Should the US Continue Off Shore Drilling Despite The Spill?

[Sandy Eggo]

I didn't, I wasn't aware that it was on. I was watching something on Nat Geo, because I wasn't aware there was a
BP segment. I'm going to go back and watch it.

[Palehorse]

Well, the POTUS is appointing a special investigation committee to look into this whole friggin mess. . . Personally, I hope those who made the decision to continue to operate despite knowing key components of the blow out preventer (parts coming up with the oil) and knowing it's safety back up system was non operational as well, get jail time and the company fined to the tune of BILLIONS! 

I didn't, I wasn't aware that it was on. I was watching something on Nat Geo, because I wasn't aware there was a
BP segment. I'm going to go back and watch it.

Watch the whole thing. It's 3 or 4 parts, and they have a statement from a top respected investigator who has seen the information, pictures, and documents, and is an authority on these things. . .

It will just make you sick to hear Sandy, seriously! 

[Sandy Eggo]

It will just make you sick to hear Sandy, seriously! 

I'm afraid you're right.

[Sandy Eggo]

Interactive Map

[Sandy Eggo]

This was slow to load for me, but worth it if you have the time or have a better processer

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html

[me]

Well, what I did pick up, while being interrupted several times, if I were Ricker's I'd be looking for a different supplier.  That engineer, I believe it was, who tried to hurry the operation and the guy who said those hunks of seal were nothing to worry about should be never work in that field again.  I'm sure glad people are beginning to speak up.  Sounds like a case of sh*t running downhill and it kind of makes me wonder if the actual head of the company really even knew what was going on.  That, however in no way excuses what's going now with the clean up though.   

Anyone else see the segment 60 Minutes did on this last night? It pissed me off to learn about the events that transpired just prior to the explosion, and that BP could have prevented this whole thing. . .

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=api

[me]

I had a real scary thought while looking through those pic's Sand posted the links to.  I sure hope they get this under control before a hurricane or bad storm hits. 

[Palehorse]

Peak season is just a couple of weeks away, and already cells are brewing southeast of the gulf. . .

[me]

They'd better be gettin' their heads out of their asses then and quick. 

[kimmi]

This is reminding me of the brilliant works of Dr. Seuss. 

The Lorax! 

[Palehorse]

And now oil has reached the Florida Keys, as 20 "tar balls" the size of soft balls have been spotted.

[Palehorse]

What was the Lorax?
And why was it there?
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere
from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows?
The old Once-ler still lives here.
Ask him. He knows.

[me]

 May 19, 2010 8:34 am US/Eastern
Coast Guard: Tar Balls In Keys Not From Oil Spill
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Reporting
Lisa Cilli

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Dozens of tar balls found in Key West did not come from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. That information was released Wednesday morning from the U.S. Coast Guard after conducting lab tests on the tar balls.

A sampling of tar balls discovered on beaches at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Smathers Beach in Key West, Big Pine Key, and Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas National Park, were flown by a Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet to Connecticut on Tuesday for testing and analysis.

The results of those tests conclusively show that the tar balls collected from Florida Keys beaches do not match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time. Tar balls often wash up on the shores of Florida from cruise ships, oil tankers and other vessels which sometimes flush their almost-empty fuel tanks to clean them for another load.

The tar-ball discovery put Florida's $60 billion tourism industry on its highest alert level since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank on April 22, sending oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico hundreds of miles from the Sunshine State.

The public is asked to report the sighting of any tar balls to the U.S. Coast Guard at 1 (800) 424-8802. Any oiled shorelines can be reported to 1 (866) 448-5816.

The public is reminded that tar balls are a hazardous material, which while not dangerous to most people can cause an allergic reaction and should only be retrieved by trained personnel. All beaches on the Florida Keys remain open.

Meantime, a University of South Florida research ship will head to the middle of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday in hopes of studying whether oil is being carried south by the powerful loop current. The R/V Bellows is scheduled to depart from the College of Marine Science. It will carry 10 scientists and three crew members to the loop current, some 80 miles from Florida's west coast.

Once there, the crew will spend several days collecting water samples and using high-tech underwater sensors to determine how much oil is in the current.

Earlier this week, officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said aerial surveys showed some tendrils of light oil close to or already in the loop current, which circulates in the Gulf and takes water south to the Florida Keys and the Gulf Stream.

http://cbs4.com/local/Tar.tar.balls.2.1702654.html

[Palehorse]

Yeah. . .I saw that. . . but it is just a matter of time. Already the oil they KNOW about is entering the loop current that has the potential for carrying this crap all the way up the eastern coast. . . "But its insignificant". . .according to BP. . .

[The Troll]

You are not only drinking koolaid, but riding down the koolaide river if you think that Beck has anymore integrity than the rest of them.

  Well, Sandy what do you think about of Rush Limbaugh saying that the tree huggers should pay for this oil spill.  He said on his comedy radio show that the Sierra Club should pay for the spill because people like you made the oil companies quit drilling on land and close to shore.  You guys are the ones who make them go out into 5,000 ft of water and 50 miles of shore.

  Are you guys ready to drink some of your koolaid.