[Newsbot]

Title: Officials say 5,000 barrels a day estimated to be leaking from sunk rig
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2010-04-28 19:49:39

[Choban]

Yet Americans continue to bitch about the environmental impact of Alerta's oilfields

[BartSimpson]

Choban Choban:

Yet Americans continue to bitch about the environmental impact of Alberta's oilfields

Not me.

[andyt]

This isn't going to help Obama's offshore drilling initiative, and makes if even less likely we'll go after all that oil off the BC coast.

[commanderkai]

Choban Choban:

Yet Americans continue to bitch about the environmental impact of Alerta's oilfields

I wouldn't say all Americans. Just environmentalists.

[Choban]

Sorry, Bart and Commanderkai are right, not all Americans, I find it ironic is all.
Just noticed I spelled Alberta wrong

[DrCaleb]

When I heard of the plan to set it on fire, all I could think of was the proverbial "two rednecks and one says to the other 'Hey. . .watch this!' "

[BartSimpson]

Interestingly, in WW1 and WW2 tankers went down all the damn time and no one, NO ONE, said boo about it. Come the late 1960's and it's an environmental disaster of epic and global proportions every time something like this happens.

Too bad we didn't have Greenpeace and the Sierra Club on the front lines of WW2 - they could've sued the Japanese and German navies for pollution.

[RUEZ]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Interestingly, in WW1 and WW2 tankers went down all the damn time and no one, NO ONE, said boo about it. Come the late 1960's and it's an environmental disaster of epic and global proportions every time something like this happens.

Too bad we didn't have Greenpeace and the Sierra Club on the front lines of WW2 - they could've sued the Japanese and German navies for pollution.

Kind of like apples and oranges. I'm sure even environmentalists would agree fighting Hitler was more important than chasing after every oil spill.

[Thanos]

All that retarded "drill, baby, drill" propaganda clearly has it's downside.

Look at the types of companies that opeate these rigs. Then look at the borderline thrid-world country they're operating in. It's easy to figure the rest out from there. It's a news of the moment thing. Give it a week from now and the vast majority of Americans will go back to not giving a shit about any of it at all.

Rich assholes at top making lots of money > job safety/following proper procedures/environmental well-being. Just like the Bible intended it to be.

[Choban]

The problem here Thanos is that this rig is in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the US coast.

[herbie]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Interestingly, in WW1 and WW2 tankers went down all the damn time and no one, NO ONE, said boo about it. Come the late 1960's and it's an environmental disaster of epic and global proportions every time something like this happens.

Too bad we didn't have Greenpeace and the Sierra Club on the front lines of WW2 - they could've sued the Japanese and German navies for pollution.

WTF does that have to do with reality?

Greenpeace aren't the ones spewing oil on the beaches and fishing grounds, they're who the ones spewing the oil won't fucking listen to at any cost.