Gulf spill: Another IXTOC 1 disaster?

 (Competing with the oh-so-important "Halle Berry Splits with Boyfriend" story:)

Link to pertinent article: http://www.helium.com/items/1819703-environmental-effects-of-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-disaster-in-the-gulf-of-mexico

As can be seen (above), it took nine months to cap the 1979 IXTOC 1 blowout....(IXTOC was an even deeper well, though).

4/30/10 satellite photo of growing "spill":

http://www.incidentnews.gov/attachments/8220/526479/COSMO_SAR_30Apr10_2351UTC_CSTARS.jpg

Update: Link to a Washington Post article from 5/1 providing better details about potential environmental impacts. Unfortunately, a "mega-disaster" in the making....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36881232/from/RSS/

Oil Spill - San Francisco

Date taken:	1971
Photographer:	George Silk

Another 5/1 update: Spill triples in size. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill 

It's very early, but some volunteer efforts to help with spill-related clean-up, etc. are beginning to form. Not associated with this blog. But here is one link: http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2010/04/30/volunteer_info_for_gulf_oil_spill  

5/1/10 story link: More ways to help (no affiliation with this website/blog): http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/01/2291388.aspx 

"Spill Baby, Spill" (That right, Sarah?)

From NOAA, Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico, update 4/25/10. (That thing above is called a "map", Sarah. Of the Gulf of Mexico. In the United States. Of America.)

 
Updated map, 4/27/10, source: NOAA

4/27/10 news story update. No "gray" area (or oily brown): This appears to be a disaster in the making (link): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36800673 .  
CONFIRMED, 4/28/10 (link to AP story): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion
(The "leak" (blowout?) is five times worse than initially categorized....)

She famously "corrected" Joe Biden in a 2008 debate about it: Where are Sarah Palin and the Republican/Tea Bagger "Drill Baby Drill " (link) drones on THIS One?  The silence is deafening.

A guess: After appropriately mourning the cost in human life....probably fabricating a way to conspiratorially link Greenpeace (or some other political opponent - perhaps Ted Kennedy) -- to this LATEST oil spill disaster....

Having a giant laugh (or another paranoia attack)... about this newest environmental desecration to the "rock" the rest of us have to exist upon?? (That includes your children, etc.)

-- Enjoy your chief clown (link): 

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/338017/877248

"Spill Baby, Spill" - Link to (serious, non-clown) editorial and editorial cartoon: http://www.pnj.com/article/20100425/OPINION/4250306/1020/Editorial--Safe-offshore-drilling? 

Unfortunately, it's not just Sarah and her backward "crowd" who do not "get it" about offshore oil drilling/exploration. Please see the following post here....

Earth Day irony: And our administration wants to expand offshore oil drilling??

Today is "Earth Day"....right??

4/22/10 AP news story (link follows, below). What a sick joke. This type of event (even worse) is one big reason why the environmental movement, Earth Day (etc.) ramped up 40 years ago (link).

Pray for better luck ...perhaps that's the 'contingency plan' this time.

(story link:) 

Burning offshore oil rig sinks, big oil spill possible

4/23/10 update: "No leak"....YET. (Link to AP story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100423/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion )

Re update: If luck happens to prevail in this situation, nothing asserted here (in this post) is invalidated. Environmental issues have been raised (again). Dirty energy sources should be questioned. Offshore oil drilling is not "safe"(link). America's oil addiction leads to problems.

4/24/10 AP news story,new update (link):http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100425/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion 

(Old photo, Santa Barbara off-shore oil spill, 1969, Google/LIFE archives)

Yeah.....'drill baby drill'. How about ...."spill baby, spill"?? U.S. "commitment"  to the environment remains at joke levels. Energy policies? Total hypocrisy. It's basically about finding any way to ensure that "drill-queen" Sarah Palin and zillions of others can drive their fat-ass SUVs/pickups -- solo,on-road, and with a "cargo" of air the majority of the time.....

(Background story: Obama to open more offshore areas for oil drilling (link to NYT 3/30/10 article): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/earth/31energy.html )


More sick "Earth Day" incongruity: Wisconsin energy bill dies on Earth Day (NYT, link): http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/22/business/AP-WI-Wisconsin-Clean-Energy.html?src=busln 

"Earth day", 2010: We're all doing such a fantastic job of (planet) "stewardship":
"Deadly fungus could wipe out bats" (link to article)

 and

 - Bees dying at alarming rate (link): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/honey-bees-dying-scientists-suspect-pesticides-disease-worry/story?id=10191391 

- Acid in oceans worsening (link to 4/22/10 article): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36713115/ns/us_news-environment/

Oh well....Cheer up with a lovely song (link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo&fmt=18

Oh yeah: Climate change is Al Gore's imagination...

More glaciers melt away in Glacier National Park (link to 4/7/10 AP news story)

I've been to Glacier myself a couple of times. The rangers we spoke to there believed "something was up" with climate change....

As Mr. Gore has said: It's going to soon need to be named "The Park Formerly Known as Glacier Nat'l Park"

Go see it.....QUICK.

Oh....BTW: Today is April 7th, and the current temperature is 90 degrees (F) where I live (New England)....(That's about 35 degrees above "normal" for the date. One year doesn't make a trend, but it's been well above normal for temps. here and everywhere (link) during the last several weeks... already.)