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Article Source: apnews.myway.comAs bad as the oil spill looks on the surface, it may be only half the problem, said University of California Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea, who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety.
"There's an equal amount that could be subsurface too," said Bea. And that oil below the surface "is damn near impossible to track."
Obama has halted any new offshore drilling projects unless rigs have new safeguards to prevent another disaster
I find it an astronomical coincidence that for the first time in my memory an oil rig burns to nothing in the gulf and an oil dump maybe more colossal then the Exxon Valdez occurs within months of the administration to give the go ahead on more oil drilling. I want someone to calculate the odds. Why isn't the media looking at the environmentalist wacko groups on this? If this is Obama's Katrina then where is the news media's Katrina pressure on the administration? Who in the news media is going to take one for this administration? Maybe all of them, watch their ratings decline by another 8% - Quiet Dogood
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31energy.htm
"March 30, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday."
http://www.uscg.mil/comdt/blog/2009/03/twenty-years-after-exxon-valdez.asp
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http://www.oilrigdisasters.co.uk/
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Alexander L. Kielland
In 1980, the semi-submersible accommodation rig Alexander L. Kielland capsized during a storm after a leg support brace failed.
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#1 - Sun May 2, 2010 10:44 PM EDTThis is not the "biggest spill" nor is it the "greatest disaster" these things have been occurring with great regularity all along.
#2 - Sun May 2, 2010 11:42 PM EDTMr Obama described the unfolding nightmare offshore as "a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster".
President Obama has ordered a freeze on new offshore drilling leases as well as a “thorough review” into what is almost sure to be the worst oil spill in this country’s history — exceeding in size and environmental damage the calamitous Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.
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