Oil in the Gulf of Mexico!

[Eilonnwy]

I rather can't dislike the Exxon Valdez oil spill much any more... because they've given us more money than the spill took away (due to how long it has taken fro them to pay it out).

I can: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/...2336977282

Many people never got compensated for what they lost, and oil is still found there today.

[Violet]

I agree that many didn't... but we sure did. I'm going to act all good and SotL, and say: tough luck for them

Of course, there is no real way of knowing that we got as much as we would have otherwise... the spill affected the salmon run fairly badly... and how much is really deserved so far as recompensation goes is largely incalculable. It certainly was a boon to most affected persons to get paid now, however. I'm hardly disappointed with the amount... but if there is a way to cram Exxon for more: why the hell not?

And of course there is still oil from the Valdez spill... hopefully this new spill can be cleaned up somewhat more effectively

[Welsh cake]

This has always been a question not of 'if' but when.

When is now. British company fucking up the Golf of mexico. IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU BRITS! GET OVER HERE AND CLEAN UP YOUR MESS! QUIT FUCKING UP MY ENVIROMENT, IT"S WHERE I KEEP ALL MY STUFF!

I hears ol' halliburton is a big one to blame in this also.
Hanging offense, if you ask me, for any found guilty of directly or indirectly causing this disaster.

To be fair, we "Brits" aren't exactly thrilled with the recent events or environmental consequences either.

It's also worth mentioning that what happened with the Deepwater Horizon was a Blowout, an uncontrolled release of crude oil/methane gas, a freak accident that claimed 11 lives.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

It's also worth mentioning that what happened with the Deepwater Horizon was a Blowout, an uncontrolled release of crude oil/methane gas, a freak accident that claimed 11 lives.

An accident? Really? It's already being argued that it was an accident which should not have happened. Corporate safety measures tend to be determined by legal requirements,even when the law is patently inadequate and/or can be circumvented.

I don't know the above for a fact in this case, I'm not an engineer. But as far as I'm concerned I wouldn't trust BP as far as I could throw it. If you think I'm being paranoid,look up the history of BP and other oil companies in the Middle East.

One of our biggest companies, BHP Billiton,has an appalling safety record,being criticised by the courts for being 'accident driven'.Eg Infamously,it installed safety rails in its steel works only after a worker fell into a vat of molten steel,and the company faced massive compensation payouts.

My favourite is the case of life boats on the Titanic:

RMS Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, infamously only enough lifeboats for about half the people on board. Ironically, she actually carried more boats than were required under British Board of Trade regulations in force in 1912. Part of the naive reasoning of the period was that with the advent of radio (wireless)---

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_lifeb...he_Titanic

An accident in the Gulf of Mexico? Depends entirely on how you define the word.

[Eilonnwy]

There is evidence that suggests proper safety regulations weren't being followed, so freak accident? No.

It also brings up the legitimate concern that maybe we shouldn't be drilling in deep water if we cannot handle the mess when an accident happens. The gulf of Mexico is being destroyed by oil, the oil is now showing up on the Florida keys. The oil is heading for a current that will take it up around the keys and up the east coast.

[Pippy]

and they are calling it a spill and a slick. The big Oozy.

Unprecedented. A crime against all, and a problem soon to be very, very large in scale.

This is one of those events... Yes, grandchildren, I remember when there was a gulf of Mexico.

If it hits the Atlantic into the gulf stream current, things will get ugly fast. People don't vacation is Mississippi, they go to the Keys.

It would be a larger oxygen depleted zone, since there has been on off of Diego for years and years.

Old rotten dinosaur bones. It's like the radioactive stuff, maybe best left far underground.

Thanks,
Lynch mobs,
-Pip

[Shell B]

Yes, crude oil is best left far underground. Were it not for the money involved, it would be obsolete. There is absolutely no good reason we should be drilling anywhere. That being said, I can hardly change what is happening. I can be pissed about it, however. First, they have a faulty shut off mechanism that only closes over half way. Then, they use chemical dispersants deeper than they ever have before. Why? So the oil will be broken up. What does that do? It makes it so the big animals, that we can see, aren't covered in oil. Don't worry, though, we'll get to watch them die slowly from being poisoned by the oil or from losing their sources of food. Smaller bits of oil will affect plankton and plant life. Yipee! I love that people are concerned about the fact that we can't fish there now, when it is likely that there will be hardly any fish left in the future. Drill, baby, drill? Fuck this shit.

[Minimalist]

[fr0d0]

live webcam sickness :

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/

[Shell B]

Thanks, Frodo. That's sickening.