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the corps of engineers should be on this, get some more ideas and get cleanup under way, letting BP deal with it although seemingly fair is really bull####, we need to clean this up to save our shores, if we can bail out all the banks and car makers, print up some green to fix this and let bp pay it back, I worked in hazardous waste clean up business for years, there are ways to clean up this oil its just really expensive,, plain and simple our money will fix this faster then just bp and its people
BP say they are going to make a smaller box (similar to the big box they just tried) to lower over the broken pipe and hook up a pipe to transfer the oil to a tanker.
Have they given any thought to: Instead of hooking a pipe to the box to send the oil to a tanker, try to attach a pipe to the box and send concrete down the pipe, filling the box and plugging the well. The weight of the concrete should be enough to off-set the pressure of the oil coming up the well.
Why is everyone so mad at BP ? They were not drilling the well!
You are correct. They leased the well from TransOcean. Bu tBP has the duty to oversee the rig and in the evnt of a blow out to have a back up plan if the valve failed. They had no plan. They are grossly negligent, pure ans simple, along th=with TYransOcean who built and opeated the rig and leased it to BP who made billions from this well.
i cant help but wonder....what if those boats had not pumped all those thousands of gallons of water on the rig? as long as the rig was floating, it was holding up the drill stem and was allowing the oil to burn off. i believe those boats are partially responsible for the spill. besides, what was there to save? the rig, at that point, was a total loss.
i'm pretty sure like the twin towers, the fire in the rig needed to be put out, or the steel starts melting and the structure would be unstable and collapse. even if the fire had been put out, but the steel's integrity was compromised during the fire cuz it lasted too long, the structure is in danger of collapse.
normally they sink the rigs anyways when the well is dried up, the oil companies claim the sunken rigs create "valuable habitat" for marine wildlife...what's left alive that i suppose....
BP should be sued!!! @!#$%$@$!
let's stop pointing the finger at each other, and spend our time trying to figure out what we need to do to contain and clean up the spill.anytime something happens we're always ready to point the finger and say "that's the bad guy". let's start looking for ways to solve the problem and helping the one's that need help, then you can do all the "FINGER" pointing you want.
we should use the owners of BP and put them in the pipe
wow....now that was quite the intelligent and constructive comment!
Get a life whoever you are!
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