Well... We're Beyond Petroleum Now... Now We're Into Crimes Against Nature/Humanity/The Planet...

From the plume story this morning...

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Oil has been spewing since the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and sinking two days later. The government shortly afterward estimated the spill at 210,000 gallons – or 5,000 barrels -- a day, a figure that has since been questioned by some scientists who fear it could be far more. BP executives have stood by the estimate while acknowledging there's no way to know for sure.

The Times noted:



BP also owns a rig that operated with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," records and interviews show.

Two months before the Deepwater Horizon accident, 19 members of Congress called on the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling to investigate a whistle-blower's complaints about the BP-owned Atlantis, which is stationed in 7,070 feet of water more than 150 miles south of New Orleans.

The Associated Press has learned that an independent firm hired by BP substantiated the complaints in 2009 and found that the company was violating its own policies by not having completed engineering documents on board the Atlantis when it began operating in 2007.

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/15/giant-oil-plumes-found-in_n_577654.html

and will never go back to the way it was

the operation and turn it over to the US Navy and make it priority "1" to shut that leak down. Fuck those corporate vampires whose only concern is getting some of that liquid slime into a container they can then sell to somebody.

Or have we???

Who IS in charge as of now?

Coast Guard, NOAA, EPA, FEMA... BP... Who???

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It will get worse over time as the oil spreads through the currents. Every single aspect of our lives will be impacted for the worse.

Do we even know if water can evaporate through oil sheen? If it can't there goes climate as we know it. And that's just one possible effect. Meantime BP rejects all the potential brain power being offered while they lie and cheat and keep stumbling all over themselves like a dumb down version of the Three Stooges pretending they can fix it before everyone realizes just how bad it is.

And BP is proving his point with every passing day.

:shrug:

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