BP oil leak victims

[SteveR]

You failed to read what I posted, I said 3 threads not 3 pages. I could care less how long a thread goes on and I have even posted throughout the first thread which is several pages already.

As far as who I am is a person who uses common sense

Noted. I am too used to people saying a thread is too long on other threads!

 

[Szar]

ha sounds very eco friendly, i can just see a large explosion followed by all the oil in the deposit pumping out, catching fire and things becoming 10x worse

yahh all that oil pumped in the ocean much more eco friendly. What you see and what would happen in reality are two different things.

- drill near the spill load the nuke and detonate it. The force pushes nearby rock crushing the BP drilled hole thus sealing the leak.

Due to the depth pressure and pressure from the oil escaping a nuke is the only thing powerful enough to seal it.

 

[Zfishies]

^^^This and it would be better if it cought on fire, eliminating all the extra oil

 

[Toby_H]

Please see Jessica's long post (#44) on page 5...

First off, thank you Jessica. Your post shows intelligent ideas from an informed individual.


If you closely review the statistics you mentioned, 97% of the "flagrant violations" BP was responsible for were at two on shore refining plants. This does not speak well for BP at all, but when exploring the off shore drilling dissaster we may want avoid skewing our understandings with on shore refining plant violations.


http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RefineriesChart2.png


If you check out this chart, you will see that BP has the tremendous majority of the Egregious Willful & Willful Violations, but shows not even a close majority in any other category (including serious violations).

Those familiar with American Industry understand it is very common for union officials, corporate officials and government officials to make very silly rules and force Industry to pay millions following them. BP has been known to resist this "American way" of doing business. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but I am saying that holding less than 2% of the "Serious Violations" when they hold around 15% of the Industry can be seen as quite credible. Also taking note the 0 out of 43 Repeat Citations may even make someone believe they have been responsible (at least until this dissaster).


I do not for a second believe that BP is "innocent"... I'm simply acknowledging that the media is currently demonizing BP while fully neglecting to reflect the government and industry corrpution that allows such risks to be exploited on a daily basis.


Keep in mind that it was only a few month ago that our beloved Obama was expanding the opportunity for off shore drilling on US coastlines... after cashing the massive campaign donations BP (and others) lovingly offered...


As for James Cameron... I don't blame BP for one second for not inviting an arrogant leftist film maker into their problem... That's like asking a Wolf to help herd your Sheep...


I am a huge fan of holding people accountable for their actions... I just do not believe that BP stands alone in being the responsible party for this tragedy.

 

[Toby_H]

What really kills me is that there are proven clean up methods that other regions of the world have used, that the EPA won't let us use...

Several companies/governmen ts in several countires have created ships that take in oil contaminated water, seperate the oil and water, retain the oil, then discharge the water.

But because the discharge water has more ppm of oil than the EPA allows to be released into the ocean, this method is not allowed. Even though the discharge water has hundreds of times less oil in it than the water that the ships take in...

After the Exxon Valdez oil spill a law was written that gives the US President the authority in such crisises to overrule standard operating procedures such as this. But Pres Obama chose not to interfear with the EPA's standards that prevent these ships from being used.

Just to mention, the rest of the world uses these ships in these exact same types of crisises...


One of such ships...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottsand_class_oil_recovery_ship

A short article outlining the idea of accepting Foreign Aid
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/06/us_not_accepting_foreign_help_on_oil_spill


A slightly longer Article offering more detail on accepting Forign Aid
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19655


So there are experts in this matter in the world making themselves available to address the issues...

Please note exactly who it is preventing them from doing so... and it ain't BP...

I think it is horrid how some politicians are using this crisis to serve their political goals and are even willing to overlook solutions that interfear with their political goals.

 

[studd muffin]

ughh....

 

[GudEnuf]

Such honesty.......saw this at a local BP gas station

 

[GudEnuf]

Something to hope for.

In the meanwhile, volunteering to help, or taking advantage of the job opportunities that became possible are there for the taking


http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/12/1677743/nature-healed-what-man-inflicted.html

 

[frasertheking]

I think it is horrid how some politicians are using this crisis to serve their political goals and are even willing to overlook solutions that interfear with their political goals.



is that not what politics is ? im yet to see someone in power make a change to the word that did not make them more cash and push it as helping the people.

 

[studd muffin]

Such honesty.......saw this at a local BP gas station

lmao