Offshore Oil Drilling and the Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf

[fieldafm]

Interesting article....

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=weeklyreport-000003677633

[BridgeTroll]

More bad news...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-EEX47&show_article=1

The containment system capturing oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill had to be removed Wednesday, leaving the gusher unchecked after a collision involving a robotic submarine, US officials said.

[finehoe]

This is bad to very bad. Coast guard reports two deaths have occurred in the containment effort. Not all is lost - in what probably shouldn't pass for an attempt at humor yet achieves precisely that, the US coast guard said the oil flow is not completely unrestrcited, and some oil was being burned off on the surface. Nothing like a little oil rain for the already happy happy gulf region.

[Timkin]

This is what I mean when I say they are trying to kill us.. rather than enduring the expense to get this stuff out of the water by safe means, hell lets set fire to it and create two kinds of pollution...not just kill the sea and the marine life, hell lets give innocent people lung disease or death by inhaling this toxic crap.

Great job BP  really F%$&*ng smart !

[Coolyfett]

Here is a cool video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXS7uX3WUbY

[Bostech]

This is what I mean when I say they are trying to kill us.. rather than enduring the expense to get this stuff out of the water by safe means, hell lets set fire to it and create two kinds of pollution...not just kill the sea and the marine life, hell lets give innocent people lung disease or death by inhaling this toxic crap.

Great job BP  really F%$&*ng smart !

Me,makes me think this is all bad karma.

[kellypope]

Did you see this one?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/23/raining-oil-in-louisiana_n_622815.html

Dispersant could be allowing oil to evaporate and come down again as rain.

[Timkin]

Well then we all may have a claim against BP before this is said and done...not that money will help me if I die from being poisoned. 

[hightowerlover]

There's a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean now...when do you think the tar balls show up at Jax Beach?

[Dog Walker]

Or in St. Louis!

[Timkin]

Pretty much everywhere if it becomes a Hurricane.

[buckethead]

It looks most likely this system will be south and west of the majority of the spill.

Any movement of oil by wind and wave (which I read was unlikely) would be to the north and west.

Counterclockwise.

[stjr]

Didn't see this alarm from Tampa sounded locally:

USF official: Oil seen near Jacksonville

By ROB SHAW

rshaw@tampatrib.com

Published: June 24, 2010

Traces of oil from the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico have traveled to within a few miles of the Jacksonville and Cuba coastlines, a University of South Florida official said Wednesday.

"Some of the tar balls may start showing up on the east coast as far as Jacksonville," Bill Hogarth, dean of the College of Marine Science at USF, told members of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association in a telephone conference call.

Satellite imagery interpreted by researchers at USF shows the oil continues to be a part of the loop current, the conveyor belt of water that dips from the Gulf and into the Florida Straits before traveling up the east coast as part of the Gulf Stream.

As the oil continues to spew a mile underwater and the calendar gets deeper into hurricane season, the cause for concern about potential impact on Florida grows, Hogarth said.

"We're getting more nervous," the dean said. "Things are getting very delicate right now."

That goes for the tourism industry as well.

"July is in limbo," said Mike Chouri, general manager of the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa. "We have no idea what July is going to be."

The Panhandle hotel is getting a "massive number of calls" related to the oil catastrophe.

"People are not making a lot of future reservations," Chouri said.

Those who are making plans to stay at the waterfront Destin hotel are only planning trips two or three days out, he added.

Workers at the hotel have used six bulldozers to build two berms on the beach in an effort to keep any oil that might wash ashore at bay.

"No one stopped us," Chouri said. "We had to do it. We have to protect our beach."

Paul Wohlford, vice president of marketing and sales at the Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City, also lamented about next month being a big question mark.

"July is an absolute unknown for us and that is our biggest month," he said.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/24/na-usf-official-oil-seen-near-jacksonville/

[kellypope]

Hands Across the Sand is tomorrow morning. I'll report back on what I see.

[Timkin]

My fear is that this impending storm and the residual damage from it ,will somehow make BP abstain from Liability of this , citing an act of God.  I certainly hope not .