[KDD]

It sank in an area called The Mississippi Canyons...Real "Deep Blue" area.
20 years ago I longlined 25,000 pounds of Yellow Fin tuna in 5 days from those waters. World record Bluefin and Marlin used to be plentiful in that area. Swordfish too, though these days I hear you catch nothing but pups there.

[scan59]

So much for expanding off-shore drilling. Happy Earth Day.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

This is a great time to consider sabotage as a possibility. The timing is very suspicious.

[JoSixChip]

Notice the spill is measured in gallons for effect and the cleanup is measured in barrels. They have capacity to clean-up almost 3x what is being spilled. They will get on top of this quick enough. The loss of life is the tragedy.

[central_va]

More windmills......

[autumnraine]

Oh this is gonna help the “Drill here drill now” campaign. We can assure the skeptics that offshore drilling is perfectly safe while they swim in slime this summer.

[SkyPilot]

Crews fear oil rig will spill 336,000 gallons a day

They should convert to wind power then.

[ronnie raygun]

Is anyone saying who or what caused this to happen? Question coinsedence. Sounds fishy don't it? Like Goldman Sachs visiting the Whitehouse several times before they were accused.

[Thunder90]

There goes ANY chance of additional rigs offshore in the US. The envirowackos and Obama administration will use this as an excuse to not allow ANY drilling or exploration.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Just wait and see how O uses this to kill the exploration he just OK’d.

[bert]

the right wing equivalent of this leftist sabotage would be to thoroughly sand the mechanisms of the Huston chronicle’s presses.

[DBrow]

Gosh, do you think this disaster will make The 0ne change his mind about offshore drilling?

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are now saying that it is not leaking.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I still can’t tell that the leak is from the well. In fact, the story suggests the spill is of the diesel fuel stored aboard the drilling machine, and not from an uncapped well. It said there were 2.6 million gallons of diesel on the platform, and that it was only getting 8000 barrels a day from the well it was working on.

So if they are seeing a leak of 330,000 gallons, that sounds like the diesel is leaking, not the well.

[myknowledge]

That’s gonna cause a helluva lot of environmental damage.

[SunkenCiv]

BP, the oil company that leased the offshore rig, said it had mobilized four aircraft that can spread chemicals to break up the oil and 32 vessels that can recover more than 171,000 barrels of oil a day from the surface. BP officials also expected to have a million feet of boom in place to help contain the spill by today.

[Three if by government]

This sound suspicious to me next you’ll hear the administration needs to take over all drilling platforms.

[Rutles4Ever]

Whatever trivial exercise of earth worship you may have witnessed or been compelled to participate in at the workplace, just got dwarfed, like, a million-fold by this.

I’m not cheering this, per se, but, OH THE IRONY.

[Issaquahking]

Everyone, take a deep breath, and work the problem. No matter that the idiot in the WH, who yammers incessantly,says, we still need serious off-shore drilling.

Hope they don't do the same stupid things that they did on the Exxon Valdez. The state, and the Coast Guard, should have moved on the event, rather than be busy pointing fingers at each other.

Work it as an accident, till anyone has any proofs.

[deport]

Apperas to be a lot of unanswered questions as to what can be expected even if it has stopped flowing at this point.

April 23, 2010

Oil has stopped flowing from Transocean well

The flow of oil appears to have stopped from the undersea well connected to the sunken Transocean Horizon drilling rig, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry said remote controlled submarines have been unable to shut the valves on equipment at the wellhead on the sea floor, but it appears the flow of oil from subsurface reservoirs has stopped on its own.

"This could just be temporary, so we're not letting our guard down," O'Berry said.

There are six oil skimmer vessels on the scene and more ready to be called in should they be needed. Several aircraft were flying over the sheen of oil that had spread from the area yesterday spraying a chemical that breaks up the oil and causes it to sink.

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[DeweyDecimal]

any concerns the Deepwater Horizon explosion was a terrorist act?