BP's Gulf Coast Oil Spill Containment Problem Is Unprecedented

LA Times:

The company must stop a relentless gush of oil nearly a mile below the surface, in a situation that hasn't been dealt with before.

Read the whole story: LA Times

Comments

[NWRICK]

11:52 AM on 05/16/2010

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TELL THAT TO THE SUPREME COURT........YOU LOST ALREADY
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You have no clue as to what is going on here.
Sad, really.
If you thing Citizens United, the case to which you refer but have no clue about, has anything to do with my post, then I have nothing to say to you.
You obviously would not understand.

[NWRICK]

11:52 AM on 05/16/2010

*thinK*

[NWRICK]

11:56 AM on 05/16/2010

LOL
Wrong freekin thread anyway

[amaycatbaker]

06:32 PM on 05/11/2010

Alls well that gushes well...

[James Waterford]

12:11 PM on 05/10/2010

Maybe this can help. We could line our shores with it as a barrier. Oil spill removal using Spectramax nylon spunbond fabric from Cerex Advanced Fabrics located in Pensacola Florida. This material can help keep the oil from our shore as well as clean it up if it comes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM51cG0GoJ8

[KeysDan]

05:16 PM on 05/02/2010

In BP's plan filed in 2009, it stated that it could contain a worst case scenario of 162 barrels a day, for an out of control blow. Of course, it had never been done and was a guess...and now an experiment gone wrong for us.

[plaidsportcoat]

03:58 PM on 05/02/2010

This was NOT a failure of imagination on the part of BP engineers. This was, just like Goldman Sachs, gambling with a known possibility that, no matter what it takes to clean it up, will be so important that the taxpayers will HAVE to step up and do it for their own survival- PLUS with the loaded dice that the Congress will never make a fine big enough to not be actually figured into the cost of doing business, or they will not get campaign funds. So, I suppose the next wave of left wing books will be called Beyond the Shock Doctrine - Corporate Feudalism

[amaycatbaker]

06:34 PM on 05/11/2010

I heard it called "the advent of wage slaves."

[Basharepublican]

11:11 AM on 05/02/2010

This AIN'T your nice firm Alaskan crude, neither. It's more like a cross between Vasiline & Molassas and STINK of Fermented CRAPS! BP say: CHEER-IO!

[shivasquest]

11:49 PM on 05/01/2010

“Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf
Friday 30 April 2010

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Last May, Mike Sawyer, a Texas-based engineer who works for Apex Safety Consultants, voluntarily agreed to evaluate BP's Atlantis subsea document database and the whistleblower's allegations regarding BP's engineering document shortfall related to Atlantis. Sawyer concluded that of the 2,108 P&IDs BP maintained that dealt specifically with the subsea components of its Atlantis production project, 85 percent did not receive engineer approval.
Even worse, 95 percent of Atlantis' subsea welding records did not receive final approval, calling into question the integrity of thousands of crucial welds on subsea components that, if they were to rupture, could result in an oil spill 30 times worse than the one that occurred after the explosion on Deepwater Horizon last week.
www.truthout.org/whistlelower-bps-other-offshore-drilling-project-gulf-vulnerable-catastrophe59027


Who needs regulation huh libertarians and republicans?The "market" will take care of it right?
What do you call people who dont learn from history and ignore reality? I call them insane.
What do you call people who put profits before life? I call them sociopaths.”

[plaidsportcoat]

04:01 PM on 05/02/2010

You need to be put in jail immediately. You are un-american. You are the bad one. You are lying. You are quoting a document that was written by a liar. etc etc etc

--Your Local Corporate Lords, by way of Your Local Right Wing Radio jocks

[shivasquest]

04:11 PM on 05/02/2010

LOL!!
Your out of your mind...LOL!!
Read it again reetard.

[Tom Joad]

10:49 PM on 05/01/2010

"Gulf Coast Oil Spill Containment Problem Is Unprecedented"

Thanks. We figured that out...

[az10]

09:46 PM on 05/01/2010

http://www.matteroftrust.org/
Just trying to get the word out about these guys! Hopefully they can help!!

[dems08]

06:46 PM on 05/01/2010

is hp trying to pit us against each other as a test....

will we or won't we

I won't

[nkhogan]

11:30 PM on 05/01/2010

Hi ya demos. Have insomnia. I wonder if it's a test too.

