Gulf of mexico.

Regardless of deliberate, or not...there should & hopefully will be life (death) sentences for those at the top of the decision-making chain! If you get in a car & drive carelessly & kill an innocent person, you get jail time. This has killed 11 workers, not to mention millions of living creatures, birds, fish, and devastated a whole country's economy & health & basically negatively affected our global ecosystem.

Bugger the money, although they need to cough up to balance out money it's cost the locals - but make them pay with their lives![}:)]

And...hopefully now they've halted the leak, they permanently fix it!

I find it interesting that the big 'A Whale' drove around the gulf for ages, and picked up just a teensy tiny little bit of oil... far less than was expected.

I guess that sort of system is difficult to design at the best of times, let alone retrofit to a cargo ship.

exactly how do you evacuate 40-50 million people...?

(answer is, you don't)

listen to the Cliff High interview

ffs whats with all the consiparacy theories still...

I cant wait until all this has passed and you all have to say you were wrong.

Anyone know what picture they photoshoped?

^^^

Or alternatively, nothing will happen.

Boy you get excited easily. Stop being so paranoid that everyone is out to get you and go enjoy some sun and surf.

Bring this topic back in a year - I believe to most it will be -- oh yeah I remember that...

I predict the visual impact this time in 8-9 months will be gone.
I also predict the bulk of the simpler marine life will be back to pre-disaster levels within 2 or less years..
The major unknown here is the long term impact of the dispersant and what sort of half life it has in the higher order marine food chain (is it DDT like?).

The area has had long (very long) term background level of nature's oil leaks. The food chain includes microbes which have evolved to eat oil. The water temperatures are fairly high by ocean standards and fairly energetic (small choppy waves) so the breakdown will occur faster.

I heard the Chin(a?)ese are currently dealing with a marine oil leak from a ruptured pipe using the biological approach - likely smarter.

Do you remember those surreal picures after the Iraq army withdrawal from Kuwait ('91) - dozens of oil fields blown and burning alot into the gulf. From memory 18 months on the sea born pollution was gone.

I also predict the human food chain feeding on the clean-up in the US will extend its tenure for at least 20 billion USD's worth regardless if the costs end up being less.

They (US citizen)find it hard to kick most big business in the US particularly after the bastardisation of the s(t)ock exchange by Wall St leaving so many people as financial road kill...so BP is a duck shoot - cathartic too - BP have a massive cash flow and have had for decades so $20 billion in eschrew(SPELLING?) is relatively small change - but big in terms of short term liquid assets - 18 months from now a set-back but not much more.

Human nature being what it is - business as usual is already back up and running for ocean drilling and exploration - the cost of this type of industry are massive, the capital expenditure and infra-structure around oil exploration and production expecially at this scale is beyond stopping.
By way of comparison this area (Gulf of Mexico) was major before the North sea oil fields started in the mid-late seventies, and it is still massive as the North Sea oil fields wind down and get de-commissioned as the reservoirs are depleted.

Anyway - go microbes.... (and the relief wells!!).

(Some of the statements above on penalties to those responsible (!!!) are like tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers - Compare this to say the Union Carbide (American Company (with - at the time - lip service safety standards over-seas)) factory explosion in Bohpal in India and the human cost and tragedy associated (and still on-going some 30 years (??) later) - it all revolves around money and compensation - this is current but like the impact of hurricanes will rapidly fade).

Has anyone considered that the oil is not actually coming from the oil rig but is instead a leak from an underworld civilisation of the NWO? Or one of their submarines?

You don't understand. They're are loads of NWOs

You only know about one of them. In fact there's a whole order of new world orders - an ONWO. The ONWO is four layers deep and that's before you start looking at the OONWOs...

You only refer to the bottom of the structure. You ignorant sheep

if this is the level of discussion gp then i think you got me.

It is more difficult to demolish a preconceived opinion than an atom. - Albert Einstein

i have come to a point where i'm ready to surrender.

surrender to david icke forum or henry makow where the folks don't have their
eyes wide shut,i just can't explain it.

something perhaps to do with 'psychology of fear',it can't possibly have to do with intelligence, as the evidence is in your face overwhelming.

see ya

The new world order has been working on your whelm. The fifth level of the WONWO met last week to increase de-whelmification...

BP says Macondo static kill cementing completed

Houston (Platts)--5Aug2010/505 pm EDT/2105 GMT

BP has completed the cementing phase of the static kill operation to
close its blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, said Thursday.

So the world didn't end.

Petermac- you were wrong
the doctor - you were wrong.
and others - you too.

Eat your words gentlemen.

hardly over as barely begun..

anticipated 1.2 billion dead

initially, the immediately affected already effected and soon to be displaced 50 million american citizens will signal an economic collapse ending, more than likely forever, the power of the u.s dollar.

non of this is being reported in mainstream

those that are trying are having accidents or disappearing..