Oil Disaster

[SludgeMunkey]

I keep having daymares about dead, gunk encrusted amphiuma. Seriously.

This mess is killing gators!?!? That is frightening.

 

[blueberlin]

Sharon (ferret_corner) posted an intersting link today at FB. With her permission, I'm posting it here: How To Help.

-Eva

 

[olympic]

In mine opinion the ceo of BP is a Serial Killer.:kill:
All those poor animals...

 

[VolatileXIII]

I don't even know where to start with how much this **** is disgusting me.
Unfortunately, I'm way up here in Canada and don't have the funds to fly myself down there to do hard labor myself. It sickens me that BP officials aren't euthanized for all the destruction of nature they're getting away with, no matter how much money they fork out, it won't matter. These people are rich beyond comprehension due to our oil based economy / society.

We should be exercising other means of energy / heating / etc long before something like this even has the chance to happen.

Ugh.

It seems like everything is slowly but surely going downhill.

 

[blueberlin]

What confuses me is the insistence that BP fix the problem. Didn't their people cause it? I understand their footing the bill for stopping the leak and cleaning up the oil, but letting the same folks who broke it fix it again seems a bit like letting the dog guard the sausages.

Someone on our German forum posted an excellent timeline (in German) with news reports, videos, etc., but even after I read and viewed everything to the end, I still don't know whether they have stopped the leak yet?

-Eva

 

[Mac Myers]

Eva... one of the main problems is that dumb as they are, BP has more experience, technology, and know how than anyone else. Many brilliant scientists are working on the problem and Obama has "taken charge" but unless he mans an oil boom he's no help either. We wanted to fill the hole with the bodies of BP Oil Executives but apparently there are morality problems with that.

They (BP) never came up with any plans to stop something like this because it "couldn't happen. They basically Zeroxed a plan for shallow water rigs and the MMS rubber stamped them.

These rigs were even "loved" by the Fishing Industry as they were great places to fish. We are so screwed.

 

[olympic]

This is RIDICULOUS!
Its leaking again for 100%.Just saw it on the news.
The people from BP should drawn in that oil!!:kill:
This is impermissibly!!

 

[Mac Myers]

That's True Olympic... and there is no end in sight. We could end up with this stuff going all over the planet on the currents. So far not.... but If it keeps coming at (place latest guesstimate of amount here) barrels per day then everyone is going to have all of the crude that they can handle.

 

[Dcerdeiras]

The government is as slow as mollasses when it comes to responding to this disaster. They JUST sent in the world's largest skimmer to help clean up when it was just sitting in a US harbour for months. You think that they could just hurry up with this.

 

[dragonlady]

What I really don't understand is why it was necessary to "approve" this skimmer to go in? This was a tanker that was voluntarily re-fitted to become a skimmer. It had to take a while for it to get to the Gulf, the so called "authorities" had to know it was coming - why the delay?

It really is disturbing how everyone involved just treats this major catastrophe like a little spilled milk on the kitchen floor! I could really go on a rant here, but that would solve about as much as what the "authorities" have managed with their billions.

 

[deliriah]

The more I see, hear and read on this subject the more it disgusts and enrages me. Not to mention confuses me. Forgive my ignorance but I understand plans were not made for this type of catastrophy, and early failures were overlooked, but WHY is this still such a big problem? From what I've read lately they are really still no closer to solving this and getting it cleaned up than they were a month or more ago. It's soo depressing to think about all the animals suffering and dying now, and that will suffer in the not to far future if they cannot get their **** together soon.

 

[Mac Myers]

Well... BP has another "plan" in the works. So maybe.
a Circuit Court Judge in Louisiana inexplicably reversed the drilling moratorium As well. There is also some concern that a moratorium on new drilling could affect the jobs of some oil Company workers. Assuming I can overlook all of the dead wildlife... which I can't....I'm a little more concerned with the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of the thousands of people in the Tourist, Marine, and fishing industries in the area of the spill. The BP "Claims and Reimbursement" service appears to be another exercise in futility.

 

[deliriah]

I'm sorry that in my emotional outburst, I seemed to have overlooked the people involved as well! Thank you Mac for pointing out another side of this mess. You are right that many families of the employees in those industries are suffering greatly from this .....oversight(?) as well.