Birds are already starting to turn up covered in oil. National Geographic has some early photos.
In what will come as a surprise to almost no one, it’s being reported that BP had almost no plan in place to respond to a major spill.
It’s too early to tell just what kind of impact this will have on Louisiana’s wetlands.
Wired Science is using satellite photos to track the slick.
Worst of all, no one knows how to cap the well.
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This is simply untrue and irresponsible of MSNBC to relay this kind of misinformation. BP is required by law to have a plan and they of course, did, as do all oil companies.
If you read the article, you’d notice that it never says–and neither do I–that there was no plan, only that there wasn’t much of one. And the document the article refers to is full of the idea that the chances of a spill are highly unlikely, so there’s not much reason to worry. It’s very Titanic-esque. And your response reeks of knee-jerk apologism, to be quite frank about it.
Hi Brian,
As you noted “it’s being reported that BP had almost no plan in place to respond to a major spill”…so I responded in kind to that and to MSNBC’s headline… but I see now that the MSNBC link I was referring to is gone/not linked to your post above. The headline on MSNBC’s website said something akin to “No plans made for oil spill” or something pretty absolute as that, which is not true. My response is not knee-jerk, it is educated and I know quite a bit about oil spill response. More than MSNBC anyway. No ill will toward your post however, as you were simply relaying what MSNBC reported and you had no way of knowing that their report was misinformed. Cheers.
Why not set off a blast in the ocean floor to collapse the whole darned well in?
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