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Monday, May 3, 2010
Gulf Coast oil spill may take months to contain, officials say
Have you all seen this story? What do you think about it? What can be done?
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I'm sad about what's happening on the environment and the animals in the gulf. At the same time, I'm mud about the fact that there was no safety measure done beforehand by BP for this kind of accident.
ReplyDeleteIt's too late for a company to think of a solution after something bad has actually happened.
At this moment, what can be done is to stop the spill as soon as possible and save the ocean and animals from pollution.
The accident might bring us a long-term bad effect on our lives because pollution with oil spill could destroy ecosystem. I hope that the spill is going to be stopped soon.
I am shocked about those news and sad about the fact that people don't care about our environment. They have definitely waited too long. They should have reacted before. It would have been necessary to put more pressure on the oil company. But humans always wait until the catastrophe is already here.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Gibbs. The BP should pay more than only for the cleaning up. There is so much more to do to fix this disaster. But unfortunately there is no way to pay for the pain of the animals in the sea.
Hopefully it doesn't take too long to seal off the spill. But I am afraid that it will last forever until the sea is as clean as its nature.
J.S
It's truly incredible what happend there!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to become the biggest natural disaster caused by oil. On April 20 the oil-rig exploded and it had been burning for more than a whole week - without anyone being able to extuingish the fire. Then the platform sinked and the pipe broke 1.5 kilometers undersea. Since then, more than 6000 barrel of oil have been flowing into the sea every day. The oil spill threatens the whole south coast of the USA and especially fishing economy as well as wildlife.
BP has to pay the price for it. Definitely!
Also, because BP tried to camouflage details about the damage. In the beginning it was supposed that "only" 1000 barrels of oil are going in to the sea per day.
Further, there must not be a platform in the Golf of Mexico, which is high at risk.
But it's questionable, whom we should make responsible: The oil company, for not investing enough money in security? Or the US gouverment, for failing in passing a law early enough that would have required a high security standard?
IMHO both have failed!
However, fixing the leak won't be done by tomorrow as the company says. Well, I finally hope there will be a change in the way of thinking about security risks related to oil-rigs or energy harvesting in general.
(Mh)