Oil spill

[smilingcat]

Intersting read over at oildrum.com bit more complicated than just a single pipe.

My thoughts on engineering mentality these days is: TOO MUCH ARROGANCE!!

We take too much for granted in regards to disaster planning!!
And for marine ecology, we probably will not see the worst of it for one, two or three years from now. The delay has to do with killing off of the juvenile shrimp, clam, fish... They would be maturing in one to three years from now.

Words can't express my anger over the absolute arrogance of those in charge. No safety backup plan!! Complete disregard to methodology.

I just hope that they can shut it down before it spews out 100million gallons of crude. Gulf of Mexico is big but its not big enough on localized scale to deal with the volume of crude.

We all live on the Gulf Coast.

Component of the solvent being used by BP is highly volatile and its toxicity was listed as 2.4PPM (number I heard). Geeze, with the hurricane, the evaporated solvent could ride on the hurricane and make it in-land by several hundred miles. And how many gallons of this stuff have they sprayed on the ocean??

Maybe I just look at "worst" case senerios too much*.

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* Can't help it cause that is the way I think when it comes to design/engineering work.

[Trek420]

And for marine ecology, we probably will not see the worst of it for one, two or three years from now. The delay has to do with killing off of the juvenile shrimp, clam, fish... They would be maturing in one to three years from now.

Prince William Sound 20 years later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjC9...eature=related

[crazycanuck]

I bet ya that the Oil/Gas companies based here in Western Australia are keeping a close eye on the drilling progress...

We're in the same boat & had a very very similar incident late last year...

Beth, have they put prisoners to use cleaning up???

[Trek420]

This is bigger than the Valdez, but if you think this is big ....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...er-delta-shell

[Trek420]

This is bigger than the Valdez, but if you think this is big ....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...er-delta-shell

and that doesn't even make the top 10.

http://envirowonk.com/content/view/68/1/

I'm watching the press conference now, let's hope this spill does not make the top 10.

[bmccasland]

The temporary cap is working. No oil is spilling into the Gulf. A brief sigh of relief. But there's still a lot of oil in the Gulf

If you have the opportunity and are so inclined, eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico - if it comes to your market, it's safe to eat. Support our Fishermen and women. Besides warm water grown shrimp and oysters taste better

[shootingstar]

Hoping the best for a permanent, reliable solution there Beth.

Even people in Germany were talking about it when we were there.

It'll take awhile for things to be normal for the fisher folks and for environment.

At this time, I probably wouldn't buy seafood from the Gulf. But then again, we have other (cold water) choices closer to home.

[bmccasland]

We're in the same boat & had a very very similar incident late last year...

How did the environment recover?

Beth, have they put prisoners to use cleaning up???

Not to my knowledge. Right now, out-of-work fishermen are being employed by BP to place oil booms (the stuff to stop and soak up surface oil), using their own boats. Not sure who they're getting to clean the beaches.

[PamNY]

I hope this doesn't turn out to be another 9/11 in terms of damage to health for those doing cleanup -- and possibly for people who live in affected areas.

[bmccasland]

I hope this doesn't turn out to be another 9/11 in terms of damage to health for those doing cleanup -- and possibly for people who live in affected areas.

Some of the fishermen working on the spill have been hospitalized or treated and released after contact with the oil-corexit mix. I heard on the radio over the weekend that one of the big N.O. local hospitals will be establishing a clinic down on Grand Isle, a populated barrier island which has an oil soaked beach, thus workers present to clean it up. Our days are in the 90's and the workers are going down with heat exhaustion as well getting ill from the fumes. Grand Isle doesn't have the infrastructure to handle all the extra people, it hasn't completely recovered from the 2005 and 2008 hurricanes.

[Trek420]

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010...ign=TH_rotator