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FOURISIS

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can't seem to contain oil spill.things are getting bad here.you can smell oil in air.i'm going on a cruise mid july which departs from the port of n.o. don't know if that will be changed.our prices on seafood is going up. i live south of n.o. near belle chasse just 80miles from tip of boot(edge of state)kinda wish they could freeze some of the water to get it up.everything else failed.

is anyone keeping up with progress on the spill?
 
Yes, keeping up. We had a tanker hit Brenton reef carrying gasoline 15+ years ago. The gas supposedly evaporated but the smell was overpowering 15miles away.
Get used to the oil stench, a barge dumped 800,000 gallons of #2 fuel oil not 3 miles from my house. People with lung problems were dropping like flies. Healthy people were also.
We moved in with my MIL for over a month. The fishery has never fully recovered.
Thoughts to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill
 
FOURISIS said:
can't seem to contain oil spill.things are getting bad here.you can smell oil in air.i'm going on a cruise mid july which departs from the port of n.o. don't know if that will be changed.our prices on seafood is going up. i live south of n.o. near belle chasse just 80miles from tip of boot(edge of state)kinda wish they could freeze some of the water to get it up.everything else failed.

is anyone keeping up with progress on the spill?
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I think the only progress is it's getting bigger and everybody that is in Washington getting grilled by the government is passing the buck on who's fault it was.Seems they are grasping at straws on how to contain this now.How they get it stopped soon FOUR.
 
sorry to say i don't see anything positive coming about soon fourisis. people in the gulf area suffer while everyone involved blames the other guy. nobody could have seen this coming i suppose...right. i doubt the jobs coming to clean up the mess will cover the loss of the fishing and tourism industries in the area. not to mention the environmental harm that will be felt for many, many years by both animals and people in the area. enjoy the relatively cheap seafood now, prices won't be going down.
 
has anyone seen kevin costner's invention to clean the water? looks like it might work.if only they would try it.sick of the stinky air my chronic bronchitis is flairing up.
 
FOURISIS said:
has anyone seen kevin costner's invention to clean the water? looks like it might work.if only they would try it.sick of the stinky air my chronic bronchitis is flairing up.
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Sounds like a good idea FOUR.Sad thing is it sounds like it would make cleaning this spill up to easy BP and the gov would find some way to screw it up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2081
 
I'm starting to think they haven't a clue on how to stop this 'leak'. Looks like there might have been some fudging of the figures regarding how large it really is from Day 1. Went from 1,000 gallons to 1,000 bbls, then up to 5,000 bbls. Scientist who've seen the video of the leak say it's possible it's up to 10x that amount.

BP's blocked Wood's Hole from sending their sub to evaluate. Data from tests has come up missing,,,hmmm. BP's lawyers are passing out 5 grand if you sign and promise not to sue. Transocean held a secret meeting with high level mangement. Halliburton's safety record (that's a oxymoron) is questionable at best.

Murcowski (sp?) blocking raising the liability limit proves where her loyalty is.

I predict we, United States taxpayers, will pay dearly for this cleanup. Our leaders in congress will give flowery speeches that mean nothing while taking campaign contributions from those responsible.

Four, if anyway to get downwind do it, as I said we moved in with a MIL for a month and that was in the winter with the windows closed. Can't imagine what it's like there with the heat and humidity. Good luck.
 
Looks like it's finally going to happen.

(The New York Post) - "Field of Dreams" star Kevin Costner has been given the go ahead to fulfill another dream -- helping to clean up the massive oil spill that has contaminated the Gulf of Mexico over the past few weeks, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

BP has approved a test of Costner’s Ocean Therapy device to help the company clean up the Gulf after its Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploded and began spewing oil into the water, officials said.

The machine -- described as a processing device that separates oil from water -- was first developed by scientists hired by Costner following the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska.

"The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates," Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling told CBS's New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV.

"They were developed from older centrifuge technology. Normal centrifuge machines are very slow and sensitive to different ratios of oil to water mixtures at intake. Costner has been funding a team of scientists for the last 15 years to develop a technology which could be used for massive oil spills."

The former "Waterworld" actor could not be reached for comment, but told reporters last week that he wanted to help.

"Years before I got involved, oil spills came and I would wonder why we couldn't clean this up," he said.
 
This is going to be the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen.
The environmental impact will not be fully known for years to come.
How do you punish someone for screwing up the balance of the world's oceans?
 
BobbyFord said:
This is going to be the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen.
The environmental impact will not be fully known for years to come.
How do you punish someone for screwing up the balance of the world's oceans?
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For starters you do not allow them to keep doing business like this anymore and make them PAY BABY PAY.
 
what do you do about the 3500 - 4000 deep water oil wells that haven't had a major accident (yet)? in the service you would probably have a safety stand down day to go over rules and regulations and make sure everyone is following them. you can't force a business to do something similar. although i certainly hope they do and probably will do i'm sure safety enforcement varies among the various oil producers and suppliers of equipment and services. i look for a major personnel shuffle at mms. you can't just reorganize and say the problem is being fixed. you have to get rid of people responsible for regulating the industry that have a deregulating mentality.
 
Why can't you shut down a private business to perform a safety check? Especially if you hold the lease for the area they are drilling in?
 
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