BP oil spill, are we all going to die?!?

[pickled_heretic]

lol @ bullet

[bullet]

Lunch break till 12 am ET I think.

Didnt sound like Tony Hayward have many answers, hope they have some good questions for him.

[Zordana]

secrets was OP, but its so funny i had to bring it here

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[Toony]

Drilling at 5k feet presents problems shallow (500') drilling doesn't.

Any guesses as to why they were drilling at 5k?

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Toony [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Drilling at 5k feet presents problems shallow (500') drilling doesn't.

Any guesses as to why they were drilling at 5k?

Theyre running out of Oil along shorelines and on land. Thats not a scientific affirmation, thats what i could muster from reading recent articles about the spill here and there.

I understand its the same reason why theres an industry in Alberta about extracting oil from bitumous sands (spelling).

[Toony]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Theyre running out of Oil along shorelines and on land. Thats not a scientific affirmation, thats what i could muster from reading recent articles about the spill here and there.

I understand its the same reason why theres an industry in Alberta about extracting oil from bitumous sands (spelling).

"Running out" is a relative term, but yeah it isn't getting any easier to drill shallow. There are still relatively large amounts of oil inland, but environmental concerns typically outweigh rights to those wells. One contributing factor to why they were out there is the 'Deep Water Royalty Relief Act'.

Ya know when you think about it, which is an easier accident to address, one on land or one at 5k feet deep?

[Taxi]

I was 14 when the Exxon Valdez spill hit, i was fucking shocked to see the consequences and decided to use public transportation instead of a car. I knew if i ever learned to drive and got used to it id probably never go back to public transportation so i didnt. I just turned 35 and never drove a car except these 2 times at 16 where i drove a stolen car for shits and giggles that was abandoned in a park. The problem was known 20 years ago and they didnt switch.

The problem is that oil companies dont want to change. Theyre comfortable in getting their piles of money and they are entrenched in this position that they wanna keep drilling and polluting to their hearts content cuz thats how they make money and fuck you if you dont like it.

What we need is some politicians with backbone who are going to bitchslap these motherfuckers. Tony Hayward should do hard time in Jail. Then well see him and other CEOs act nonchalant about 11 people dying and flooding 3 states with beached oil? Not likely. The thing is that theres no consequences.

What we need is energy companies stopping being oil companies. Some guy just got a Nobel prize for inventing Windows that are transluscent but still produce solar energy. Its time to plaster New York City with those windows and step into the 21st century.

[Excision Rottun]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I understand its the same reason why theres an industry in Alberta about extracting oil from bitumous sands (spelling).

The reason they are extracting from the Athabasca Oilsands, is that it contains about 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum.

[Taxi]

Originally Posted by Excision Rottun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The reason they are extracting from the Athabasca Oilsands, is that it contains about 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum.

Ahh, i see.

Ive heard it said that its responsible for releasing more climate warming gas than any other methods, but not a scientific opinion here either.

[Excision Rottun]

That is true depending on who you ask (environmentalists vs. oil companies)

They do release aprox. 40% of all the greenhouse gasses in Alberta.

As well the operations there currently divert 359 million m3 of water from the Athabasca River, or more than twice the volume of water required to meet the annual municipal needs of the City of Calgary (current pop. 1.3million people)

More info here.