Spill, Baby, Spill

[lame54]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/us-backs-plan-stop-leaking-gulf-mexico-oil-well

April 26th, 2010 3:43 PM
U.S. backs plan to stop leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well


In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, a boat with an oil boom tries to contain oil spilled from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, approximately seven miles from where the rig sunk, on Friday, April 23, 2010.

By Chris Baltimore / Reuters
U.S. agencies on Sunday approved a plan to use remote-controlled underwater vehicles to seal a leaking oil well beneath a drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week.
The well, 5,000 feet under the ocean surface off Louisiana's coast, is leaking about 1,000 barrels of oil a day. The spill, which the U.S. Coast Guard has called "very serious," could threaten the Gulf Coast's fragile ecosystem if not contained.
Four underwater vehicles have been deployed under the plan outlined by the Coast Guard and U.S. Minerals Management Service. They will dive unmanned to the ocean floor to activate a blowout preventer, a giant series of pipes and valves that could staunch the leak.
Swiss-based Transocean Ltd's Deepwater Horizon sank on Thursday, two days after it exploded and caught fire while finishing a well for BP Plc 42 miles off the Louisiana coast.
Eleven workers from the rig are missing and presumed dead in what is the worst oil rig disaster in almost a decade. The Coast Guard on Friday suspended a search for the workers...

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Hopefully this cloud will have the silver lining of making those in power reconsider

their offshore drilling prerogatives.

[Dappleganger]

4. Hopefully, but that's a very costly lining. nt

[malaise]

2. Wait they need big government now that

they've fucked up the environment again?

[lame54]

3. of course...

You don't expect them to pay for it

that would be too much "personal responsibility"

[malaise]

7. Isn't that the truth

Man these scumbags suck.

[lpbk2713]

5. Sickening

I can actually smell it when I look at that pic and I get mildly nauseated.

[lib2DaBone]

6. Conservative Consciousness.. it doesn't matter what happens..

.. as long as there is a buck to be made...

[Subdivisions]

8. The things we're willing to tolerate for another tank of gas... n/t

[taught_me_patience]

9. Who the hell is unreccing this?

Four underwater vehicles have been deployed under the plan outlined by the Coast Guard and U.S. Minerals Management Service. They will dive unmanned to the ocean floor to activate a blowout preventer, a giant series of pipes and valves that could staunch the leak.


WHY THE HELL IS THE COAST GUARD INVOLVED IN THIS?

[troubledamerican]

11. Many DUers are moles.

[G_j]

13. because it's a dire emergency? nt

[rgbecker]

10. Sarah Palin's wet dream.

Once again, US taxpayers bailin out the money makers.

[lame54]

12. .