BP oil leak

**DSM4Life** · 05-26-2010, 08:26 PM

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_inte...ov_stream.html

**cherrydrpepper** · 05-27-2010, 01:44 AM

thats amazing

will have to check back in a couple days see how it changes

**devilduckizer09** · 05-27-2010, 01:56 AM

wow is that really oil? what a waste can't imagine the amount damage its causing to the enviroment & wildlife on those beaches its washing up on

**lovbyts** · 05-27-2010, 01:58 AM

I dont want to even get started BUT there will be damage from this for the next 100+ years guaranteed.

**DSM4Life** · 05-27-2010, 04:36 AM

Originally Posted by lovbyts

I dont want to even get started BUT there will be damage from this for the next 100+ years guaranteed.

I was reading about their "top side kill project" and they said if it fails it will cause the oil to leak even faster than it is right now !

We are F-ed !

**Flagg** · 05-27-2010, 05:52 AM

Hopefully this will lead to much tighter regulation and mitigation on the handling of oil in the future.

EDIT: I can't watch that link DSM, but I found this that some of you might want to look at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGMX...eature=recentf

The Gulf Oil crisis is a mere 24 miles off the coast of Louisia. The only life recorded in that muck is a loan Man of war Jellyfish and ONE FISH that swims underneath it for protection.

**Implement** · 05-27-2010, 05:58 AM

Thank you, for posting this.

**wanabeMASSIVE!** · 05-27-2010, 08:24 AM

Atleast the oil aint Tren , with that drought we'd be all fvcked!

but seriously this oil thing is just fvked up... Y didnt they take precations etc like regular safety checks..

**crazy_rocks** · 05-27-2010, 05:05 PM

a govt agency exempted them from having safety valves. a shady deal.

**JJ78** · 06-03-2010, 11:39 AM

Goldman Sachs sold $250 millon worth of stock days before the spill

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/mon...lion-bp-stock/

**Bigdog99** · 06-03-2010, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by JJ78

Goldman Sachs sold $250 millon worth of stock days before the spill

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/mon...lion-bp-stock/

somebody knew something before this happened. some shady sh*t going on out there. Things like that just don't happen by accident IMO.

**crazy_rocks** · 06-03-2010, 04:02 PM

that is shady. maybe BP was having problems and was trying to keep it under wraps but being such a large investor he was able to find out.

**JJ78** · 06-03-2010, 05:40 PM

Goldman Short sold a ton of airline stock right before 9/11
It ain't the first time.

Some of the highest ranking officials in Washington are former CEO, CFO, COO of Goldman Sachs.
Geitner, Bernake.

As soon as Obama took office he gave Goldman around $200 Billon of our tax money.

Bailout? Shit wheres my ****in bailout.

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 10:44 AM

Bp CEO Tony Hayward sold 223,000 shares of BP a couple of weeks before the explosion

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...oil-spill.html

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 10:45 AM

Lock these ****ers up please. If anyone deserves to do time its these guys and child molesters

**vanduhl** · 06-05-2010, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by JJ78

Lock these ****ers up please. If anyone deserves to do time its these guys and child molesters

Agreed. I was watching tv the other day and flipped through the news channel...the head line on the bottom of the screen was "OIL LEAK COULD GUSH FOR MONTHS"

we can put man on the moon, but cant plug up this oil leak? cmon...

**vanduhl** · 06-05-2010, 11:06 AM

double post...

My solution: take all the fattys from that Whales at the nightclub thread and shove in that hole....plug it up reallll nice.

**DSM4Life** · 06-05-2010, 01:09 PM

The problem is all of the "solutions" BP come up include securing some of the oil. This could have all been solved by using explosives in the opening so the hole could have collaspe into itself which has been done in the past but then BP couldn't get any oil.

I like the fact that Obama has been keeping on eye on BP and saying "he wants to make sure BP doesn't nickel and dime people out of money." Good for him.

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 03:23 PM

Yep. A nuke would have solidified the sand and probably sealed it up.

They say they captured 6000 barells in 24 hours. Have you seen the Live feed lately?
If they captured 6000 barells, it looks like quite a funkin bit isnt getting captured.

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/l...stream2&hpt=T1

Plus you can see them spraying the dispersant into the leak. What is that toxic shit doing to the enviroment.
I am from Florida and will be moving back soon. My favorite thing about Florida is the Marine Life and fresh seafood. I really hope its not ****ed for my lifetime.

**DSM4Life** · 06-05-2010, 04:27 PM

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - A Florida beach might get hit with oil from the Deepwater Horizon accident for the first time Wednesday as sheen likely caused by the accident was reported less than 10 miles off Pensacola Beach.

A charter boat captain reported the oil Tuesday afternoon and state and local environmental officials confirmed that it was about 9.5 miles offshore. Winds are forecast to blow from the south and west, pushing the outer edges of massive slick from the spill closer to western Panhandle beaches.

Emergency crews began Tuesday scouring the beaches for oil and shoring up miles of boom. Escambia County will use it to block oil from reaching inland waterways, but plans to leave beaches unprotected because they are too difficult to protect and easier to clean up.

The spill's arrival coincides with the beginning of the Panhandle's summer tourism season, which normally brings millions of dollars to the region.

"It's inevitable that we will see it on the beaches," said Keith Wilkins, Escambia's deputy chief of neighborhood and community services.

The oil has been creeping toward Florida since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers and eventually collapsing into the Gulf of Mexico. An estimated 20 million to 40 million gallons of oil has spewed into the Gulf, eclipsing the 11 million that leaked from the Exxon Valdez disaster. The rig was being operated for petroleum giant BP, which has tried unsuccessfully for six week to stanch the oil.

