In the previous post in this series we discussed some of the White House history that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.An ecological, governmental, and propaganda disaster which continues to kill people, to severely damage the environment, and to damage the reputation of government to this very day.
How much has deep water technology improved since the disaster?
In real terms: none, nada, zip.
In fact there is still dispute over the reasons or causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, even as The Peak of Oil Lies has been passed or is just around the corner.
Nevertheless, the federal government is plunging headlong and blindly into the foggy future it says it wants to protect:
The U.S. government has approved the first deepwater dril(RTT News). Perhaps Browner has stepped down, but this catastrophic policy has stepped up to take her place by drilling in deeper water than the Deepwater Horizon site.ling permit in the Gulf of Mexico more than four months after a moratorium on all deepwater offshore drilling in the country was lifted.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation & Enforcement (BOEMRE) on Monday approved Noble Energy Inc.'s application for a permit to continue its work on a well in Mississippi Canyon Block 519, approximately 70 miles south east of Venice, [Louisiana].
The Texas-based oil and natural gas explorer started drilling the well on April 16, 2010, four days before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded unleashing a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
We recently looked at the key factors of the demise of this current civilization in the post Embryonic Look At Civilization's Future - 3.
The headlong plunge into the world of oil drug addiction, coupled with the concurrent slavery to the oil drug peddlers of MOMCOM, has guaranteed the demise of civilization as we know it.
The infamous weak response to the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans will seem like a gargantuan effort when compared to the paltry triage episodes that will happen in the future.
Meanwhile the global warming catastrophe train rushes headlong toward the fanatical drill baby drill train, and vice versa.
The station where they will meet really can be named "Civilization's Demise".
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
Warlords around the world emulate MOMCOM ... so the whales are endangered by Iceland.
ReplyDeleteThe W direction makes for lots of "we didn't mean what we said" apologetics, the ultimate one some day being "we did not mean to cause the death of millions of people or destroy civilization as we knew it" ...
ReplyDeleteThe infamous weak response to the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans will seem like a gargantuan effort when compared to the paltry triage episodes that will happen in the future.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the global warming catastrophe rushes headlong toward the fanatical drill baby drill train, and the station where they will meet is civilization's demise.
Indeed. The great thing about about both Katrina and the 2010 Gulf Oil spill is that the oil companies and their government cronies learned so much about expectations management (PR) and dealing with the practical aspects of the cleanup itself (Corexit appears to have been an overwhelming success, from a PR perspective at least). The spill also conditioned the American public for the media blitz surrounding a major spill. The next one won't seem nearly as bad unless it’s many, many times bigger.
Meanwhile, oil prices and profits have never been higher, a fact that will only get stronger as supplies grow shorter. And since government budgets are already overwhelmed and the focus going forward is on tax relief! rather than investment in R&D, oil companies have no incentive whatsoever to invest in new technologies. What the hey, take increasing profits for as long as possible, THEN start looking for alternatives. It's not like anyone else is going to have any credible alternatives either (and no, a fleet of government-subsidized Chevy Volts IS NOT a credible alternative).
There's no longer any speculation involved as to how any of these issues are going to play out. The last two years of the NoBama administration have locked in all the insane policies of the Bush bunch, so it’s quite apparent now where we're headed and just how and why we're going to get there. And it can all be summed up in two words: POWER and PROFITS. Those who have them want to keep them and they're perfectly willing to take down our entire civilization if that's what it takes. Those who don't, don't matter, and will have little to no say in the matter.
Unless we in the US have a Libya style revolution up our sleeve, our collective fates with respect to global warming and oil dependency are pretty much sealed.
Yes, the W direction leads to a cold, cruel, and deadly place.
ReplyDeleteTake Texas for example, the home of the W direction.
Maybe Frank Rich, after leaving the NY Times, will focus some more thinking toward the oil addiction problem.
ReplyDeleteYou know what's REALLY funny about all this pensions, SS, & MC mess? It was just a year ago that all the T-Baggers and Wing-Nuts had their panties in a wad about the "Death Panels," aka "Granny Boards" when the subject was HCR and they were afraid of the GOV making unilateral end of life decisions (as if the HMOs aren't doing that already). Now that it's about budgets, their tune has switched to "if their their 401Ks didn't work out, then let them keep working, let them eat cat food, or let them just die already."
ReplyDeleteFun, fun times ahead!
Interview with Gulf Scientist affirms Dredd Blog views.
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