Two People Involved in Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Have Died, Coast Guard Reports

[Revolution]

Two people involved in the Gulf oil spill cleanup effort have died, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.

Meantime, the Coast Guard says BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says an underwater robot bumped into the venting system. That sent gas rising through vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like crystals from forming in the cap.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/people-involved-gulf-oil-spill-cleanup-died-coast-guard-reports/


This is just awful. Death toll is now at thirteen. Is it just me, or does it seem like everything bad that can happen in the cleanup effort IS happening.

Dear Lord...

[Celtic Rose]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/23/people-involved-gulf-oil-spill-cleanup-died-coast-guard-reports/

This is just awful. Death toll is now at thirteen. Is it just me, or does it seem like everything bad that can happen in the cleanup effort IS happening.

Dear Lord...

It is starting to look like a really bad disaster movie. 

[Revolution]

PS: Thanks, Chris. I'll do my best to format the subjects as you did here from now on.

PS: I at least got to the breaking news first this time.

[Chris]

Please try to use the original headline when posting in Breaking News.  Thanks.

[BlueStateSaint]

I've got a link to an opinion piece from a site called "Petroleum World" about the well.

The Well from Hell

By Christian A. DeHaemer

The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.

— Saruman, The Lord of the Rings

There is something primordial about BP's quest for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It's an Icarus-like story of super-ambition; of reaching too far, delving too deep.

I don't know if you've stopped to contemplate what BP was trying to do . . .

The well itself started 5,000 feet below the surface. That's the depth of the Grand Canyon from the rim.

And then the company attempted to drill more than 30,000 feet below that — Mt. Everest would give 972 feet to spare.

It gets more . . . surreal, I suppose.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sf10062001.htm

The reason why companies like BP have to do this is . . . the environmentalists won't let drilling happen in ANWAR, or in shallow water, or they won't allow development of oil shale.  Plain and simple.

[Happy Fun Ball]

It is starting to look like a really bad disaster movie. 

It probably will be inside of five years.

[vesta111]

It probably will be inside of five years.

For us who enjoy reading fiction about what if, or watching the disaster movies, we have for years known deep down that these things had little to no chance of happening.

I don't think it has really sunk in to people outside the disaster area that we now face a creeping disaster, not one of the movies or books but a true life disaster that did come out of the blue and one that may change our way of life forever over time, 2-50 years.  This is not going to go away, there are no hero's to save us, and there is no government we can trust to halt the disaster.  Even if we could shut down the oil spillage tomorrow, the damage that has so far happened cannot be undone for a long, long time if ever.

What makes this even worse is this is not the result of Mother Nature, this is the result of ignorance and greed of the humans that depend on the earth to feed, cloth, and support the humane race.

[Peter3_1]

Step one, get the Glomar Explorer technology to the well site. Remove the debris from atop the valve body , goving a clear 360 working field. This requires NAVY ships and deepwater  salvage expertise. As Mr. Obama was there from "day one" and this is day 63+ this is complete....right,,,,,?