If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
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If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Spill
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Is it possible to grab a screen shot of that? I can't seem to do it. If the drilling in the South Basin goes ahead, the risks will be enormous. The Government sems to be demanding next to nothing from Petrobas on the East Coast in terms of real safety standards. That's a real worry when I think about our waters and our coastline.
Found the following comment on my net travels this morning. There has never been a better opportunity for the Government to demand major expenditure on the best possible environmental safety standards from this industry. And also to consider the question of whether the best standards are good enough.
"Without doubt, with exploratory drilling halted in the Gulf of Mexico and 35 deep water rigs soon to be idle, it is not so unusual that oil and gas companies begin looking at other prospects. New Zealand is a natural with several lightly explored basins plus a number of discoveries, however small. The Maui natural gas field in the Taranaki Basin, discovered in 1969, is now in decline. It has been a major supplier of the nation's natural gas. Even with new legislation to govern deep water drilling, the country needs exploration. Thus new rules, whatever they may be, will certainly include safeguards to protect against another marine disaster but they will also establish a regulatory framework that oil companies can accept. That is the only way that New Zealand can hope to find larger oil and gas fields, now critically needed in this Era of No Money. Energy Resource Minister Gerry Brownlee has already gone on record as being in favor of further exploratory activity. Rising world demand for oil and gas is not going to disappear. With soon to be idle rigs needing work and New Zealand needing the money, it is difficult to imagine that there will be no meeting of the minds."
http://www.glgroup.com/News/Can-offshore-New-Zealand-become-a-major-hydrocarbon-province--48821.html
Thanks leapyeah, I appreciate your passing that on.
I thought your comment,
" And also to consider the question of whether the best standards are good enough."
was pretty apt.
It might be that a bottom line that demands that two wells be established simultaneously, so that failure of the primary can be contained immediately, will be the only 'safe' option. Either way, the present situation with the 'code of practice' that exists now has to be seen as entirely insufficient.
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