Doonesbury Say What?
Jun. 3rd, 2010 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
-- 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.
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Date: 2010-06-04 03:19 am (UTC)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)