[ale] K. Costner to the oil-soaked gulf rescue

[Geoffrey]

links to these failings?  I've not heard that they had determined the 
problem or fault.

Jim Kinney wrote:
> USGS science crowd has leak rate closer to 50,000 bbl/day. Which is why 
> the risk was taken on the site. pumping $100M/day on a $1.2B investment 
> is nearly printing money.
> 
> Which is why the sloppy safety engineering is so bad. They have the 
> resources to put redundant safety systems in place. They could have done 
> this right. If they had, they would have still been slammed for the loss 
> of 11 crew but they could have garnered kudos for preventing a major 
> environmental disaster with their science, engineering and management 
> foresight.
> 
> However, BP has surpassed Exxon for public distaste.
> 
> I like punative damages of 10x the barrel price per barrel leaked daily 
> until it's plugged off.
> 
> Plus actual damages and jail terms for upper management for gross 
> negligence. Same goes for rig owner who provided the dead valve and 
> Haliburton for crappy concrete work.
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:15 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org 
> <mailto:drifter at oppositelock.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I believe a "barrel" of oil is 42 gallons. But even at that rate the
>     oil leaking out of the well is worth about $13.6 million per DAY --
>     assuming the earlier quoted figure of 5,000 barrels a day is still
>     accurate.
> 
>     Sean
> 
> 
> 
>     On Wednesday 26 May 2010 15:54:12 Mike Harrison wrote:
>      > >>
>     http://inhabitat.com/2010/05/20/kevin-costner-is-cleaning-up-the-gulf
>      > >>-with-his-oil-separating-technology/
>      >
>      > At $$ (70?) per 55 gallon barrel.. it should be worth gathering
>     from a
>      > purely capitalistic standpoint..
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