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In a message dated 6/1/2010 11:47:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jgcottrell2002@yahoo.com writes:
double-walled and filled with high grade explosive. You GO dude !!!! Blow the bastard up !!!!!!!
OOps.......maybe not the best idea afterall, they couldn't even maintain
the industry standard "blow out preventer".
It's a five story machine that sits on the well head and has
mechanisms that pinch the pipe with hydraulic rams, has injection ports for
plugging the well casing, and side taps for dividing the flow. Lots of options
there.......but it wasn't installed correctly, the cement work wasn't done
correctly, the maintenance checks weren't done correctly, and the federal guys
overseeing the operation weren't doing their job correctly. This wasn't a
mechanical failure, it was a series of decisions made leading
to events that almost guaranteed it to become a disaster.
Sadly 11 men lost their lives. These weren't ditch diggers, they were
trained professional drillers. BP has said they'll fix it and pay everyone who
has a loss........fat chance!
The skills to clean up a mess like this haven't changed in 30 years. What's
up with that ?
Where has the trillions of dollars gone that was made from all the deep sea
wells ? Should a small piece of that money be used to develop a damn good way to
prevent an accident or at least clean the damn thing up afterwards ?
Hey, maybe I need to pay ten dollars a gallon so the oil companies can
afford to do this kind of work safely.
Any way you look at it....it's a *%#[&+$#$%^& damn mess !!!
Ya, I'm pissed off !!!
Frank D.
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