It's not a leak, it's a frakking gusher. At 25,000 barrels or so of oil a day, that is over a million gallons of oil a day. That's not a leak. That's roughly like filling two Olympic-sized swimming pools with oil each day and dumping them into the Gulf of Mexico, and then adding several tons of toxic chemicals to break up the oil.
Oh, that's right. BP CEO Tony "I would like my life back" Hayward says that the reason that the fisherman working to clean up the oil are getting sick is because they are eating bad food, not because BP's dispersant is poisoning them.
"I'm sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it was anything to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning or some other reason for them being ill," Hayward said. "You know, food poisoning is clearly a big issue when you have a concentration of this number of people in temporary camps, temporary accommodation. It's something we have to be very, very mindful of. It's one of the big issues of keeping the army operating. You know, armies march on their stomachs."It's about time that we consider using Grabthar's Hammer on BP. It is clear that they went into drilling a well this deep with little thought or planning for what to do if the well failed. It is also clear that BP seems to be continually amazed that anybody gives a shit about both what they have done and what they have failed to do.
Oh, and while I am on the subject of the environmental fuckery of the oil companies, it may be worth paying attention to the large-scale and long-term pollution of the Niger delta by Exxon/Mobil, Shell and other companies.
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25,000 barrels a day? If BP can pump mud through a 24-inch pipe at the rate of 2700 gallons per minute (45 gallons per second, or slightly more than 1 bbl per second), surely oil can flow out of a same size pipe at an equal or greater rate. Do the math.
Except that a lot of what is coming out of the pipe isn't oil, it's natural gas.
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