[ale] BP knew of problems 11 months before the rig blew - further OT

[Scott Castaline]

On 06/03/2010 04:38 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Obviously snipers were deployed in case it was a Korean/Al Qaeda, etc.
> terrorist action, so as to prevent another rig from being taken down.
> Now if this affair hasn't given ideas of how to wreck the US economy to
> those who might care to do so, they must be taking a Rip van Winkle
> style nap. How many hundreds of active wells do we have in the gulf?
> Hopefully those have better failsafe cutoff valves.
>
> GC
>
Exactly. With the slick expected to reach the FL panhandle coast this 
weekend, just tourism alone is dead, now add in the people that make up 
our fishing fleets, all of them unemployed, that's just 2 industries 
affected. Now add in the fact that according to CBS News this evening 
they expect the slick to reach all the way to the Carolina coastlines 
within a month. A lot of people possibly unemployed and possible 
business failures, another round of foreclosures and on and on. The 
territory affected would account for I'd say about a third of our close 
to shore fishing industry. Plus add in the fact that the path to the 
Atlantic passes Cuba, now it becomes an international disaster, viewed 
by some countries as the fault of the USA forget the fact that it was 
caused by private industry.
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