The beauty of it is Apache’s execs and a bunch of workers protested yesterday,that the ,moritorium was going to kill the industry. I don’t think exploding rigs will damage their cause. They need to halt oil rig work until each rig is inspected.
Its not terrorism, everyone knows that black helicopters we’re spotted at the site mere h hours before the explosion.
-joe
Under the desk?
Oh, sure. Blame the black helicopters. Racist.
I plan on starting an internet rumour that it is all a government plan to justify a takeover of Louisiana by FEMA.
You’re too late. A few of the inbreds commenting at the Houston Chronicle have already blamed this & the bigger explosion on Obama. As part of his plot to destroy the economy of the USA, of course!
Not everybody posting is an inbred, though. Some of them actually know about the petrochemical industry, which has its dangers–although the victims are usually just the employees. And a few even agree that regulation is not a bad thing.
Hey–one of the inbreds even claims he’s from Vidor, Texas!
Damn, you can’t even intentionally out crazy the Wingnuts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/oil-rig-explodes-in-the-g_n_703525.html The rig was in production and the coast guard says it is leaking. it is a shallow water rig though. But also closer to shore.
Leak baby leak.
How fucking stupid are you?
(Probably not as stupid as I am for bothering to ask the question.)
Today’s explosion was on a production plaftform, not a drilling rig. Deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has been halted for months.
Or what, are you saying that in your view, all production in the Gulf of Mexico must be shut in until every platform is inspected (presumably by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which has jurisdiction)? Do you know how many platforms are involved and how long that would take?
More importantly, all the royalties and taxes these ‘beleaguered’ states would lose when they were shut down. I don’t know the breakdown between on and off shore, but total revenue is about 15% of the budget.
*I *thought it was at least mildly amusing.
If an industry with the capacity to cause catastrophic environmental damage is unable to properly regulate its own safety, I’m pretty sure it *doesn’t matter *how many platforms there are or how long it will take.
The question, though, is whether or not this *is *truly establishing a pattern of negligence. :shrug: I’m not going to pretend I know enough about the industry to comment.
A whole 100 feet wide? Really? Well, this is a disaster of unrivaled proportions! Alert the press (check)! Call out the President (double check)! Crank up the ranting about offshore oil rigs (hell, the good folks at Huff certainly went out of their way to draw the parallels).
<checks forum>
You are an idiot, gonzo.
-XT
Look, we know for a fact that the sky may or may not be falling. Clearly, that’s justification for widespread rioting, just as a precaution until we know for sure.
CNN’s reporting that a fire at one of the seven wells tied into the platform has been contained and what’s burning now is fuel in storage and there is no active leak.
Acc. to NPR, the platform was being painted by a crew and a spark (by a welder?) created an explosion. All crew members were thrown into the water but subsequently saved by helicopter rescue. So no loss of life.
While there have been reports of a mile long “sheen” caused by oil, the oil came from machinery as this was a natural gas rig, not an oil rig.
A hundred feet wide. But a mile long.
If you’re responsible for shit on my living room carpet, don’t expect me to be particularly thrilled when you observed that it’s just some dog doo you tracked in from outside and you’re not actually actively crapping your pants.
Change “crapping your pants” to “pumping in thousands of gallons of raw sewage through the living room window” and your analogy works.
You are correct. it is a response to Palins 'Drill baby Drill.