Why wasn't the Blow Out Preventer working?
Thursday, July 25, 2013
The flow of natural gas (click here) has been contained at a natural gas well located in 154 feet of water 55 miles offshore of Louisiana at South Timbalier, Block 220, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said in a statement to the press July 25.
The A-3 natural gas well, owned by Walter Oil & Gas Corp. and located 55 miles offshore Louisiana, stopped flowing natural gas after the well bridged after the owner and other parties injected sand and sediment into the well path, BSEE said. A small flame continued to burn from residual gas at the top of the well.
The owner was still making preparations to drill a relief well, if necessary, according to Reuters.
No, it is not contained, it is SLOWED. It is still burning and we all know what occurred when the Deepwater Horizon continued to burn regardless of all efforts to put out the fire.
The lousy rig with a completely ineffective Blowout Preventer SANK. It sank and caused more damage than ever before on the USA gulf coast.
I don't like being played for a fool and I don't like being manipulated. There is still significant danger to our environment as this completely incompetent industry still pollutes with the leaking methane as well as burning methane emitting CO2 pollution into the troposphere.
It took about 36 hours of intense burning before the Deepwater Horizon sank to a depth of one mile into twisted metal and deepsea garbage.
By John Upton
Coastal Louisiana would like its wetlands back. (click here) It needs them to protect itself from rising seas and raging storms.
The agency charged with protecting New Orleans-area residents from floods is suing Big Oil, claiming it should repair damages that it caused to wetlands that once buffered the region from tidal surges.
The oil companies have recklessly torn out the marshes and plants that ringed the Gulf of Mexico as they laid pipelines and other infrastructure to serve their decades-long oil- and gas-drilling bonanza....
Finally, someone in Louisiana figured out that the petroleum industry has destroyed the ONLY real barrier to protecting citizens of the USA that live and work along the coast.
The government of Louisiana is among the worst in the country. It never acts to protect citizens or bringing security to it's citizens. If it weren't for federal programs such as food stamps, Medicaid and Environmental Protections, the people of Louisiana would never have a fighting chance in the world.
I already know the initial hearings in Louisiana will fail because of corruption within the court system. They have to continue to appeal until receiving proper recognition of federal laws that were suppose to preserve the wetlands and fine the oil industry for destroying them.
The people of the State of Louisiana are not important. They are 'in the way' of petroleum industry profits. The only value the people of Louisiana have is when they service the rigs and demands of the crews on those rigs, otherwise, the fisheries mean nothing, the natural beauty of the area are nothing, the waterways into the state where some of the most impoverished in this nation live are nothing.
The people of the USA are provided Wall Street Welfare in oil subsidies, a state government dependent on federal programs to protect their lives and FEMA even though they get better service from them than their state government regardless of any complaints otherwise.
Louisiana has to be among the most significant Third World Environments within the borders of the USA. Work for pennies and expect life to be lousy.
