Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group I was going to put this in the Asylum, but....

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...

I've been away for a week and the wonderful folks here are out working miracles...
Kat, hug your honey extra for me...and ask him to hug you back for me too...
Well done is an understatement...
My hat's off, indeed.

And I read somewhere recently that while the general theory is that we completely deplete an area of oil for ever, they have found that in some places the oil is actually returning. Great. At least before we knew our petroleum use was limited. I wish I could remember where I read that. Can't find it now.

I truly hope the government of Greenland takes heed. As I hope our own Prime Minister gets his head out of big oil's back pocket long enough to make sure that this doesn't happen here. The Premier of Newfoundland had better be paying attention, too.

They're saying that within a few years, the temperature of our oceans will have risen one to two degrees. Doesn't sound like much, but I saw a documentary last year on what a one degree rise in overall temperatures can do to our planet. Actually, I think we all talked about it at the time. They're saying that the ocean temperature rise could have cataclysmic results to anyone living on a coast because storm activity will increase exponentially. Good god. And our so-called Prime Minister doesn't believe in global warming and has put the Great God Economics ahead of the health well being of not only us, but the planet we depend on for survival. His buddies might have to spend a little money to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. Boo-hoo.

Warm hugs,

Kat...I've got all the meetings set up for today, Dad gave his approval on the go-ahead to his contacts in the industry, so it's now a done deal, the product will be used in the spill clean up, it won't be ideal in all areas of the Gulf but where it can be used, it will be used...

That's awesome!! Miche, you are a wonder. Please extend my thanks to your dad for his help. If HE can be part of the solution in mitigating the damage that will be done for what looks like the foreseeable future, then I am happy.

God, the booms breaking at the bird sanctuary and the oil contaminating...honestly, I despair that we will ever learn.

Love,

It's been decided by the engineers here that the HE is appropriate for some areas but not so much for others...but you're so right...will we ever learn?

Yah, that makes sense. It's certainly more suited to the marshlands than anything else I've seen. Can you imagine trying to weave booms through the reeds!!!

Also, if you can create a boundary with it, in the early stages of a spill I mean, you could probably stop a spill from spreading. Not one like Deep Water Horizon, because this is unlike anything we've seen to date, but from a boat, I'm thinking. We also speculated about creating double or triple lines of it along the coasts and mouths of rivers.

Not sure what ideas your engineers have, but those are the ones we came up with.

XO

And those temperature changes don't seem to be doing much good for Al & Tipper Gore's marriage, either!

Kat...I wanted to share this...BP has sent some of their men around to ask Dad his opinion on what they should do to stop the leak...I'm on my way to translate...the meeting starts at 9...

Good luck, hon!!!!

XO