oil spills

Nothing to see here, only thousands of tons of Diesel spilling into the arctic while those trying to report on it are constantly harrassed. I wonder what Donald and Boris will be told to say about it...

Tests warned of cement problems before well's blowout The evidence does seem to indicate gross negligence, but I'm sure they have some very expensive lawyers who will try to argue otherwise.

Just saw a blurb that BP just announced the cap has been secured and no more oil is now leaking! :) But some guy just called in on MSNBC and claims there's another even bigger leak from some unrelated hole a couple miles away.......wasn't there an unsubstantiated rumor about that awhile ago...

At first glance, this article seems to be ill-informed. But, I figured someone who know more about the oil disaster details could offer more specific comments: http://www.rense.com/general91/oilor.htm I realize this is probably implausible, but I would like some specifics as to why. The...

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008304-503544.html Who does she think she's fooling?

Hi. I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAqfxMrato&feature=related Has anyone here been down there and who could verify or debunk these claims? If this is true it's really serious.

Good news. BP is not going to pay dividends this year. (Or ever, if justice prevails.) That leaves more for the government to sieze when justice is done to the oil toads. Obama seems to have twisted the right arms. More than his predecessor would have done. He has the escrow fund he...

When life give you lemons, you really should make lemonade. In this case, we're getting lots of black goo, and so we should make.....black goo sausages! Allow me to explain. I'm not talking about booms... After reading this, today, I'm leaning towards believing that the oil flow will not be...

Is the following likely to end up being empty rhetoric, or will this disaster stimulate a move to a genuine clean energy? And what immediate technologies can America roll out and what would it take to roll out such technologies...

The crude oil spilling into the Gulf is definitely bad for marine life and fishermen but is that the extent of the harm, as the media would have you believe? Are deadly toxic gases that are naturally formed in oil reservoirs a major problem for human beings living on the Gulf? Benzene levels...

http://www.greenandsave.com/green_news/green-business/bps-latest-oil-spill-cleanup-idea-hire-kevin-costner-6670 So, Costner invested in 3 duds in the 1990s... except one of the duds turned out to be pretty good after all.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/boehner-government--ie-taxpayers--should-help-pay-for-oil-spill.php?ref=fpa I thought Teabaggers hate bailouts? What say you, my Tea-Toting friends?

The overall American response to the mega-disaster that is unfolding and becoming worse, minute, by minute, hour by hour and day by day is noteworthy for how nonchalant we all are. One is reminded that according to Pliny as well as the archeaological record, that the people of Pompeii did not...

So, the amount of oil being captured is now up to 15,000 bbl/day and it's still not all of it. (actually that's 15 times higher than what we were originally told, and 3 times higher than the revised estimate that it was raised to over BP's objections. Since the amount now being captured is...

Has Jones et al made this into a conspiracy yet? The US Gov. deliberately blowing it up for some NWO-related reason?

From a populist perspective it plays quite well - it's the foreign company's responsibility -it's relatively easy to stoke up the nationalist sentiment (as Obama et al are doing) And obviously BP share a large chunk of the blame.... however, there was some American right-wing idiot on the...

http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam They are busy right now. Two robots either side of the pipe using cutting wheels. Lets hope they get it right. ETA. They have lowered what looks like some giant "crimping tool".

A ridiculous question but one that's actually being asked: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/01/gulf-oil-spill-bp-future I think the lesson is, if you're going to cause an ecological catastophe, do it somewhere like Nigeria rather than the most litigious country on earth... I...

Every news report I have seen seems to be blaming BP for the oil spill. What evidence is there that they caused the leak as opposed to TransOcean, Halliburton, or some other yet named group? I'm willing to accept that it there is negligence involved, I just want to know who is responsible and...

A rather emotive article, this caught my eye: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell A variety of reasons are given for the spillages, from rusting pipes to sabotage.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100513/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2052 The Soviets did it 5 times before. Just detonate a 10 killiton nuclear weapon at the leak..and watch it get buried in 100 million cubic yards of rock. that should stop the leak. why won't they use this method?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/us/29spill.html?hp "BP engineers struggled Friday to plug a gushing oil well a mile under the sea, but as of late in the day they had made little headway in stemming the flow. Will the BP disaster shape popular views of the president’s competency...

The thread title is based on a sign someone was holding in the clicky picture on Yahoo. I'm not posting it for obvious reasons (rhymes with Mule Whore). Anyway, on with the OP: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2270 Public opinion is turning on Obama, OF COURSE divided along party lines...

Like the Oil Disaster in the Gulf itself, the conspiracies surrounding it are really beginning to spill. In fact, they are beginning to flat out loose their feces. Some websites have posts suggesting this is an extinction event in the same class as the Permian mass extinction event. (Handle...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_bi_ge/us_rand_paul like a true lover of big business and pollution... like a true hater of the American people and a clean Earth.

"“I’m not a real religious person, but I’m somewhat religious. And I’m just wondering if God is telling us he doesn’t want us to drill offshore,” he said. “And right before that we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners,” as well as repeated mining disasters –...

I've read that the cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is going to run into the tens or possibly hundreds of billions in economic damage. This raises the following questions: Is BP really going to pay for it all? Do they have the money to pay for it all? Does that include making whole...

All right, I guess this great big oil gush is ripe, but even so...this is a tad...

Hopefully leaving politics out of the equation, is there any solution to stopping the well, regardless of cost? For instance, can they use explosives or debris to plug the gusher? Let's say that the fortunes of BP or President Obama or the fuel consuming public were not at issue, what...