We dont learn from past mistakes identical oil spills in Canada and Gulf in 1979-2010

[RichC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo&feature=player_embedded#!

Same oil leak in in Canadian Pipeline.

Same offshore oil rig blowout in Gulf of Mexico.

one in 1979
one in 2010

Same companies, same problems, same failed attempts at stopping the leaks.

We are officially idiots !!!!

[RichC]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXrdaztYWC4b-nfTbBOcb6bX0a5gD9FVDIK03



Massive new plume of oil found deep in Gulf of mexico.



NEW ORLEANS — Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.
The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.

[Emmerich]

A leak in a pipeline is not the same as an undersea blowout in 5000 feet of water. Get a clue.

Originally Posted by RichC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo&feature=player_embedded#!

Same oil leak in in Canadian Pipeline.

Same offshore oil rig blowout in Gulf of Mexico.

one in 1979
one in 2010

Same companies, same problems, same failed attempts at stopping the leaks.

We are officially idiots !!!!

[RichC]

Originally Posted by Emmerich

A leak in a pipeline is not the same as an undersea blowout in 5000 feet of water. Get a clue.

Get a clue ?, they are two separate events I am talking about !

One is a Pipeline rupture.
The other is an off shore oil rig explosion.

Wow !

Try to comprehend what your reading a little before instantly chastising others.

These same two events have happened simultaneously twice now.
For a total of 4 oil spills.

Once in 1997
Once in 2010

Sorry I dont know how to break it down into mono syllable, three word sentences for you.

Wait, maybe I can.....

1979... Spill baby Spill.
2010... Spill baby Spill.

[tonkovich]

Originally Posted by Emmerich

A leak in a pipeline is not the same as an undersea blowout in 5000 feet of water. Get a clue.

for once, i do agree with you. if he wants to bring up oil rig blowouts, there is always Ixtoc I - which, i grant you was in only 160ft., so somewhat different in logistics, if not in volume.

[Jim B.]

Originally Posted by Emmerich

A leak in a pipeline is not the same as an undersea blowout in 5000 feet of water. Get a clue.

Spoken like ONLY some typical Dallas Texas oil man would speak.

[dynalow]

Left out of that clip was Paul Harvey's page 2. The rest of the story? As in, how much environmental damage was done? How many miles of coastline were damaged? Who paid the cleanup costs? Were any fisheries closed? How long did it take for the effects of the 79 damage to neutralize?

I might be mistaken, but I don't recall that spill reaching the gulf stream and fouling up Atlantic coastal waters.

At 4:16 the anchor says this was a "Mexican" spill. Operation Sombrero. Mexicans are officially idiots too???

[RichC]

Originally Posted by dynalow

Left out of that clip was Paul Harvey's page 2. The rest of the story? As in, how much environmental damage was done? How many miles of coastline were damaged? Who paid the cleanup costs? Were any fisheries closed? How long did it take for the effects of the 79 damage to neutralize?

I might be mistaken, but I don't recall that spill reaching the gulf stream and fouling up Atlantic coastal waters.

At 4:16 the anchor says this was a "Mexican" spill. Operation Sombrero. Mexicans are officially idiots too???

It was the exact same company that had the spill in 79 that has caused this one.
An american mega corporation.
Sedco, who later changed their name to Transocean.
Same company, same area, same mistakes !

[R Leo]

Originally Posted by RichC

It was the exact same company that had the spill in 79 that has caused this one.
An american mega corporation.
Sedco, who later changed their name to Transocean.
Same company, same area, same mistakes !

Chicken Little, you need to check your facts. Sedco was never Transocean.

[Emmerich]

Maybe you are seeing the light.

Originally Posted by RichC

We are officially idiots !!!!

[RichC]

Originally Posted by Emmerich

Maybe you are seeing the light.

Maybe you need to turn your head away from the flickering flame and look up at the sun.

[RichC]

NASA time lapse satellite images showing the expansion of the Gulf oil spill.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=14418484

Drill baby drill...

Kill baby Kill

[RichC]

New BP Logo.

[MS Fowler]

There is no disaster that is too great to be used for crass political means.
Fix the leak.
Then assign blame.
Then modify procedures.

Airplanes crash occasionally. We do not ground all airplanes and stop flying as a knee-jerk reaction. We investigate and change things to make it safer.

[dynalow]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

There is no disaster that is too great to be used for crass political means.
Fix the leak.
Then assign blame.
Then modify procedures.

Airplanes crash occasionally. We do not ground all airplanes and stop flying as a knee-jerk reaction. We investigate and change things to make it safer.

I agree with you and T. Boone. And can someone throw Carville a valium or six. Now. (I'm sure the White House would secretly agree with me.)