Deepwater Horizon oil spill

[Noruas]

Temporary.

[knorke]

oh they pulled the cap up again for "pressure integrety tests"


piiing piiing piiiing bitches dont know about my sonar.

[knorke]

At this very moment, sawing action!

[PicassoCT]

But in the Pipe, itsa mia -MAAARIOO.

And now to our local news agents - Smoth and Panda. How high is the oil, panda? 3 feet high and rising?

[hoijui]

she is still in the:

OMG!! i am rich! i am richhhh!!!111

... phase.

after which comes the:

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this stuff stinks, and makes all my clothes dirty. :/

... phase

soon followed by:

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blub, blub, ...   blub .......... beeeeeeeee...

[PicassoCT]

Lets face it, big Oil-Companys like BP are finnished, if there only remaining option is to drill this deep, and deeper. So we even now already depend on state owned oil-companys like those from saudi-arabia, i-run (not the appleproduct) or venezuela.

Feels great, in a democracy to live on the wink of a foreign despot. And you know what, we deserve it, because our system is not future-approaching, not able to solve a problem before it mounts and peaks up before us in the present. This is just the oil-crisis of the seventys and eighties allunder again. RANT a RIG, and start to drill till it spills.

[Panda]

There's heavy damage to the tourism and fishing industries along the Gulf Coast. This is very bad because our estuaries, the transition areas between land and sea protect us from flooding, provide us with a habitat for 2/3 of the fish and shellfish caught in the US. I know that they say that the food over here is checked to make sure that it doesn't have any dangerous chemicals in it and I believe that the FDA does a good job of monitoring food safety, but I'm still concerned about how safe it is to eat local seafood. I'm also wondering how coastal areas are going to hold up against storms in the future.

There are many cool lifeforms like manatees, sea turtles, pitcher plants, and sea grass beds that act as a nursery for young marine animals that will be hurt by this too.

BP has still not decided as to whether or not to shut off the gushing oil well because they aren't sure if it's safe to do that. Allowing pressure to build up in the pipe could increase the damage below the seabed and make it difficult to put a cement plug in the well.



They're currently only able to burn off the excess natural gas.

[Caydr]

I'm not reading 3 pages to find out if this has been said yet:

The dispersant they use to break down the oil causes internal bleeding and organ failure if you ingest it, but fortunately prevents much of the oil from reaching the surface where cameras can get dramatic shots of it or scientists can make accurate estimates about how much has actually leaked.

The dispersant is actually more dangerous than the oil and other stuff coming out of the leak and they're dumping shittons of it.

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/corex ... body-video
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate ... rsant.html

There are supposedly better, safer ones, but the long-term effect of ANY dispersant is completely unknown.

There's nothing the free market and American ingenuity can't solve though, right? I'm sure everything will be fine.

[Sabutai]

http://springrts.com/phpbb/download/fil ... ew&id=5307

Dreamt this tonight.