I once kept a diary, and still do but the poor thing sees me only once a month (if that) and it is usually focused on my boyfriend or any immediate tragedies I experience in my privileged life. Now, to curb this I will keep an online diary to make sure that I continue to be interesting.
My most recent infatuation is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill - the most disturbing environmental tragedy I have been exposed to in my adult life. I was sent a letter from an Ultra-Deepwater Drilling worker and he said;
"The root cause is a failure to resolve a poor primary cement job. B.P. had knowledge that the primary cement job had failed; their continued operation was unsafe...B.P. knew they failed to bump their cement plug on the casing cement job. It should be investigated how much they over displaced the cement. B.P. made the decision not run a cement bond log."
Trying to figure out what the hell is going on WRT the spill is overwhelming. Is it the fault of Halliburton for fucking up once again?, BP for not doing anything about it? The Federal government for not making strict regulations that would prevent 'mistakes' like this from being overlooked?
The blowout happened on either April 19th/20th..that was over 2 months ago...at about 2.5 million gallons a day (from the NYTimes on June 15th) which is means we are seeing the Exxon Valdez spill every 4 days.
Hurricane Katrina and now this - does God hate the south or does the government forgot the whole 'for the people by the people' promise?
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