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It's not a Spill folks,It's an uncontrolled flow

May 4, '10 11:49 PM
by Glen for everyone

bog55

I'm tired of hearing newscasters calling the Gulf mess a ’spill’when it hasn't ended yet. Oil is flowing still at the rate of 5000 barrels per day in an uncontrolled oil 'flow’. I'm also wondering whether it's still going to be an uncontrolled oil flow 3 months from now.The best case scenario is that something can be done in 3 months. I'll believe it when I see it.

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guyinsanfrancisco wrote on May 5, '10, edited on May 5, '10

What I find amazing is BP's failure to use breakaway devices similar to those used for "drive-offs" at a gas station; drive away, the flow stops. Perhaps they weren't yet installed

bog55 wrote on May 5, '10, edited on May 5, '10

I agree there needed to be better safeguards . A disaster like this was being said to be impossible by BP a few weeks ago also. A similar spill in Santa Barbara in 1969 ended coastal drilling on the West coast. Drilling in the Gulf will also change as a result of this disaster. Business as usual is going to have to change.The following is the best article I've found regarding this mess to date.http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2010/05/04/gulf-oil-disaster-beneath-the-waves/

guyinsanfrancisco wrote on May 6, '10, edited on May 6, '10

The "Green" idiots in charge of the government just pulled an environmental Katrina

bog55 wrote on May 6, '10

What's really weird is that I've read that a burn boom is the most effective way to contain an oil spill. None were on hand along the the Gulf Coast when the accident took place. I've also read that the cost of a burn boom ranges between $500,000 and $1,000,000 apiece which is miniscule compared to the environmental and economical damage oil spills create. Neither our government or BP showed any planning for an accident like this. Why didn't our government or any oil company have a burn boom available to rush to the scene of this spill? This accident needed to be addressed as quickly as possible. There has been the usual bureacratic delays and a great deal of damage has been the result.

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