<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> True. EarthFirst is often seen as ecoterrorists. Their antics have been<br>
> very geared towards don't make an eco mess while causing problems for<br>
> "the man". This BP mess sounds more like NASA bad management calls and<br>
> the Challenget disaster.<br>
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</div>Agreed. I think the bottom line is, either they cut corners, or they<br>
simply did not plan for dealing with such a problem. Disaster recovery<br>
should be part of their plan, obviously it was not.<br>
<div class="im"><br><br></div></blockquote><div>Agreed. Either is bad. Both is a gross lapse of judgement. It appears on the surface (no pun intended) to be both. MMS is also in need of some serious slapping. The splitting into license fees and oversight groups is a good start.<br>
<br>Maybe the US needs a fleet of the fancy oil skimmers like Norway has to be deployed on hot standby where ever we have oil traffic on the oceans. <br><br><br>Heh, heh. My snark bone tells me if the skimmers are deployed the company that sprung the leak pays for the full cost (boats and crew plus overtime, etc.) of the deployment and the captured oil is sold on the open market and the funds are used to support research to improve the oil process safety (or really snarky - alternative energy sources!). Add in punative fines of highest market value of oil for the 12 months prior to the spill for the total spill amount multiplied by the number of days or partial days the leaking occurred. Makes for quite an incentive to make no mistakes. So $85/barrel peak price X (low end 5kbb/day X 32 days so far) X 32 days so far = $435.2M so far. . At the high end of 20kbb/day and nothing stops until relief wells done in August (90 days from explosion) is $13.77B.<br>
<br>That will catch the attention of the CFO!<br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br>
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