Live Feed From the BP Oil Disaster
This is a live feed from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. BP has cameras down there streaming video of the oil gushing up from the ocean floor. You can expect the color and amount of the stuff coming out to change as they pack mud in there and do whatever else they do to try to get it under control. You can go to the original source HERE.
The video is both horrifying and fascinating. Use the Play (triangle) and Stop (square) buttons on the player to turn the stream on and off.
The text in the blockquote is from their site.
We typically think of an economy and an ecology as independent systems. They are not.
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The video is both horrifying and fascinating. Use the Play (triangle) and Stop (square) buttons on the player to turn the stream on and off.
The text in the blockquote is from their site.
Please be aware, this is a live stream and may freeze or be unavailable from time to time.
Throughout the extended top kill procedure – which may take up to two days to complete - very significant changes in the appearance of the flows at the seabed may be expected. These will not provide a reliable indicator of the overall progress, or success or failure, of the top kill operation as a whole. BP will report on the progress of the operation as appropriate and on its outcome when complete.
We typically think of an economy and an ecology as independent systems. They are not.
If this video is bogging down your computer, please let us know in email or comments and we can replace it with a link. For now, this seems cooler. Stop it with the square Stop button if it's too much.
posted by JimK at 9:43 PM
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We’re glued to a House energy subcommittee’s “spillcam” Web site and Google Earth pictures of the spreading slick, nauseated by the news that once more, government officials charged with protecting us were instead enabling greedy corporations.
As The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, there is growing suspicion that the money concerns of the companies involved with the well created “an atmosphere of haste” that may have spurred the spill.
In a report released on Tuesday, Mary Kendall, acting inspector general of the Department of the Interior, described an agency that followed Cheney’s lead in letting the oil industry write the rules.
Just like those S.E.C. employees who were watching porn and ignoring warning signs while Wall Street punks created financial Frankensteins, some M.M.S. employees were watching porn, using coke and crystal meth and accepting gifts like trips to the Peach Bowl game from oil and gas companies, the report said.
Regarding outrageous behavior prior to 2007, one confidential source told investigators that some M.M.S. inspectors let oil and gas company staffers fill out inspection forms using pencils “and MMS inspectors would write on top of the pencil in ink and turn in the completed form.”
Larry Williamson, the M.M.S. Lake Charles, La., district manager, told investigators: “Obviously, we’re all oil industry. We’re all from the same part of the country. Almost all of our inspectors have worked for oil companies out on these same platforms. They grew up in the same towns. Some of these people, they’ve been friends with all their life,” hunting, fishing and skeet-shooting together.
The tragedy is that M.M.S. eerily presaged the disaster in the draft of a May 2000 environmental analysis of deep-water drilling in the gulf. The agency noted that “the oil industry’s experience base in deepwater well control is limited” and that given the prodigious production rates, “a deepwater blowout of this magnitude in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico could easily turn out to be a potential showstopper” for the Outer Continental Shelf program.
But M.M.S. got rid of those caveats in the final report, just as they deemed a remote-controlled shut-off switch an unnecessary expense for drilling companies several years ago.
As we watch a self-inflicted contamination that has no end in sight, consider this chilling arithmetic: One oil industry reporter reckoned that the 5,000 barrels a day (a conservative estimate) spewing 5,000 feet down in the gulf counts for only two minutes of oil consumption in the state of Texas.
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