Wednesday, May 26, 2010

How quickly can they turn your attention......


Well....here it is, a little more then a month since the oil rig blew up in the gulf of Mexico. Notice how it is slowly slipping from public attention, being supplemented by saber rattling with N Korea (wake up people, Kim il jong understands that if he nuked S Korea he would suffer the same fate as the people he nukes) or the happy news that the wealthiest countries are seeing a recovery from the economic downturn
(the mass people aren't feeling ANY recovery that I have seen or read about).

Our government is not taking any action against BP because they "don't want to dilute" the energy being put into BP's effort to cap this ecological disaster. Explain to me how a company was allowed to drill a well 1 mile deep WITHOUT multiple backup plans on a "worst case scenario"?? The relationship between BP, Haliburton and the governmental agency ment to oversee things like this is incestuous at BEST, and totally corrupt at it's heart. This will come to light soon I'm sure....but given our governments "hands off" policy at the moment with BP, Haliburton and Transocean there is plenty of time for the paper trail to be obscured or completely destroyed.

Oh by the way....if you think we are only facing the ONE natural disaster brought to you by our friends at BP here is one that your not really hearing about....can there be too much bad press??

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 26 (UPI) -- Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said it closed the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline after oil spilled during a scheduled test at a pump station near Fairbanks.

The company said it lost power at a pump station near Fairbanks during the testing of a fire command system. As a result, relief valves opened and crude oil spilled into a secondary containment system.

"The pipeline is currently shut down and the North Slope producers have been prorated to 16 percent," the company explained.

The 800-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska, had a design capacity of 2 million barrels per day in the 1970s, though production from the region has declined since the late 1980s.

British oil giant BP is the largest shareholder of the pipeline.

Alyeska said it estimated there were "several thousand barrels" of oil spilled as a result of the power failure. The containment area, the company said, has the capacity to hold more than 100,000 barrels of oil.

The pipeline operator said it activated a team to assess the situation.

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