Originally Posted By: Inanna
And now the top fill has failed to stop the 'leak' and they're going to drill relief wells to divert the oil. They say it will be August before these wells are done. Three months into hurricane season. Gee, do you think they should have drilled those wells before this one went on line???!


This well didn't have a safety kill-switch, which would have added a $500,000 cost to BP-

This is absolutely something that must be legislated into any and all future oil rigs, for starters!

I was reading a story about the current situation in Greenland, this will break your heart, if it isn't already. Because of global warming caused (in my opinion...) by all of man's abuse of our planet, enough ice around their coast has melted away, so as a result, they now, for the first time ever, paradoxically, have the option to build oil rigs there, and they are considering it!!

Even though this ridiculous irony is not lost on them!

Hopefully our disaster here will have some good effect, and they will not go through with building those rigs...

Dow