The Official Unlimited Oil Spill Thread!

[Doktor Howl]

So it's in his interest to NOT fix the problem.

Nice.

[Remington]

So it's in his interest to NOT fix the problem.

Nice.

Well, not his personal interest.

[Jasper]

Actually, yes.  The longer the spill takes to sort out, the longer he gets to work there.  They won't replace him until he's served his purpose.

[Requia ☣]

NPR has some new info, the current cap on the plug is now up to 15k barrels a day, this is the most they can possibly catch with it (flow limitations of the pipes).  But they think they can use the top kill equipment to draw another 5000 a day by the end of the week, with a higher draw draw once they get a new ship into the area to handle the load (in about three weeks).

[the last yatto]

He's finally fucking fed up.

O SHI- hes turning green..

[Adios]

Money is driving the bus. Your hopes will all be dashed upon oily rocks.

[Jasper]

Way to kill the righteous fury high.

[Remington]

Colbert shows Obama how it's done:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/311927/june-07-2010/oil-s-well-that-never-ends

ColbertNation.com video - Stephen shows President Obama how to appear angry over the oil spill by ripping off his sleeves and beating up Tony Hayward.

[Remington]

Also,

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

poor bloopers

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

David Cameron is alarmed by the US Justice Department statement that it wants to stop BP from paying dividends to its shareholders because it impacts on the private pension plans of a hell of a lot of British pension holders.

Apparently Cameron will be going to be speaking to Obama about this at the weekend, and will be going to the US in July.

BP has spent 1.4 billion (not sure if this is GBP or USD) on trying to clean up the mess and share prices have taken a nasty hit from the accident.

Hayward's family is under police protection in the UK from hate mail and other attacks.

[Suu]

David Cameron is alarmed by the US Justice Department statement that it wants to stop BP from paying dividends to its shareholders because it impacts on the private pension plans of a hell of a lot of British pension holders.

Apparently Cameron will be going to be speaking to Obama about this at the weekend, and will be going to the US in July.

BP has spent 1.4 billion (not sure if this is GBP or USD) on trying to clean up the mess and share prices have taken a nasty hit from the accident.

Hayward's family is under police protection in the UK from hate mail and other attacks.

Obama might just bust a cap.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Yea I'm kinda worried about the non state pensions in a country that is already seriously attempting to cut public spending to the bone.

Needed better regulation to start with in the US, IMHO.

And the hate mail to the family is kinda excessive.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

David Cameron is alarmed by the US Justice Department statement that it wants to stop BP from paying dividends to its shareholders because it impacts on the private pension plans of a hell of a lot of British pension holders.

Apparently Cameron will be going to be speaking to Obama about this at the weekend, and will be going to the US in July.

BP has spent 1.4 billion (not sure if this is GBP or USD) on trying to clean up the mess and share prices have taken a nasty hit from the accident.

Hayward's family is under police protection in the UK from hate mail and other attacks.

NOT ENOUGH.

Hate mail to family is a bit much, but as far as I'm concerned it isn't just this one guy, it's the whole fucking system.
BP spend ZERO on R&D for "what happens if", they got the permit by promising oil would never touch land, or wetlands, or marshes, the MMS is full of crack head whores and this multi billion dollar corporation had the money to put emergency structures in place but they didn't.
They had one emergency shut off valve. ONE and it FAILED.

I will not be sympathetic to this company, or it's shareholders, or anyone who had their hand in drilling here, putting this platform together and ultimately it's demise.

The people I do have sympathy for are the families who lost those 11 guys. That's shitty.

I don't care if BP stock hits the floor, I don't care if the company goes under. They won't, they'll survive, but after Exxon, Ixtoc they didn't do anything. Nothing changed except they put research into how to drill deeper. No money went into researching how to stop a leak/gusher under the water.

Who gets to suffer? Oh the poor ceo of BP wants his life back.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Nobody sent hate mail to anyone's family. Let's face it, that's just typical minitrue bullshit to help sway public opinion.