Engineers have ruled out the use of hair booms in the fight to contain oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. They say tests show the hair booms do not absorb as much oil as commercial booms, and sink too quickly. Organizations collecting the hair have been asked to stop. The engineers referred to test … Continue reading Hair booms won’t be used in Gulf
Rand Paul, Kentucky’s new Republican Senate candidate, has a decidedly minority view of the current Gulf oil mess. On “Good Morning America” this morning he said: What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in … Continue reading Rand Paul on BP’s mess: ‘Accidents happen’
The message here, as I first saw it, is that the BP oil now drifting in the Gulf is hazardous to everything living there. Others, however, have interpreted this more generally, as a blanket condemnation of oil in our society. What do you think? Continue reading Oil (in the wrong place) is not healthy
I just heard BP will start spraying oil dispersant under water, “something that hasn’t been done before,” according to the report. Is it just me, or is everything BP tries to do to stop their oil flow “unprecedented,” “never tried before,” “experimental,” “untested at this depth,” “new,” etc. It’s almost as though no one, anywhere … Continue reading What a reasonable person would do
Shell Oil today received permission from U.S. federal court to go ahead with their plans to drill five exploratory wells off the Alaska coasts. According to The Huffington Post: Shell’s Chukchi exploration plan concluded that a large oil spill, such as a release from a blowout, would be rare. MMS agreed and said the probability … Continue reading BP leak not bad enough to stop Shell in Alaska
… a 210,000-gallon-a-day flesh wound: Today BP finally released video of their spewing 21″ wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. The brown effluent is oil, still flowing at the rate mentioned above. The white effluent is presumed to be gas, which dissipates as it rises. They claim the flow rate is a mere 210,000 gallons … Continue reading Just a flesh wound …
