Alastair Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Finally it looks like there's no more oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, which is great news - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10654584 But the odd news is that the US now wants to ban BP from doing any offshore drilling for 7 years - they have to be crazy. BP have done everything they can to help in this situation. I'm currently working with someone from Louisiana, over here in Europe as the job he was on was cancelled by Obama's moratorium on drilling. He says the people over there are glad the accident happened on a well drilled by BP. Very few other companies would have had the money or resources to deal with a blowout on this scale and would have gone bankrupt in weeks leaving the cleanup and costs to the US people. If the 7 year BP ban happens, what's the betting that the BP assets get handed over to one of the big US oil companies like Exxon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Ugly item in the news the other day is that BP were very influential in getting that Lockerbie bomber freed in exchange for a billion dollar oil deal with Khadaffi. The official excuse for freeing the bomber was that he had only about three months to live but that was a year ago and he's still alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Crazy Right Wingers are coming out with the most absurd theories....Alex Jones interviewing an agreeing Ron Paul is arguing Obama got BP to create the Oil spill so they could be nationalised, as some sort of preparation for a global Govt. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/10/gop-bp-inside-job/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 There's some great conspiracy theories here. It was Eco Terrorists, a North Korean submarine or a part of a US government plot to impose martial law: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/65833,news-comment,news-politics,the-conspiracy-theories-behind-the-bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-gulf-of-mexico Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patty1142 Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 maybe its bp's fault? its there rig? or is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 Maybe it's BPs fault, maybe not. They need a full public inquiry to determine that once all the evidence is gathered. One huge piece of evidence is the Blow Out Preventer which remains on the seabed for now. However it might still be the drilling rig owners fault even if BP told them to do something crazy. It's the rig owners responsibility to protect the rig and the people on board and that was another company, Transocean. I've seen it many times where the rig owners say "No" when the oil company instructions contravene their own safety rules. Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 There's some great conspiracy theories here. It was Eco Terrorists, a North Korean submarine or a part of a US government plot to impose martial law: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/65833,news-comment,news-politics,the-conspiracy-theories-behind-the-bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-gulf-of-mexico Why doesn't it surprise me Rush "big fat idiot" Limbaugh thinks it is the work of Eco-terrorists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 There's some great conspiracy theories here. It was Eco Terrorists, a North Korean submarine or a part of a US government plot to impose martial law: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/65833,news-comment,news-politics,the-conspiracy-theories-behind-the-bp-oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-gulf-of-mexico Try this theory for size (pun intended) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerdesk7 Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 keeping the mullahs hiding in their caves and killing a lot of their goons has diverted their attention from planning terrorist attacks. These old men dont want to die, just send others to do their dirty work :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 The new cap has been installed on the leaking oil pipe and is undergoing test. So far so good. The leak has stopped but the engineers would like to see a bigger increase in PSI. In general though they appear to be pretty optimistic According to the latest news the British government have now admitted that the release of the Libyan Lockerbie bomber on medical grounds was a mistake. There is evidence to suggest that the government was approached by BP to release the bomber as a move to be granted off shore drilling rights by Khadaffi worth a few billion dollars. This is according to Khadaffi's son. There is speculation that the doctors who examined the bomber prior to his release may have had their findings influenced. The bomber is still alive and well one year later although it was said at the time of his release that he was at deaths door almost. A Libyan spokesman claimed that being reunited with his family again was the reason for the bombers sudden "recovery" A British spokesman stated that the decsion to release the bomber was "A Scottish decison" Since when did Scotland become a separate nation from the United Kingdom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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