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To: koan who wrote (190748)	5/2/2010 5:08:29 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361850

Lessons from the Exxon Valdez spill blogs.reuters.com

To: koan who wrote (190748)	5/2/2010 5:49:25 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361850

Some interesting comments from an Alabama newspaper website: blog.al.com Posted by walt in alaska April 30, 2010, 4:09PM I worked in the oilfields up here for years. In any construction there are screwups. Usually they cost a few bucks. Sometimes someone gets hurt or killed, and someone gets fired. The problem is that this kind of screwup is catastrophic, near unstopable, and will likely affect millions of people. I can't say deep water drilling ever sounded like a good idea to me. Its hard enough to cap a well under a hundred feet of water. Under 5000 feet? Good luck. The price of a screwup is just too high. ______________________________ Posted by Mandy April 30, 2010, 4:25PM The bad news just keeps coming. If the oil goes from the light, sweet crude to the heavier crude, like in the Exxon Valdez spill, the beach won't recover in our lifetime. They're still cleaning up the Valdez spill in Alaska and much of the wildlife hasn't recovered - that was over 20 years ago. BP has a horrible safety record. They've had several refinery "accidents" due to carelessness that killed employees. They've had a Prudhoe Bay spill, and had leaks on the Alaskan pipeline. They've been fined and cited numerous times for safety and environmental problems. Think about this, they were even fined and ordered to pay criminal penalties during the Bush administration! That's how bad they are. With this history, isn't it nice that British Petroleum got lucrative contracts for Iraqi oil thanks to Tony Blair's supporting the war? ____________________________ Posted by walt in alaska April 30, 2010, 5:11PM Did you forget about the Santa Barbara California blowout? The scenario was similar to this one, only it was only in a few hundred feet of water. This one is at 5,000 feet! Offshore oil drilling was shut down off California for decades, and was only recently reconsidered. ___________________________ Posted by er148 April 30, 2010, 7:05PM BP has stated it could take months to get control of the leak.... we will be in Hurricane season soon. Talk about disaster... add a hurricane to the oil spill and we will have a horrible mess. __________________________ Posted by labatt April 30, 2010, 7:20PM Drill baby, drill! At the end of the day I hope no one uttering that ridiculous statement gets a pass, even my man Obama who went along with the crazies in approving more offshore drilling. This type of thing has always been a game of Russian roulette, just like nuclear power. As long as everything goes right, no problem, but one event can be truly catastrophic as we are seeing now. We have the technology to wean ourselves off oil, just not the fortitude, so let's do it now, not later. ___________________________ Posted by wbtsbuff April 30, 2010, 9:45PM BP and other oil companies should step up and help. Place multiple rings of booms around the well area to contain newly leaking oil. Place multiple tankers around the booms to suck up the oil as it continues to be released. This should have been done days ago. BP should provide fuel, booms, paid manpower and anything else needed for the volunteers, shrimpers, charter boat captains, and any other boaters willing to help to place booms along the coast. Just my 2 cents worth.