Drill, baby, drill,,oops!

Yes, that's the perfect place for it. All the heat and light we need. Plus it even grows food.

 

Speaking of NIMBY:

Montara slick 'covered vast area of Timor Sea' - Upstream Online

19 April 2010 12:14 GMT

In the weeks following the 21 August blowout from the PTTEP-operated field, the extent of the slick of light oil, gas and condensate was variously estimated as stretching across an area of between 5000 square kilometres and 25,000 square kilometres.



In its last day of public hearings in Canberra, the inquiry into the blowout also heard that the federal Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts (DEWHA) turned down an early request for operational advice in managing the environmental impact of the spill because of "resourcing issues".

 

ok, so if the pitfalls of carbon are not enough, then the latest. the spill in the Gulf is now estimated at over 5,000 barrels a day...which is more than 5 times the original estimate.

all efforts to slow or stop the leak have completely failed.

 

This isn't a private party, you know. Where are our favorite neo-tards ?

 

i heard about it on the news tonight. the gov wanted one installed on every well. oil companies said $500,000. was too much, gave congress a few thousand instead and they backed off. so tonight, oil company says " we have several safety shut off devices in place and they didn't work, so what makes you think those would work either?"

 

so i said to teddy, if you don't want windmills, maybe i can interest you in some drilling platforms or a nice nuke plant!

 

$500,000 is too much? how long did it take Exxon to make $500,000 last quarter??

well, 6.3 B in profits which is about 70 M a day or almost 3 million AN HOUR...so how many MINUTES did it take Exxon to make $500,000??

also on the internet today, 2 coal miners in Kentucky killed in a collapse. its like one thing after another. it did not even make the national news.

 

Given the failure to cap the well so far, this spill is gonna rival the Exxon disaster in scope.

 

Most of that oil is still there. Can you imagine the economic effect of shutting down the Southern seaboard fisheries for a decade or two? And the environmental impact on the Mississippi delta? This has the potential to be exponentially worse than the Exxon Valdez. And it's just one well among thousands.

 

I dont see why they can't cap it and light it on fire... 5000 gallons a day is less than 4 gallons a minute. So if they make this dome they are talking about with a pipe, it only has to handle a little bit of oil continuously to the surface where it will be burned off. A stupid little dome like this, temporarily welded to the exposed part of the well should contain most of the oil and funnel it upwards. They say months before they can put the dome into effect... One stupid metal dome could be built from scrap metal in any shop in a day. Air freight it to Louisianna and helicopter it to the site. Use off the shelf piping for a quick patch job. Done within a week if they wanted too. It wouldnt be 100% effective, but even 1000 gal/day is better than 5000...

 

That is 5000 barrels a day or 210000 gallons a day or 145 gallons a minute.

 

Ah, I misread it. Still, 145 gal/min isnt that bad. A 2" pipe can handle that.

 

NBC News is saying that there 3 spots where it's leaking from and it's 5000 feet underwater. AFP: Oil from leaking well 'washes ashore' in Louisiana mentions that too

There's also talk about drilling a relief well and I'm reading that could take 90 days.

 

This is a *very* deep well

 

I was wrong on this one..

Obama bans new drilling as oil hits La. - Environment- msnbc.com

 

The weather isn't helping - strong onshore winds, big waves, and the possibility of thundershowers. What are the chances of lightning igniting the oil? This is getting uglier by the hour.

 

A dome which can withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater. Not quite so easy.