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When are they going to actually stop this leak?
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:23 am
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:23 am
Thanks for anything you might have heard.
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:28 am to themunch
Unsubstantiated but grim
See comments for more links to non-MSM sources.
Believe whatever you want, but me, I don't trust entities that put profit over any and all other concerns to tell me the truth if it may impact their profitability.
Corporations in this country have a pretty well defined track record of obfuscating in the name of greater profit. Public safety and health be damned.
Again, believe what you want. I think this thing is going to be one hell of a lot worse than most people, particularly those with a $$ interest, are letting on.
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A series of explosions appears to have collapsed the seafloor and blown up the BOP at the well head.
Oil and gas are billowing out of a depression in the seafloor where the BOP used to be at an exponentially greater rate than anything seen before.
My theory: The well consisted of the casing with the drill pipe inside it. The sand and rocks that turned the gusher into a giant sandblaster that blew out holes in the riser pipe at the kinks was coming from the walls of the well that the cement between the casing and the wall was supposed to protect.
Therefore, the hole has been getting bigger and bigger and now it’s like a volcano vent with the piping inside it probably a twisted mess.
The relief wells can’t possibly stop this because anything they add will just be blown out of the volcano. Now what? h/t to noblejoanie for mentioning this in a comment to Scarecrows article titled "Can We Stop This and Future Oil Disasters?" She also provided this link. I’m seeking verification. comment on this
See comments for more links to non-MSM sources.
Believe whatever you want, but me, I don't trust entities that put profit over any and all other concerns to tell me the truth if it may impact their profitability.
Corporations in this country have a pretty well defined track record of obfuscating in the name of greater profit. Public safety and health be damned.
Again, believe what you want. I think this thing is going to be one hell of a lot worse than most people, particularly those with a $$ interest, are letting on.
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:34 am to WNCTiger
Firedoglake is a hard-core, left-wing political website.
This post was edited on 5/24/10 at 7:35 am
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:45 am to Tbobby
Yeah take this with a grain of salt.
Posted on 5/24/10 at 7:58 am to WNCTiger
Oh hell,
I come looking for good news and I see this.
If this is true this gets more incredible by the day.
Someone help me out here
But if the BOP’s are gone the whole top kill is out the window right?
Get those dredges going now
We need the corps help now, Obama you listening?
I bet if we shut down the LOOP and every fricking pipeline running threw the state people would wake up and do something then
I come looking for good news and I see this.
If this is true this gets more incredible by the day.
Someone help me out here
But if the BOP’s are gone the whole top kill is out the window right?
Get those dredges going now
We need the corps help now, Obama you listening?
I bet if we shut down the LOOP and every fricking pipeline running threw the state people would wake up and do something then
Posted on 5/24/10 at 8:12 am to WNCTiger
I'm not a geologist or PE, but the physics here just doesn't make sense. I can see the BOP failing due to stress, but what would be the source of explosions and why wouldn't a relief well 2.5 miles below the sea bottom not work?
Posted on 5/24/10 at 8:53 am to Indiana Tiger
...they apparently blended ideas from discussions on varrying well plug tactics and one delt with setting off charges at the wellhead to collapse it/shut it off. They (BP) are not going to this because of the possibilities of catastrophic circumstances.....exactly what they say has happened
the quote is total bullshite.
the quote is total bullshite.
Posted on 5/24/10 at 8:55 am to Indiana Tiger
the live video is still up and everything is still sitting in the same place it has been in
there have been no explosions
there have been no explosions
Posted on 5/24/10 at 9:54 am to supatigah
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the live video is still up and everything is still sitting in the same place it has been in
This is good to know for sure.
Erroneous reporting by a liberal website.. imagine that.
I was about to lose it this morning when I read this.
I checked the camera first and could not get in..
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