WANTED: Tony Hayward, Dead or Alive
It’s a real head scratcher, why would one of the largest O&G companies in the world cut costs and risk a disaster of catastrophic proportions? I sit here trying to understand (did they need more money?) (were they incompetent?) (were they clueless?) and no answers come to mind. Over and over again I hear Hayward say he wants his life back and I think of that poem that a friend wrote many years back about doctors and their arrogance in saving one life when thousands or millions require help. Hayward’s life – a joke really. Hayward’s life past or present is so unimportant, it is a joke.
The rig was having a PR party for seven years of safety the day that Schlumberger told the company man that the mud wasn’t working. He was ordered off the rig. Eleven guys died, the driller, the roustabouts, the rough necks, and two mud guys. A week before the blow out was failing – it has a 50% failure rate. The materials BP used were inadequate.
My neighbor tells me that what CNN is reporting is damn close to the truth and that Anderson Cooper is actually doing more to illuminate what is going on than any other resource. They’re missing some pieces like some areas that are slick saturated and everything there is dead. People here are puzzled by BP’s arrogance in not entertaining outside consultants – the Danish, the Russians, anyone but what we have right now.
3,000 dog kennels were ordered for the pelicans that are diving at the fish who are jumping to the surface to get oxygen since the waters are becoming deprived of it, on top of the water sits a thick slick and the birds are diving right into it. They ran out of kennels and ordered more. My birds. These are my birds, these pelicans and I’m pissed.
Oyster and fish and shrimp – will the be safe to eat? We don’t know, but my neighbor is doing tissue samples and he assures me there is strict oversight because they’re has to be. Any seafood that is not seriously inspected and gets someone sick would be the end of days for us here in the Gulf South. But tell me, do you expect a restaurant in New York to be labeling fish on their menu, from the Gulf? anytime soon?
There is a guy studying the Yucatan where an oil spill was disrupted by a hurricane that seemingly dissipated the oil. Really, we should be thinking a hurricane rather than no hurricane as the answer to our prayers? Good grief.