The Florida report followed an orange and oily mess washing up on Alabama's beaches earlier Tuesday. Crews cleaned up the oil that they described as having the consistency of a "tarry mousse," but health officials closed the beaches to swimming.

Pensacola Beach officials said their request for about $150,000 from BP to buy sifting machines and a tractor to help remove oil from the beach's famous white sands has lingered unanswered for more than three weeks. BP has promised it will pay any expenses, but Panhandle officials say the bureaucracy has been slow. Some think the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be running the cleanup operation, not BP.

"We need the sifters and we haven't gotten them approved yet," said W.A. "Buck" Lee, Santa Rosa Island Authority's executive director. "It's been three weeks and the oil is coming. In my opinion, this entire thing should have been a FEMA project all along. If a hurricane blows the roof off your jail, you shouldn't have to wait and send a letter to BP to replace the roof on your jail."

Lee said BP has spent money on public relations, but not on preparations for beach cleanup. The company has provided the sate with $25 million to promote tourism. Escambia approved $700,000 in emergency funding for tourism promotion Tuesday, with another $700,000 to be allocated in 45 days.

Lee said the bureaucratic process set up at the federal staging centers in Alabama and Louisiana have also made it difficult to get information about his pending request.

Coast Guard Chief Peter Capelotti, spokesman for the Mobile, Ala.-based command center, did not have an immediate answer late Tuesday about the delay in approving Escambia county's request for the tractor and other equipment.

Capelotti said command center officials expect more oil to make landfall in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle through Friday.

On Pensacola Beach, emergency crews are prepared for a long summer of oil clean up. They plan to remove oil in cycles after it is pushed onshore and the winds shift. Removing oil while it's moving onshore doesn't make sense, Wilkins said.

"It would be like trying to go out and clean up in the middle of a hurricane," he said. "We will wait until after the bands make their way onshore and the weather shifts and then we will clean up before the next band hits."

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/st...ay-720986.html

**gallagher771** · 06-05-2010, 04:42 PM

looks like it might hit the atlantic too

**Flagg** · 06-05-2010, 04:50 PM

Are some of you serious about using a NUCLEAR WEAPON as a solution? A NUKE?! Yeah, way to permanantly **** the environment up and ensue that no one can ever eat fish from that region ever again...

On to what BP are supposedly doing, BP are apparantly digging two relief wells which they claim will provide a permanant solution to the leak, only this wont be done till AUGUST.

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 05:00 PM

The oil that is and will be gushing into our oceans for a very long time is going to do a lot more damage than a low yield nuke would ever do. The US and Russia have detonated so many nukes under water and above our heads in the past.

The relief wells are no guarantee. They have no clue wether if and when they tap into a lower part of the well if this is going to be able to siphion?sp the oil.

This could last for years. Just wait until the gulf stream picks it up and it ends up in the Mediterranean. Along with most of the east coast.

Hopefully they are able to stop it some how, BUT?

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 05:02 PM

Too late for the Nuke option now anyway, but I have read a lot of articles that suggest that this is what Obama should have done in the first place.

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 05:11 PM

Here you go.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Med...ry?id=10827645

**JJ78** · 06-05-2010, 05:46 PM

Read this shit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-b..._b_558774.html

**matt77** · 06-05-2010, 08:09 PM

I know this oil valve has a lot of PSI of oil gushing out but I find it hard to belive that they can't take a concrete cylinder attached to a cube of concrete (kinda like a lolly pop) Lower the cylinder down in the well tube until the large cube is resting on the ocean floor. They could use a form to add under water cement until it weighed enough to block the pressure. There is no way 300-400 tons of concrete would be pushed off.

I can think of a dozen things that would stop the leak. They want to salvage the oil not cap the well! As for a nuke, it wouldnt take that at all. They could just rig HE in the proper pattern on the sea floor causing an implosion covering the well with a few hundred feet of sand. Plus the huge cloud of sand from the bottom would help pull the oil to the bottom.

**DSM4Life** · 06-05-2010, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by Flagg

Are some of you serious about using a NUCLEAR WEAPON as a solution? A NUKE?! Yeah, way to permanantly **** the environment up and ensue that no one can ever eat fish from that region ever again...

On to what BP are supposedly doing, BP are apparantly digging two relief wells which they claim will provide a permanant solution to the leak, only this wont be done till AUGUST.

You honestly believe BP wants to drill these "relief wells" as a means to protect us ? Thats funny. They want the rest of that oil period.

**Flagg** · 06-06-2010, 02:24 AM

Originally Posted by DSM4Life

You honestly believe BP wants to drill these "relief wells" as a means to protect us ? Thats funny. They want the rest of that oil period.

You dont have to tell me mate, I study environmental science so you're talking to the converted here

Of course that's the reason BP are doing what they are doing. Why does everyone think its taking so long? Because BP doesnt want to lose access to all that oil and deep down, nor does the American or British governments. So yeah, all that marine habitat has to suffer as a consequence. It's criminal.

**DSM4Life** · 06-07-2010, 07:15 PM

Few more tid bits i heard.

First the way BP is "paying" the people is: Paying the local people hourly to help clean up the oil and run supplies back and forth. Sounds good right ? Well now all the people are getting sick from breathing and touching the oil ! They said crude is so toxic that it can destroy cell walls and DNA which is easily adsorbed through the skin. Do they get medical benefits ? Hell no.

All these birds that its saving. BP is having this guys transport all these first from the beaches and such in cage breathing all these toxic fumes and for what ? How many birds make it out a live ? 1 % , thats right ONE F#$%ing PERCENT SURVIVE ! PR move big time.

Lastly, when asked flat out if they are selling/making profit off the oiling they are sucking out of the gulf and putting on boats, they ask if there are anymore questions.

Ill try and dig up links later.