Gulf Oil Spill
Posted July 8th, 2010 at 09:28 PM by Chilling Touch
Well, I would like to go to college to get trained to be a pharmacist. As a lifegaurd, Im on the way there. Water has become a large part of my job, and thus I am more concerned then I may have been about the oil spill. A recent talk with a veteran of the Kuwait oil spill has left me with some thoughts that I wanted to share.
Now, there are differences between Kuwait, and the gulf. First, the gulf is in water, and Kuwait was on land. The gulf is 1000 feet deeper than Kuwait. Finally, there is about 15-20 year difference between the two.
Being on land vs water is not much of a difference. Oil still spray's, leaks, and catches flames. The big difference is that the Kuwait oil spilled into desert, not ocean. The depth difference does not affect the fixing op much, except for the pressure diffrence, which makes it much harder for humans to go down and examine the spill.
Finally, the time difference. This is what gets me fired up at BP. There seems not to be one. Everything they have tried so far, they have tried in Kuwait. Its like there has been no technological advances at all. In Kuwait, they just could not get it to stop, and eventually had to explode the mine.
So why let the destruction get worse BP? Do you want more animals to die, more fines to pay, more time to be wasted? Either try more technological advanced ways, or just explode it. This is not working.
Now, there are differences between Kuwait, and the gulf. First, the gulf is in water, and Kuwait was on land. The gulf is 1000 feet deeper than Kuwait. Finally, there is about 15-20 year difference between the two.
Being on land vs water is not much of a difference. Oil still spray's, leaks, and catches flames. The big difference is that the Kuwait oil spilled into desert, not ocean. The depth difference does not affect the fixing op much, except for the pressure diffrence, which makes it much harder for humans to go down and examine the spill.
Finally, the time difference. This is what gets me fired up at BP. There seems not to be one. Everything they have tried so far, they have tried in Kuwait. Its like there has been no technological advances at all. In Kuwait, they just could not get it to stop, and eventually had to explode the mine.
So why let the destruction get worse BP? Do you want more animals to die, more fines to pay, more time to be wasted? Either try more technological advanced ways, or just explode it. This is not working.
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Interesting. BP never wanted to stop the oil spill; they only wanted to find a way to capture as much of the oil as possible. They could have plugged it easily enough, but there goes the profit to recoup some of the losses and placate the shareholders. It's a mess, and I guarantee that we will be seeing more of it in the near future.
If you want to see some tarballs first hand, you can hit the beaches about 5 miles from my house. We have been spared the worse of it, but the local economy sure is hurting on account of the media acting like most beaches are condemned...The tourists are taking their money elsewhere. If you do come down, pack some Heroscape with ya.  |
Posted July 9th, 2010 at 02:49 PM by Filthy the Clown
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We have been spared the worse of it, but the local economy sure is hurting on account of the media acting like most beaches are condemned...The tourists are taking their money elsewhere.
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Posted July 9th, 2010 at 07:37 PM by EternalThanos86
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Haha, Filthy, I am actually visiting on a boat in the summer of 11'. For the scouters out there, its a trip called sea base. Im hoping it dosent get cancled because of BP.
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Posted July 9th, 2010 at 10:14 PM by Chilling Touch
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If only the media members came in the same massive droves that tourists do. Unfortunately, one camera crew/reporter team does not have the same financial viability as 5 families of tourists. On the other hand, it is a good time to visit, as a lot of the local businesses seem to be running "deals" of some sort.
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Posted July 11th, 2010 at 05:53 PM by Filthy the Clown
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