Oilpocalypse Day #51
- FishGrease at Daily Kos, who knows more then a little about oil booming, posts another easy to understand primer on how to protect the Gulf of Mexico shoreline from the Deepwater disaster.
- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is not a happy camper. At his weekly press conference today he said, “There is reason to believe there was a lot of negligence present here, and that corners were cut that should not have been cut and that representations made by BP in particular, and/or Transocean [....] as to how much oil could be handled were inaccurate.” Setting the ground work to prove negligence is key to getting the parties involved to pay anything and everything required to fix this cluster fuck.
- A day after the NOAA confirms the existance of massive oil plumes underneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles goes on three major networks to say, “So I think it may be depending on how you’re defining this. But what I can tell you—and I looked at this data—is that we have not found any significant concentration of oil below the surface.”
- The Nation notes that the oil industry is like “a modern-day Deadwood out there. No rules, no regs, just rigs.” The next big potential drilling disaster could come of cause of “hydrofracing.” It is a technique used by natural gas drillers to blast underground formations with water, sand, and chemicals. Yeah that sounds like a really good idea doesn’t it.
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