Cheney’s shadowy decided that the switches, which cost $500,000, were too much a burden on the industry.

“(The acoustic switch) is a failsafe that shuts the flow of oil off at the source,” said Papantonio in the April 30 broadcast.

“They cost only about half a million dollars each, and are required in off-shore drilling platforms in most of the world...except for the United States. This was one of the new deregulations devised by D!ck Cheney,” he said.

Hauge also noted from conversations he has had with oil industry representatives gathered here that booms to corral oil that are being used in the clean-up effort on seas that continue to be stormy are substandard to ones used in Norway.

But Hauge was also quick to point out that even Norwegian booms are not 100 percent effective in rough seas.

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