onpoint
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If this doesn't fit the habitat forum, please move where Admin would like it.
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/04/30/ricks.oil.wetlands.cnn
Sad to know that rules were relaxed as a favor to big oil and now a place that winters 2/3rds of our waterfowl, is facing serous long term damage. Not to mention if this well keeps spewing crude for as long as 2 months. What will be waiting for our ducks, geese and other migrating birds, will be unthinkable. IMO, hunt ducks well you can this year. There may be a serous cut in limits or who knows, maybe even a closed season if real action isn't taken..if it even can be taken in a timely manner.
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From CNN Rick Sanchez
As the once beautiful Mexican Gulf region is now fouled by one of the most significant Crude Oil Spills in American history, the foul BP spin-misters are now promoting the dumb and dumber solution of 'Burning the Crude Oil Slick' as their 'solution'.
The Crude Oil pouring out of that ruptured deep water well head some 5,000 feet beneath the once beautiful Mexican Gulf region is HEAVY CRUDE meaning a great deal of the total spewing out of that deep Ocean ruptured well head does not reach the surface, instead it almost immediately turns into tar balls and sinks towards the Oceans floor.
Burning the small percentage that reaches and stays on the surface is not even a placebo for the Oyster Beds which will be destroyed for decades, nor the Shrimping industry which will be destroyed for many years. There is very little if anything that can be done to actually remove all of that toxic tar from the depths of the Ocean and especially on the Ocean floor for thousands of miles.
BP's answer to burn the oil slick is entirely a farce to generate a photo moment which I sincerely hope viewers do not buy into as a realistic solution instead of the reality of simply a publicity stunt which won't stop many organizations from sueing BP as much as possible.
Besides burning what remains on the surface would certainly release a great deal of toxic pollution, much of the Heavy Crude Oil spewing from the ruptured well head 5,000 feet beneath the Ocean's surface is beneath the Ocean's surface and untouchable by burning.
Folks, this problem is growing nearly exponentially as enormous Ocean pressure flows into that underground Oil field forcing the Oil out into the Ocean.
What BP (British Petroleum) is not telling the public is that it is going to take two months or more to move a deep ocean drilling rig (if one is even available which is entirely doubtful as they are booked nearly a full year in advance) and drill an alternative well head into that same deep Ocean Oil field to begin relieving the pressure spewing out from the other ruptured well head.
This Spill Baby Spill ruptured well head if left spewing for the next couple months will likely foul much of the entire Mexican Gulf region and all the boats, marine life, mammals and birds that travel thru that immense area.
There is simply no margin for any errors in a deep Ocean well head, the immense crushing Ocean pressure if allowed to flow into the drilled Oil field will push that Oil out until it's eventually gone or some deep sea robotics succeed in actually capping that well head.
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/04/30/ricks.oil.wetlands.cnn
Sad to know that rules were relaxed as a favor to big oil and now a place that winters 2/3rds of our waterfowl, is facing serous long term damage. Not to mention if this well keeps spewing crude for as long as 2 months. What will be waiting for our ducks, geese and other migrating birds, will be unthinkable. IMO, hunt ducks well you can this year. There may be a serous cut in limits or who knows, maybe even a closed season if real action isn't taken..if it even can be taken in a timely manner.
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From CNN Rick Sanchez
As the once beautiful Mexican Gulf region is now fouled by one of the most significant Crude Oil Spills in American history, the foul BP spin-misters are now promoting the dumb and dumber solution of 'Burning the Crude Oil Slick' as their 'solution'.
The Crude Oil pouring out of that ruptured deep water well head some 5,000 feet beneath the once beautiful Mexican Gulf region is HEAVY CRUDE meaning a great deal of the total spewing out of that deep Ocean ruptured well head does not reach the surface, instead it almost immediately turns into tar balls and sinks towards the Oceans floor.
Burning the small percentage that reaches and stays on the surface is not even a placebo for the Oyster Beds which will be destroyed for decades, nor the Shrimping industry which will be destroyed for many years. There is very little if anything that can be done to actually remove all of that toxic tar from the depths of the Ocean and especially on the Ocean floor for thousands of miles.
BP's answer to burn the oil slick is entirely a farce to generate a photo moment which I sincerely hope viewers do not buy into as a realistic solution instead of the reality of simply a publicity stunt which won't stop many organizations from sueing BP as much as possible.
Besides burning what remains on the surface would certainly release a great deal of toxic pollution, much of the Heavy Crude Oil spewing from the ruptured well head 5,000 feet beneath the Ocean's surface is beneath the Ocean's surface and untouchable by burning.
Folks, this problem is growing nearly exponentially as enormous Ocean pressure flows into that underground Oil field forcing the Oil out into the Ocean.
What BP (British Petroleum) is not telling the public is that it is going to take two months or more to move a deep ocean drilling rig (if one is even available which is entirely doubtful as they are booked nearly a full year in advance) and drill an alternative well head into that same deep Ocean Oil field to begin relieving the pressure spewing out from the other ruptured well head.
This Spill Baby Spill ruptured well head if left spewing for the next couple months will likely foul much of the entire Mexican Gulf region and all the boats, marine life, mammals and birds that travel thru that immense area.
There is simply no margin for any errors in a deep Ocean well head, the immense crushing Ocean pressure if allowed to flow into the drilled Oil field will push that Oil out until it's eventually gone or some deep sea robotics succeed in actually capping that well head.
