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Originally posted by Freedom or Death
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The real question should be: How much money can be made from the worlds worst oil disaster?
While one side of the economy may be hurt by the disaster, it may prove to be a great source of new jobs for cleanup crews, scientists, and an expanded government.
Should the effort misfire, scientists told AP, it could lead to new problems. Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental studies, said the crippled piece of equipment called a blowout preventer could spring a new leak that could spew untold gallons of oil if there's a weak spot that is vulnerable to pressure from the heavy mud.
God Bless the Ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.
Originally posted by skunknuts
Let's hope that if/when this tragic farce is remedied, we respond to this in a '9/11' wake-up fashion. BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Halliburton, TransOcean et.al. need to be heavily regulated and under intense objective scrutiny and pressure.
Never again shall we take their word as worth anything more than scum when it comes to their promises and decelerations of safety and their shallow platitudes about caring for humanity. It is as clear as the oil is thick that the oil industry sacrifices the livelihood of our citizens, it's employees, and our environment to squeeze any extra dollars onto their bottom-line.
This is too important, we need to demand what is necessary for us to enjoy a freer existence, unshackled from the behemoths that pay us no care.
Let's hope that if/when this tragic farce is remedied, we respond to this in a '9/11' wake-up fashion. BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, Halliburton, TransOcean et.al. need to be heavily regulated and under intense objective scrutiny and pressure.
Never again shall we take their word as worth anything more than scum when it comes to their promises and decelerations of safety and their shallow platitudes about caring for humanity. It is as clear as the oil is thick that the oil industry sacrifices the livelihood of our citizens, it's employees, and our environment to squeeze any extra dollars onto their bottom-line.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard announced the creation of a federal Flow Rate Technical Group to assess the actual flow rate from the well. Coast Guard Capt. Ron LaBrec said that Adm. Thad Allen would oversee the team, which will include members from the Coast Guard, the Minerals Management Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Geological Society and others from the science community and academia.
Originally posted by skunknuts
Wow, I just love the onslaught of newly registered members eagerly defending the oil industry by minimizing the tragic shameful disaster that continues unabated to this moment:
How could BP, a company that has made being green a core part of its identity, even rebranding itself as "Beyond Petroleum," suffer within one year both the worst oil spill in the history of the North Slope and the worst U.S. refinery accident in more than a decade?
And how did CEO John Browne, the energy visionary who publicly broke with his industry to acknowledge a possible link between emissions and global warming, earning a prominent spot in Vanity Fair's recent green issue, become a scapegoat for Big Oil?