The Game of BP Oil Drilling
"The thrills of drilling,"
I just wonder if this is what the young elites played before coming to playing the same game in real life. Besides the ominous “hazard cards” I wonder what the end game was? Get nationalized by local government due to oil disaster or global end of times scenario?
The UK’s Metro has discovered a BP branded board game from the 70s titled “Offshore Oil Strike.” Letting players take on the role of oil tycoons, they face the “hazards and rewards” of offshore drilling. It serves has a hauntingly ironic prediction of recent events. And a mindblowing addition to the ridiculousness that is BP.
Perhaps the creepiest part? The foreboding ‘hazard cards,’ which read ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’ If only it was that easy.
Oil spill – how bad could it be?
Before you read this please know I do not desire you to be afraid. Sometimes information can give cause for alarm, but often it turns out to be less dramatic and of course it may not always be true in the first place. However on the other hand if you like a good conspiracy hold onto the phrase ‘end of days’.
The Oil spill hit the news almost 2 months ago and since then the internet has been awash with daily reports, from dead dolphins, BP corruption to Obamas favourite ice cream. Whichever way you look at it’s not good (although you can guarantee a lot of people will be profiteering from this disaster too).
But here’s a report that hints at how bad things really could be. Not one spill, but a fractured ocean floor with 18 other sites! For those focused upon BP’s television extravaganza of the single leak this may sound alarming, but it’s not a new idea and with it goes a second idea that can be summed up in one simple phrase…
“there’s a one in five chance that a nuke might not seal the well…”
Full Story Here
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
Live feed Here
