Over the last week, watching this whole story evolve I've been struck by a few things that have made it different than the normal, run of the mill disaster that seems to come along with predictable regularity. Usually some experts are run out in short order to explain the fix. This time around, not only have the experts been lacking but so have the solutions. What has been discussed is the massive difficulties involved, but not in detail, only vaguely. I've had the feeling that there really isn't a solution, at least not one that is readily available. We haven't heard any real details of precisely what the repair crews are facing; the kind of details that are normally broadcast in a minute by minute fashion. Look at the recent mine collapses as an example.
The only real solution I've heard to this is to drill a relief well. How long will that take to put in place? And how much oil will be spilled in the meantime? How much oil can be spilled before the effects begin to grow beyond the local coasts and fisheries? Can they? How much oil leaks into the oceans everyday naturally? How many years will it take the gulf states to recover from this assuming at a minimum months of leaking? How will that effect the economy of the nation?
Also, there was a news conference a few days back from Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana. He looked like he was well aware that this was something much greater than the public was being told about. He had a sort of Hurricane Katrina look about him. It looked and sounded as though he knew that what was coming couldn't be stopped and that massive damage was inevitable.
Then there's this from the Daily Comet today:
"Today, Governor Bobby Jindal said he remains concerned about BP’s ability to respond to the oil spill in the Gulf and the state is developing contingency plans in order to protect Louisiana’s way of life. The Governor stressed that it is critical for BP and the Incident Commander to provide funding approval and authorization quickly for these contingency plans in order to protect the state’s coast.
Governor Jindal said, “We continue to be concerned about BP’s ability to respond to this incident. As we continue to work with local leaders on the ground, we are focused on forward-leaning and proactive action. I want to be very clear on this point – this incident is not just about our coast. It is fundamentally about our way of life in Louisiana (emphasis added).
“Our shrimpers, our fishermen, the coasts that make Louisiana Sportsmen’s Paradise – this all makes up Louisiana and this is our way of life. We have to do absolutely everything we can to protect our land, our businesses and our communities.
“We are past the point of waiting for any clean up plans from BP or the Incident Commander. We have already begun developing contingency plans for parishes – meaning we are preparing detailed secondary response capabilities to protect our land and our people. We are developing those plans ourselves and we need two things to implement these plans – funding approval from BP and authorization from the Incident Commander."
I applaud the Governor and his proactive stance. However, the hesitancy and inaction on the part of both the federal government and BP tells me that they don't have any sort of plan, that this thing is much bigger and worse than they're letting on. It almost sounds as though the Governor is resigned to no real help and knows that he will have to do what he can, with the understanding that it will be woefully inadequate.
All of this is purely subjective on my part; just things that have been bothering me as I watch this unfold. Is the guy in the article below an expert? Is he right in his assessment of the situation? I don't know.
Not to mention the Biblical perspective and the words of many of the modern seers regarding the oceans and the worlds water.
What I am sure of is that this oil leak is far more significant than is being reported. It bears close watching.
"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.
And some in dreams assured were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Saturday, May 1, 2010
An Nuclear Bomb Can Only Fix This Oil Spill
A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he shares this long (but worthy explanation why:
"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that."
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