Friday Fish Wrap: June 25, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 21:34 Scanning the news in preparation for writing this post, one subject kept coming to the surface - rather like an oily slick down in the Gulf. The BP oil blowout isn’t anywhere near contained. Not only does BP not really know for sure all that might be wrong with the well, but they haven’t a clue how to fix it. They are in uncharted territory.
Last night, I wrote a post about hydraulic ‘fracking’ - a nasty technique used by BP and other oil and gas producers. My post was about the use of ‘fracking’ in the pursuit of natural gas and the truly nasty toxic effects resulting from that technique. One of my regular readers commented that she’d heard something to the effect that ‘fracking’ might have been used in the Gulf Deepwater Horizon well, and that methane gas and oil might be leaking from uncounted fissures in the seabed around the well.
This said, an idiot judge - Martin L. C. Feldman of the United States District Court in New Orleans - has decided that a moratorium on more new drilling is a bad idea. You might think this is hard to believe, but the judge has personal financial interests in the oil industry.
Do you remember back in the day of the Challenger explosion?
