Oil spill possibly much worse than thought

That's a load of bullshit. They knew straight off what a disaster this was gonna be, but sugar coated it and released that bogus "there's no oil leaking" story to avoid a public hanging.

Boneheads.

Hopefully this will spur change in our way of getting/needing oil, or at the very least, the safety regulations of going about it.

I was reading that the cap or switch that they could have had installed costs $500,000, but the company faught that, saying that the current standards were safe enough and would cost too much. hmmm, $500,000 for a company that makes billions, or mulitple billions of dollars to clean it up/lawsuits. Idiots.

Well they will be held responsible for this and it'll be a hell of a lot more than $500,000.

But not completely impossible or unlikely. See what greed and lust for oil can do? Operations like this are always in a position of disaster striking and it's not a matter of but a matter of . Being overly confident that disaster could not occur is very costly indeed... now they are scrambling to try to cover their asses and they have no idea as to just how serious this will end up.

What a tragedy, what a waste. The impact environmentally and economically will be unmeasurable I'm sure. This will have a very long-term affect on that whole area.

As my siggy says, "good enough" rarely is.


Sad thing is, this was pretty much the same attitude that led to the disaster in New Orleans.

Pretty sure these "terrorist groups" (peace activist -save our planet) have been trying to prevent this from happening for years. What's next Norther Canada!

And they bust our balls over the 'Oilpatch! The fact that there isn't a safeguard to prevent this is the biggest kick in the pants, or was the cost too much for the people running this project to justify??

I hope they go after BP for every penny of the cleanup costs, even if it bankrupts them. And if it's true about the cap, there should be criminal negligence charges for the top guy who signed off on this.

They should of lit it on fire the moment it reached the surface

edit: removed inappropriate image.

The only burn being considered is when it hits shore.

eeeh well that was the plan in the beginning. If it's was that dumb, why did they say that ?

Problem is there is no plan for wells that deep. They can't burn more then a 5th of it because it needs to be of a sufficient critical mass to burn.

Add to that, dispersion, weather, and the other obvious effect of dumping huge volumns of toxic smoke into the atmosphere.

It's one of those things that wasn't really thought through all that much.

eeeh well that was the plan in the beginning. If it's was that dumb, why did they say that ?

They were referring to burning it in the marshland, from what I've read, not at the point of where it reaches the surface. Certainly no guarentee it would be a much better alternative.