Gulf Oil Slick

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Originally Posted by Toughy

I think one of the problems with numbers is all the different measurements.........

British tonnes
US tons
gallons
barrels

I do believe it's truth that the permanent solution to the gushing lives in the relief well (s).

I wish I could remember where I heard or read the following and will do some searching around maybe later:

There are something like 2000 abandoned wells in the Gulf that have been capped and never looked at for years and some of them decades. Talk about accidents just waiting to happen.

Apparently all the oil companies are continually spraying toxic shit dispersant at every active well head, because they all leak a little bit of oil all the time. From what I know about drilling oil on land, that is probably a true statement that all wellheads leak a little. They spray the dispersant so the leaked oil stays in the water column and doesn't get to the surface. Remember when some idiot said that oil tar balls wash up on the beaches fairly regularly, so just maybe the tar balls are not from the Deep Horizon?

Oh, this is something I think about! One of the more scary things in all this to me. I just don't believe that this disaster will be the last or the largest we deal with. I don't want to believe this, but do not see any movement in a direction of prevention going on that is getting much serious attention or funds. Just a whole lot of anti-tree-hugger type snarls from the usual sources.

http://eater.com/archives/2010/05/25...lf-coast-1.php

One of many links about the research by Philippe Cousteau. Also, I saw some new stuff by him and a woman he researches with today on CNN.


I also heard this (what I bolded in your post above) somewhere... thinking maybe NPR? I'll look too, I usually have NPR or Green Radio on when I am listening to radio. Just seems like I would of heard about this on NPR. Ugh.. but what program!