Goal For The Green

Few places on our small planet have suffered more repeated disasters in the past decade, resulting in loss of life and destruction of property, than the United States Gulf Coast. Katrina was bad. For many areas, Ivan was even worse. The BP blowout, resulted from insatiable GREED,  and hunger for carbon-based fuels.    These things are among the true causes, and reasons for the blowout. For me, it’s still a challenge, to attempt to wrap my brain around the size and complexity, of what has transpired since April 20, 2010, at the Macondo, Deep Water Horizon site.  I don’t live in the area, but I do know,  that the event  has altered life, in that particular area, irrevocably, and for many years to come.

Well, now it’s been  six months,since the Deepwater Horizon exploded, and it’s safe to say that the BP spill, will not be remembered, as making any kind Read the rest of this entry »

When, it come to politics, I tend to take an impartial attitude, but on the other hand, this may turn out to be somewhat of a rant.

Since the BP oil spill in April, the U.S. government has  talked about the toughness, it would exercise  in regard to the incident, with President  Obama, wondering about whose A$$ to kick.

However, privately, our government, worked hand-in-hand with the oil giant, to cap the runaway Deep Water Horizon Gulf well. They chose to effectively become, the company’s banker — allowing future drilling revenues, to potentially be used as collateral, for a victim compensation fund. Many residents and business’s in the gulf, are still in distress, waiting on claims, to be paid to them.  Many others, are just closing the doors, period!

Now, with the BP disaster, largely off the front pages, there’s worry, from residents and business people alike, that BP could just get a slap on the wrist, from its behind-the-scenes partner, our government. Read the rest of this entry »

BP, finished pumping cement into its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, yesterday (Thursday), to seal off the source, of the world’s worst offshore spill.

The cementing operation, took about five hours, and followed earlier injections, of heavy drilling mud this week.  The procedure successfully, subdued the upward pressure of oil and gas, inside the deep-sea Macondo well.  The crippled wellhead, as you may recall, was provisionally capped in mid-July, and successfully stopped, the flow of oil, gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

This is not the end of what is left to be done, but,  more like the beginning of the end.  It is at least, a positive step, to assure us that NO more oil, will be leaking into the environment.

The so-called, “static kill” Read the rest of this entry »