Doonesbury Say What?

[thewayne]

"I just want my life back."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward

I just want a non-devastated Gulf back.

There was a lovely piece on The Daily Show of violations recorded by the MMS on BP operations over the last three years. Over 800. The next two highest offenders? EIGHT. The lowest number of violations? Exxon with ONE.

And we don't even have the story of BP letting part of the Alaska pipeline rust on the front page yet.

When Obama said that deep sea drilling was safe a month or so before the well blew, I knew he was going to regret saying that, I just wish it hadn't been so soon and so cataclysmic. Apparently the Saudis (or some UAE country) had a similar incident. Environmental impact: almost zero. Their solution? They brought in lots of oil super tankers equipped with pumps and filters, they sat around the leak pumping in contaminated sea water, capturing the oil, pumping the filtered water back out.

Pity no one is talking about this.

Comments

[silveradept]

Pity, indeed, that nobody is talking about this. Even if they were, I wonder if they could scramble enough tankers and tech to make it work.

BP is too busy pointing fingers and ducking responsibility to roll up their sleeves and do the right kind of work needed to contain the spill while they also try to stop it. TransOcean is no help, either.

[beeyochkitty.livejournal.com]

The only bright spot in the whole thing is the about-face Gov Schwarzenegger did on the bill to allow off-shore drilling in CA. The state can use the money, but thank goodness at least one conservative Republican isn't willing to sacrifice the planet for it.

[anyeone.livejournal.com]

I know! I saw that him say that on the news and I was livid! What a selfish jackass!

Nothing is safe. Accidents always happen, especially when negligence is afoot as clearly it is at BP judging by their accumulation of violations. Why the f* weren't they shut down? (rhetorical question)