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lakngulf
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Burning Technology
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6/4/2010 8:47:23 AM
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The reason for part of my forum name is that we have a small condo at the gulf, and are sick. I am afraid this disaster will take a toll that probably will not be fully handled in my life time. The environmental, geographical and financial scope of this spill is mind boggling. The picture of the standard "gulf current" indicates no area of the gulf coast is safe.
As soon as it happened, I immediately had a picture in my mind of those poor birds on the shore of Alaska after the Exxon wreck. Those visions are coming true on the Louisiana coast, and reddish brown oil will not mix well with pristine sandy beachs. What will it do to sea life, sea oats, sand dunes, people, business, shrimp, etc?
I have no answers. I do not feel like enough is being done. Fed govt says it is "on the case". I do not know, I will defer to folks who are closer to the scene and higher up. I listened yesterday to the La governor BLAST the feds for inaction, for not approving possible remedy after remedy that the La folks were grasping at. Will all the remedies work? No, but try anything that is a possibility. When BP tried the MUD TOP KILL approach, the pumped in contents from one ship and ran out, but another ship is "on the way". Damnit, have the other ship ready and waiting so the pumping has a chance to work.
Enery sources in USA have taken a major hit this year, with this and the mining disaster earlier. BP talks about all the wells that have not had a problem (read, have not had any problems that we let you know about). Are environmentalists at fault, for pushing oil companines so far off shore that this kind of a disaster cannot be stopped by normal means? Are fed officials at fault for being in bed with oil companies and not requiring safeguards? Are oil companies at fault for not using their outrageous profits to provide better safeguards? Are we at fault for building a society so dependent on oil? Who knows, and who knows when we will see the worst of this disaster.
For more reasons than we know, on energy policy we can no longer "bury our head in the sand". Primarily, because it will be covered with oil.
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