|
When they started drilling with a blowout preventer they KNEW was questionable, the deal was sealed. That may not have been clear to anyone when they made that fateful decision, but it is now. There was no Plan B.
So here we are, watching failure after failure by the best and most motivated minds funded by a VERY motivated corporation. Top kill, and junk shots are now well understood terms that had been insider jargon just a few weeks ago. The only remaining hope is a relief well, drilling for which is moving at a furious pace. BP want this over and they want it over YESTERDAY. But they are powerless. The Feds are powerless. Anything that anyone thought could be done has been done. Well, except for a nuke shot.
And still the oil flows. Not just flow. It gushes. At a rate that is very nearly unimaginable.
At some point the well pressure will equalize with the water pressure. The spew will reduce to a trickle. Then, maybe, just maybe, the top kill or junk shot will work. Or not.
At some point, one of two things will happen. The sea pressure will staunch the flow or the oil reservoir will simply stop spewing and go back to sleep, half filled with sea water, in a tenuous state of equilibrium.
Or not.
The Loop Current is our next prime time news story. The Keys, Cuba, the lower Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound. Cap Cod. Newfoundland, the Scilly Islands, Lands End, the Cornish Coast, Normandy.
Where will it end?
What is clear is that man is no longer in charge here.
And Mother Nature is fucking pissed.
|