Relief to Oil Disaster

New reports suggest oil could continue to leak from the Gulf Oil Disaster until August.
At the same time we watch President Obama share his concern from the golf course and the media tells us how all efforts are being made to resolve the situation. We’re even shown live views from submersibles 1 mile under the water.

Pictures of Oil (and other gases!) spewing into the Ocean, now from multiple angles – but what do they really tell us? What about where the camera doesn’t look? It’s the same old story. Just like the gulf war we’re shown amazing images to distract our minds. Perhaps to even ‘blind’ us from other more substantial leaks.

In 1979 there was similar incident and that too had many attempts to seal it, from booms to ‘top hats’. They all failed… why? Well perhaps keeping people under the illusion that stopping the leak is a top priority will prevent them from considering the real issue – money. Then, as now, relief wells were seen as the way to save the day, but they take time to build so people need to be distracted until that moment can arrive. Of course a relief well is also commonly known as a ‘commercial drilling platform’ – that not only ‘saves the days’ but also turns disaster into cold hard cash.

An uncontrollable fountain of oil could gush into the Gulf of Mexico until August, the Obama administration warned today, as BP conceded it was moving to a containment strategy after failing to plug the well at the centre of the most environmentally disastrous spill in US history.

Oil leak to continue Here

Ixtoc – 1979 Here

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