- British Petroleum had a fail-safe system for it's Deepwater
Horizon floating deep-water drilling rig.
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- You know, the one that blew up and sank in the Gulf
of Mexico, leaving a tangled spaghetti pile of 22-inch steel pipe one mile
long all balled up on the sea floor a mile below the surface, and that
is leaking oil at 42,000 gallons per day...so far.
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- The thing is, the fail-safe system, about the size of
a McMansion sitting at the wellhead on the ocean floor, um, failed. It
didn't collapse and shut off the flow of oil as intended, and it could
take months now to shut the well down--during which time the leak rate
is likely to increase to up to 300,000 gallons per day, or over two million
gallons a week.
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- President
Obama claimed last month that off-shore drilling technology had become
so advanced that oil spills and blowouts were a thing of the past. Of course,
as he said this, Australia and Indonesia were still assessing the damage
from a similar offshore oil platform, the Montana, in the Timor Sea, which
blew out and poured millions of gallons of oil into the ocean off Western
Australia for over three months before it could be sealed off.
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- Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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