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Day 91 Well Integrity & Relief Well

July 19, 2010

A good general primer on WTH is going on with the blown out well’s integrity and the function of the relief well in this morning’s Q&A with John Hofmeister, former Shell president. What needs to happen right away? The near term fix is to release the cap and control the flow of oil to surface ships. [...]

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Day 87 “Somebody Actively Takes Steps To Defeat The Safety Protection”

July 15, 2010

Note: Just in case the history books say otherwise, let it be noted here that it took 87 days to cap the Macondo well. Now we wait on the relief well for “final” work. *** Set aside the catastrophic risk aspect of this disaster for a few minutes of preventative analysis. No “comprehensive,” company-wide safety program [...]

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Day 85 OilSpill: Disaster Pr0n Now In 3D HD

July 13, 2010

In which we find out that the methane is just the farts of the Decepticons submerged at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico who were getting bored of waiting to take over the world once again so they ordered out for Taco Bell. No, don’t read that. Read this: The Gulf of Mexico spill is [...]

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Day 78 Neither Clearly Successful Nor Clearly Viewable

July 6, 2010

How do BP and the Coast Guard get the press to speak of their heroic joint recovery efforts if they bar proper media access? What recovery efforts, you ask. Well, we wouldn’t know because we can’t see them or get someone knowledgeable to say something useful and sensible about them now, can we? The Oil [...]

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Day 72

June 30, 2010

Don’t you hate it when news outfits won’t just report the, uh, news and even the better ones succumb to the cute wordplay angle or feel that they have to cast current American events in a larger political light? For the love of information, does everything have to be couched in re-electability, i.e. how a [...]

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Day 71

June 29, 2010

Not that I don’t care any more. I care too much. It’s why I can’t write and research and collate about it like I did. At least not right now. With each day’s developments, a blog post like this one goes through my head. Sometimes it gets typed, most of the time it doesn’t. This [...]

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Day 60 Until It’s Gone

June 18, 2010

I think of Gulf oysters now and start to fret and crave them more than ever before. For someone who would get nausea on the mere mention of fish and shellfish as a child, raw oysters with hot sauce and fried oyster po’ boys are now a sublime delicacy and this is thanks to the [...]

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Day 57 BP’s “Nightmare” Well

June 15, 2010

Wired | BP’s ‘Nightmare’ Well: Internal Documents Uncover Negligence In addition to BP’s decision not to use a liner, the committee’s letter describes four other examples of risky negligence. Five big corners were cut. But, “accidents happen,” right? They weren’t kidding about the MC252 well being a nightmare. The ship that was collecting oil via [...]

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Day 56 Links

June 14, 2010

This town will never cease to surprise me: On Friday, I met a middle-aged local who, after chatting for a while, informed me that I am too socio-politically conservative for my age. My cheeks hurt so much because I’ve been smiling like a fool since. The world has hope yet, people. Which we need when [...]

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Day 52 Links

June 10, 2010

The last post’s picture reminds me that we now live in the Shire: bucolic and gorgeous, as it should be, but with most of its inhabitants blissfully and deliberately unconcerned by that which lies beyond the Misty Mountains. I hear we’re getting an Indian restaurant. Maybe. * CBS | How Much Oil Has Leaked? “Despite [...]

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