Shell
stating it will be a walk in the park drilling in the Arctic is their
engineers. They need their jobs. So, they are blowing smoke up the
skirts of Shell's executives.
See, there is a real dynamic between the oil engineers and the oil companies. It is a symbiotic relationship.
Understand? When one dies so does the other. What a shame.
The oil companies have no real interest in what CAN be done. They are interested in getting it done. They are profit driven. That is all they care about, so when dealing with them there is no expectation for them to actually have sincere knowledge of anything except where they are going to place their exploratory drill bit.
Look, when the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killed 11 people and subsequently sank, the EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) said, the exploratory well drilling had no consequence to polar bears.
There are no polar bears in the Gulf of Mexico. Did that stop the drilling and the catastrophe? No. The government did nothing while the petroleum industry entrapped the people in fear for their jobs in Minerals and Mining Management with scandals of sex and drugs.
The only people in the USA that care about the Arctic, the country and the people of this country when it comes to exploitation of it's natural resources are the environmentalists and conservationists. And what do the oil companies say about those PROFESSIONALS?
"Tree huggers"
Their defense of their exploitation and lousy pipelines that burst with thousands upon thousands of deadly oil spilling into natural areas, polluting stream and rivers, killing everything in the Gulf of Mexico is that the people of the USA that oppose them are Tree Huggers. The professionals who know exactly how stupid these ventures are; simply are called names as if children on a playground. As a matter of fact, a question among my friends is "Where is the playground this time?" The oil companies defame them and call them names. And when one activist has had enough of the lies and misgovern of American public lands and otherwise and decides to bid on a lease to obstruct the drilling he ends up in prison for two years.
Who went to prison when 11 people died because the rig and it's crew were pushed beyond all safety margins? Who went to prison when the Gulf of Mexico died?
See, there is a real dynamic between the oil engineers and the oil companies. It is a symbiotic relationship.
Understand? When one dies so does the other. What a shame.
The oil companies have no real interest in what CAN be done. They are interested in getting it done. They are profit driven. That is all they care about, so when dealing with them there is no expectation for them to actually have sincere knowledge of anything except where they are going to place their exploratory drill bit.
Look, when the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killed 11 people and subsequently sank, the EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) said, the exploratory well drilling had no consequence to polar bears.
There are no polar bears in the Gulf of Mexico. Did that stop the drilling and the catastrophe? No. The government did nothing while the petroleum industry entrapped the people in fear for their jobs in Minerals and Mining Management with scandals of sex and drugs.
The only people in the USA that care about the Arctic, the country and the people of this country when it comes to exploitation of it's natural resources are the environmentalists and conservationists. And what do the oil companies say about those PROFESSIONALS?
"Tree huggers"
Their defense of their exploitation and lousy pipelines that burst with thousands upon thousands of deadly oil spilling into natural areas, polluting stream and rivers, killing everything in the Gulf of Mexico is that the people of the USA that oppose them are Tree Huggers. The professionals who know exactly how stupid these ventures are; simply are called names as if children on a playground. As a matter of fact, a question among my friends is "Where is the playground this time?" The oil companies defame them and call them names. And when one activist has had enough of the lies and misgovern of American public lands and otherwise and decides to bid on a lease to obstruct the drilling he ends up in prison for two years.
Who went to prison when 11 people died because the rig and it's crew were pushed beyond all safety margins? Who went to prison when the Gulf of Mexico died?
No one. The CEO was given a Gold Parachute and sent on his way to continue to race his boat.
If I wanted to make a point I would take all the rigs of Dutch Royal Shell and add up all the people that died working for them. The entire history. The eleven that died within the ambitions of BP is nothing. That is a drop of water in a sea of dead employees of petroleum companies.
The North Atlantic Ocean is a very rough place. The folks that work along it's shores think nothing of that character of the ocean. I was in Iceland and watched men on "Sea Doo"s run the waves. They were completely unafraid wearing wet-suits. Amazing. And of course, it was their heritage. They came from strong families of sea fairing history.
The Pacific is unforgiving. The Arctic has no rules and while the oil engineers see a walk in the park, I wonder how many employees will die because they never listen to people who know better.
And. Ah. The activist that went to prison to stop the auction of American public lands, stopped an illegal auction. It wasn't legal in the first place. But, he went to prison anyway.