I refuse to play too.

[1tfc]

06:33 PM on 05/01/2010

The whole thing seems really suspicious because of the timing as everyone is saying. Also I just heard on a radio show that there was a leaked story out of Russia that this was a North Korean sabotage. It was reported that a NK submarine was in Cuba and had left Cuba around the time that this occurred.

1) Mexico has more billionaires than any other country. So they have alot more power and connections than most people realize and they now have it in for us.

2) China/North Korea has always had it in for us and would gladly carry out such an operation if they could get away with it.

3) North Korea recently sunk a South Korean ship, possibly with a suicide mission mini-sub !!!

4) Back to Mexico. Their unseen/undereported power and recent anger towards us could have finally allowed/triggered off a go-go attitude amongst those who have these kinds of attack plans just waiting to be carried out.

5) Conclusion-Theory:

China/Mexico/Cuba/Venezuela/North Korea/Iran/etc. --- Mexico which is part of NAFTA-power is a buffer/ally to the US that keeps the peace between the US and these hostile terrorist freindly anti-US nations in the south-western hemisphere.

[Gordon Soderberg]

08:59 PM on 05/01/2010

God forbid it was just plain negligence on the part of BP But don't let reality or common sense get in the way of your concept of current events.

[confuseddemocrat]

09:39 PM on 05/01/2010

well...... if they can blame the oil spill on a foreign power, then Obama failed to protect us,

if the blame it on the environmentalists, then they can say Obama has inspired or encourage this type of attack by his words and then Bill- A--es can be brought up as a topic

It is really insidious how the right is trying to twist a clear case of corporate malfeasance, corruption and neglect into the fault of the present administration

[1tfc]

06:31 PM on 05/01/2010

If this was not an accident this attack could have been ok'd by Mexico for revenge and agreed to by China/Noth Korea/Cuba/Iran/Venezuela/etc for revenge/animosity in general. And agreed to by all of them to hurt the US economically/militarily and in every other way possible too !!!

Possible Obama-team collusion with this or any plot that was chosen by whoever was willing to take it on, as was mentioned elsewhere/other websites to further Obamas/left wing groups aims/goals.

Does anyone else see this as possible or agree with it ???

Also I say that we should pass AZ SB 1070 in every US State and not to let Mexico tell/force/persuade/intimidate us into what to do regarding illegal aliens/immigration-etc, by any means that they employ to achieve that aim/goal.

Go read how Mexico treats foreign born Mexican citizens and illegal aliens in their country: Mexican Constitution

[Tom Joad]

10:50 PM on 05/01/2010

woowoo alert

[plaidsportcoat]

04:30 PM on 05/02/2010

lol!!!

[SageSpencer]

12:21 AM on 05/02/2010

"Possible Obama-team collusion with this or any plot that was chosen by whoever was willing to take it on"

What are you smoking?

[cpad]

06:00 PM on 05/01/2010

A fool can pour a cup of tea in the ocean and a thousand wise men cannot pull it back out.

[Meteor]

05:47 PM on 05/01/2010

At the heart of this Gulf of Mexico oil spill on a BP oil well, is the simple mistaken idea that corporations exist only to make a profit. People own and run corporations to make a product or provide a service for other people. This is people doing things for other people. Money is the medium of exchange that makes this people to people service endeavor possible. When this purpose of corporations is forgotten in the name of monetary profit, corporations become a destructive force.

[P51MUSTANG]

11:39 PM on 05/01/2010

AMEN! Amen.! Amen! Amen!

[SageSpencer]

12:29 AM on 05/02/2010

I wish I could agree with you. I really really do... but I can't. A corporation's raison d'etre is to make a profit and people who expect corporations to be a moral entities are settting themselves up to be dissapointed. If we want corporations to act within certain boundaries, that one might call moral, then we need enforced laws that demand that they do.

[judyc]

04:29 PM on 05/01/2010

Now their going to dump chemicals in the gulf to disperse the oil--which will only serve to kill the sea life to "possibly" save the beaches. OMG.

[gmb007]

06:53 PM on 05/01/2010

Yes, humanity's brilliance is stunning, isn't it?

If this is the kind of superior intelligence we've got working for us, we're doomed.