Discussion of nuking the well shut begins at the 2:00 minute mark. The additional development that Matt Simmons uses to bolster his argument was the discovery by the US Navy of a second pipe inside the Blowout Preventer that shouldn’t be there. He speculates that it’s a piece of the well casing that was thrust upwards from the tremendous force …
BP board game foreshadows Gulf disaster LONDON — An obscure BP-themed board game in which players aim to avoid rig disasters has become an unexpected hit at a British toy museum. BP Offshore Oil Strike was released in the early 1970s and allows up to four players to explore for oil, build platforms and construct pipelines. The first player to …
Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …
Convicted felon BP holding a gun to the head of the US economy Today as I was hanging the Stars and Stripes from my front porch, reflecting on the event 234 years ago that precipitated this most national of national holidays, colonial America’s Declaration of Independence from their English overlords, I was struck by the resonance it has to the …
