Public Not Consulted or Warned About Ultra Deep Sea Oil
Drilling
Greed, Money & Power Led To Secret Pact
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No Mandate Was Given to Any Politician to do This! Who is to
Blame?
Looking for blame? The April 2010 "Deepwater
Horizon" disaster is the direct consequence of the Obama and Bush
administrations' promotion of deep sea oil drilling and the
unrelenting greed of certain corporate structures without any
moral code nor "conscience" whatsoever.
Oil is the new gold at over $75USD per
barrel.
Oil is power and causes the bombing of cities
and the overthrow of governments (i.e.: Iraq 2003~).
Oil is sovereignty and it's price is manipulated
and fluctuated for their own good by larger producing nations
when they don't get their way within the international
community.
Oil is a weapon. In 1991, Iraqi troops
allegedly spilled about 330 million gallons into the Persian Gulf
and allegedly sabotaged oil fields to release 90 billion gallons
during their retreat from Kuwait.
Oil is the biggest have/have-not disparity among
nations. Those nations rich in oil are wealthy,
powerful, and manipulate others.
Those nations with new-found oil wealth are subject to
the manipulations of the sole superpower, U.S.A. which
has an enormous military completely dependant on fossil fuels
(with the notable exception of its nuclear Navy).
The Players
Apart from the government executives and elected officials in the
United States, Canada and other oil-producing nations, the U.S.
corporate world is dead centre in the current crisis. Among the
companies at the forefront of the Gulf of Mexico crisis following
the explosion and sinking of the "Deepwater Horizon"
are:
British Petroleum PLC (BP), (a
global independent oil company owned 30 % by Americans)
Halliburton Co. (American company
contracted to BP and the
world's second largest oilfield services corporation with
operations in more than 70 countries once led by
former U.S. VP Dick Cheney and a key player as a contractor
rebuilding Iraq).
"Halliburton is engaged in discussions with its
customers and anticipates relocating equipment and personnel to
other markets as appropriate," the company said in a filing with
regulators after the U.S. government's sudden May 2010 halt of
deepwater drilling.
Transocean (American company contracted to
BP, and the world's largest offshore drilling company, operator
of the now destroyed Deepwater Horizon), and
Nalco, maker of the chemical dispersant
Corexit (see dispersant). According to
BP spokesman Scott Dean, "Corexit is an EPA pre-approved,
effective, low-toxicity dispersant that is readily available, and
[BP] continues to use it."
Dispersant is used to minimize the visible impact of a massive
hydrocarbon polluting event in ocean waters. The hydrocarbons of
the spill are broken apart creating a much larger area of only
lightly clouded, de-oxygenated water with lower toxicity in PPMs
(particles per millions) spread over more than ten times the area
of the original contaminant. (Most dispersant is packaged in a
ten parts to one concentration although it can be much more
widely dispersed over time and in a larger body of churning
water, i.e.: hurricanes!).
Finger Pointing Begins
According to a lawsuit filed late May in U.S.
Federal Court by Natalie Roshto, whose husband Shane, a
deck floor hand, was thrown overboard by the force of the
explosion and whose body has not yet been located, Halliburton is
culpable for its actions prior to the incident.
By May's end, some 26 U.S. federal lawsuits had been
filed since the "Deepwater Horizon" explosion by
commercial fishermen, charter boat captains, resort management
companies and individual property owners in Louisiana, Florida,
Alabama and Mississippi. Many of the suits claim the disaster was
caused when workers for oil services contractor Halliburton Inc.
improperly capped a well — a process known as
cementing. Halliburton denied the allegation. Investigators are
still looking into the cause and litigators continue to flock to
the area.
One thing is for certain, BP has a bad safety record no
matter which contractors it used. and a questionable
corporate moral code of conduct. BP has been criticized in the
media for incomplete maintenance and faulty equipment. A blast at
a refinery in Texas City, in 2005 killed 15 workers. A 2006
Alaskan pipeline spill occurred four years after BP had been
warned about their corroded pipelines. BP pleaded guilty to
felony counts in the Texas blast and a misdemeanour charge in the
Alaska oil spill. In recent years BP has paid $485 million in
fines and settlements to the U.S. government for environmental
offences, neglect of workers' health and safety plus financial
penalties for manipulating energy markets.
Who Authorized Politicians to Permit Unprecedented Tampering
with Earth
Shortly before the explosion and loss of "Deepwater
Horizon" (see explosion),
Transocean had been
boasting of it's September 2009 success wherein the
"Deepwater Horizon" offshore, partially submerged drilling rig
had established a 35,050ft (10,680m) well, the deepest well in
history -- more than 5,000 feet deeper than its stated design
specification. (see proprietary Transocean
Document) There was already a propensity to cut corners on safety standards
while seeking more extravagant results from overstressed equipment and
components.
It may eventually come to light that the well plans BP,
Transocean and Halliburton have been using are meagre to the task and provide
inferior well casings for many of the hundreds of wells operated in the Gulf of
Mexico.
"Deepwater Horizon" had been boring the well known as MC 252,
located in 5,067 ft of water about 50 miles from the coast of Louisiana, its
drilling crews were planning to leave the site in order for a well completion
rig to come in and prepare the well to go into production, but many things had
been going wrong by then (see
Explosion No Surprise). After the
explosion on 20 April the rig sunk two days later leaving a tremendous flow of
crude gushing from the broken well head at the sea bed.
The flow rates from the broken oil well are
unknown. The flow is hard to measure because of the compression caused
by immense water pressure at over a mile deep under the ocean.
Nothing exists to perform failsafe rescue and repair when
something breaks.
Today in early June 2010 the lives of millions of people are
impacted severely.
Who voted for this?
People have been
killed;
livlihoods are lost;
beaches have been destroyed;
marshes and Wetlands have been destroyed;
countless life of every kind has been terminated;
numerous inland waterways are now compromised worse than ever;
and
suffering among many species is leading to a slow, cruel
death.
For many years, this leak could be spilling oil into the
Gulf of Mexico. Who voted to allow this risk? This has never been
an election issue nor plebicite.
To what extent should the human species damage
earth (Gaia) in the pursuit of present-day personal wealth? What
zany, irresponsible solutions will be tried next to fix the most
recent eco-disaster?
Who gave politicians permission to do this?
Among the options being considered is a nuclear blast at
the sea bed.
Using a nuclear fission blast equalling something in the vicinity
of 50 kilotons of TNT, a nuclear 'bomb' would be used to create
so much destruction and rubble as to seal the leak in the earth's
crust on the ocean sea bed and stop the oil flow.
The nuclear bomb could also make things worse by
opening up more of the earth's crust.
BP is stuck for a solution. A number of methods
to stop the leak have already failed. BP first tried to place a
dome over the leak, and then, siphon oil on to a barge, with
limited success. Its "top kill" and "junk shot" methods, which
involved pumping heavy fluids and debris into the well were
abandoned over the weekend. BP subsequently warned that it could
now take until August, when two relief wells are drilled, for the
flow to stop.
In past decades, allegations against the former Soviet
Union suggested it detonated a number of nuclear devices
to seal up wells. We all know the value the Soviet Union placed
on ecology and the human life.
-Ruffian.Angel at Themismusic.com
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