Comments on: Can the Gulf Coast situation get any worse? Significance of the oil spill, part II

By: Lessons learned on energy and the oil spill? « Global Change

Lessons learned on energy and the oil spill? « Global Change — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:09:41 +0000

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By: Tabula rasta

Tabula rasta — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:38:35 +0000

Those fissures surrounding the well head appeared after the TopKill procedure,
they are not natural seeps. Matt Simmons, a well known oilman has surmised that
the intense pressure that was required by the tri-plex mudpumps to deadhead the
flow, caused the casing to burst & being under the intense pressure of the
blowout, caused the live crude to hydraulically fracture the formation surrounding
the well.
Scientists have been aware of natural seeps for many years, these are not located
where natural seeps have been noted.

Could it be that you have selective amnesia, as to what occurred while Bu$hCo &
Cheney were in office.
I suppose you don’t remember the TopSecret task force that Cheney convened to create
a national energy policy. In essence, it was the multinational BigOil cartel that
met to write the rules they would abide. That included the deletion of the remote
acoustically actuated trigger to close-in the well w/ the BOP to prevent a blowout.

It was the Bu$hCo political appointments to key regulatory agencies that screwed
the pooch. The CFTC & the SEC allowed the worldwide economic meltdown because they
were doing drugs, downloading porn & having sex w/ the people they are supposed to
be watching. The Dept. of the Interior,/BLM & the MMS were thick as thieves w/
the oil company representatives. The MMS simply had their clients fill out the
necessary forms in pencil & the MMS would complete them in ink.

MSHA was the same, hence the spate of coalmine “accidents” & OSHA was so underfunded
& shorthanded they were useless, yet a hiring freeze existed Bu$hCo’s entire term in
office.
Bu$h ran every oil related business he owned into the ground. His Daddy’s buddies
were always bailing him out by buying his business. Bu$hCo couldn’t even hit oil in
Texas. Cheney never worked a day of his life in the oilpatch, w/ the exception of
his time @ Halliburton. While @ Halliburton he purchased the W.R. Grace company
w/o doing his due diligence. W.R. Grace was lousy w/ asbestos lawsuits against it
so Halliburton had to buy KBR to offset the bad debt of Grace.

They aren’t businessmen or oilmen, but they are charlatans. But they fooled you.

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:55:34 +0000

It was ‘discovered’ recently that there have been oil plumes in the area immediate to broken well head; and the researchers
surmised that the floor of the Gulf has long released oil & gas through fissures…..and in turn the ecology has adapted to
them. It was also revealed that oil spills were a lot worse in the 80′s and tapered off considerably during the Bush era
in Govt. Could it be that a Conservative president with an oil industry background is far more sensitive to the waste and lost revenue than someone whose background is law and community organizing?

Which approach is ultimately better for the environment…a jack boot on the neck of a large corporation followed by a criminal investigations; or an understanding of the difficulties of deep well drilling and a partnership with the lessee when something goes terribly wrong? Or worse, why hasn’t the political appointee who was running the key INterior Dept. agency suddenly ‘thrown under the bus’ and made to disapear? Why should she escape a ‘criminal investigation’?

By: Will the BP Oil Spill Move America Closer to Clean Energy? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Global Change) « Bowdoin Daily Sun

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:32:38 +0000

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