[ale] BP knew of problems 11 months before the rig blew - further OT

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 08:27:31 EDT 2010


On 06/04/2010 05:39 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu June 3 2010, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> Exactly. With the slick expected to reach the FL panhandle coast this
>> weekend, just tourism alone is dead, now add in the people that make up
>> our fishing fleets, all of them unemployed, that's just 2 industries
>> affected. Now add in the fact that according to CBS News this evening
>> they expect the slick to reach all the way to the Carolina coastlines
>> within a month. A lot of people possibly unemployed and possible
>> business failures, another round of foreclosures and on and on. The
>> territory affected would account for I'd say about a third of our close
>> to shore fishing industry. Plus add in the fact that the path to the
>> Atlantic passes Cuba, now it becomes an international disaster, viewed
>> by some countries as the fault of the USA forget the fact that it was
>> caused by private industry.
>
> there was someone on the news yesterday, talking about the 30 year-old spill
> in Mexico that lasted 10 months&  came up the Texas coast. The ONLY thing
> that cleaned it up was... a hurricane. One day the oil was all over the
> beach, next day a hurricane came, and cleaned it all up. Those pictures last
> night of the pelicans stuck in a muck of oil was really sad..
>
Oh man I've got to stop reading emails before 5th cup of coffee. I just 
spent several minutes trying to understand why you would have been so 
upset seeing a bunch of politicians stuck in muck. Then suddenly my eyes 
cleared as I poured some more coffee done my throat and saw my error.


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