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May 20th, 2010
07:00 AM ET
Searching for signs of oil along Gulf Coast
(CNN) – The scope of the damage to the Gulf Coast shores could be widening. East of Louisiana's prized wetlands, on the beaches of Mississippi, there's been a disturbing find. Tar balls are washing up and that's making a lot of people nervous. Our Rob Marciano has the report.
Read more: Senator wants oil $$; oil hits wetlands
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It is obvious that BP's first aim was to find some way to save the oil, not to stop the leak. A relatively small explosion would have prevented 99% of the problem.
The oil companies seem to be careless, and clueless about disasters, that what happens when big oil runs wild for years.
I am afraid that BP sees no profit in stopping the leaking oil. They are keeping us distracted with their ineffective methods while they are drilling another well which they can then make a profit on. This is nothing but a business to them. It is not their land, their lives, their jobs, their homes, their cities, or their culture which is being destroyed. Every home owner in four states will see a loss of property value before this is over. It is a loss we will likely never recover from. ...all thanks to deregulation....who wanted deregulation?
Seems to me ~~ BP could care less about the environmental effect all this has on the shoreline, fishermen, animals. WHY were they drilling PAST their permit allowance? GREED is the word.
It's coming up on hurricane season. What's going to happen with the oil if we have a hurricane?
Come on America! How could BP not have a plan of action in place for an accident like this? No plan no certification to operate your oil rig, or was someone in Government let's say an inspector paid off to sign the certificate. Every industry has to have a plan to deal with an effect it may have on the environment during an accident or incident caused by their company. How about it EPA? Who's palm got greased to allow this company to do business in the Gulf without an emergency response plan? Shame on you BP and the U.S. Government for letting this happen!
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Can any thing be done ? – now that the coast guard is protecting BP from media and any reasonable fix what can we do or have done ?
There are POSSIBLE STOP LEAKS that are never aired in the the media that could have been done from "DAY ONE" –
but who would be allowed to implement them ? -This my latest post:
Possible stop leaks
– drill deep (about 1000ft) new adjacent shaft a few feet away from old shaft – place explosive charge at bottom and fill/cover/seal with cement – explode charge to collapse wall and fill with rock, earth etc.
OR – insert a pipe/hose containing a shut off valve into the existing hole that would have a flange that expands inside and does not have back pressure to oil escaping – then shut off valve ...
OR – discharge "liquid nitrogen" into leaking pipe thru a small hose from surface inserted as far in as possible – thank you
Michael Gruters – former faculty physics Princeton late 60' –
p.s. the use of dispersing chemicals make surface removal impossible and poisons the sea – really stupid....
p.s. current plan to bring oil to suface by inserting a smaller pipe does not seal the leak and is only temporary