Comments on: Governor Declares State Of Emergency In Escambia, Santa Rosa

By: eab

eab — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:35:33 +0000

Chumuckla…I’ll explain it slowly.

My.Post. Was. Meant.To.Be. Satirical.

Sorry about that last word. I was trying to hold it to words of one syllable.

Assume that.

By: Chumuckla proud

Chumuckla proud — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:04:40 +0000

Eab. No one is thinking that the right wing has anything to do with this accident. You know what they say about he who assumes.

By: anydaynow

anydaynow — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:00:19 +0000

There have been 39 previous blow outs in the Gulf...

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Robert Wiygul, an Ocean Springs, Miss.-based environmental lawyer and board member for the Gulf Restoration Network, said he doesn't see anything in the document that suggests BP addressed the kind of technology needed to control a spill at that depth of water.

"The point is, if you're going to be drilling in 5,000 feet of water for oil, you should have the ability to control what you're doing," he said.

Although the cause of the explosion was under investigation, many of the more than two dozen lawsuits filed in the wake of the explosion claim it was caused when workers for oil services contractor Halliburton Inc. improperly capped the well — a process known as cementing. Halliburton denied it.

According to a 2007 study by the federal Minerals Management Service, which examined the 39 rig blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico between 1992 and 2006, cementing was a contributing factor in 18 of the incidents. In all the cases, gas seepage occurred during or after cementing of the well casing, the MMS said.

While the amount of oil in the gulf already threatened to make it the worst U.S. oil disaster since the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989, one expert emphasized that it was impossible to know just how much oil had already escaped and that it could be much more than what BP and the Coast Guard have said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion

By: eab

eab — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:59:53 +0000

If all you conspiracy theorists think the right wing conservatives did something regarding this tragedy just to make Obama look bad, well shame on you!

Yeah,I just bet y’all do have your theories.

By: Springfever

Springfever — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:26:35 +0000

The cost of this far reaching disaster will be impossible to put a pricetag on.

By: radio free amerika

radio free amerika — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:16:48 +0000

HOW CONVENIENT!!!…rham emanuel couldn*t have wrote a better script on taking advantage of this “crisis”…now crist has a tragedy to play politics with…and he*ll get all the publicity that the main stream news media can possibly give him.

By: EMD

EMD — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:51:09 +0000

Chumuckla proud

I smell it too. They have many safety measures out there. I do not think it was an accident. I cannot know, but if I had to choose between accident/not an accident, I’d vote the latter choice.

By: jj

jj — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:43:00 +0000

It would be nice if all of the surrounding churches would have Special Prayer for the victims families of the oil platform disaster and also, for the effects of the spill. This could involve our economy in this area for years to come.

By: Carolyn Wallace

Carolyn Wallace — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:05:41 +0000

Did anyone spot President Obama on the oil rig with a match and a stick of dynamite? I think not.

By: anydaynow

anydaynow — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:42:52 +0000

I wish there had been some concern about price gouging at the pump before this disaster occured. Gas prices are 25-30 cents a gallon higher in the panhandle than in all the eastern states. It seems to me that if New Jersey can sell gas for $2.51 a gallon Florida can too.

Here are some sites related to the oil spill

EPA- focuses on environmental and human health concerns
http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/

NOAA-focuses on natural resource, habitat, and fisheries
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov

Coast Guard-focus on details of the response effort
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/